I've been asked to review the insights that came from my November 2012 Altgens reenactment in Dealey Plaza. It certainly was worthwhile. We'll start with this photo.
As in the Altgens photo, it appears that Doorman is standing next to the white column. I wasn't. I was standing in the middle of the doorway. That cinching up of me next to the column is the result of parallax. Altgens' angle cut his camera off from the west side of the doorway. So I, like Doorman, who was Oswald, stood in the center.
This collage shows the likeness of the view, but keep in mind taht the Altgens photo is highly manipulated, and I'm not sure how they did it. Why, for instance, is the monument leaning in Altgens'? But, I am sure that nobody could duplicate the camera field better than we did.
This collage demonstrates that visoring one's eyes with one's hands cannot possibly blacken out the whole face.
They blackened out his face on the left. Why? Because he was Lovelady.
Here is another version of it, and again, it proves that you can't cast your whole face in deep black shadow by visoring your eyes with your hands.
This next collage shows that if you're wearing a plaid shirt, as I was, it's no going to appear splotchy like Doorman's shirt.
That's not a shirt pattern we're seeing on Doorman. It's light reflection and distortion due to blowing up the picture so much. Plaid means horizontal and vertical lines crossing forming boxes. Think checkerboard. There isn't a single box on Doorman's shirt.
On the guy on the right below in the tie, I had him saluting with his right arm just to try to duplicate the action that some were claiming.
So, in Altgens', Doorman's cuff seems to be overlying the neck and upper chest of the Black Man, but it's impossible because Doorman is twelve feet away from him, as I was. And notice the anatomical completeness of both me and the man standing behind me. There is no weird melding and welding like we see in the juxtaposition of the two in Altgens. That is physically, photographically, and optically impossible in Altgens'. It was so badly and crudely altered, and probably because they were rushing like crazy. So, why did they put that guy in there? To cover up the uniqueness of Oswald's Russian shirt.
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