Like Dan Rather telling the population back in ’63 that he saw the Zapruter film and it shows the president getting hit and his head jerking forward and down (as opposed to the truth of it showing his head jerking back and to the left consistent with a shot from the front right), Ben H. Bagdikian punched his ticket to press stardom by fabricating a bit of history himself with an article he penned on Dec. 14th 1963 called “The Assassin” for the Saturday Evening Post.
It’s hard to find copies of that particular piece of media propaganda mainly because the Post may have accidentally published a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald standing in the doorway to the Texas Schoolbook Depository at the moment JFK was shot. The image was taken by AP photographer James Altgens and published on page 24 and 25 of that edition of the Post. Below is a high resolution version of that photo with a few captions pointing out some rather interesting elements of it.
You can go here for the large clear view without my notations.
What you see is the moment JFK is reaching for his throat, having been shot in the neck already and what appears to be Lee Harvey Oswald standing in the doorway of the depository building watching it all unfold like everyone else.
Obviously, if that is Oswald, he couldn’t have been the shooter.
But that’s not the reason I posted this article today.
1 comment:
I believe Lee was in the 2nd floor break room, and the man in the doorway is Billy Lovelady.
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