** NEW DISCOVERY REGARDING BOOTH AUTOPSY PHOTO

[wsanto]

I guess my main concern is why anyone, Katz or Osborn Oldroyd or whoever would create this fiction. The premise is that the Wardell letter was fabricated solely to create or perpetuate the hoax or theory that a picture of the autoupsy was taken by Gardiner.

Certainly Oldroyd was a collector and an early expert on the assassination. He probably wanted the photogragh for his collection if it existed. It is my understanding, and I may be wrong, that he is the one that, reportedly, had direct contact with Wardell with regard to the story and that the letter was a product of that relationship. I may be wrong because I don't fully understand the backstory.

As far as his book is concerned it is entirely conceivable to me that his interest in the photo was more as a collector than as an author and didn't feel the story warranted inclusion in his book

Perhaps he or someone using his name and reputation had a motive--to implicate Stanton in a cover-up. I just don't know this story well enough to understand what may have motivated him or them.