That JFK assassination photo everyone keeps using as proof - I checked the shadow angles myself

People keep pointing to that one Dealey Plaza photo where Oswald's shadow doesn't match the sun position, claiming it proves a conspiracy. I pulled up the time-stamped weather data from the Dallas morning news archives for November 22, 1963, and the cloud cover at 12:30 PM was 70% which explains the diffused lighting. Why does nobody look at actual meteorology reports before making shadow claims?

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young.kim4h ago

Wait, are you saying people jumped to conclusions about a grainy photo without checking the actual weather data from 60 years ago? That's almost as crazy as the guy who told me the moon landing shadows proved it was filmed in a studio, but he got the time of day wrong by six hours. I swear, conspiracy theorists would rather draw lines on a blurry image than spend five minutes on Google. It's like they think the sun just picks a favorite shape and sticks with it, no clouds allowed.

noahmartin4h ago

Hey, am I the only one who actually looked at those shadow measurements more carefully? I pulled up the same photo in a high-res archive and compared it to the known sun position using a sun calculator for that exact date and location. The shadow angle in the photo matches perfectly if you account for the 2.5 degree tilt of the camera, which everyone ignores. The weather data is important, but the shadow claim actually falls apart even without clouds.