[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]
Item Number Six:Posner vs. the Photographs: Walker home POSNER (p. 117, footnote 2): "An issue was later created when the Warren Commission showed Marina one of the surviving five photographs Lee had taken of the Walker residence, and she said that a hole in the print, which more than obliterated the license plate on a car parked in front of Walker's house, had been added since Lee had shown it to her. But Marina may be mistaken. A photo of evidence taken from Oswald's flat after the assassination shows the hole was in the print at that time. Also, the photo was taken from such a distance that the license plate of the car would not have been legible in any case..."Question 1. Was the hole in the photograph when the police found it?:WARREN COMMISSION (XVI p. 7):The photograph referred to, with the hole, is CE 5.CHIEF JESSE CURRY (Dallas Police): On p. 113 of his book JFK Assassination File (1969, American Poster & Printing Company), Chief Curry includes a full-page photo of evidence found at the Paine home (also reprinted full-page on p. 46 of Cover-up by Gary Shaw and Larry Harris, with detail on p. 47, and also on p. 124 of The Killing of a President by Robert J. Groden, 1993, Viking Studio). In the lower left hand corner is the photo which became CE 5. Although an envelope partially covers the photo, it doesn't cover the area where the hole later appeared; this area has no hole. Question 2. Would the license plate not have been legible at that distance?WARREN COMMISSION (XXI p. 714): Walker exhibit No. 3 is an FBI reconstruction photo showing approximately the same view as CE 5. It appears to have been taken from the same distance, or slightly farther away than CE 5. Even in the printed version, less than half the size of CE 5, the license number of the car is clearly discernible and nearly readable. It would be easily readable in a photographic print, or a printed version the same size as CE 5. The Car from CE 5 The car from DPD photo The car from Walker 3