NEWS FAKES THROUGH HISTORY

Posted by George Freund on May 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM

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This portrait of Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and Southern politician John Calhoun’s body.
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The image on the left appears to be of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in front of his troops at City Point, Va., during the Civil War. But researchers at the Library of Congress say it is a composite of three separate prints. The head is a photo of Grant, the horse and body from a photo of Alexander M. McCook and the background is a photo of Confederate prisoners captured at the battle of Fisher’s Hill, Va.
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Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins, took a photos that appeared to be of fairies. The public, including Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, loved them. It was decades before the two admitted the images were photos of cardboard cutouts of drawings, and they continuted to maintain they had actually seen fairies.
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This famous campaign photograph showing Herbert Hoover with his hand on the shoulder of his running mate, Charles Curtis, was manipulated. One of Hoover's press directors, Edward Anthony, explained in his autobiography, that two separate pictures were used and the hand was painted in by an artist.
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Stalin routinely had his enemies air-brushed out of photographs. In this image, a commissar was removed from the original after falling out of favor with Stalin.
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This grainy photo, supposedly of the Loch Ness monster, allegedly was taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, and is known as the Surgeon's Photograph. It was published in The Daily Mail in 1934. Extensive investigation has shown the photo to be staged, but many still believe Nessie exists.
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In the undoctored photo on the right, Bo Gu, and early Chinese Communist Party leader is at the far left and Mao Zedong is at the far right. Mao later had Bo Gu removed.
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The doctored photo is on the left, and the original is on the right. Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels (second from the right) removed from the original image.
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The original photo of Elizabeth, the queen mother, and Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, taken in Banff, Alberta, included King George VI at the far right. King George VI was removed when it was used on an election poster for King, possibly to portray him as more powerful.
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The original image is on the right. Benito Mussolini looks more powerful without the handler holding his horse for him.
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The picture on the left of Sen. Millard Tydings talking to Earl Browder, the leader of the American Communist party, is a composite of a photo of Browder, and a photo of Tydings talking to another man. The doctored photo was meant to imply that Tydings had communist leanings.
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The Gang of Four, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, were removed from this original photograph of a memorial ceremony for Mao Zedong held at Tiananmen Square. The four Communist party leaders fell out of favor after Mao's death.
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This National Geographic magazine cover has the Great Pyramid of Giza digitally moved to fit the vertical format. Tom Kennedy, who became the director of photography at National Geographic after the cover was manipulated, said that 'We no longer use that technology to manipulate elements in a photo simply to achieve a more compelling graphic effect. We regarded that afterwards as a mistake, and we wouldn’t repeat that mistake today.'
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This TV Guide cover photo of Oprah Winfrey was created by splicing Winfrey's head onto Ann-Margret's body. The composite was created without permission from Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by the designer of Ann-Margret’s dress.
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This digital composite of Olympic ice skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan appeared on the cover of New York Newsday. The picture showed the rivals practicing together, shortly after an attack on Kerrigan by an associate of Harding’s husband. The caption reveals the fake: “Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, appear to skate together in this New York Newsday composite illustration. Tomorrow, they’ll really take to the ice together.”
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Hoping to illustrate its diverse enrollment, the University of Wisconsin at Madison digitally inserted a black student in a crowd of white football fans for the cover of its brochure. The original photograph is on the left.
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This GQ magazine cover features a digitally slimmed Kate Winslet. Winslet was offended by the retouching, which she called 'excessive.'
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The photo at top is a digital composite of the two on the bottom. A British soldier in Basra gestures to Iraqi civilians, urging them to seek cover. The doctored image appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times shortly after the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. Brian Walski was fired after his editors discovered that he had combined two of his photographs to improve the composition.
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John Kerry, then a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War and not yet a politician, prepares to speak at a peace rally in New York in 1971. The image was used in a photo composite during the 2004 presidential primaries.
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Jane Fonda protests the Vietnam War and President Nixon at a rally near the Republican National Convention in 1972. The image was used in a photo composite during the 2004 Presidential primaries.
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This photo composite makes it look like John Kerry and Jane Fonda once shared a stage at a rally. The two were photographed at two different events. The doctored image surfaced during the 2004 presidential primaries.
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A presidential campaign ad for George W. Bush shows a sea of soldiers as a back drop to a child holding a flag. The original image, at right, shows Bush standing at a podium. He was removed by digitally copying and pasting several soldiers from other parts of the image.
