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[Tracy Riddle]

The short answer is the FBI and SS were in control of the evidence - all the evidence - and it didn't matter where Oswald was, who might have seen him (think Carolyn Arnold) and what they actually said... the evidence was going to point to Oswald regardless. The fact that 50+ years later we still cannot say who shot JFK appears to me that the elaborate, well-orchestrated conspiracy has yet to be cracked other than to prove Oswald could not have done it.

But photographs are a different matter. Look at the trouble the Altgens photo caused. No one could control it being published by the AP 30 minutes later. Lovelady is far enough in the background, and the image is fuzzy enough, that people are still arguing about it. What if Oswald had been right on Elm St, photographed as clear and sharp as some of the women you can see in those photos?

As I've posted in the past - if someone ran up to the limo and hit JFK in the head with a bat - the EVIDENCE still would have been Oswald in the TSBD with the rifle. It's 1963 - You gonna believe the FBI or your lying eyes?

Umm...no. There are limits. Most Americans did not accept the official story, and the Lovelady photo was a major early talking point for the first generation of critics. If they'd tried to tell us that Oswald shot himself, after everyone saw Ruby shoot him on TV, how many people would have believed it? Do you think J. Edgar Hoover had godlike powers?