This is how it all began: The FBI posed Lovelady, unbuttoned like Doorman, and they took his photo. They also stated- in plain English- that he stated that on 11/22/63 he wore these clothes- the vertical-striped, short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans- in which they posed him. It is what they officially told the Warren Commission, and they had two FBI agents sign it.
After Harold Weisberg started bellyaching about it in 1966 and early 1967, it was only after that that movies of Lovelady wearing a different shirt began to surface. They included the Martin film of Gorilla Man- which was taken at a time that Lovelady said that he wasn't out front - just read his testimony. It also included the encounter with Oswald at the PD which Lovelady denied ever took place. These were phony movies made by the FBI to overcome their colossal blunder of posing and snapping Lovelady in a shirt that was incompatible with Doorman. The incompatibility of it sailed over their heads at the time, and everything that followed was damage control. Yes, they actually went into the movie business just to depict Lovelady wearing a plaid shirt. And they didn't find it necessary to use the real Lovelady or even the same Lovelady. They used Lovelady impostors, and starkly different ones at that. How they expected to get away with it I do not know.
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