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

I tell you, this image really freaks me out. You've got that girl suspended there, and she looks like she is SITTING. Comfortably sitting. 

Look at the plane of her thigh and the axis of her spine. SHE IS SITTING! But, what is she sitting on? 

I mentioned about her sitting on the iliac crest of her mother, which is common, but is that girl close enough to her mother to do that, to really transfer her weight? To get it on there? If she were leaning away from her mother, she might be able to plant her weight properly on the bone, but she's not doing that. To me, it seems like the vector of the kid's weight- meaning the force of gravity- is following that arrow down to the ground, which would mean that the main thing that could resist that force would be the mother's arm, her left arm. I just don't see how that little girl could get all her weight over the woman's pelvic bone. That is a lot of that weight to be falling on what? The woman's arm? Her left arm? Look how frail the woman looks. Look how scrawny her right arm looks, which means that her left arm must look the same. We can't see her left arm, but it's absolutely got to be underneath the girl supporting her. But, that would be hard. Very hard.

So, we have to keep our eyes and our minds open. We have to explore all the possibilities. So, how about the possibility that the woman is wearing some kind of child-carrying sling which the kid is sitting in?  

Now, they do make them. We already have one for my grandson. And I wear it myself when I go out for walks with him. Here's an example of one. 

 Now, that one is quite sophisticated, and it looks very sturdy, and I imagine that anything that was available in 1963 was much more simple and sparse and elementary. But notice that there's a neck rest behind the little guy to provide support. Is it possible that that's what we are seeing on the girl.

It looks like the woman is wearing something besides a light blouse, and it looks like it may be an apparatus of some kind. and it looks like there may be straps or ties involved. Is there a strap going underneath the girl, a strap that she is sitting on? Again, compare them to the other woman with a kid.

On the right, it's all normal. You just have a mother holding a baby in a normal way, where the physics and the bio-mechanics of it are completely and thoroughly evident. But, on the left, you've got "extra stuff" for lack of a better term, and it looks like the girl may be suspended by that extra stuff. The girl looks very secure to me, like she's not the least bit worried that the woman is going to drop her. 

I'll point out that even if the mother on the left has her left arm underneath the girl to support her, it would not keep the girl from pivoting away from her. In other words, even if that frail, scrawny woman had the strength in her arm to do it, it wouldn't prevent an accident if the girl fell backwards. But, maybe that thing around her neck is some kind of backstop that is preventing such an accident.

It's for sure that the mother looks relaxed, and the girl looks relaxed; and nobody seems worried about a thing. Where does that assurance come from? It comes from a fool-proof system. Is that girl sitting in some kind of sling? 

Here is a very elementary child transport device

It doesn't get much simpler than that. Is the woman in our photo wearing something like that? Notice that the two kids are both straddling their mother the exact same way:

If you do a search for "child carrying slings" you find all kinds of devices. This is from Yahoo:

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEV0.kootTrXAAwPdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0cTRyZDlnBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDQ0NF8x?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-304&va=child+carrying+slings

And this is from Google:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=739&q=child+carrying+slings&oq=child+carrying+slings&gs_l=img.3...1541.3796.0.3930.21.15.0.5.0.0.142.1107.13j2.15.0....0...1ac.1.45.img..8.13.905.AAP8e7mI6iQ

So, is the woman on the left wearing some kind of device, some kind of sling to help her to support that child? 

I think there is a good chance that she is. We're definitely seeing extra stuff there. She's wearing something besides a pink blouse. And I suspect it is helping her to support that child. The idea that she could effortlessly support that kid's weight with her left arm is preposterous. It would be a strain. And she is not straining.