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

Here we have something very interesting in response to my most recent blog. It's from the OIC Group page where the same thing was posted.

Lance Moore: I truly think the FACE of Doorman looks as much like B. Lovelady as Oswald (clothes look more like Oswald). So you have to make the case that Altgens was altered to superimpose B.L's face on top of Oswald.

I think we should start by doing a detailed comparison of the faces: Oswald's, Lovelady's, and Doorman's. For Lovelady, we'll go with the FBI photo. 

I'll point out, first, that the FBI photo was definitely Lovelady, but the FBI may have done things to it to try to make him look more like Oswald and Doorman. But, we'll proceed with it anyway because at least we know it was him and not an impostor. 

I think the best approach is to look at individual facial features: nose, chin, ear, etc. and see what gives. We'll start from the bottom and move up. Whose chin do we see on Doorman? I am very satisfied that Richard Hooke got it right in saying that Doorman has Oswald's square chin and not Lovelady's more long, round chin. 

So, the chin I'm giving to Oswald. What about the ear?

Keep in mind that the ear is a huge problem because there is a vast divide between all the ears of all the Lovelady figures. 

The whole Lovelady hypothesis crashes and burns over the ear. In the collage above, the image on the bottom is the ear of the real Billy Lovelady from 1967; all the rest are impostors.

But, if we use the 1964 FBI Lovelady, we get this:

I am satisfied that Doorman's ear goes to Oswald and not Lovelady.

So, that's chin and ear for Oswald. What about nose?

I am convinced that Richard is right that the nose goes to Oswald too. Lovelady's nose was more bulbous and lumpen with very little nostril exposed. Oswald's nose was more chiseled, and it had more flare to the nostril, which we can see on Doorman. It's Oswald's nose. 

What about eyes? The best way to determine that is to look at the distance between the eyes and the eyebrows. Lovelady had more distance; Oswald had more closeness.

It's not fair to look at Oswald's swollen left eye on our right since it was traumatized. Just look at his normal eye. The closer placement of eye to eye brow on both Oswald and Doorman and the larger gap on Lovelady means that it's Oswald's eyes on Doorman.

The mouth may be too close to call, but the chin, the ear, the nose, and the eyes are definitely Oswald's. What about the forehead and the top of the head, including the hairline?

 I am convinced that the hairline and the whole shape of the top of the head are a match to Young Lovelady. Not the Lovelady from 1963, but the Lovelady from the 1950s whose picture they had. The collage below is by OIC senior member Dennis Cimino:

That's a pretty spot-on match between the hairline of Young Lovelady and that of Doorman. What I believe happened is that they moved Lovelady's hairline and his whole forehead over. It's the one thing they did to "Lovelady-ify" Doorman. Here is a model of how the Altgens photo looked before they tampered with it.

Note that this was the opposite of the Backyard photos, in which they moved Oswald's whole face over except for the chin. Here they started with Oswald's face, and they moved just the top of Lovelady's head over. 

So, my response to Lance Moore is that when you examine really closely, you realize that it really is Oswald's face on Doorman except for the very top of the head, including the hairline, which was Young Lovelady's. 

They did not broadcast the image of Young Lovelady from the 1950s after the assassination. But, they did not broadcast any images of Lovelady after the assassination. They quietly stuffed the FBI photos of Lovelady into the back of the Warren Report- the appendix- without comment. Those images only came to light publicly because of the work of Harold Weisberg. And when the image of Young Lovelady came to public light in the HSCA Final Report in 1979, they published it flipped: left to right flipped. But, I have every reason to think that authorities had it in 1963. 

So, the bottom line is that the face of Doorman really is that of Oswald except for the top part of it which is Lovelady's. And that is the portion of Lovelady's face that was superimposed over Oswald's. It was a very clever thing to do because the hairline contributes mightily to a person's looks.