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

You just wasted your time, bpete. The proper way to look at this is to realize that Joseph Ball asked two people, Buell Frazier and Danny Arce, direct questions about the identity of Doorman. That is to say: he pointed to Doorman and asked them, "Who is he?"

But, when Ball got to Lovelady, he didn't do that. Why didn't he do it, bpete?

He didn't do it because he didn't know what Lovelady was going to say. So, as late as April 1964, Joseph Ball did not know what Lovelady was going to say about the identity of Doorman. So, to play it safe, he just had him draw an arrow to him- IN THE BLACK WITH A BLACK PEN. We're just lucky that the tail of the arrow crossed over into the flesh-toned area.

And then after the arrow was drawn, Ball did no verbal confirmation of what happened. He did not say anything like, "Let the record show that Mr. Lovelady drew an arrow to the same figure that we have been talking about with the others, the man in the doorway at the top of the steps and next to the white column."
He didn't do that; Ball quickly changed the subject.

Jones Harris told us what I said he told us. The person he talked to was Richard Hooke.

There is no reliable evidence that Lovelady ever claimed to be Doorman before May 1964.

I'll say it again:

There is no reliable evidence that Lovelady ever claimed to be Doorman before May 1964.