[RummyChick]

so since the time this went live and FR crashed right about then..I did a little hunting.

The photo has been out for awhile as seen in this 2008 video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EMdQm8Mguw

Here is something someone did testing the pic



I tried a different test. Using that video for the timeline (which could be off) the photo of black hand Ann is before Sr/Obama at the airport. Take Ann's height to SR and then compare to Obama's height to SR and then compare to the black hand pic.

If anyone has a good timeline reference for those photos it would be helpful since Obama's is bigger in the black hand Ann photo.

Some have suggested that it is Obama that was put into that picture. You can't see Maya's purse behind his leg but that could be possible because of the angle of the photo.

As for Russians not doing a good job of forging photos- there are a lot of examples on the net of just how good they were - before there was such a thing as Photoshop.

I went to a site that many claim is either operated by the CIA or has CIA posting on it. Mixed reviews. Some say photo degradation and others say edited photo. I don't have a conclusion. It does look to me like Ann could be pregnant in that photo.

It is possible that Ann was holding some kind of purse. Notice Obama's shoulder. There is some kind of handle there. Say his shirt sleeve dips down over her wrist. It is possible for a hand to look large at a certain angle when in a fist holding a purse. Notice that Grandpas arm is almost dark. The chairs can be explained away by different seats. It is possible there were different seating sections there. The angle could be due to the camera. Still, I have no conclusion about it being fake or not.

[bunster]

Below O’s right hand — something is white. Is that a bag, or purse of some sort? I can’t tell.

[Humbug]

You bring up some good points. The grandfather’s dark arms could be explained by hairiness but still, considering that the quality of the camera may not have been great, even for back then, and the film may not have been developed properly and so on, i’m inclined now to think this remains a curiosity but not much more than that.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

The montage you’re looking at has been altered as well. I do not believe the grandfather’s left hand is this dark in the original photo. It’s been darkened a bit to explain away ‘Ann’s hand’. That’s Frank’s hand. PERIOD.

[Smokeyblue]

“Some have suggested that it is Obama that was put into that picture.”

Obviously, whatever photos they had to work with are what they had to work with. No choice really. And what they were trying to accomplish is what they were trying to accomplish. Whatever that was. These four people were supposed to be at that place and at that time.

That said, it seems like it would be easier to slap an outlined Obama on top of a photo then to outline Stanley Ann around the length of Obama.

The outlined Obama taken from another photo with a black man standing behind him and they forgot to take out the black hand.

Anyone else think that the top, right side of Obama’s afro looks a little chunky like sloppy photoshopping around his hair outline?

I wonder if Grandma is missing between Stanley Ann and her father or is she the one supposed to be taking the picture?

Someone should try to take Obama out of the photo and see if Stanley and her father standing closer together works better.

Also Stanley Ann’s left foot looks weird to me.

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