Exposing the Backyard Photos
Rigorous analysis by a few members of the Photographic Panel has elevated the debate surrounding the backyard photos from politics to science.

Smoking Papers

Contradictions of the Backyard Photo

Vanishing Point Analysis and Synthesis

Firearm and Photographic Identification

Dilemma of the Scratch Marks

Missing Negative

Report of the Photographic Panel

Return to New Leads in JFK Assassination Research
Last Updated on December 5, 2008 by Herbert Blenner
Had Oswald known the full contents of the backyard photos, he would not have committed political suicide by sending the pictures to New York City.
Firearms and cameras are mechanisms whose signatures have repeatable characteristics and minor variations.
An enlargement of a backyard photo proves someone withheld evidence.
Source: Volume VI of the HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS.
Scratch marks in precisely the same location on all backyard photo materials provide evidence of fakery.
A comparison between the backyard photos with the expected knowledge of an ideological defector reveals serious problems.
The photographic panel put salesmanship ahead of scholarship and replaced analysis by synthesis.