Was I wrong in remembering that MX returned to the US on a Black Star Line ship?
It’s very interesting that they made the dock photo collage. Why not just hide it, burn it, rip it up?
I can only assume that it supported some part of the myth, and also pre-empted any undoctored photo that might appear at some point.
Like in “NOW”.
As there’s no record of when and where that dock image first appeared, it’s possibly an ABSTRACT like the BC.
I don’t think it was ever stated that MX was a passenger on a ship of The Black Star Line, his brother wrote that he met friends or relatives on the dock and had his photograph taken with the captain.
Without the original, we don’t know who was in the core group. The image remains a curiousity.