CD87 p92 - SS tells us the rifle Kleins shipped to Hidell was a 91(T)roop (S)pecial carbine

[Drew Phipps]

whats photogrammeriety, precioussss? I don't have any fancy gear, just a pixel counting digital analysis software package. To avoid the 3D problems I find something with a known length on the same plane or "close" to the object I want to measure and compare pixel numbers. In the pictures of the magic bullet I measured for Bob, the bullet and the ruler appear to be on the same plane. In the backyard pictures "Oswald" is far enough away from the camera lens and close enough to the rifle he's holding that errors of foreshortening should be minimal.

If you use as a yardstick LHO's real height 5'9", then the gun he's holding is 2 inches too long to be the short rifle. If the "Oswald" in the picture is 5'6" the gun is the right size. I am no photo expert but if you took a photo of a shorter 5'6" guy holding the 91/38, and then cut him out of the picture and put Oswald there, "shrinking" Oswald to fit the 5'6" hole, then that would account for the discrepancy. How tall was Officer Brown? Perhaps the good Officer is a bit more stout than Oswald which might leave the "ghostly" image immediately to the right of Oswald...If the pics are the real "Oswald," and he had the shorter carbine in his hands, you could cut out the carbine image and put the 91/38 image where it used to be.