I still doubt this photo. There’s something terribly off about it, more than the simple fact that it was taken at all.If the photo is faked, it doesn’t mean that the police faked it, despite the claims of Farid. All that’s required is that the police found a faked photo. But this is always interesting, when people come forward to try to debunk the conspiracy angle.
Tiffany Crawford, Canwest News Service
This photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, which for many years was thought by conspiracy theorists to be forged by authorities, is real, says an American computer scientist. Photograph by: Screen grab, YouTube
A photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, which for many years was thought by conspiracy theorists to be forged by authorities, is real, says an American computer scientist.
Hany Farid, an expert in digital forensics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, has found a new way to analyze photos using 3D imaging and discovered the shadows in the photograph are consistent with a single light source.
“If this photograph is fake, then it would almost certainly point to a broader conspiracy because it means the police doctored a photograph to try to spin a story,” said Farid, in a Dartmouth College video posted on YouTube.
The problem people have had since the photo was made public in the 1960s is that they were concerned the shadow from Oswald’s nose didn’t match the shadows on the ground, suggesting the picture was a fake.
Farid said the shadow cast by his body goes back and to the right which suggests the light is low and the shadow on his nose suggests the light is much higher.
“And I thought this is weird. How did that happen? I thought this is really a fake image,” said Farid, director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth, in the video.
Farid used the new forensic technology to create 3D models of Oswald’s head and body and scene around him. He determined the photo was genuine.
“Everything in this photo is exactly consistent,” he said. “If this was a fake it would almost unimaginable how they could have done this in 1963 because the light and the shadows from the person, from the beam would have been exactly right which even today would have been extremely hard to do.”
From his 3D models, Farid concluded all the shadows could be explained by the direction of the sun. His study will appear an upcoming issue of the journal Perception.
The video of Farid explaining how he analyzed the photo can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gw_3nA5G4
Dartmouth Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked.
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I don’t believe it for a second. The chain of evidence for the photos is all wrong. They were only found on the 3rd search of the Paine residence and they were not even entered on the inventory sheets of Oswald’s possessions. There is no evidence that Oswald owned clothing that he was wearing in the photos. Robert and Patricia Hester who owned the National Photo Lab in Dallas had spent the night of the assassination processing photos for the FBI and secret Service. They said that the FBI had color transparencies of the backyard photographs the night of the assassination and had one color transparency that had nobody in the picture. The backyard photographs were not found until the next day after the third search. Twenty years after the assassination a photo like the backyard photos turns up in the Dallas police files but it has the figure of a man cut out. When the backyard photo is blown up to Oswald’s height the rifle is too long. When it is reduced to the right size of the rifle the person is about 6 inches shorter than Oswald’s height. Farid may have found a super new method of looking at photos but it still doesn’t put Oswald there. Now we have the magic photo. Just in time to try to discredit the new book about Tom Wilson’s research into the images of the assassination A DEEPER, DARKER TRUTH Tom Wilson’s Journey into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Donald T. Phillips. I’d take Wilson’s research over Farid’s any day. Nor is Wilson the only other researcher who proves alteration in this and other images.
I completely agree. There’s no way to verify that picture as having anything to do with Oswald, and thanks for the tip about the upcoming book. Interesting how the disinformers are still pushing the lone gunman scenario after all this time, isn’t it?
I’ve added the book, A Deeper, Darker Truth, to this site’s bookshelf, here:
http://astore.amazon.com/questieveryt-20/detail/0615300995
Yes, EvilGrin (love that name), the timing is very interesting. I always find it amusing that many of the Lone Nutters forget the the official government position is that the assassination IS a conspiracy. The long discredited Warren Commission Report is not the final word on the event and there have been other official inquiries since then. The fact that they were taken there kicking and screaming is another issue altogether. And also interesting is the fact that the Dept of Justice has ignored studiously any and all new evidence. If Oswald really was just a disgruntled lone nut why is there anything, let alone 1,000’s of records, that needs to be kept under wraps for 75 years? Why not hold the trial in Texas under Texas law. Homicide was a crime there too. Still is. And it’s not too late as there is no statute of limitation on murder, JFK or Tippet’s murder.
There is a whole other story about the bumpy road that was travelled to get this book to market. ‘They’ are still watching after all these years.
http://www.amazon.com/Deeper-Darker-Truth-Donald-Phillips/dp/0615300995/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257736819&sr=8-1
People are easily snowed by officialitis. If you were to take a cross sample of the ‘nutters, you’d find that a lot of them have likely not read the WR, and if they have, have never looked at it in any sort of depth, as in, to take it apart. You’d also find that a lot of them simply take it on faith that, because the government has said that it is so, that it is so. The same types of people can be guaranteed to get behind whatever it is the government puts its official stamp on, without question.
I’ve always had a bit of a problem with that line of thought, or non-thought as the case may be.
I think it’s kept under wraps for the same reason so many of the questionable things that are done in the name of government are kept under wraps: The truth requires action, and if the truth comes out, officially, then someone will be required to do something. Someone will have to take responsibility. Plausible deniability has become so deeply ingrained that even when ‘everybody’ knows what’s gone on, denying it continues.
Yes, a coup happened in 1963. Covering it up doesn’t change it.