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We are all familiar with the famous “doctored” photo of Houdini and Theodore Roosevelt originally taken of a group by Franz Kukol

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And many of us have seen the group photo that actually shows 7 people in the photo:  Wm. H Childs, Houdini, J.C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, A.W. Erickson, Philip Roosevelt, and L.F. Abbott

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But have you seen the photo with 8 people?

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And anyone know who that 8^th person is on the far right of the photo?

Could it be Mr. Ridgeway mentioned in the letter (first posted by our friend, David Saltman on his Houdini File site) from William Hamlin Child’s about the “fake picture” of Houdini and Roosevelt.

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Related:

• LINK: The Houdini File by David Saltman