Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

 After I started pointing out that there were no images of James Bookhout from the JFK assassination, even though he followed Oswald around like his shadow, and that there were no images of him after that for the rest of his life, including his obituary which lacked a photo, two claimed images of him surfaced, both of them bogus.

This is one of them. It’s from 1968, from a small town in East Texas, Marshall. It’s important to read the caption, which says that Texas Ranger Bob Crowder is eyeing an FBI bank robbery exhibit with two FBI agents, Manning Clements and James Bookhout.

If you know anything about journalism, you know that photos are described from the inside out. The central figure of a photo is described before any peripheral figure. And in this case, the central figure is Texas Ranger Bob Crowder. I put another image of Crowder next to it so that you can see that it is the same guy.

And if you look closely, you can see that that central guy is slightly apart from the other two. So, the other two are the two FBI agents, Manning Clements and James Bookhout, and the central figure is Bob Crowder.

As for the man on the far left of the photo, he is not James Bookhout either. He is covering up the real James Bookhout, who was short. That freakishly tall, decrepit old guy was plopped in there to cover up the short Bookhout. He can’t be James Bookhout because Bookhout was only 54 years old in 1968, and that old guy looks like he could have a son who was 54. He isn’t Bookhout; he isn’t Crowder; he is nobody. He is someone they plopped in there.

And frankly, this was all done in response to me. And there is another photo they came up with in response to me that is just as phony as this one, and I’ll cover it next.

James Bookhout was definitely short. James Hosty said that Bookhout stood on a pedestal in the hallway, trying to find him. Would a tall man do that? And Bookhout told the Warren Commission that he never got a glimpse of Kennedy on Main Street because there were people in front of him. Would a tall man have that problem? And it made no sense because if there were people in front of him obstructing his view, he would have stepped around them to see. There were children, including young children, at the motorcade, and it’s not like they couldn’t see. Really, it was a stupid thing to say, and the WC lawyer should have called him out for it. Of course, he didn’t because they were working together. The Warren Commission was a Stalinist show trial.

But, the reason why Bookhout lied about that is because he lied about being on Main Street. He was really on Elm Street, near the obelisk. James Bookhout was the man in the Fedora hat in the Altgens photo.

So, we don’t see James Bookhout in this bank robbery exhibit photo. I’m sure he was there originally. But, he was covered up with the old decrepit guy. And it was done in response to me.