John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[Albert Rossi]

Of course in the case of LHO doppelgangers we're dealing with visual IDs. But consider the extant photo(s) of ostensible Oswald doubles John Thomas Masen, William Seymour, Billy Lovelady, Steve Wilson, etc.

I think we were sort of walking over the same ground here. What I was originally saying was that exact physical matches are not necessary to do the kind of counterintel operations which seemed to have been afoot in late summer and fall of 1963. But one of John's analytical tacks is to take actual photos purportedly of LHO and compare them, suggesting they can be sorted out into Lee and Harvey. I personally have a hard time with this, because, with the exception of that really distorted photo with the widow's peak, the differences are so subtle to my eye at least as to make me question that they really exist. When I focus on the nose, lips and chin, I see very little difference. It's not like, say, the chin of the backyard photos, which is clearly different. I don't know enough about photographic measurement analysis to tell whether superpositions of photos prove anything or not. So I have trouble with this evidence.

The stronger evidence I think rests in the documentary contradictions, the existence of LHO in NO and Fort Worth (or North Dakota) at overlapping times, the two Marine careers, etc., etc., etc.