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

Anyone here like to dabble in Physics? I've got a conundrum for you. Here is the Phil Willis frame capturing Roy Lewis in the doorway. 

You can tell from looking at that that Willis was across the street and EAST of the doorway. You can see the angle that he's shooting at from the east, right? Willis wasn't in front of the doorway; he was east of it. Right? 

But Altgens was WEST of the doorway. Altgens was essentially down at the bottom of the hill. And he was shooting at that doorway from a more acute angle. 

Notice that because of his angle, Willis had the east side of the doorway obscured, so that we don't see the east wall. But, it was the exact opposite for Altgens. For Altgens, it was the west side of the doorway that was obscured, while the east side was not. It so happens that because of the tree and because of the Secret Service agents, there is blocking of the east side of the doorway in Altgens as well. If they weren't there, we would be looking at the east wall perfectly clear. 

But, the tree and the SS agents are a totally separate issue, and for the purposes of this discussion, we can forget about them. Try to imagine that they weren't there. From an angular perspective, the east side of the doorway was visible to Altgens and the west side was not, and it was the exact opposite for Willis. 

And it shows you just how different their perspectives were: Altgens' and Willis'. They were looking at that doorway- and everything in that doorway- from two different angles. Therefore, how could each of them capture an image of Roy Lewis that is so identical. 

Now, keep in mind that Willis shot a film, not a photo, so it wasn't necessarily this exact frame; it may have been a different but similar one. 

Even if you think that, BY COINCIDENCE, both Altgens and Willis captured an image of Roy Lewis when his head was turned east, how could they possibly be so perfectly duplicated when the angles from which the photographers shot were so different? Don't you think there is too much likeness there to be anything but the same photo? Here is a schematic showing the positions of Altgens and Willis.

So, how would Altgens and Willis make such identical captures of Roy Lewis from such different angles? They didn't. They used Willis' capture in the Altgens photo. At the time of Altgens, Roy Lewis was against the west wall, either completely out of view to Altgens or mostly out of view to him. And Lewis was facing west, not east. 

There is absolutely no doubt about this because for the first 4 seconds of the Wiegman film, you can see Roy Lewis perched just that way, and it overlaps the time-frame of the Altgens photo. Roy Lewis was not turned and facing east for Altgens. He was turned and facing west just as you see him above. He was only turned east for Willis, which came afterwards.