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

"What the F is he talking about?"

"And what the F is this supposed to mean? IDIOT PANTS doesn't say. But, he wants you to think that that allegedly 15 degree angle means Babushka Lady took the photo."


I mistakenly thought that a verbal explanation would suffice, that a person would understand it conceptually. 

But, not Backes. He is first, last, and always, an idiot, and making stupid statements like this is his calling card. 

This is a rough estimate, and the fact that we are dealing with photography, the conversion of 3 dimensional space to a 2 dimensional form, makes it impossible to be precise. But, it gives you the idea.

So you compare that diagonal line to the horizontal one represented by the bottom of the photo. Then, you apply a protractor to it.

And it shows an angle that looks like about 12 degrees. 

Then you go to the Muchmore frame, the one that the Professor picked as correlating to the Moorman photo.

Now, you notice that Brehm is facing Elm Street more or less perpendicularly. Babushka Lady is turned; her whole body is turned to the left. You have to turn your whole body to your left to take a picture of someone who has passed you to your left. Mary Moorman isn't turned, not in this frame and not in any later frame. Even when the limo passes her, she doesn't turn her body towards it. So, we'll take a line through Brehm to represent the perpendicular, moving it over just a little, and then we'll apply a line through her. 

It's a simple concept: he is facing Elm Street directly. He is square to it. In other words, the line of Elm Street and the line he is facing would form a square corner. He is perpendicular to Elm. But, she, her whole body, is turned to the left. You could say that she is turned counterclockwise.  Let's apply a protractor to it.

And the angle is about the same. Admittedly, this is very crude, a rough demonstration. And that's why the professor only offered it conceptually. He wanted people to grasp it in their minds, to see it in their minds, because he thought they could. But, he failed to consider the idiot factor: Joseph Backes. 

But, the general idea is VERY easy to grasp: the person who took the Moorman photo was not facing Elm Street or the limo perpendicularly. We know that with absolute certainty. The photographer had to be turned away from perpendicular about as much as Babushka Lady is turned away from perpendicular in order to have taken the Moorman photo. Mary Moorman is NOT turned away from perpendicular in this frame nor in any other frame. Repeat: NOR IN ANY OTHER FRAME. Mary never turns.

I am reminded of  the old 1973 movie starring James Coburn called Harry in Your Pocket about a pick-pocket team. They worked together. The team included a very dazzling young woman who would serve as the decoy, the distraction. Then Harry (Coburn) would make the steal. And then he would pass the wallet off to another guy who was going the other direction. Harry was in charge, and his cardinal rule, which he repeated all the time, was : HARRY NEVER HOLDS. HARRY NEVER HOLDS. HARRY NEVER HOLDS. 

Well, MARY NEVER TURNS. MARY NEVER TURNS. MARY NEVER TURNS.