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

What would it take to prove that the Altgens photo was faxed to the world at 1:03 PM?

It would take more than just saying it. And it would take more than just pointing to numbers and symbols beneath the picture because that's just saying it in writing. And note that Larry Dunkel didn't even do that with Altgens6; he did it with Altgens7.

What it would take to prove it is to demonstrate the effects of such a transmission. The effects would be that lots and lots of evening papers- hundreds of them- would have published the Altgens6 photo on 11/22. But, that didn't happen.

It happened with Altgens7, but not with Altgens6. Why? Was it because Altgens6 wasn't as newsworthy? That editors didn't like it as much? No. That's impossible. It's just a stupid backesism. Altgens7 just shows a guy riding on the back of a limo. He wasn't even identified. Altgens6 shows Kennedy being shot and reacting to being shot, and Jackie going to his aid, and Connally turning around to see what was happening. And it shows two Secret Service agents peering back ominously at the TSBD which was described as the "source of the shots." Wow! That is a hell of a lot of content for one photograph.    

Kennedy was shot at 12:30, and newspapers all over the country were certainly aware of it by 12:35. And for evening papers, it meant that they were suddenly on a brand-new footing. Even if they had already burned the plates for the evening edition, they'd have chucked them. They weren't going to issue the evening paper without covering Kennedy. And if they had the Altgens6 photo by 1:03, they surely would have included it. It's just a stupid backesism to suggest otherwise. But, they didn't have it, and that's why they didn't use it. 

What time does an evening paper typically come out? A safe generalization would be late afternoon. If it came out early afternoon, they would call it an afternoon paper. Yet, it can't be too late because the idea is to read it over dinner or right after dinner. It's not a night paper. It's not put out so that you can read it at bedtime. 

We know the Altgens photo was available by 5:30 PM Central because Walter Cronkite showed it on national television at that time. But, we don't have to assume it was rushed into his hand the moment before. If we grant a one-hour window, it would mean it was available as early as 4:30 PM Central- 4 hours after it was taken. 

Well, 4:30 Central was 5:30 Eastern, and it's reasonable to expect that to be too late to get into East Coast evening editions. But, as you move westward across the country to earlier timezones, it increases the likelihood of squeezing it in. But, the point is that if the photo was available at 2:03 Eastern, then EVERY evening paper, coast to coast, should have and would have been able to include it. 

The only question to me is whether the few examples of Altgens6 sightings on 11/22 are real or faked. And don't act surprised, Backes. You think they FAKED a bus transfer ticket for Oswald. So, if they could fake that, they could fake this.

But, even if the few sightings are real, it still demonstrates the general unavailability of the Altgens6 photo to the evening papers. The many that did not publish it outweigh and outnumber the few that did. And, that is the bottom line.     

Fact: There was a window of several hours for the Altgens photo to be altered, and it was so altered. It was monstrously altered. They butchered it.