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Digital Forensics Expert: Controversial Lee Harvey Oswald Photo is Not A Fake

Posted by Ralph Bernardo on November 21, 2009

OswaldMELANIE PLENDA writes in the Union Leader:

Kennedy conspiracy theorists appear to have one less bullet in their arsenal. Hany Farid, a computer science professor and expert in digital forensics at Dartmouth College, spent two months evaluating a photograph of John F. Kennedy shooter Lee Harvey Oswald.

“You can’t really authenticate a photo in all honesty,” Farid said of the image, which shows Oswald holding a Marxist newspaper and a rifle. “But I can say pretty definitively that the things that people thought made the photo a fake, well, those people are wrong. And it doesn’t make them stupid. I was wrong too. But that photo is not the proof they think it is.”

It’s long been the contention of conspiracy theorists that photos of Oswald were doctored as part of an elaborate cover-up after the President’s Nov. 22, 1963, assassination.

Farid said over the years, he’s received dozens and dozens of requests to analyze the photo. What helped him decide to take on the project was a recent study he worked on looking at how the human brain processes images.

Read More: Union Leader

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  • Gee
    i could have told you that. the history channel did a show about him.....this might be a surprise to you, but he had a russian wife..he lived in russia for a while and also theres video footage of him passing out pro castro papers in america (pauses for dramatic effect) dun dun duuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. so why would it be such a big deal that he had marxist papers and the rifle that killed kennedy? oh yeah even when he was in the military he talked alot of marxist stuff to anyone who would listen...he got out of the military and went to russia to live his commie dream...and yet the rooskies thought he was useless...they thought of him as a nobody...he slit his wrists while he was in russia because it depressed him so much. so in conclusion next time just do some real reporting..talk about president obama being a extraterrestrial space lizard whos trying to pass a human cook book... errr i mean health care reform >.0
  • Lance
    This article on Oswald is part jaded journalism, part non-sense. ANYBODY that has ever served in the military (combat or not) knows that part of the art of hitting your target includes the MUST of firing several hundreds of rounds, in order to gain REAL TIME proficiency. You CAN NOT gain proficiency by dry firing/pointing your rifle at target. The weight of the rifle, coupled with the discharge of the weapon is a MUST that the shooter has to get accustomed to. To site in, with a loaded, working rifle, that WILL RECOIL after firing, is part of the art of managing a weapon efficiently. You can not approach even mediocre proficiency, looking through the rifle sight, dry firing the weapon. All that amounts to screwing around in your back yard. Even IF Oswald had help, he couldn't have been the Ace Sharpshooter that "nailed" the Prez. We have corroborative proof of that, by the government's own FBI crack-marksman, that COULD NOT duplicate the timing of the shots. The Mannlicher Carcano was genuine piece of SHIT. Let's remember that it was a bolt action rifle, with a TWO STAGE trigger.
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