What does the picture of Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford mean? What does it prove? Why is it so important?

Jones,
Aaronson, and Rutherford are three men, who were arrested around 1965 before they publicly
confessed to their crimes of colluding with Goldstein against the Party. After confessing, they
were pardoned and reinstated to serve the Party.recalls that the three individuals were later
rearrested and confessed to a new series of crimes before being executed by the Party. Five
years after their execution, Winston remembers unrolling a document, which was a ten-year-old
page from The Times. The page was dated and contained a photograph of
Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford attending a Party function in New York. What Winston found
interesting was the fact that all three men had confessed to being on Eurasian soil on the day
that picture was taken. Winston specifically remembered seeing the date of their confession,
which meant that the confessions were lies. The photograph in The
Times is significant because it is concrete evidence that proves that The Party is
falsifying records, lying to the public, and unjustly punishing its citizens. In Oceania,
possessing concrete evidence that reveals the Party's true nature is extremely rare and
significant. Unfortunately, Winston fears the consequences of possessing such damning evidence
and throws the photograph into the memory hole.