Those Front Steps

[Matthew Finch]

To think after all this time we'd be hotly debating the 3D positioning of a faffing railing pole! No-one of any consequence was in this stairwell if you ask me, anyhow. I agree we should discuss pertinent points of the case, but... ...this?

[Alan Ford]

To think after all this time we'd be hotly debating the 3D positioning of a faffing railing pole!

We're not hotly debating the center railing, Mr Finch, because there's nothing to debate-----------Mr Mytton's misleading visuals simply required robust correcting. Done! 

No-one of any consequence was in this stairwell if you ask me, anyhow.

So you can explain the dark vertical strip down Mr Lovelady in the Wiegman film? Cool!



Tell us! 

If it turns out you can't tell us, then sorry, but you don't get to dismiss this as a non-issue------because the absence of any natural explanation for that dark vertical strip forces the conclusion that the Wiegman film was doctored, which in turn forces the question--------------why would it have been altered?

I have offered a perfectly straightforward answer to that question: because Mr Oswald was standing just behind Mr Lovelady.

Ergo!------------what we're hotly debating here is in fact the central question of the whole case: Mr Oswald's whereabouts at the time of the assassination.

The only reason I'm winning here is that I have the facts on my side. It is dawning on Team Keep LHO Away From That Entranceway that---------horror of horrors----------they have nothing credible to throw at this. A.k.a.--------they're screwed, and Mr Oswald is exonerated.

[Matthew Finch]

Pardon my naivety here, as it is from Wiegman, have you got the previous and post frames (to that one selected frame you keep referring to) from the film in question (at the size of the image in your previous post)? What is the consistency of that 'black shadow' throughout the other frames?

[Alan Ford]

Pardon my naivety here, as it is from Wiegman, have you got the previous and post frames (to that one selected frame you keep referring to) from the film in question (at the size of the image in your previous post)? What is the consistency of that 'black shadow' throughout the other frames?

Not at the size of the frame posted (which is a scan from Mr H. Weisberg's archive), Mr Finch, but this gif shows the problem clearly:



A consistent dark 'shadow' down Mr Lovelady's right side------------even though the man is standing in direct sunlight!

Those who darkened his right (i.e. west) side counted on folks just assuming the shadow from the western column fell like that. Well, we now know to a certainty that it didn't, which fact changes everything.

 

[Royell Storing]

To think after all this time we'd be hotly debating the 3D positioning of a faffing railing pole! No-one of any consequence was in this stairwell if you ask me, anyhow. I agree we should discuss pertinent points of the case, but... ...this?

     Knowing Exactly who/everyone standing on the Landing is wide open to conjecture. In my opinion, even more so than we know due to the time span between the highlighted images and people moving around during this time gap. On the other hand, the Jet Black Curtain falling Straight Down the body of Lovelady has Only 2 options: (1) Legit, or (2) Bogus.

[Alan Ford]

the Jet Black Curtain falling Straight Down the body of Lovelady has Only 2 options: (1) Legit, or (2) Bogus.

Correct. And the fact that this curtain starts in Wiegman at the very point at which Mr Lovelady ends in Altgens----------



----------is no coincidence whatsoever.

Had Mr Altgens been standing a little further west when he took his photograph, for example, the curtain in Wiegman would have been made to cover more of Mr Lovelady:



Conversely, had Mr Altgens been standing a little further east, then this curtain scam in Wiegman would have been impossible. Folks would only start asking, 'How can Lovelady be in sunlight in this photo but half in shadow in this film?'

 

[John Mytton]

Another complicated problem that Alan Ford keeps overlooking is when and how?



NBC televised the Wiegman footage a few hours later that day, in this low quality 6 hour "The JFK Assassination As It Happened from NBC News Archives" YouTube video, just past 2 hours in we see the Wiegman footage, there's no specific timestamp for this exclusive film but during the following segment the TV news guy apologizes for the jerky footage and a little later on, the same guy's timestamp is 4:13 E.T.
Lovelady has the shadow in this earliest footage which means for Alan Ford's theory to work someone realized that some blob could be the killer that needed to be hidden and sent the footage off to some special effects dept and they painted a shadow onto Lovelady to hide Oswald who was behind and got it to air the same day? Whew!
At least Cinque's Altgens6 theory was a single photo whereas this bizarre theory is continuous film footage which is a stack more frames on jerky handheld film, then they painted a shadow onto multiple motion blurred frames all with absolute precision then on top of this, the whole procedure of developing, drying, painting, drying, transferring, then finally transferring on to video and all in a few hours is not physically possible. If the footage showed something it shouldn't then they simply -snip- it out, it's as simple as that, the alternate fantasy of some major sfx job that they did in less than a day is a miracle.

JohnM