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

I'm a big Arthur Miller fan, and one of his great plays is A View From The Bridge. In it, there is rivalry between Eddie and Marco. The gist of it is that Marco's younger brother Rodolpho is in love with Eddie's orphaned niece Catherine. But, the problem is that Eddie has developed inappropriate feelings for his niece. 

So, Marco and Rodolpho were visiting Eddie and his wife and his niece (who lived with them) one evening for dinner. And afterwards, Eddie offers to teach Rodolpho a few things about boxing. But, it turned into a boxing match, and poor Rodolpho, though quite a Romeo, wasn't much of a fighter. He winds up with a bloody nose- by accident of course. 

Marco, who was a very big, strong man, took this all in, and he wanted to get a message across to Eddie. So, he challenged him to a contest which was to lift a chair by grabbing one leg of it with just one hand and raising it. 

Just think for a second of how easy it is to lift a chair with two hands. It's easy as pie. Anyone can do it. But try doing it with one hand in the manner described.

Well, Eddie tried again and again, but he couldn't do it. Not even close. But then it was Marco's turn, and he did it, and quite easily too. And in doing it, he thereby completely one-upped Eddie's pugilistic demonstration with Rodolpho. 

It was some brilliant storytelling, and much has been written about it over the years. Here's an astute analysis of it: 

So, why am I bringing this up? What does it have to do with the JFK assassination? Well, the Woman in the Altgens photo who is supposedly holding the boy is performing a feat by holding that boy with one arm that is every bit as difficult as what Marco did in A View From The Bridge in lifting the chair with one arm. 

She'd have to have been not as strong, but stronger than Marco to do it.