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

You know how sometimes something is just over somebody's head? Well, that's how it is for Backes with these movies. He just doesn't get it. He thinks that there is just a "Charles Buck film" and that it was edited in numerous different ways by various editors, and that accounts for all the variations that we see.

Wrong. It's not as simple as that. Not by a long shot. There are categorical, structural, differences between the versions which establish that they are different films- not the same film edited differently.

For example, in the version from Three Shots That Changed America, not only is the Lovelady figure thick and muscular and totally unlike the other Lovelady, but he is always turned left, meaning towards us. But in the version from Four Days in November, the scrawny Lovelady figure there starts off in perfect profile to us and then immediately starts turning right, and he never turns left.

So, you have LEFT-TURNED Lovelady and a RIGHT-TURNED Lovelady.

The left-turned Lovelady NEVER turns right, and the right-turned Lovelady NEVER turns left.

Now, if you are going to tell me that on the left they "edited" out all the frames in which he was turned right, and on the right, they "edited" out all the frames in which he was turned left, I will tell you that you are fucked in the head. That is impossible. On the right, we see the guy from the moment the big cop steps out of the way, which is his first moment of visibility in the film. And we see him until the end of his visibility. There is no time in-between in which he could possibly have turned left.

There is no way that Lovelady could ever be turned left. He goes from a neutral profile to swung around sharply to his right, and that is it.

And likewise, in Three Shots, the Lovelady figure is cemented into a leftward-turned position, and he does not move at all. He goes nowhere. There is no sign that he EVER turns.

Those two clips are so dissimilar that it is insane to think that they are the same film edited differently. They are VASTLY different. And that Lovelady figure above is not moving. He isn't going anywhere. He isn't turning anywhere. He doesn't show the slightest interest in Oswald. There is no swinging around to the right for him. Plus, he is obviously a different man.

What is your problem, Backes, that you can't see that these are two different human beings?  Are you blind? They aren't remotely close to being the same person. The one on the left is thick, stout, and muscular. The on on the left is slight and scrawny. The one on the left has his shirt propped open. The one on the right does not. The one on the left has his hair combed back. The one on the right has his hair combed over. The one on the left has a very large ear. The one on the right has a rather small ear. THEY'RE DIFFERENT MEN!

Backes, you dumb pluck, go to your Densa meeting.