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

People want to say that the guy in brown and white hovering over Roy Lewis was Lovelady, but I say he wasn't Lovelady, and he wasn't Oswald either. 

Lovelady described where he was standing and who he was standing with, and it wasn't Roy Lewis. Remember that this was the early 1960s, and it was Dallas, a southern city, a Confederate city. There was a big racial divide. Whites and blacks may have worked together as the job demanded, but once the quitting bell rang, then whites consorted with whites, and blacks consorted with blacks, and that's just the way it was. I'm not applauding it. I'm not saying it was a good thing. I think it would be great to live in a world in which skin color is irrelevant to whom people choose to associate with- even in their leisure. But, we have to honest. Let's consider that Junior Jarman, Harold Norman, and Bonnie Ray Williams all wound up on the 5th floor together. Why did those three form a pack? Why wasn't it Junior Jarman, Harold Norman, and Billy Lovelady all going up to the 5th floor together?  

I'm telling you how it was. And no, I am not a racist. I have a female cousin who married a black man, and they have three beautiful children, and I love them all. But when you look at the doorway in Wiegman, you get a pretty clear idea of how it was racially.

So basically, you had all these white people crowded together on the east side and in the center of the doorway, and then on the west side, you had one lone black guy- all by himself. And you can see the distance- the physical distance- between Doorman and Roy Lewis. 

And that's why this image is not ringing true to me.

So, physically, it conflicts with Wiegman, and the only way it could be valid is if in the few seconds between Hughes and Wiegman, Doorman scooted up to where we see him in Wiegman. But, that is a convenient and arbitrary assumption whose purpose is to avoid questioning the legitimacy of the Hughes image. Compare the size of the men. Look at Wiegman first. Notice that Roy Lewis looks quite massive, meaning broad shouldered and thick through the chest. He looks bigger and heavier than the Wiegman Doorman. But in Hughes, the Doorman looks as big- or bigger- than Roy Lewis. I don't think that Doorman would have changed position. And if you read Billy Lovelady's testimony, he gave a very detailed description of where he was and whom he was with, and he never said anything about being over by Roy Lewis. And as for Oswald, my impression is that he really was anti-social. People said he was. Geneva Hine said he was. Mrs. Reid said that he didn't even respond when she told him that the President had been shot. In other words, he didn't even want to interact with the white people. He was a loner. He kept to himself.  So, the idea that he would have been hovering over Roy Lewis is ridiculous. He came out that doorway, and he took the exact position that we see him in the Wiegman film: in the center, on the landing, a few inches to the right of the median handrail. There is no reason to think he went anywhere else. 

So, I am questioning the legitimacy of this image. I strongly suspect it is a bogus image. And, they put him where they did based on the Altgens photo, not realizing what the Altgens photo implied.