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

 Let's get something straight: There are no arguments left to claim that Billy Lovelady was Doorman. He NEVER said that he was. Not once in the 16 years that he lived past 1963. 

Lovelady was treated like kryptonite. In 1967, CBS paid him to return to Dallas to participate in their 4 hour JFK Special. They took his picture, and they interviewed him, and after doing that, they not only cancelled his involvement in the program, they also eliminated the whole Doorman segment. They didn't mention it at all. That's how they were affected by what Lovelady said. So, what do you think he told them?

When Josiah Thompson was researching SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS, he wanted to interview Lovelady but found out that he was inaccessible. Other authors found that out too.  

Then, in 1976, HSCA Lawyer Ken Brooten went to visit Lovelady in Colorado. Brooten was chief lawyer at the HSCA, and he was subpoenaing people left and right, and I mean for 6-7 hours of deposition.  But, after meeting with Lovelady, he not only made a firm decision not to subpoena him, he also decided to resign so that he could become Lovelady's lawyer so that he could protect him from any other summons he might get. He didn't want Lovelady talking, to anybody, ever. Period.  

But, consider this debauchery: When the story broke about a guy in the doorway looking and dressing like Oswald, the FBI went into action. They stormed Lovelady's house the evening of Saturday, November 23. And according to Patricia Lovelady (Lovelady's wife) they brought with them a blow-up of the doorway that was "as big as a desk." 

Sounds diligent, doesn't it? But, in that situation, why didn't they also storm Oswald's cell and ask him about it? He was alive and well that Saturday night. And I'm sure he wasn't doing anything. And he was the guy that people thought they recognized in the Altgens photo, both his person and his clothing. So, how could they only ask Lovelady about it and not Oswald? What would it have hurt to ask Oswald? Don't you think they would have done that if they were honest? 

There are no talking points for Lovelady as Doorman. He never said he was, and the very obvious action of calling him in to speak to reporters and to a sea of microphones and cameras, was never done. He did testify to the Warren Commission, but he never told them he was Doorman. 

And he did NOT look like Oswald. That was a lie. Oswald was 5'9" 131 pounds. That's skinny. I am 5'6" and weigh 143 pounds. And people tell me I'm skinny. Lovelady was weighed and measured by the FBI on February 29, 1964, and they said he was 5'8" and 170 pounds. But, that was over 3 months later, and  I think it is VERY likely that he lost weight because of all the stress he was under. So compared to Oswald, Lovelady was stocky. They were like Laurel and Hardy. 

And the fact is that Doorman looks skinny- like Oswald. 

Here is a collage of Lovelady, Doorman, and Oswald, all photographed the same day: 11/22/63. 

On the left is Lovelady from the Couch film. Billy is wearing the short-sleeved shirt that he told the FBI that he wore.  And they stated it in two reports. Then look how well the man and the clothing match between Doorman and Oswald. 

The Lovelady claim was never more than an elaborate lie, and not by Billy. It's very clear that he did not like being Doorman. It was a gig he didn't ask for or relish. It was something that was forced upon him, and it absolutely ruined his life. And it's very likely that he was killed in 1979. They said that he died of a fatal first heart attack at age 41. I know it happens, but, it's pretty damn rare at that age. And we know that they possessed the heart attack gun that could have induced a heart attack.  

We know that the supposed footage of Lovelady milling around in front of the TSBD 10 minutes after the shooting is fake and could not possibly be him.  That's because he wasn't there at the time. Lovelady left immediately with Billy Shelley to comb the railway yard. They joined the throng of people who did that. And then, they returned to work by going around to the back door. They never returned to the front again. That's in Lovelady's WC testimony- and also in Shelley's. But, the FBI apparently didn't read it. Also, they forgot to spread Gorilla Man's shirt open, the way Doorman's was.  

Likewise, the footage of Lovelady in the Squad room is fake. Lovelady testified under oath to the WC that the last time he saw Oswald was at the TSBD. He said nothing about seeing Oswald at the DPD.  So, who was the guy at the desk in the Squad Room? He was nobody. There was nobody sitting there. And it wasn't a desk; it was a supply table. The place where Lovelady was supposedly sitting was right in the traffic lane. That was a photographic trick in which they inserted the image of a man into the film. And it's the reason why no one in the film reacts to him. Nobody looks at him or acts like he's there. He wasn't there.

 Now, I don't want to hear another person claim that Lovelady identified himself as the Man in the Doorway because he did not. Other people did but not him. 

But, Lovelady did come into money after the assassination. He moved to Colorado and started his own freight company. He also became a major real estate holder in Colorado. At the time of the assassination, he worked at the TSBD for $1.11/hour and didn't have a pot to piss in. The JFK assassination was lucrative to others too, such as Marina Oswald. The money she got after the assassination was equivalent to millions today. 

It was Oswald in the doorway: same man, same clothes, same stare, same stance (with hands clasped in front of his body). Stop fighting it because it's hopeless.