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

Robin Unger found this picture, which he thinks is a knockout punch for him against me. He's wrong, and I'll explain why, but first realize that Robin Unger also thinks this young man talking to the cop was actually an old woman. 

And he also thinks this old man whom I call "Popeye" was the same person as this petite young woman:

But, going back to his new entry, this is what Unger says:

Another woman carrying a young boy, as the woman waves her right hand, she supports the young boys weight using JUST HER LEFT ARM

No, Unger. She is NOT supporting his weight using just her left arm. She has his weight heaped on top of her. His right arm is going around her. And with him being up so high as he is and leaning as he is, his weight is being supported by her whole body. Her arm, per se, is supporting very little of it. Most of his weight is sitting on her shoulders, which means that it's being transferred to her whole body. That means her strongest muscles, including those of her thighs, hips, butt, and back are bearing much of that load. And that is not to say that she could have done it indefinitely or held him that way for a long time. But yes, for a short time, she could do it, by the means she is using, and I have no doubt about it. 

She not only has his weight heaped on top of her, but she's leaning  in the opposite direction. He's high up on her left side, so she's leaning to her right. Makes sense. That puts gravity to work for her. 

And it's no accident either. I don't say she did it consciously; but, she did it intuitively. 

 But when we look at the Altgens Mother and Boy:

His weight is NOT heaped up on top of hers. He has NOT transferred his body weight to hers, where her large muscles which normally support, say, 120 pounds could temporarily support 40 more. She is not leaning to get gravity to work for her. She is completely vertical, and he is completely vertical. If she were holding him, it would be only her right arm doing it, and none of her other muscles, which is totally unlike the other woman. 

Unger, this isn't evidence for you. It's evidence for me. That's because it shows what the Altgens woman would have to have done IF she was going to be holding up that boy. 

But, let's keep going, shall we? Look at the boy on the left. he's being carried. You know that from what you see of the woman, but what if you couldn't see her?

Even here, you know he's not standing because if he were, he'd fall. He couldn't possibly be balanced. You know that something is supporting him, even if you don't know what it is. But, with the Altgens boy...

You take his mother away, and he's fine. He doesn't need her- at least not for this. He not only looks like he's standing, but he's standing very well. Look at his back, how straight and vertical and lengthened it is. Look at his head/neck balance; it's perfect. The kid is a model for good standing posture. You should wish that you stood so well.  

In life, the holder and the holdee work together to bring about an arrangement that is going to work, and they both have the same interest. The holder wants to accomplish the lift with the least amount of strain and with no injury to herself, and nor does she want to drop the child. And the child doesn't want to be dropped either.  And much of it is intuitive. I understand it consciously, but it doesn't mean they do. Look at the beautiful counterbalance they've got going. 

Counterbalance: it's the whole secret to functioning in a gravitational world. But, in the Altgens photo:

there is no counterbalance at all. Each of them is independent and free-standing. And believe me: if she had her right arm out supporting all the weight of that kid, you would be seeing a very different picture. 

Unger, stop thinking that you can outsmart me. You couldn't outsmart a gnat. You don't even know basic grammar, never mind human bio-mechanics. 

Unger, you lose on this point, just as you have lost on every other.  It was Oswald in the doorway; the Altgens mother and boy are fake; the Towner mother and baby are fake; every image of Lovelady in a plaid shirt is fake, since he didn't wear one. And you are just plain wrong about everything. You can't win, Unger. You can't even score a point.