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

 This is the contact print that the National Archives sent me that includes the image of Pipe Man. Notice that most of the images are of a man who is brandishing what appears to be fingerprints, and he looks at them. All the images are of him except for the first image, which is the Pipe Man image. Note that the Pipe Man image is rotated 90 degrees to the rest. 

The images are numbered, but you probably can't make them out. I added the numbers legibly. That's a weird sequence of numbering, don't you think?

Here is the Pipe Man image from the strip, which I rotated 90 degrees.

I can't enlarge it any further because the resolution is so poor that it starts pixelating. But, what it shows is that the Pipe Man image that we have been working with is a crop. Look at them in comparison.

But, there is a discrepancy regarding the lettering. On the right, you can read the lettering on the glass. It says: (HO)MICIDE AND  ROBBERY BUREAU. I can make out all the letters except the RO in ROBBERY. Note that, for some reason, the Y in ROBBERY is very snug to the R. It's like they had to squeeze it in. It should be the same in the contact print.

Above, I cropped the contact print to match the other. Of course, it's very blurry, but as I look at it, the R and Y are larger and more spaced. And there is no way there is enough room for BUREAU after it. Compare them vertically.

You definitely don't have that snug Y. I know it's blurry, but you can see the R and Y, and they are quite far apart. So, what could account for this discrepancy? It should look exactly the same.  Is it possible the lettering wasn't there and was added afterwards? Then, like Jack Ruby's enhanced hair, it would never look the same way twice. 

So, I went looking for other images of that lettering. 

 

Notice, on the left, that the ERY in ROBBERY are spaced evenly. With Pipe Man, there is breathing room between the E and R followed by a very tight Y. 

I found another one.

Here is the lettering of the one on the left.

Of course, it's very blurred, but the main thing that jumps out at me is that HOMICIDE is much bolder and darker and clearer than the rest of the lettering. I did an experiment.

It all looks about the same. Of course, that isn't lettering on the glass; it's a piece of printed cardboard taped to the glass. Still, I should think the result would be the same.

Finally, let's consider the location of the lettering.

 Notice how weird the Pipe Man image was angled. It's like the photographer was real tall and shooting down, tilting the camera. Everything captured below the desk was for naught. It seems like he would have angled the camera to center the subjects inside the office. Instead, they are all in the top half of the image and the bottom half is wasted. Still, the question is: is the level of the lettering the same?  On the left, the lettering is well above the seated man. On the right, it is below his head. It was affected by the tilt of the camera, but still, are they the same level? Let's say that on the left, the lettering is centered between the top and bottom of the glass. It appears to be, and you'd expect it to be. But, what about on the right. Is that centered?

We are not seeing the top of the glass. We don't know how much higher it went. But, the sense that I'm getting is that that lettering was lower than center. 

So, with these discrepancies in mind, let's consider that there was no lettering on the glass, and it was added to the images, just as enhancements to Jack Ruby's hair were done routinely, and sometimes to a ridiculous extent, and all because the Garage Shooter had such thick, dense hair. 

I could see why they would put it lower in the Pipe Man image because he was the subject of the image. It was all about showcasing "James Bookhout," so you put the letters lower. Or perhaps it was to obscure his right hand. Take a good long look at his left hand and then look down at his right. It doesn't even look like a hand. What, did the guy have a hook? 

And the shenanigans with the lettering have to be added to the shenanigans of his goofy hair with the obvious paintjob and his weird glasses, plus all the behavioral issues of him being totally detached from the scene of what is going on: an island onto himself. It's ridiculous! He was dropped into the image. He was pasted in there. And it was all done to falsely identify James Bookhout in something from the JFK assassination. And now that the National Archives has disavowed this as an image of James Bookhout (they are not vouching for it), we are back to Square One with NO images of James Bookhout from the JFK assassination. Even though he attended every interrogation and followed Oswald around like his shadow, James Bookhout never got captured by the camera, not even once. Fat chance.