I am starting to have my doubts now about the guy they claim to be Bonnie Ray Williams. Is it really him? I always assumed that it was, and I never gave it much thought: until now. With both the Lovelady figure and the Arce figure discredited, I feel compelled to look closely at the Bonnie Ray Williams figure with fresh eyes.
Bonnie Ray Williams was a very skinny guy. The first problem I see is that that guy on the right doesn't seem quite skinny enough to be him. Doesn't his arm on the right look less spindly than Bonnie Ray's on the left? And what about the length of his neck? Doesn't Bonnie Ray's neck on the left look longer? Consider the distance from the collar to the ear. Doesn't it look much longer on the left than the right? Now compare the hairlines. Doesn't the guy on the right have some hairline recession going on? It looks to me like he's got more scalp showing there, like his hairline has receded some.
In the following collage, I tried to reach proportionality by making the heads the same size.
What I am wondering is: why is the collar button so big on the right? You can see on the left that on Bonnie Ray, the collar buttons were smaller diameter than the shirt buttons. But, that collar button on the right looks huge.
Let's look at just one more collage:
Again, I am getting the impression that the guy on the left is stouter in his arms and shoulders. I'm getting the impression his hairline is receded some compared to Williams. Again, the other guy's neck looks shorter. And again, I'm seeing that collar button jump out at me in comparison to the tiny collar button on Williams.
Admittedly, there is a lot that correlates between them, but how much variance does it take to establish different individuals? Not much. Not much.
I'm going to put this up on Facebook to see what the folks there think. I'll admit this is a much closer call than for the Lovelady and Arce figures.
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