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

I get mail:

I was watching an old Robert Groden video last night featuring various films of the motorcade. There was a segment towards the end of the video from the Dallas Cinema Associates showing Billy Lovelady outside the TSBD minutes after the assassination with his shirt buttoned up to the top of his neck. According to Jim Marrs, Lovelady did say his shirt was buttoned to the top that day. Obviously proof positive that Oswald was in the doorway. Are you aware of this video? Just curious-C.D. La Crosse, WI.

He used his name, but I took it out to protect him. 

Yes, C.D., we know all about it, and we call it the Gorilla Man clip because the Lovelady impostor in it looks like a gorilla. That is fake, just like the Lovelady sighting in the squad room at the Dallas PD is fake. It all stemmed from the ruckus that Harold Weisberg was making about the clothes that Lovelady said he wore on the day of the assassination. Lovelady told the FBI- and they put it in writing twice- that he wore a short-sleeved, red and white vertically striped shirt and blue jeans. And he posed in it for them, with the buttons undone, supposedly reenacting his role as Doorman. But, why would he do that unless it was the same clothes? He wouldn't. 

So, that was a lot to undo, and the FBI realized that lip-flapping alone wasn't going to cut it. So, they went into the movie business to create fake sightings of Lovelady wearing a long-sleeved, plaid shirt. Oddly enough, Doorman's shirt wasn't even plaid, and Harold Weisberg said so. But, plaid is what they settled on, and a'movie-making they went. Here are the films that I know of with a fake Lovelady wearing a plaid shirt: Martin, Hughes, the original PD footage, a second reenacted version of the PD footage, and Wiegman, although only the second Doorman in Wiegman. The first Wiegman Doorman was Oswald. But, he left early for the lunch room, and they replaced him in the film with a fake one. 

But, this is what you are talking about, and it is probably the most widely cited image of Lovelady from 11/22/63. But, it was NOT Lovelady, but rather a Lovelady impostor, and he was not there on 11/22/63. It was made afterwards.