Detecting Photgraphic Fakes In The Time of Computers

[Peter Lemkin]

Jack, Peter,

To quote Fox Mulder: "I want to believe."

And I do accept at face value the sincerity of your representations of what Wilson told you.

If such an ultra-secret repository of JFK evidence is a reality, certain questions arise.

1. Why would the conspirators permit this threat to exist? Their reach extends to the deepest recesses of government -- hell, they are the "government" in the broader sense, and one is hard-pressed to believe that the materials would exceed their collective grasp.

2. Whose agendas are served by the preservation of such evidence? The fact that the interim materials documenting the forgery process are said to be intact profoundly complicates the equation; this gives rise to the wild speculations that the conspirators are being blackmailed and/or kept at bay by the threat of exposure. (The latter hypothesis seems to be rendered moot by the passing of JFK Jr.)

3. Why would EMK permit Wilson to see it?

4. Who else has seen it?

5. Isn't it far more likely that this tale is tall -- and reminiscent of the claim by the French researcher Reymond that he had access to the "real" Z-film, prompting David Mantik to be suckered into a trip to Europe to see footage that never was forthcoming (or at least that's David's story)?

I can offer speculative answers to the above -- but to do so I first would have to don my novelist's attire (see below).

I have no desire to insult the memory of a man of whom you think so highly. And it is the esteem in which I hold both of you that prohibits me from dismissing out of hand the EMK portion of the Wilson story.

That, and the fact that my storyteller's instincts sense something important here. Perhaps it's merely the Book of Secrets-echoing plot line that so intrigues me. On the other hand, during my very first public presentation of a JFK research paper (at Jerry Rose's first Third Decade conference in Fredonia), I speculated on the existence of a "trophy room" of sorts in which the highest-level conspirators (the "sponsors," in the Evica/Drago conspiracy model) kept documentation of their world-historic deed.

After all, to do so would only be inhuman nature.

One more point: The inherent danger in Wilson-like smoking gun stories is that, if proven false, they are utilized by the cover-up artists to argue that all conspiracy "theories" are likewise made of whole cloth.

We don't need Tom Wilson's work to prove conspiracy.

We do need Tom Wilson's work to deliver that proof, in the most emotionally powerful and persuasive manner, to a global population unsophisticated in the ways of deep politics.

A short response, to a series of questions that could well be a book or a conference. While we know much incriminating evidence [and persons] have been expunged; we also know that far from all has been.

The way Jack described Tom is the same way I knew of his background. He stumbled upon the assassination by chance - living near Cyril Wecht and being [by chance] exposed to his work on the case. It changed his life and changed the way he viewed his own country - and it upset him greatly!

Even though he denied me the promised results on my photos and information [I got the response that his Court case was too important and it took priority...and he needed my photos for it], I no longer have ill feelings toward him. He was a bit excentric; a bit naive; a bit too cocky about his ability to single-handedly prove the case; and the other things already mentioned by Jack and myself. He was very bright and a computer genius. It is my belief that his techique found new proofs and information within the photo record. I fired-off new pleas today and hope to have some responses shortly. Several on this Forum would be invited to help work on the materials when we have access. Then we will know. The very fact that the FBI is denying receipt of a large number of photos and their interpretations from Wilson [though I know exactly who can still prove they did get them and the quantity of those recieved!], to me says that what they recieved was so 'damaging' to the official verson, they had to be buried in the black hole of the 'intelligence' community. That, alone, should tell us something.