13-01-2011, 05:43 AM
You're welcome Allan. I appreciate your calm under fire and reasonable interpretations of new data.
Jim, I'm not sure I have all the facts on the Altgen photo. Ike Altgen was a Dallas AP photographer, so stipulated, and the famous photo in question ran in newspapers, right? So the family would naturally be proud Mr. Adams was there in a photo a newspaper published, almost front and center, and would plausibly frame and hang it. Regarding a caption mentioning Adams, I'm not sure what the evidence is there. It is improbable a newspaper would mention Adams by name unless a reporter on the scene had interviewed him. The family might have made its own caption from news print or other means to enhance the "officialness" of the photo's appearance, a matter of family pride. Enlighten me on the known facts here. Yes, the CIA might provide such a false story, but it is unnecessary because it isn't Conein and wouldn't pass a reasonable cost/benefit test, too convoluted. Besides, these guys weren't scared one bit.
In any event, Jim fails to mention the video I cited, which is key. It is convincing "new" evidence to me that it wasn't Conein in the Altgen photo. This proposition, to clarify, is very different from claiming that Conein wasn't there or wasn't a participant in the assassination, since he likely was. Even the alleged 1962-3 photos of Conein show too much hair on his upper forehead to be the person in the Altgen photo. So I conclude it is not Conein in the Altgen pic. If you want a 100% sure ID of a CIA guy in the crowd, I'd pick Gerald P. Hemming.
Jim, I'm not sure I have all the facts on the Altgen photo. Ike Altgen was a Dallas AP photographer, so stipulated, and the famous photo in question ran in newspapers, right? So the family would naturally be proud Mr. Adams was there in a photo a newspaper published, almost front and center, and would plausibly frame and hang it. Regarding a caption mentioning Adams, I'm not sure what the evidence is there. It is improbable a newspaper would mention Adams by name unless a reporter on the scene had interviewed him. The family might have made its own caption from news print or other means to enhance the "officialness" of the photo's appearance, a matter of family pride. Enlighten me on the known facts here. Yes, the CIA might provide such a false story, but it is unnecessary because it isn't Conein and wouldn't pass a reasonable cost/benefit test, too convoluted. Besides, these guys weren't scared one bit.
In any event, Jim fails to mention the video I cited, which is key. It is convincing "new" evidence to me that it wasn't Conein in the Altgen photo. This proposition, to clarify, is very different from claiming that Conein wasn't there or wasn't a participant in the assassination, since he likely was. Even the alleged 1962-3 photos of Conein show too much hair on his upper forehead to be the person in the Altgen photo. So I conclude it is not Conein in the Altgen pic. If you want a 100% sure ID of a CIA guy in the crowd, I'd pick Gerald P. Hemming.