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

There was nothing special about Lovelady on 11/22/63. The Altgens photo was not an issue. It wasn't even seen by the public until that evening- well after 2 PM. The issue of who he was in the doorway did not exist. It was just a matter of: what did you see, what did you hear, in parallel with all the others.

Note to bpete: the individuality of the men in body and clothing is just as apparent and unmistakable in the top set as the bottom set.

The indisputable fact of multiple Loveladys on 11/22/63 destroys both Lovelady as Doorman and Lovelady in the squad room, and it isn't going away.  And the issue of names has nothing to do with it.

Leavelle's statement in no way establishes that Lovelady was sitting in that squad room when Oswald was led by. And wherever Leavelle took Lovelady's statement was probably the same place he took Charles Givens statement, whom we do not see in the squad room. 

This was 2 PM, and word spread quickly that Oswald had been arrested and was being brought to City Hall. You saw how crowded the hallways and corridors were with people, particularly reporters and journalists and cameramen. They even had Jack Ruby roaming around. And you saw what a tight, cramped maze-like place the homicide division was. 

Look at it again in the schematic.

Why would they bring Lovelady to the same end point that they were bringing Oswald? They knew it was going to be a media circus. Oswald was suddenly the most notorious criminal in human history. They obviously were not going to lead a pack of people into that same small compartment at the same time just to give statements. And they obviously did not do it. The idea that Lovelady was separated out from the rest and planted into the farthest, deepest, most penetrated confine of the department is ridiculous. 

And look what confirms it: 

1. At no time in his life did Lovelady or his wife ever reference this event. 

2. Lovelady specifically denied ever seeing Oswald again on 11/22/36 after they broke for lunch at 11:45 AM. 

3. No awareness of this event was ever recognized by the Warren Commission, the FBI, the Secret Service or the Dallas Police at the time of the assassination or in the years that followed. The existence of this film was never recognized by anyone until the 1970s. There is no mention of it in the Warren Report or any FBI report from the time of the assassination. 

4. No two versions of the walk-by footage are the same, all of them differing in length, in content, and in the figure of Lovelady. 

5. A huge gap in all versions of the film exists in which the great reversal, which undoubtedly occurred, was left out. 

6. No version of the film demonstrates how the big cop and Oswald got past Lovelady sitting at that desk. 

7. No version of the film demonstrates any recognition of Lovelady by any person in the room. 

8. The gigantic disparity between the two Lovelady figures screams fraud out loud.

9. The many manipulated versions, where the Lovelady figure is artificially slimmed is blatant evidence of manipulation and fraud. 

10. The fact that Bill Shelley remembered seeing Oswald at the station but Lovelady did not tells you that he really didn't see him because if he had seen him, he'd have remembered. He was asked specifically: did you see him again that day? 

Lovelady was NEVER in that squad room. It was something that was faked because of the FBI fiasco of photographing Lovelady in a short-sleeved striped shirt and admitting that he claimed to have worn it on 11/22/36. They put in plain English: "He stated that he was wearing a red and white striped shirt and blue jeans." It says what it says. It means what it means. And it can't mean anything else. There is no way they could have got it wrong. It was a truth that slipped out, and it thrust them into the movie business for decades to come.