Sunday, March 16, 2014

Backes, I'll admit that I was wrong about this image when I first saw it. I said it looked like a mother holding a baby to her chest, and that's exactly what others thought, including Richard Hooke and Larry Rivera. 

However, I never said that they were the same Mother and Boy from the Altgens photo. I rejected that completely because of conflicts between the two. And I certainly didn't say they were the same Mother and Baby from Towner, who aren't even real. 



Then, Robin Unger said that it was an older woman who happened to be big-bosomed. But, at first, he didn't submit the clear, more detailed version of it. Finally, he did.


Once I saw the above, I realized he was right, and I admitted it. 

But, it raises the question of where he got it and why we don't see more frames like it. You see, I don't think that the crappiness of the online versions of the Wiegman film has anything to do with the limitations of online digital technology. The above image is just as digital as the crappy one. I think they are deliberately showing compromised, defective versions of the Wiegman film- and other JFK films- precisely so that we can't see them too well. 

And in the case of the Wiegman film, it's mainly the opening frames in which Lee Harvey Oswald is standing in the doorway that they don't want us to make out. It's him, and there is no doubt about it.


So, go ahead and gloat, Backes: I don't care. But, when you're done, tell me where I can go to see the entire Weigman film as clear as this frame below. I'll travel to do it, but I want to see the whole thing as good as this: 



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