Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Greg Burnham]

I recently heard a longtime JFK Assassination researcher say that he was not a photography expert. I must say I can echo that statement many times, but I do wish I knew how reliable a blowup is. The Altgens picture of the JFK limo that has the TSBD building doorway in the background is the basis for the Doorway Man identification, and that is a small area that has very hard to identify images of people watching the motorcade. Maybe accuracy is attainable, but when looking at the picture as is the enlargement on my computer does not strongly indicate who Doorway Man is. The image, when added to testimony, indicates that person to be Billy Nolan Lovelady. If Lee Harvey Oswald's innocence is dependent on him being pictured in the doorway, would that indicate that BNL, or anyone else who does not appear in the photograph that may have been in or near the TSBD, could have been a 6th floor shooter? LHO not being Doorway Man does not, does not, place him on the 6th floor southeast window firing a rifle at 12:30pm CST on 11/22/1963. But, my purpose in posting is regarding blowup accuracy, as the Doorway Man identification argument has taken far to much time and space already.

Remember: whenever you are looking at an internet image on any web browser the resolution will always be limited to 70 DPI no matter how large the original file is. That's right: 70 dots per inch is all you ever get no matter what. Moreover, most image files have been compressed and usually more than once by the time you get them on your screen. Each compression reduces clarity due to a reduction in "unique information" being transferred in subsequent iterations. So, the short answer is: expecting to be able to accurately make definitive determinations from such a limited source, even when "blown up" is unreasonable. "No matter how much you stir it, you can't make chicken soup out of chicken shit."