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

So-called Lance Uppercut has just made an outrageous attempt to rationalize a major deficiency of the Lovelady scenario- the lack of plaidness in Doorman's shirt.

His pathetic and diabolical effort does not deserve or warrant a point by point response, so I am just going to stick to the salient facts.

There are only two physical features of Doorman that have EVER been linked to Lovelady, and they are the hairline and the plaid shirt. There is indeed some truth to the hairline- but only to the hairline Lovelady had in the 1950s and not in 1963, and we have Mark Lane to thank for shining a light on that.

But, our focus now is only on the so-called plaid shirt.

Doorman's shirt pattern NEVER looks plaid. It never shows horizontal and vertical lines crossing. And I have an offer to make to Lance Uppercut: Let's meet in Dealey Plaza. Someone in a plaid shirt can stand in the doorway, and we shall take a picture of him from Altgens position and as close as we can to Altgens shooting criteria, and I'll bet that squares will appear on the shirt pattern in the picture. I mean actual horizontal and vertical lines that cross forming boxes. If such a pattern is represented photographically, I win, if not, I lose.

Now, you have no reason not to accept this bet. You stand to win money, first of all. But, imagine the pride of announcing to the world that you beat Ralph Cinque and stripped him of his money as well. As for the amount of the wager, you decide. And just to make it fair, we'll get an independent photographer to do the work, and you and I will be observers. While you are thinking about that, I'll continue.

Lance argues that the plaid shirt that you see on Lovelady on the right came out splotchy as you see on Doorman in the middle. But again, why are we arguing about this? I will meet you in Dealey Plaza. We will have our showdown, Buddy. And we'll make it interesting. Are you man enough for it, or not?

Lance suggested that we just look at a portion of the shirt, and he didn't want to look at the sleeve because he said we're not sure whose it is. Oh, I'm sure, Lance. It's Doorman's sleeve.

But, if we're only going to look at part of the shirt, let's make it the upper left quadrant, and that's left to us.

This is one of the first collages I ever made, and it's still useful- after all these years. You see, even in the notorious Groden scan, there is no plaid, and there isn't even any splotch whatsoever in the upper left corner. Yet, Lovelady had vivid, bold, geometric pattern all the way up to and including the collar.

So, shift your focus, Lancey Boy, from the body to the upper left quadrant of the shirt.

Actually, Clark Rob did a better job than you did, Lance. He showed us that Doorman's shirt pattern didn't match Lovelady's at all.

Can you see that Loveolady's shirt had white lines, both horizontal and vertical? These lines crossed forming boxes. There are no boxes on Doorman's shirt. There are no vertical lines on Doorman's shirt. And there are scant few horizontal lines.

And, notice look how fine the lines are on Lovelady's shirt. And remember that it wasn't supposed to be just a shirt like Doorman's. Supposedly, it WAS Doorman's actual shirt. Therefore, a much wider SPLOTCH that is kind-of horizontal does not correspond to a delicate white line. It is an utter disconnect.

Clark Rob had the stupidity to put them together and say they were a match. Lance Uppercut, not being quite that stupid, cleverly decided that the sleeve was out.

Well, let's get something straight, Lance: Only two people who have ever lived have ever claimed that was anything but Doorman's sleeve, and they are the Idiot Joe Backes and a dead guy named Richard E. Sprague. Through all those long debates on EF and other forums, for which bpete was there, nobody argued that that wasn't Doorman's arm and sleeve. In fact, bpete knows well that they were arguing that that was Doorman's arm alright, and he was grabbing the handrail with it. You know who said that? Steve Haydon said that. You know who else said it? Craig Lamson said it. And there were others who said it. Albert Doyle said it on Lancer. Nobody suggested it was the arm of a black man. And since the pattern and the tone are entirely consistent with the rest of Doorman's shirt, and since we can see the cuff at the bottom, and nobody until Joseph Backes doubted it was a cuff, I think it's altogether certain that it's Doorman's sleeve. So, you can take what you did and shove it the same place that Backes shoves his proscenium arches.

Now, they don't actually make shirts with splotchy patterns because it's not considered attractive. What we are seeing with the Groden scan is haze and distortion. The best scans, with the least distortion, show a much more subtle and consistent pattern on Doorman's shirt.

Now again, we have no reason to argue about this when we have the means of resolving it through experimentation. Meet me in Dealey Plaza.

Now listen up, Lancey Boy. I've got a rule for you: NEVER draw on an area in which the visual examination is taking place. You can draw outside of it. You can write things outside of it. You can point arrows to it. But NEVER draw in it. You hear me? That is cheating. That is deception. That is bull shit. So, don't do it again because you've been adequately warned about what it means and how corrupt it is.

Now, we have very good reason to think that the splotchiness of Doorman's shirt is haze and distortion and not the shirt pattern. Notice below that there is a polka-dot effect not just on the shirt but on the faces and in the black areas. Notice that Doorman's face looks like he has some kind of pox, and the same is true of the small portion of Black Tie Man's face that we see. There was haze there too. Remember what this is: a gross enlargement of a very tiny spot in the photograph. You blow things up that much and you get haze and distortion.

But notice again that the upper left quadrant (boxed) has nothing that can remotely be associated with a plaid pattern. There are no lines at all. Lovelady had rich pattern and rectangularity all the way up to and including the collar. It simply can't be Lovelady's plaid shirt.

But, it's great to have Lance Uppercut in the fight. What does that make it now? Let's see: Idiot Joe Backes, b-beaten, Sutler, and Unger. That's 5, but I hope 5 more will come along because I can handle all comers. Yes, I have the ability to prevail over all of them, but it's only partly because I'm smarter than they are. What makes me invincible is that it is Oswald in the doorway, and the evidence for it is irrefutable. You can't win an argument when you're wrong. You may temporarily fool a few people, but in the long run, you are going to lose. That's because truth always wins out in the end.

So, the more attack sites against me the better. It's just going to help spread the message of JFK truth.

I'm not going to post this on the new OIC Facebook page, but I will announce it and post a link to it. Let the showdown begin.