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

So, you believe all that, do you, Hondo? That Lovelady went to court against CBS over two-days pay? Well, it must have been Small Claims court then, right? 

Anybody can file a claim in Small Claims Court, but you have to wait. You don't actually get your day in court until months later, many months later. They're got a backlog. Plus, the other party has to be notified, then they get a chance to respond, and all of that takes time. 

So, you figure that after promising Lovelady compensation for losing two days pay, where they were going to replace the pay he lost, that they reneged. After all, they were a big corporation, and they had to watch their pennies, the shareholders wanting to make a profit and all. 

But, just having a lawyer devote time to responding, and then having to send him or someone there to argue their case in front of the judge, as to why they weren't obliged to pay Lovelady, would have cost a heck of a lot more than just giving Lovelady his two days pay. And what about the bad publicity? Was it worth it just to avoid giving Lovelady two days pay that were promised? 

And of course, all of this was under contract, right? Because if it was just he said/they said, Lovelady would lose. The first thing the judge was going to say was, "Show me something in writing." If Lovelady didn't have that, he didn't have anything.

So, you have to assume that Lovelady had a signed contract, and if they signed a contract to give him two days pay, why wouldn't they do it? That amount of money is nothing to a big corporation. Furthermore, what possible reason would they have not to want to give Lovelady his promised compensation? I am entirely open to attributing bad, evil things to CBS News, but ripping off Billy Lovelady for two days pay?         

But, you just accept all that as the reason why the Doorman segment got canned from the CBS Special in 1967? Because Billy Lovelady had a judgment against CBS for two days pay? But, if he had judgment, then it means they had to pay it, right? They weren't going to spend decades fighting the judgment, were they? Was that going to be worth it to them? 

So, Lovelady won a judgment against CBS for the two-days pay, and the judge included that they were restricted from using any materials that included him or were about him? Is that what you're saying? And they decided that it would be better for them to trash all that they did rather than pay the judgment? They were going to defy him; they were going to defy the judge; they were going to defy the order; and they were going to let it embroil for years or indefinitely just for not wanting to give Lovelady his two days pay. Is that the story?

And Bob Jackson had nothing to do with it. The CBS Special was in 1967. Bob Jackson photographing Lovelady was in 1971 and was completely unrelated. Old Ike was getting confused.

We're talking about " a dog ate my homework" level of excuse-making here, and yet you buy it?

Fact: CBS canned the Doorman segment of the JFK Special in 1967 because someone over there must have realized that it would do more harm than good. Rather than resolving and ending the controversy, it would have just grown it. How childish for anyone to believe Altgens' ridiculous story. And I really do think they gassed him to death in 1995. They probably didn't want him telling any more stories.