I don’t think Ted can speak for his dad in this matter, especially since Ted was not alive at the time of that photo.
Here is a better and more specific denial by Rafael Cruz-
In there he says that the point to a guy that doesn’t look like me, and that he never arrived in New Orleans until 1965, but the photo was from 1963.
But I don’t know, it does look like him, so I am not sure what to believe on this.
I will also go ahead and say that I have no idea if Oswald even shot Kennedy.
The only thing that I know for sure is that my government lies about every, single thing.
RE: But I don’t know, it does look like him, so I am not sure what to believe on this.
The whole “it looks like it does not look like” is VERY SUBJECTIVE.
No such firm conclusion is possible given the quality of the photograph.
Several historians of the period have said they’ve never seen Cruz’s name come up in connection with Oswald.
Politifact tried their best to contact the so called photo “experts”.
See here:
Here’s what they said:
Two photo experts the tabloid hired — Mitch Goldstone of ScanMyPhotos, a digitizing photo service, and Carole Lieberman, a forensic expert witness — said another man in the image appears to be young Rafael Cruz, according to McClatchy.
We could not independently verify these experts’ validation, as neither Goldstone nor Lieberman got back to us.
When we reached out to Kairos, a Miami-based facial recognition software company, Chief Technology Officer Cole Calistra was skeptical about claims of a positive identification. Calistra told PolitiFact that the photos are too grainy “to perform a proper match one way or the other.”
James Wayman, the former director of U.S. National Biometric Test Center in the Clinton administration, said proper analysis requires two full-frontal facial images.
“Without such images, no professional face examiner will be willing to render an opinion,” he said.
That being said, we had freelance programmer Lucien Gendrot test it out using Kairos’ face recognition API. The software could not verify a match between photos of the unidentified man next to Oswald and young Rafael Cruz, even at a low threshold of a 25 percent match.
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I’m really disappointed that Trump would stoop so low as to give any credence PUBLICLY to this story. I really tried very hard to like him.... but it’s getting more and more difficult by the day.