It's tricky. If the Dunham couple were sitting next to each other, and were moved apart by manipulation of the image to accommodate zero, both sides of the wall and mortar would stay the same. Just as they remain the same when zero is removed...
A better indication might be the position of the bench supports and the position of the three people in relation to the bench. Does it seem there's enough room there for three people? Have the uprights of the bench been moved?
There's no doubt the actual location of the bench has been found and photographed. The small dip in the top of the wall confirms it. It's all far from conclusive imo.
What interests me is that Stanley Ann Dunham obviously visited him in New York, and might have been the one who took the photographs. That's the Boener guy who maintains he shared an apartment with zero, standing in the group with zero and Stanley Ann. Zero appears to be wearing the same blue shirt he is shown wearing under the leather jacket on the bench, and sitting on the bridge. One has to look at all the images from that episode to attempt to get some context.
I don't recall seeing any photographs of the elder Dunhams and zero after he graduated from Panahou. This appears to be the only one, and if it's a manipulation, is has to because it serves a purpose.
Obviously, no. There is not room for three people in that bench space.
The group photo in NY you posted appears to be legit on its surface. But I do note the all to often familiar ‘floating hand,’ this time it’s on SAD’s shoulder. No one really knows if he was at Columbia for a day, a week, or a semester. The photo could have been taken at Occidental rather than Columbia.
The park bench photo served the purpose of cementing his connection to the ‘family’ and he shared no photographs of any of his ‘family’ from his graduations.
We do know that early research into the archived hard copy Columbia student magazines from their library turned up nothing. Articles and photos related to AA protests or South African Apartheid had been ‘razor-bladed’ out of all the periodicals during the years that he was said to have attended. They turned up zero on the Zero.
Incoming.