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

 I believe this is a reenactment photo. It's supposed to have been taken by a Dallas Times Herald photographer on the day, but I don't believe it. First, the freeway sign is wrong. It looks square, but the sign was oblong. It was twice as wide as it was tall. It was 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall. You can see the oblong shape of it on the right in the Willis photo. Can you see that in the reenactment photo, it looks square?

So, did they bring a sign along with them and install it on the day of the reenactment? I don't think that. I think they painted it in afterwards. They didn't have Photoshop in those days, but they had artists who were mighty good.

The square sign isn't the only problem with the picture. It's got the Newmans still on the ground. Why would they be doing that? Are they still afraid? They are surrounded by 4 photographers, who are obviously not afraid of being shot. It's over, right? The crisis has passed. This is long afterwards. So, what are the Newmans still doing on the ground?

What about the motorcycle cop? I don't think he was moving. If he were, wouldn't there be motion blur? He looks perfectly still to me.

The photographer on the left is James Altgens. But, he supposedly ran to the Dallas Morning News building, where the AP operated out of, to get his film developed. Supposedly, his images were on the wire by 1:03, and some of them were, such as Altrgens7 showing Clint Hill on the back of the limo. So, how could he have been dawdling on the lawn this late on the day?

Then, supposedly, there is Umbrella Man and Dark Complected Man sitting next to each other. Do you know that according to Louis Witt, they didn't know each other and didn't speak to each other? So, why would they be sitting so close together? People don't do that. To sit that close to a stranger when there was so much space around? Imagine you were on an empty subway car; just you. Then, a man enter the car and sits right next to you. There are seats galore, but he takes the one right next to you. It would be discomforting, wouldn't it? But, for the record, I don't believe that Louis Witt was Umbrella Man.

But, in any case, the Stemmons Freeway sign was oblong, and the one in this photo is square, and that means that it isn't real. This photo was a reenactment.