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

Billy Lovelady: "the crowd had started towards the railroad tracks BACK, you know, BEHIND our building. We run towards that little, old island and kind of down there in that little street. We went as far as the first tracks and everybody was hollering and crying and policemen started running out that way and we said we better get back into the building, so we went back into the west entrance on the back dock with that low ramp and went into the back door."

Now, I'm not exactly sure what he was talking about in reference to "that little old island and kind of down there in that little street" but I don't assume that it means that he crossed the street to Elm. 

Shelley and Lovelady didn't walk down Elm Street. If they had done that, they would have had to walk the entire length of Dealey Plaza to the Triple Underpass to reach the railroad tracks, and they didn't do that. They walked down the utility road thru the parking lot and got to the 1st railroad track that way. I don't think there is any doubt about that. 

If they had walked down Elm St. and then returned, then surely they would have re-entered through the front door. Why go around to the back? But, doing it the way they did, it made sense to re-enter through the back. 

Here is the route of the "trek to the tracks":

Of course, they may have just reversed direction for part of that; they didn't necessarily make a loop. I drew it that way for easy visibility. But the point is that Shelley and Lovelady definitely walked down the Elm Street Extension, otherwise known as the Utility Road. And that's where we see the two figures in the Couch film. 

So, there is a correspondence here that works. The two guys in the above picture were doing what Shelley and Lovelady said they were doing at the time they said they were doing it. One (Lovelady) said for 6 months that he wore a short-sleeved shirt like the one we see there. The other (Shelley) had on a jacket and had high hair like we see on that other guy. 

We're talking synchronicity here.

You think we're looking at a coincidence here, bpete? Then all I can say is: you start looking at proscenium arches, and Joseph Backes can show you the routine.