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

I have in an interesting situation going on in the editing of my second film, His Stretch of Texas Ground. An element was left out of a scene, and it is needed. So, we went back and shot it except we had to use surrogate actors. The clip only lasts a few seconds, but will viewers buy it? Will they accept the surrogates as the same characters who precede and follow? 

I give it a resounding yes, and it's because of my experience in the JFK world. If people can believe that these two guys are the same man, they can believe anything. It is a belief that is based on thought and not on sight. It's because they want to believe that he is Jack Ruby that they do. 

Well likewise, in the film, viewers will want to believe the intervening characters are the same persons. They're dressed the same; they have their hair the same; and they are about the same age, same size, etc. I dare say the likeness of my replacement actors to my original actors is greater than that between Jack Ruby and James Bookhout. And yet, people have, for over half a century, accepted that Bookhout was Ruby. 

And that's why I am confident that most viewers will buy what we're selling, and it will fly right over their radar. And again, it's all because people accept the crappy thought that these two are the same man. Ruby had a much longer neck. Look at the distance between his hairline and his collar.