The World - News from Dec. 18, 1987

A defense witness at the Jerusalem trial of accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk challenged evidence presented in a prosecution videotape that a photograph on a Nazi identity card was that of the defendant. Florida anthropologist Yasar Iscan said the videotape, in which a disputed 1947 photo was superimposed on a 1986 picture of Demjanjuk, was inconclusive because one image hid the other. The physical anthropologist who prepared the videotape, Patricia Smith of Hebrew University, told the court last May that the person in the 1947 photo was Demjanjuk, based on photo-montages and superimpositions she made. Demjanjuk denies that he is the Nazi camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.”