Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Steve Haydon showed up on Amazon to claim Doorman's shirt for Lovelady based on an exposition by "Lance Uppercut". And it includes this image that supposedly shows the plaid pattern of Lovelady's shirt on Doorman. 

Here's the source of the picture:

http://oswaldinthedoorwaynotreally.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/billy-nolan-loveladys-1273-id-points-of.html


There are a couple of things laughable about this. The first is the copyright by Lance Uppercut. How could Lance Uppercut get a copyright? It's not a real name. It's like saying "copyright by Alfred E. Neuman."

 Here's the definition of Lance Uppercut on the Urban Dictionary:

So, I'm pretty sure that if there was any copyrighting going on, it was done by Lance Uppercut. And since no actual holder of the copyright was named, I think I can safely ignore it. 

But, the other funny thing is that Lance has applied the horizontal lines of Lovelady's shirt- except that they're not horizontal, they're diagonal. 

But, Lovelady's lines were definitely horizontal. That's the whole idea of a plaid shirt, to have horizontal and vertical lines crossing, forming boxes. I don't know what you would call the pattern if the lines were diagonal, but it wouldn't be plaid. 

Let's compare Lance's work to Lovelady himself when he was posing in the doorway.

On the right, that is Lovelady standing in the doorway of the Book Depository in 1971. He is, supposedly, recreating his stance in the doorway. And as you can see, his horizontal lines are horizontal, not diagonal. 

So, what Lance submitted is complete bull shit. It is total, utter nonsense. 

And what's really pathetic is that not only are those diagonal lines wrong, but they're not remotely there. Lance had to draw them in, right over the area in question:

Now keep in mind that besides drawing in the slanting lines, he's got an overlay of other material there. So, Lance really pulled all the stops to fabricate what he wanted to show. When we look at Doorman by himself:

There is no plaid pattern on Doorman. There is a little bit of contrast, but the light splotches on his shirt don't even correspond to the white lines on Lovelady's. What they are are haze, distortion, and light reflection. There were shiny areas on Oswald's well-worn shirt, and in the bright sunlight, as he was standing, the light got reflected. That's what we're seeing. However, it is also a huge blow-up, so it also includes haze and distortion from that. There is not a single vertical line on Doorman's shirt. There is not a single horizontal line that can be correlated to any on Lovelady's shirt. And, there is not a single box on Doorman's shirt, whereas Lovelady's shirt is full of boxes- it looks like a checkerboard. 

Steve Haydon thought about it and decided to delete his post on Amazon about this. 

Steve, there are times in life in which you can undo your mistakes. But, this isn't one of them. You're stuck with it. 

Doorman's shirt is NOT a match to Lovelady in any way, shape, or form. Oh, and did you notice? Lovelady's shirt wasn't sprawled open like Doorman's. And it was just a few minutes later. Oops!