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(APPENDIX X - Expert Testimony)

In addition, in this instance regarding 133-B which I have just stated, I have identified as being photographed or exposed in the camera which is Exhibit 750, for this to be a composite, they would have had to make a picture of the background with an individual standing there, and then substitute the face, and retouch it and then possibly rephotograph it and retouch that negative, and make a print, and then photo graph it with this camera, which is Commission Exhibit 750, in order to have this negative which we have identified with the camera, and is Commission Exhibit 749.


This to me is beyond reasonable doubt, it just doesn't seem that it would be at all possible, in this particular photograph.407


Q. You have the negative of this? [Referring to Exhibit 133B.]


A. We have the negative of 133B.


Q. You have the negative of 133B. That negative in itself shows no doctoring or composition at all?


A. It shows absolutely no doctoring or composition.


Q. So that the only composition that could have been made would have been in this process which you have described of picture on picture and negative and then photographing?


A. And then finally rephotographing with this camera. Q. Rephotographing with this camera, this very camera ?


A. That is correct, and this then, to me, becomes in the realm of the impossible.408


Following the assassination, photographs similar to 133-A appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines.409 At least some of these photographs, as reproduced, differed both from 133-A and from each other in minor details.410 Shaneyfelt examined several of these reproductions and concluded that in each case the individual publisher had taken a reproduction of 133-A and retouched it in various ways, apparently for clarifying purposes, thus accounting for the differences between the reproductions and 133-A, and the differences between the reproductions themselves.411 Subsequently one of the publishers involved submitted the original photographs which it had retouched. Shaneyfelt's examination of this photograph confirmed his original conclusion.412 The remaining publishers either confirmed that they had retouched the photographs they had used, or failed to contradict Shaneyfelt's testimony after having been given an opportunity to do so.413

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