Paul Castaldi

Duncan may have a better suggestion, but in the meantime: since the 2008 link is no longer valid, you can probably find what you're looking for in the Muchmore album http://www.jfkassass...ls.php?album=10 at the JFK Assassination Research Photo Galleries.* * http://www.jfkassass...iongallery.com/

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It definitely looks like that cop is wearing an earphone, with the wire running down behind his collar. I know such earphones were around in 1963, well before they evolved into "earbuds". As I recall, they were used on hearing aids, and came with the "tinny" transistor radios sold back then. So maybe the cop was hard of hearing, or listening to the radio while he worked. Ya gotta consider all the possibilities, they say. But it does seem incongruous, along with the other items you mention.

On the one hand, it's true that rigorously challenging, rebutting, and deconstructing propositions and arguments that seem flimsy or preposterous on their face may be the best way to discredit them beyond question and extinguish them. On the other hand, one must balance this desideratum against countervailing prudence succinctly expressed by George Bernard Shaw: "I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty-- and besides, the pig likes it."

Take my Single Bullet Theory... please! [rim shot]

I am a retired state unemployment compensation appeals referee, residing in Havertown, a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. Although I am not an attorney, as referee and hearing officer running often contentious hearings and issuing written decisions, I am familiar with the rules of evidence. I have considerable "battlefield" experience in reviewing and evaluating testimony and documentary evidence. I am interested in US history and deep politics, with particular emphasis on the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X during the 1960s. I am also interested in the "Mystery of 9/11". I remain very much a child of the "Aquarian Age" Sixties counterculture, and a lefty critic of the capitalist Establishment.