Mr. Lane. Next I would like to offer a picture which is a glossy 8½-by-11 picture, of a photograph published in the New York Times, secured by the New York Times from the Associated Press.
Representative Ford. Is there any verification of the fact that that is as you have identified it?
Mr. Lane. That is what—a picture secured——
Representative Ford. From the New York Times, which in turn had acquired it from the Associated Press?
Mr. Lane. Well, that is a statement which I have made under oath, and it can be verified with the New York Times.
Mr. Rankin. That is Exhibit 335 that you are just referring to, Mr. Lane.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 335, for identification.)
Mr. Lane. I suggest that is the identical picture with the one published on the cover of Life magazine, Exhibit 334, in every respect, including the creases in the trousers, the background, with the exception of the rifle in the hands of Oswald, which appears to have no telescopic scope in Exhibit 335.
In addition, there clearly has been some other doctoring of the photograph around the head of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the trees and other background material over his left shoulder have been removed from the Associated Press picture, but are present in the Life magazine picture.
Shadows and fenceposts which can be observed between the legs of Lee Harvey Oswald in Exhibit 335 have been removed in the Life magazine picture. I would like to offer this picture as the next exhibit.