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A 2005 Newsweek cover featured a photo of Martha Stewart's head pasted onto the body of another person.
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A digitally altered image of illustrator Clement Hurd appears in newer editions of 'Goodnight Moon,' written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Hurd. The publisher, HarperCollins, altered the original photograph, at right, to remove a cigarette from Hurd’s hand.
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A photograph, at left, by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese photographer, shows thick black smoke in Beirut after an Israeli air raid. The Reuters news agency initially published the image at right on their web site, but withdrew it when it became evident that it had been manipulated to show more and darker smoke. Hajj said he was only trying to clean up the photo and not alter the image.
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A photograph of Katie Couric was digitally altered from the original, at right, to give Couric a trimmer waistline and a thinner face. This image appeared in CBS' in-house magazine Watch! CBS spokesman, Gil Schwartz, said 'the doctored image was the work of a CBS photo department employee who got a little zealous.'
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Sepah News, a service owned by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, released these images. The on at right shows three missiles being launched in Iran. The one at left was apparently altered to add a fourth missile, according to defense analyst Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Non-Proliferation Program for the London-based Institute For Strategic Studies.
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A photo of Sarah Palin was widely distributed across the Internet shortly after Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate for his 2008 campaign. The photo was revealed to be a composite of Palin’s head pasted onto somebody else’s body.
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This is the original, unaltered photo of, from left, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah II of Jordan walking toward the East Room of the White House on the first day of the Middle East peace talks in 2010.
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Egypt’s state-run newspaper, Al-Ahram, published an altered version of that photo showing Egyptian President Mubarak leading the group walking to take part in peace talks.
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While British Petroleum was dealing wtih the massive Deep Horizon gulf coast oil spill, it posted on the Web a doctored photo of their command center. Three blank screens were altered. BP spokesman Scott Dean said that there was no diabolical plot to photographically beef up the company’s command center. Rather, he said, a BP photographer with completely benign intentions just slipped the images in.
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Al-Arabiya, a Saudi-owned English-language website, published a photo into which fighter jets were digitally inserted. The original photo, at right, shows Libyan rebel fighters near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Ras Lanuf.
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The Associated Press withdrew a news photo supplied by the Korean Central News Agency after it was determined that the photograph was a digital composite. This image of North Koreans wading through floodwater is a little clumsy, as the subjects' clothes are not even wet.
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Soon after Sept. 11, 2001, this photo began circulating via email. It appears to show a tourist posing for a snapshot on top of the World Trade Center as a hijacked plane approaches from behind. The man in the photo is Hungarian man named Péter Guzli, and the picture was actually taken in 1997. He added the plane as a joke.
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After an estimated 8,000-10,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Tunis to protest extermism and violence, the daily newspaper Le Maghreb published a photograph in which the crowd was digitally duplicated to appear even larger. The manipulation was discovered by readers. Zied Krichen, the editor-in-chief of the paper, later said that the image was digitally manipulated by the photographer, and they were unaware of the manipulation when they published the photo.
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Iranian defense officials released the photo at bottom purporting to show a stealth fighter jet soaring over snow-capped Mount Damavand. Earlier, aviation experts had claimed that the jet shown in the hangar in their press photo at right was not genuine. The jet in the photo sits at the same angle — and with the same reflections — as in one of the photographs from the hangar. The shot of the is a stock image. Thus, the flight image was revealed to be a composite.
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It's all just a game a mind control game, and you are the victim.
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These are the notorious 7/7 bombers on the way to the 'terror' attack. The figure on the extreme right isn't even there. He was drawn in. A Hollywood special effects man deconstructed the photo for me. The edge of the sidewalk was jagged. All curbs are pretty much straight. However, the figure at the rear by the fence is the dead giveaway the photo was fake. There are three steel rails to the fence. One is in front of him at waste level. One is behind him at the arm level. The bar at head level enters one ear and comes out the other. There is a fuzzy portion over the head showing pictures of different mega pixels were mixed together. OOOPS! We didn't see that did we?
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In another famous photograph of the Tsarnaev brothers outed by authorities as the Boston 'bombers' notice the noise around both men. I suspect they too were drawn in after the fact. The rear image has a clear white line inside the crotch as a clear cut is observed. I would venture to say fake. Never surrender your liberty to a photograph supplied by a tyrannical government or lying propaganda media. They have a track record. They are not Moses bringing stone tablets from a mountain. They are liars and deceivers.