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

On the left is Harvey in New York at the Bronx Zoo, and the year was 1952. Therefore, he was presumably about 13 years old, if he was born in 1939.  I say "presumably" because we don't really know when Harvey was born. It was the other Oswald whom we know was born in October 1939.

And the image on the right is November 1954, Beauregard Junior High School, 8th grade. So, Lee was 15 years old. So presumably, a 2 year difference between them, though we don't know for sure. But, look at the difference in size. I'll let the OIC Chairman, Professor James Norwood, sum it up:

Ralph,

Thanks for your commentary on the photo of young Oswald with the missing tooth.  This photograph was taken at Beauregard Junior High School in November 1954.

For a moment, let's shift our focus away from the tooth and onto the physique of this boy.  Without a doubt, this appears to be an athletic young man with upper body strength that is much more developed than the boy directly above him and slightly to the left in the photo.  We spoke earlier of the "bulk" of the man appearing in one of the alleged Marine photos of Oswald.  This middle school student would appear to have a physique similar to the man in the Marine photo:  broad shoulders, big chest cavity, husky in nature, especially in the upper arm areas.

Let's now fast forward from November 1954 to November 1963.  Nine years have passed, and the Oswald who is being paraded through Dallas police headquarters is wispy and wiry in his physique.  He does not even have the well developed biceps and triceps of the boy in the 1954 photo.   The 1963 model of Oswald does not have the wing span and broad chest of Beauregard boy.  The Dallas man has arms that resemble swizzle sticks, instead of the arms of a young athlete.

The dramatic differences in anatomy and muscularity of these two males cannot be attributed merely to "weight loss" that may have occurred between 1954 and 1963.  One's essential anatomy does not change this radically in a nine-year period.  Based on the photographic discrepancies, Beauregard Boy and the man arrested in Dallas (whom you refer to as the "Oswald of fame") are two different people.

James