Richard Bertolino

It was a few days ago, but I want to respond to this entertainment idea. I wish that I found the topic entertaining, but I don't. To me this is a serious matter, a civic duty sort of thing. And I currently have more than 72,000 files in my database, almost all of them free downloads. So, it's not a matter of reading material. Also, I was not complaining about the cost, but of the site's design. It is intentionally annoying, unless you pay. And the searches produce insane broadly scattered results, designed to require payment if you're ever going to find anything. The design is contrived to make it annoying, unless you pay. Is the whole point to make you pay? I don't know. I can't ask Mary.

The source for the FWST photo can be found here: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/10005189

Some things can be proven absolutely. One of these is that the FWST photo of Jim Valentine standing guard on the 6th floor was faked. The linked image shows that photo with part of the window compared to another photo of the same window. The FWST photo has extra dark corners where light was put into the windows photographically, in the darkroom. These dark corners are not just in the window corners, but also where the window light borders other objects. This photo was faked to make it seems as though Valentine was standing there in the daytime. There's a lot to say about this photo, but I'll just make this a signpost for those who wish to investigate further. It should be noted that Valentine drove car 207, the same car that delivered Gerald Hill and Jim Ewell to the TSBD and that Earlene Roberts saw outside the rooming house while Oswald was inside his room changing.

Nice gif. It illustrates well the positional situation. If the boxes are a couple feet back from the window, the two photos are consistent regarding the box position. Also, nice that BRW stays in exactly the same position while Jarman disappears!

Nice gif. It illustrates well the positional situation. If the boxes are a couple feet back from the window, the two photos are consistent regarding the box position. Also, nice that BRW stays in exactly the same position while Jarman disappears!

I don't see how it is even theoretically possible to do what is being claimed here. If the original Powell being used is from an online digitization, then the resolution is going to be relatively low. And the photographic information is going to be limited to the pixel resolution, each pixel being an approximate average of original analog photographic information. If there really was information reflecting a hidden police officer in the window in the original analog photographic fake, then it would be lost in the digitization process. And, as the original Powell slide has never been available, the only versions available online are digitizations of prints from the slide made by the government, which would cause the loss of even more of the original photographic information. And even those "orignal" prints are not available. I don't think this analysis is even theoretically possible unless you have the original analog source material.

I still don't understand how you got the police officer from the original. I guess I'm just too stupid.

The things that girl said!

You can't avoid the egg on this topic, unless you never come to any conclusions. Just don't eat the egg; very bad for the cholesterol despite what Big Egg has been saying lately.

I think a little over 20 minutes had passed between the Powell photo and the Kimbrough. Yes, somebody could have put the box on the sill and opened the flap and stuck it out the window. It's not absolute proof of alteration. Very few things are absolutely proven.

In the Kimbrough photo, the top box is in between the camera and the bottom of the open window. In the Powell, the box is behind the window. Clearly, the box was added to the Kimbrough photo. But, I don't think a Badge Man is being hidden here. Arch Kimbrough was a wealthy Dallas builder. And even though he was ostensibly an early researcher, I have never seen any significant research come from him. But his photos were dicked with.

I see the "police officer" now. But I don't see how he comes from the original. Can you explain what you did to the original to produce the image of the police officer?

It could be that the Mexico City office did realize that there was no credible evidence that Oswald had been to the Cuban consulate, and that's why they didn't say so. Or it could be that somebody in MC knew what was going on but did not tell Winston Scott. Or it could be that Scott understood what was going on but that it was too sensitive to put into normal communications. I don't think that a firm conclusion can be made here as a basis for a Mexico City explanation.

I'm just seeing the images here for the first time. Are you saying that the "badge" is above the highest "box?"

There is this page from 1976, HSCA, about their chats with the Tarasoffs. Tarasoff says elsewhere in this document that he was never asked about the Oswald conversations again. The clear sense is, without it being explicit, that the Mexico City office DID know the identity of the 1st caller before the assassination. Presumably this would mean that they knew in early October that Oswald had been at the Cuban consulate. But the transcripts we have don't quite match up to the memories of the Tarasoffs.