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

One thing Haydon and I are in agreement about is that this statement by Joseph Ball is the crux of the matter concerning what Lovelady did with his arrow:

Ball: You've got an arrow in the dark and one in the white pointing towards you.

That's it! He said nothing else to clarify anything. Shall we just assume from the sound of it that both arrows were pointing to the same person, Doorway Man? No, we shall not. This is the JFK assassination we are talking about, and there is no place for such pleasantries here.

Ball COULD have clarified it. He could have said:

"Let the record show that both Mr. Lovelady and Mr. Frazier drew arrows pointing to the same figure- the man with the unbuttoned, long-sleeved shirt and exposed t-shirt whom we call Doorway Man."

Ball didn't say that, and he didn't say anything like it with Billy Lovelady. But, he did do something like that with Buell Frazier.

Mr. BALL - Do you recognize this fellow?
Mr. FRAZIER - That is Billy, that is Billy Lovelady.
Mr. BALL - Billy?
Mr. FRAZIER - Right
Mr. BALL - Let's take a marker and make an arrow down that way. That mark is Billy Lovelady?
Mr. FRAZIER - Right.
Mr. BALL - That is where you told us you were standing a moment ago.
Mr. FRAZIER - Right.
Mr. BALL - In front of you to the right over to the wall?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Is this a Commission exhibit?
We will make this a Commission Exhibit No. 369.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 369 for identification.)
Mr. BALL - That is written in. The arrow marks Billy Lovelady on Commission's Exhibit No. 369.

Note that Doorman was not standing "to the right over to the wall". He was standing in the very center of the doorway on the top landing. It only looked like he was over to the wall because of the parallax effect of Altgens angle. From Altgens angle, Doorman's right shoulder got tucked behind the white column, but it wasn't really. He was nowhere near it. We can see in the Wiegman film that Doorman was standing right smack dab in the center of the doorway. Only Roy Lewis was standing over by the wall.

But, my point is that Ball did try to identify, by location, the figure to whom Frazier had drawn his arrow.

Now, let's see how it went down for Danny Arce:

Mr. BALL. Just 1 minute, I want to show you a picture. I show you Commission Exhibit No. 369. I show you this picture. See this man in this picture?
Mr. ARCE. Yeah.
Mr. BALL. Recognize him?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, that's Billy Lovelady.
Mr. BALL. Just to identify it clearly, the man on the steps---well, you see the man on the steps, do you not?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. He is a white man, isn't he?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And you see his picture just above the picture of two colored people, is that correct; would you describe it like that?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. I am not going to mark this purposely because other witnesses have to see it.
Mr. ARCE. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Did you say that is Billy Lovelady?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, that is Billy Lovelady.
Mr. BALL. Now, there is only one face that is clearly shown within the entrance-way of the Texas School Book Depository Building, isn't there?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And only one face of a person who is standing on the steps of the Depository Building entrance?
Mr. ARCE. Yeah.
Mr. BALL. And that one man you see there---
Mr. ARCE. Yes, that's Billy Lovelady.

Wow, look at all that clarification! He reduced it to Doorman by noting that he was white, that his is the only face that is seen; that he is the one above the two "colored" women. So, he made great effort here to establish that the figure they were talking about was Doorway Man.

But, what did Ball do with Lovelady?

Mr. BALL - I have got a picture here, Commission Exhibit 369. Are you on that picture?
Mr. LOVELADY - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Take a pen or pencil and mark an arrow where you are.
Mr. LOVELADY - Where I thought the shots are?
Mr. BALL - No; you in the picture.
Mr. LOVELADY - Oh, here (indicating).
Mr. BALL - Draw an arrow down to that; do it in the dark. You got an arrow in the dark and one in the white pointing toward you. Where were you when the picture was taken?
Mr. LOVELADY - Right there at the entrance of the building standing on the the step, would be here (indicating).
Mr. BALL - You were standing on which step?
Mr. LOVELADY - It would be your top level.
Mr. BALL - The top step you were standing there?
Mr. LOVELADY - Right.

Ball said nothing to use words to establish that Lovelady had drawn his arrow to Doorway Man.

Why? It's because Lovelady didn't draw his arrow to Doorway Man. He drew it to Black Hole Man. Ball was just finessing the situation, quickly trying to change the subject.

And the proof is that we found Lovelady's arrow and it indeed points to Black Hole Man. And not Steve Haydon or Joseph Backes or Robin Unger or anyone else has found any other arrow to compete with this one. This is the only one that exists. Lovelady was Black Hole Man, and Ball was just playing it slick, sleazey lawyer that he was. And now, Haydon is following in his footsteps, trying to snow us.