Its a shame that one fuzzy white ring appearing around the neck of Prayer Person which is claimed to be the result of a better version of the film vs the many posts of a copy of the film we viewed for many years, can completely eradicate a rather lengthy analysis that had rational logical reasons why Prayer person was Oswald.
This is an inaccurate characterization of how PM=LHO came to be discredited, Mr. Mason. The "many posts of a copy of the film we viewed for many years" was in fact ONE frame viewed over and over again. Prayer Man
in this one frame struck many people (myself included) as LHO-like. Mr James Hackerott warned us that the clearer version of the film in the 6FM showed-------
across multiple frames--------a neckline that seemed incompatible with male attire. And then the new (and, yes, superior) frame appeared online and-------------bore his claim out.
Several people have viewed the 6FM copy of Darnell. To my knowledge, not a single one has come back with the declaration 'Yep, looks like Oswald!' Now why do you think that might be?
Now, instead of the logical place Oswald would likely have gone, had he exited the TSBD front door at 12:29, and from where he would easily have been unnoticed in that west corner, a new narrative has us deep into the most fantastic scenario of Oswald now moving in FRONT of people and taking out a flag and waving it!
I have studied the doorway films VERY closely, and have offered a considered analysis of what they show:
--Mr. Oswald drinking from his Coke bottle (Hughes)
--Two flags being waved from the doorway; Pres. Kennedy looking that way, and then brushing his hand across his hair (Towner)
--Mr. Lovelady, a few feet east of Mr. Oswald, waving the second flag (Bell)
--A ludicrous fake shadow down Mr. Lovelady's right side (Wiegman)
--A lady holding up the (soon-to-be-infamous) paper sack by the mailboxes, and Officer Baker (and another woman) running straight in her direction (Darnell)
--Mr. Shelley walking away from the scene, post-assassination, with something held to his chest (Hughes)
I stand over all elements of this analysis, and the compound explanation that flows from it.
What is YOUR analysis of what the films show, Mr. Mason? What, for example, do YOU believe accounts for the objects being waved in the doorway in Towner? (Are they too "made visible by a process of developing the negative to lighten up the background"?) And what do YOU believe the woman by the mailboxes in Darnell is holding? A surfboard?
Mr. Oswald said he "went outside to watch P. Parade". He was telling the truth. Prayer Man
in Darnell has become the new DoorwayMan-in-Altgens: an initially promising attempt to pinpoint Mr. Oswald's location in the doorway that has devolved into a sorry distraction.