When numerous people from all over, upon seeing the Altgens photo, recognized Oswald in the doorway, it must have been quite a lot. That's because they wouldn't have thought they needed damage control for just a few. They issued a statement that he wasn't Oswald but rather a look-alike from the TSBD, Billy Lovelady. But, all they did was lip-flap it; nothing else. They provided no evidence; nothing. They could have provided photos or produced the man himself, Billy Lovelady. But, they provided no evidence at all.
And, the look-alike claim never made a bit of sense because it wasn't just the likeness of the man, but also, the likeness of the clothes. It's one thing to say that two guys look alike. But, they also just happened to dress alike? No way. Mathematically, that takes it up to Neverland because the world of men is big, but the world of clothes is damn big too, and to say that they both got duplicated is just too farfetched. THE MAN IN THE DOORWAY NOT ONLY LOOKS LIKE OSWALD; HE IS WEARING OSWALD'S CLOTHES. That cinches it that it's him, and it really was open and shut from the beginning.
But why, when people realized that authorities were not doing the obvious, which was to produce Lovelady or pictures of him, didn't they scream bloody murder?
I am reminded of the movie Fargo, at the end, when the female sheriff suddenly realized that the suspect was fleeing the interview. She knew instantly from that that he was the culprit. She kept clamoring over and over, "He's fleeing the interview! He's fleeing the interview!"
Well, when the people who thought they saw Oswald and his clothes in the Altgens doorway heard the State's response, they should have clamored, "They're fleeing the evidence! They're fleeing the evidence!" It should have been a wake-up call that the State was scrambling, that they were caught red-handed and trying to get out of a jam. It was the equivalent of fleeing the interview.
In other words, their suspicion should have been heightened by the State's response. It was indeed a response of guilt.
And then, the sad-sack measures that followed to bury the Doorman controversy were just as lame. For instance, the Warren Commission coming up with several witnesses who claimed that Doorman was Lovelady. It's not as though they were unaware of what those people were going to say. They hand-picked those people to testify because they knew they would vouch for it being Lovelady. And ironically, the least supportive witness among them was Billy Lovelady. He never claimed to be Doorman. He and Joseph Ball danced around the issue. Think about how easy it would have been for Ball to point to Doorman and ask Lovelady, "Is this you?" But, he didn't do that. He didn't dare do it.
And then, the HSCA stuff was just as lame. Hiring Robert Grodin who did a photo comparison without using any images of Oswald? Grodin could have put these two images side by side and asked the HSCA to publish them. You can be sure that Grodin was paid well and that he assured them in advance that he would find for Lovelady. Grodin's mind was made up before he started, and they knew that. That's why they hired him.
These two look so much alike and are dressed so much alike because they are the same man, Lee Harvey Oswald. It is childish and preposterous to doubt it. The point is that from the beginning and throughout, there was sufficient reason to have the thought "The dirty mudder-fruckers are lying to us." And that means: the State killed Kennedy.
Some people had that thought right away. Vincent Salandria did. He told me so. But, why didn't more? I've been thinking about it, and I think the answer is: fear of the State.
The State got it established right away, where it was laid down in stone, that if you don't accept Oswald being up on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy, then you are a traitor; you are a terrorist, and you will be targeted. That's how they won: fear. Fear of the State. Fear of being ostracized. Fear of losing one's job. Fear of all kinds of retribution. Look what happened to Mort Sahl, and he didn't work in government. Still, they ruined his career as a comedian.
And actually, they don't care much if you want to think that there were other shooters, so long as Oswald is one of them, and as long as you make the Mafia the organizer. After all, that was Government Story #2 and it still is. That's what the HSCA maintained. But, if you try to make it that Oswald was innocent, it's like saying, "I love Hitler."
Make no mistake: the State killed Kennedy. Even saying that the CIA did it isn't right. It was the whole apparatus of the State, including not just the CIA but the FBI, the Pentagon, the Vice President. As Vincent Salandria said, the "national security state" killed Kennedy. And that's why every government investigation of the JFK assassination has been corrupt and will be going forward, if it comes to it. It's like asking the wolf to investigate the missing chickens at the hen house.
This is 2021. It's almost 2022. Anyone today who still can't admit that it's Oswald in the doorway is either a) very stupid or b) too afraid of the State to admit it, or c) an outright Kennedy-killer.