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

It is extremely significant the difference in how Joseph Ball treated Buell Frazier and Danny Arce then he did Billy Lovelady.

With Frazier and Arce, he pointed to Doorman and asked, "Who is he?" But with Lovelady, it was just: "Draw an arrow to yourself."

What? Did Ball have something against verbal communication that day? What's with the arrow?

And then, after he got his arrow, did he put Lovelady's name or initials next to it? Did he make sure it was plainly visible? NO! Just the opposite! He had him draw it black on black precisely so that it could NOT be seen. Then it was left unmarked, unidentified, unnoticed for nigh these 50 years until the OIC found it.

Just think about it from your own perspective and behavior. If it had been you, wouldn't you have just pointed to Doorman and asked Lovelady who he was? And if there was an arrow involved, wouldn't you render it visible and apparent and conspicuous and named? Isn't the purpose of an investigation to shine a light on things, to clarify, to illuminate? How does drawing invisible unnamed arrows fit in with that? We are just lucky that the tail end of that invisible arrow found daylight. 

And think about what it says about Joseph Ball. The moment the Lovelady drew that arrow where he did, Joseph Ball knew that the whole thing was a ruse. If he didn't know it before, he knew it then that Oswald was innocent, that he was standing in the doorway at the time, and the people he (Ball) was working for killed Kennedy. 

So, what did Ball do? Did he blow the whistle? Did he go to the papers? Did he demand justice? NO! What he did was get someone to talk to Lovelady so that from that point on, Lovelady conformed to the official story that he was Doorman.  

But note that Lovelady didn't talk about it that much. In 1966, it wasn't Lovelady who called Harold Weisberg but his wife Patricia. And when the HSCA rolled around in the late 1970s, they preferred not to talk to Lovelady. They could have called him in but they didn't. 

But, how could they not have him come in and testify under oath? They were trying to determine if he was the Doorway Man, and it should have started with asking him about it point-blank. Not just having him write a statement, but submit to questioning, including a vigorous cross-examination. 

Again, you had an official body not wanting to ask Lovelady directly who he was in the picture. 

In fact, they were so worried about Lovelady saying the wrong thing that not only did they not call him in, but he was gone from the earthly realm before the HSCA Final Report came out. Dead men tell no tales.