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

There had to be a significant delay in the transmission of the Altgens6 photo to newspapers, and we have multiple bases to know that.

The first is that we are certain that the Altgens photo was altered, and alterations take time to make. And, the presence of the alterations is proof that the time was available.

On the Anomalies page of the OIC website, I detail 7 anomalies from in or around the doorway, all of which involved deliberate alterations. They are: the blacking out of the face of Black Hole Man who was Lovelady, the whiting out of the face of Obfuscated Man, the implantation of Black Tie Man into the photograph to cover up the unique construction of Oswald's shirt on his left side, the shearing off of Oswald's left shoulder, the gouging out of the left side of his face, and the deformity of his left ear all due to the placement of BT Man, the extension of the hair of the African-American woman into a giant afro which she did not have (and you only have to compare her hair to that of the African-American women next to her), the implantation of the face of Carl Jones in profile above Oswald's cuff and the weird shamrock-shaped form for his torso below Oswald's cuff, and the implantation of the Woman and Boy in front of man in the Fedora hat who was most likely Jack Ruby. 

http://www.oswald-innocent.com/anomalies.html

Now, that is not an exhaustive list at all. There were also alterations in the area of the limo which I don't address on the OIC site, and there is also a black disc obfuscation of what appears to be a helmeted motorcycle cop by the lady with the camera on the far left of the photo. And there may be other alterations as well. But, the point is that these alterations took time. I'm sure they had a crack team working - probably the most skilled people in the world. But, it had to take at least two hours and maybe three to accomplish it all.  

But, Walter Cronkite showed a cropped and washed out version of the Altgens photo on national television at 6:30 PM Eastern time which was 5:30 PM Central time, therefore, exactly 5 hours after the picture was taken. 5 hours! You can get a lot done in 5 hours. But, let's assume they had it ready by 5:30 PM Eastern time, which was 4 hours after the shooting. 4 hours was still plenty enough time to make the alterations. 

And 5:30 PM Eastern was 4:30 PM Central and 3:30 PM Mountain and 2:30 PM Pacific. And that certainly explains how some late papers could get the Altgens photo out that day. 

Then there is the DeLoach memo in which AP News Director Al Resch was reported to have said that the Altgens photo was published in Saturday's papers. It was an unqualified, categorical statement. 

In 1963, there were over 1400 daily newspapers in the United States and well over half of them were either evening papers or had regular evening editions. So, we are talking about over 700 evening papers. So, is it more significant that a handful of papers got the Altgens6 photo out on 11/22 or that the vast majority, many hundreds of them, did not? I go with the latter. And, it raises the question of whether fraud was involved in the few that did get it out. It seems reasonable to me that if there was a delay involved because of the time that was needed to alter the photo, that an effort would be made to hide the delay. I am stating that the legitimacy and authenticity of the few papers that did get it out on 11/22 should not be granted summarily and automatically.

However, even if every single paper that did could be verified as innocent, legitimate, and authentic, it still would not refute the several-hour delay which we know took place. 

The go-to paper at the moment for the shills is the Racine paper from Racine, Wisconsin. It shows the Altgens6 photo on the front page, and it states Friday afternoon, November 22. But, if it came out at 5:30 pm on Friday it would still be the afternoon, and that would be the same time that Walter Cronkite showed it on national television- the timing of which is not in question. So, even if the Racine paper is legitimate, it doesn't establish anything beyond what is already known. 

However, I have to wonder: why would two papers from rural, upstate Wisconsin, an hour's drive from each other, both get the Altgens6 photo in time to publish when so many places did not? And I mean places with better connections, more contacts, more resources, more man-power, and better equipment. It's fishy.

How could the Benton Harbor Herald Palladium ( Benton Harbor being a town of 10,000 in southwestern Michigan) get out a lavish 12 page Extra Edition that evening when the shooting didn't take place until 1:30 local time? We're talking about a small town paper coming up with a lavish extra edition all about Kennedy that was apparently unequaled by any big city paper. Just think about what was involved for such a small operation to do that. And conveniently, the Benton Harbor Herald Palladium is long out of existence. Again: it's fishy; very fishy.  

But regardless, even if all's well and good with all of these sightings, the existence of a several-hour window for Altgens6 alteration persists and remains, and the notion that the unaltered photo was faxed out to the world at 1:03 PM is a preposterous and outrageous lie.