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

I just received this from Richard Hooke:

Ralph, I keep thinking about how Joe Ball had Frazier say Doorman was Lovelady and mark an arrow on A6 at Doorman (in the white post area) and then Ball goes to Lovelady, 'now mark an arrow indicating where you were; do it in the black' and then Ball says to Lovelady, for the stenographer, "Now we've got  two arrows, one in the white and one in the black pointing toward you."

And the end result is the photo has only one arrow you can see indicating Doorman was Lovelady and the testimony reads like both Frazier and Lovelady drew arrows at Doorman indicating he was Lovelady...

even though Lovelady drew his arrow at Black Hole Man, as Ralph has discovered, and tried to tell the truth.

I gotta say Joseph Ball was evil and he was a fuckin' genius, that's all I have to say.

Richard

And here is how I responded to him:

Yes, Joseph Ball was very nimble and very quick. As soon as he saw where Lovelady was going with his arrow, he directed him to draw it in the black. And then that verbage of his was just a cover up for the fact that the arrows pointed to different figures. That was April 1964, but by May 1964, Lovelady was claiming to be Doorman, as required. So, Ball must have spread the word right away that Lovelady was a loose cannon and a danger to the whole plot, and they sent the goon-squad to talk to him. I'm sure they made him an offer he couldn't refuse. 

But, Lovelady's arrow still remains, and until someone finds an alternate one that's better, this mark stands alone as the tail of Lovelady's arrow. 

There is only one way that anybody can fight this, and that is: to find Lovelady's arrow elsewhere. Short of that, they need to shut the pluck up.