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

It was years ago that I discovered that Mary Moorman did not take the Moorman photo. I devoted a year to it, and I even brought in a Professor of Physics, with a specialty in Optics. And I’ll tell you what he said.  

But, what got me thinking about it in the first place is: Why would Mary stand there for 3 hours in the sun, waiting to take their picture, only to let JFK and Jackie pass her by and shoot the back of their heads? It doesn’t make sense.

She could see the motorcade turning from Main to Houston, and then she saw the limo turn from Houston to Elm. She said that when she saw that, she brought the camera up to her eyes and started looking through the viewfinder, with her finger on the shudder, so that she would be ready to take the picture. So, why would she wait and let them pass her?

And remember the limo was going very slowly. It was going so slowly, the Jean Hill thought she had time to talk to JFK. “Mr. President, look this way. We want to take your picture.” How slow was that limo going for her to expect him to respond to that?

Mary stated many times that she took her picture when the Kennedys were even with her, right across from her, lined up with her. But, that doesn’t make sense either because when they were even with her, Jackie was maximally blocking her view of JFK.  Plus, the idea wasn’t to capture their faces in profile; it was to capture their faces in full view, or as close to that as possible.

Therefore, the ideal time to take the picture was BEFORE they reached her. I don’t mean long before, because if she did that, they would have been small in the picture, and she did want a close-up.  I mean a little bit before they reached her.  And she would have known intuitively and instinctively.  She didn’t have to go to photography school to learn it. And I have no doubt that she did take her picture, her real picture, that way.

Then, consider Mary’s story, and I don’t doubt her story. She said that the Sheriff Office took her photo, and they had her wait a long time. They said they were going to make copies and also make a negative of it, so that they could make unlimited copies. It was evening by the time she went home. I mean dark. But then, they stormed her house that night at midnight and said they needed the photo back. But why? They made a negative and many copies. So, why did they need the original back?

They eventually returned the photo to her, but then, the FBI wanted to borrow it. Then the CIA; then the Secret Service; then the FBI again. And after the FBI borrowed it the second time, they returned it with the white thumbprint, which they said was an accident.

Now: if you truly believe that that white thumbprint on the Moorman photo was accident, then you are dumbest Rufus to ever fall off the turnip truck.

And, I suspect that when they returned that photo to her with the white thumbprint on it, they gave her a handsome check. After all, it was a valuable historical photo that belonged to her, and they damaged it. If you damage someone’s car, you have to pay them. So, why should it be any different for a historical photo? 

And remember: this is the U.S. government we’re talking about, that prints money like it was confetti.  So, they easily could have given her some, and I strongly suspect that they did. I’m not stating it as a fact, but I certainly do believe it. I’d be shocked if they didn’t give her money.

Let’s return to the Physics Professor. He told me that if Mary had taken that photo perpendicular, as claimed, i.e. when they were right across from her, then they would have been centered in the photo. But, as you can see, they are not centered. They are left of center, which means that they had passed her. So, it means that she, apparently, waited until they passed her before snapping the picture. But, he also pointed out that if she had taken it squarely, then the line of the limo would be parallel with the bottom of the photo. But, you can see that the line of the limo, which has a white line, is at an angle to the square bottom of the photo, which has a black line.  The limo appears to  be going slightly uphill, when the road was downhill. And he pointed out that Hargis is huge compared to the Kennedy’s, which means that Hargis was much closer to the camera than the Kennedys.  So, it went from the Kennedys to Hargis to the photographer in a straight line, and that meant that the photo was taken diagonally from behind.

That’s when I started thinking about Babushka Lady. Look at the bottom image, which is from the Muchmore film. Notice how similar JFK and Jackie look to how they look in the Moorman photo. So, that angle had to be similar. And notice that Babushka Lady is shooting them diagonally from behind, which is the same angle as the Moorman photo.  That’s when I realized that the FBI must have replaced Mary’s photo with a photo taken by Babusha Lady.  However, it must have been a crop of a photo taken by Babushka Lady because when you shoot diagonally, it enlarges your camera field. We can see that BL was not using a Polaroid camera. So it means that they took BL’s photo and cropped it. Then they must have enlarged it. And then they took a Polaroid of that.

Babushka Lady was an insider. She was sent there to photographically record the killing. Remember: it was a predetermined Kill Zone. So, she knew where to go, just as Umbrella Man knew where to go.  And she wore that trench coat and the scarf as a disguise. Who was she? I don’t know. Maybe she was the wife of one of the operatives. But, I guarantee you that she was not Beverly Arnold. Beverly was 17 years old at the time, and BL looks old enough to have a 17 year old daughter.

I’ll have more to say about this, but I want to finish by pointing out something, and that is: the reason for the white thumbprint. It was to cover up Officer BJ Martin.  Go back to the Muchmore frame at the bottom. Notice that from her angle, you see Martin snug with Hargis, and Martin, on the outside, appears to be slightly ahead of Hargis. That was due to parallax because Martin was closer to the camera than Hargis. But, it should have been the same in the Moorman photo. IT WAS THE SAME. That was the purpose of the white thumbprint, to take out Martin. He’s there. If you look closely, you can see him. And the front wheel of the motorcycle in the Moorman photo is Martin’s front wheel; not that of Hargis. The very crude image of Martin in the lower right corner of the Moorman photo is art; crappy art.  Why did they do that? Because Mary’s real photo was taken from a different angle. I’d bet you anything it was taken the optimal way I described at the beginning.  And from that angle, Hargis would have entered Mary’s camera field before Martin.  

But, the big question is: what did Mary’s real photo show that was so damaging to the plotters? I guarantee it wasn’t a shooter. All that Badgeman talk is just noise. It’s just distraction. And think about how easily they could have removed him. And who knows, maybe they put him there just to distract people and keep them occupied.

So, why did they want to remove Mary’s real photo from circulation? It had to be that it showed something in the limo- something they didn’t want us to see because it was devastating to the official story.  But, what was it? That’s the million dollar question.