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

OK, let's think about what it all means. We've got a hodgepodge of at least three different films:

1) the one with the short cop leading Oswald, where his shirt is hanging off
2) the one with the detectives leading Oswald, where his shirt is on properly
3) the one with the tall cop leading Oswald where his shirt is hanging off again

The first one is what Backes calls the Buck film. 

They had just arrived at City Hall and gotten off the elevator. What time was it? We have to work backwards.  According to the Warren Report, Oswald was arrested around 1:45, and the police car left the Texas Theater with Oswald at 1:51 PM. It was 3.87 miles to City Hall. So, what time could they have gotten there? 

Next came the clips with the detectives in the white hats. That didn't come until later; they just put it in there to fill out the progression. Notice that his shirt is on properly. 

Then we get to the part with the very tall cop, starting here. Note that Oswald's shirt is off again. 

And then they go into the squad room. And that brings us to that clock. 

Was that clock really there, or was that just put there to make it look like it was 2 PM? They didn't leave the theater until 1:51, and they had nearly 4 miles to drive through crowded city streets. How many red lights did they have to stop for? One thing is for sure: unless they put the siren on and ran every red light, they couldn't have gotten there by 2:00. And I have never heard that they did that. Yahoo Maps gives an estimated driving time of 7 minutes.

That would make for an arrival time of 1:58. Could they have had Oswald in the Squad room by 2:00? 

But, we know they resorted to using a clip with a different cop. So, is it possible that that was from a different time, and they just put that clock there to make it look like it was 2:00? 

We know the approximate time Oswald was led out of the elevator, and that had to be close to 2:00. But, we can't assume that the short cop handed Oswald off to the tall cop. That was a splice job. And that means that whatever time Oswald was with the tall cop must have been a different time. And that means that the clock has to be phony. They just put it there to link it to the prior footage. 

   

So, what was the purpose of this elaborate bait and switch? 

It all had to do with Lovelady. After Harold Wesiberg started bellyaching about Lovelady having worn a short-sleeved striped shirt, they had to come up with an image of Lovelady wearing a long-sleeved plaid one. Why'd they go with plaid? It's because the haze and distortion in blowing up Doorman's shirt, plus the light reflections, gave it some contrast, and plaid was all they could think of to match it. And, lip-flapping alone wasn't going to cut it this time because it had been put in writing TWICE that Lovelady said he wore a short-sleeved striped shirt. THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE ON THE VERGE OF LOSING ALL CREDIBILITY ABOUT THIS, AND THEY ALSO KNEW THAT NOTHING LESS THAN AN IMAGE COULD SAVE THEM. Obviously, such an image didn't exist since Lovelady didn't actually wear a long-sleeved plaid shirt. So, they had to improvise. They had to implant a Lovelady figure, properly dressed, into some footage-somewhere, anywhere, so long as they could make it look believable. 

So, they must have studied all the footages, and they decided that placing him at that desk in the Squad room was their best option. But, they had to think about the timing. When was Lovelady actually at City Hall? They left the TSBD for City Hall at 1:50. So, they decided that 2:00 was a good time to put him there. So, they placed Lovelady in that Squad Room and called it 2:00. It must have been another time that the footage was taken, but by linking it to the footage of Oswald's arrival and putting that big clock in the room, they could accomplish the ruse. That way it worked well- both from the standpoint of Oswald's timeline and Lovelady's. 

But, is it possible that when Oswald was actually there in the Squad room that they had already confiscated his outer shirt, and he was only in a t-shirt? He spent a lot of time in just a t-shirt. And so to make it look continuous with the preceding footage, they had to paint his partial shirt on?

That shirt is looking pretty shabby to me. I'm having serious doubts about the authenticity of it. And does it look like Oswald's arm is going behind his back? It seems like his elbow is going behind him.

Yikes! That would be torturous! And it's not even biomechanically sound. How could his elbow be that low? It wouldn't be that low. It couldn't possibly be that low. How long do you think his arm was? I have to wonder if Fatol is right, that they painted that shirt on. 

One thing is for absolute certain: this was all a very elaborate ruse. And it was all for the sake of showing Lovelady in a plaid shirt.