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

Regarding whose shirt pattern Doorman has, I redid the collage of it, this time using Doorman from the HSCA version of the doorway.

Of course, the matching physical shape and form of Oswald's and Doorman's shirts jumps out at you, and it's the same for the t-shirt. And how anybody could deny that, I can't begin to fathom. 

But, with the shirt pattern, it's clear that we don't have a perfect visual match between any two. To make an analogy to horseshoes, nobody has a perfect ringer, so we have to settle for who is closest.

First we notice that Oswald does have a fine grainy pattern; it was not a solid color.  And there is no doubt about that. Here is how the Newseum displayed it:

    
So, we should expect that fine grainy pattern to produce some contrast in the Altgens photo. Also, there was likely to be some haze and distortion from the extreme blow-up. 

Also, Richard Hooke was the first to point to light reflections as an issue. In the doorway, Oswald's shirt was in the bright sunlight, and it tended to reflect that light, especially on worn, shiny parts of the shirt, of which there were many. 

With those things in mind, it's no wonder that Doorman's shirt shows somewhat more contrast than Oswald's.

  
But, what it does not show is any degree of plaid. There are no vertical lines at all on Doorman's shirt- not one. And there are practically no horizontal lines either. There are some whitish blotches, but it's just light reflection and distortion. There appears to be a horizontal line along the top of the cuff, but that wasn't even present on Lovelady's shirt:

And Lance Uppercut's ridiculous attempt to produce diagonal lines on Doorman's shirt, based on his position, can be dismissed out of hand as absurd. Billy Lovelady posed twice in that doorway as Doorman, once in 1967 and once in 1971, and both times he just stood there in a neutral position. Where does Dungeonmaster get off pulling this shit? 

Do you have any idea how far you'd have to lean to produce diagonal lines as steep as that? 

But, notice the pattern of boxes on Lovelady's shirt. It wasn't just a pattern of lines; it was a pattern of boxes, like a checkerboard. Do you see even one box on Doorman's shirt?

No, you don't. There isn't one box or one "check" on Doorman's shirt, which was Harold Weisberg's preferred term. 

And notice that the upper left quadrant of Doorman's shirt shows no contrast at all. Here it is compared to Lovelady.

The bottom line is that we don't have a perfect visual match between any two, but in this game of horseshoes, the closer match goes to Oswald not Lovelady. And he wins by a country mile. There is no plaid on Doorman's shirt. No plaid! No plaid! No plaid!