Pictures of Characters

On seeing the actual pictures of Lee and Ferrie, I realized that they looked either a lot different than I had expected or somewhat similar.

Lee looked a lot younger than I had expected him to, but he was in fact younger than I had thought he was. I had always thought that Lee Harvey Oswald was just some angry 40 year old guy who had decided to stake out and shoot the president. I had never been the kind of person to feed off into conspiracy or be really involved in historical conspiracies. Seeing Lee, and the photos of him I could see that he was somewhat conflicted. His photos of himself holding his gun are especially revealing showing that he needs to somehow impress himself or maybe even his wife. There aren't many other people that would have seen the photo because there wasn't Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram back then. His mugshots also look kind of smug like, "what did I do wrong?". Lee really was just a conflicted character, he always wanted to do things his way and found himself to be much more important than he really was. He didn't want do things how people told him, but when he didn't things seemed to go all wrong. The photos of Lee also make him look very innocent. He has the slightest baby face, that really makes you question if someone like him could carry out such an act.

Ferrie looked just as creepy as I had expected him to. The toupee and his eyebrows were very amusing. Although I expected him to have a more narrow face and a creepy beak like nose. In this weird and terrible way he reminds me of this cashier at County Market who only works late at night and seems to always be there when Nikita and I go.  She has really bad drawn on eyebrows, that look like she might use a brown Crayola marker. Although Ferrie's photos don't really make him out to be the conspirator type either. They more make him out to be clown reject, a terrible cross dresser, or a pedophile. Especially the pedophile part, which makes the somewhat more intimate scene between him and Lee more believable.

Its always interesting to have your own interpretations of what a character might look like, but have an actual and historical comparison is even better.