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

Here is my response to Richard.

Thank you, Richard. Here is why I have been making a big deal about this.

As you know, I dispute the authenticity of the whole Lovelady walk-by footage, but bpete is trying to defend it. Look at this schematic. In one version of the walk-by footage, you see the big cop and Oswald milling at the far interview room door that is past the Lovelady figure in the corner. In the other version, they never go anywhere near that room, which is to say that they never turn right past the desk, but in the one version they do. But Oswald definitely does not get put into that room. So, bpete is arguing that they must have put Oswald in the other interview room which is caddie-corner to it, which they passed coming in, and which you can see on this schematic. 

So, bpete is actually claiming to know that the big cop had everyone in the room "back the hell up" where they moved the whole procession back past Lovelady at the desk going in the opposite direction, but that, for some reason, all the cameras got turned off while this major reshuffling and translocation was taking place.  

But, it is entirely presumptuous. And if you look at the schematic, it doesn't show another door inside that other interview room. So, bpete is arguing that it isn't a door, but rather, a bookcase. That's right, he says it's a bookcase even though it has no books and no shelves and doesn't look the least bit like a bookcase.  And why would you have a bookcase in an interview room? I like Lee Calahan's idea that the thing above is a pneumatic device, that it's one of those doors that pushes open in both directions.  


And, I like your idea that the whole thing may have been contrived- done for show. Preceding that frame, there are frames of the photogs snapping their cameras presumably at Oswald, but why would some photogs be shooting at other photogs? Shouldn’t they all be interested in shooting at Oswald? Why would some point their cameras at each other instead? The whole thing may have been contrived as pure propaganda. And one thing is for absolute sure: Lovelady was never there in that room. He said he never saw Oswald again that day after they broke for lunch. And neither he nor his wife ever mentioned this event to anybody. Patricia Lovelady called Harold Weisberg on the phone in 1967 to argue that her Billy wore a plaid shirt, so why didn’t she mention the PD footage and urge Weisberg to watch it? She obviously didn’t know about it.  It wasn’t even recognized or discussed by anybody until the 1970s.  It’s just a Nazi propaganda movie made who knows when years later. Thanks. Ralph