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

Billy Lovelady was NEVER seated in the squad room of the homicide detectives of the Dallas PD. I have been saying it for years, and my conviction and certainty about it have only grown with time. It was photographic flim-flam whose singular purpose was to sell the idea that Lovelady wore a plaid shirt. 

It all started because of Harold Weisberg. In February 1964, the FBI took pictures of Lovelady which were sent to the Warren Commission along with a letter by J.Edgar Hoover. But, the images weren't published in the Warren Report. They were left behind in the massive volumes of "Documents" to which the public had no access. And remember that there was no internet back then. 

But, Harold Weisberg dug them up, showing Lovelady posing in a short-sleeved striped shirt which was substantially unbuttoned- just like Doorman.

But, why would they have him unbutton it unless it was the same shirt? They wouldn't; it would be pointless. And, Harold Weisberg also found an FBI letter which stated that Lovelady said that he wore the striped shirt on the day of the assassination. Read the underlined sentence. It is plain English.

So, that created a huge problem- a credibility problem for the FBI. And, they realized that just denying it, just declaring that the previous statement was "inoperative" wasn't going to cut it. They had to come up with an image of Lovelady wearing a plaid shirt. 

And keep in mind that "plaid" was just something they settled on. Doorman's shirt is NOT plaid. Plaid refers to horizontal and vertical lines that cross forming boxes, and there are no boxes on Doorman's shirt. 

That is not a plaid pattern. It is just splotchy. And, it is simply the result of haze and distortion from the enlargement and light reflection. No shirt manufacturer would ever give a shirt that pattern and expect to sell it. So, we are not looking at anything real, and "plaid" is just something that they settled on for lack of anything better. 

Nevertheless, it put the FBI into the movie business, and concocting multiple images of Lovelady wearing a plaid shirt on 11/22/63 became their obsession. Somebody must have been assigned to determine where a Lovelady figure could be placed in the DPD footage, and the desk in the squad room was settled on.  

This particular version has Roger Craig in the inset, which can be ignored. There are multiple reasons why I suspected- from the beginning- that this is a phony image. First, the lighting. You can see that the Lovelady figure has a glow that is unique and apart from the other figures. He almost seems like an apparition or a ghost. He looks like a cartoon figure, doesn't he? For all practical purposes, he was. Second, the mechanics. It was a narrow lane, and there was no room for him there. Those men could not walk by him without stepping on his feet. And, it would have been especially difficult for the big cop and Oswald to make it by him because they were two astride. They would have had to hop over him or walk around him or do something. He was definitely an obstacle in their path. But, who would just sit there with a procession of cops trying to get by? Don't we all, instinctively, get out of the way of cops? And, Lovelady would have heard them and seen them coming too. There is no way he would have just sat there and made them go around him. 

But, this next point is the most important of all, and it has to do with human nature. We visually sync, or you could say focus, on certain objects in our visual field, and our natural tendency is to visually sync on other human beings, especially when they are close to us. It may have started as a defensive mechanism. Friend or foe? That would be the question in our minds. Anyone who was as close to those cops as Lovelady seemingly was, would definitely have generated a visual sync. Their eyes would have fixed on him - if only momentarily- and it would have happened spontaneously, and at the level of reflex. BUT, NOBODY IN THAT FILM LOOKS AT LOVELADY. It's like he wasn't there. He wasn't. And, it is the most damning thing of all. 

But, there is more. Here is another shot of the Lovelady figure, and in it, the big cop and Oswald have already passed him. 

They never show us HOW the big cop and Oswald passed him. But notice that Lovelady is staring straight ahead. Why isn't he turned and looking at Oswald? This guy he works with has just been arrested for assassinating the President of the United States, so how could Lovelady's eyes be anywhere else but on Oswald? Lovelady eventually does start turning towards Oswald in order to look at him, but why the delay? He would have seen him coming, so he would have started looking at him before he even reached him. Then, Lovelady's eyes would have remained trained on Oswald. He would have visually tracked him through the room from the moment he entered. Yet, for some reason, at this point, Lovelady is just sitting there looking straight ahead like Whistler's Mother. 

He wouldn't have done that. Behaviorally, it is wrong. Lovelady would have been focused on Oswald throughout. 

But, there is more yet. There is practically no end to the incongruities of the passage through this squad room. 

This frame occurs after Lovelady has passed out of view, but what is that big clock on a pole doing there? It's actually supposed to be a clock on a coat rack. Such a thing exist, mostly as a novelty, but does it belong in a police squad room? I rather doubt it. That was put there to sell the idea that it was 2:00, and obviously, they weren't being subtle about it. And that tells me that it wasn't really 2:00 when it happened. 

We know beyond a doubt that they spliced together different and disparate pieces of footage with utter disregard for honesty and continuity. This trek through the building was supposed to be at 2:00 when Oswald was first brought to the DPD. And his shirt was hanging half off of him- supposedly from his scuffle with police at the theater, which you can see in earlier frames. However, in the above frame, he was only in a t-shirt. If you look closely, you can see that that outer shirt was colorized on. There is nothing real about it. It is painted on. And, the way it is depicting Oswald's elbow going behind his back is totally wrong, orthopedically speaking. It would be dislocated. HE WOULD BE IN PAIN. And you can see that the shirt looks totally phony, like a sloppy, inept coloring job, which it was. This must have been taken at a time when Oswald was only in a t-shirt, which was much of the time. But, they wanted to make it seem continuous with the frames that came before of Oswald's arrival, hence the phony clock and the painted-on shirt. 

But, it gets worse. There is an entirely different version of this walk-by footage which utilizes a different Lovelady.

That is a different man with a different build, different face, different hair, different everything. 

Their shirts aren't even the same even though it is supposed to be the same man at the same moment in time and space. Notice that one has his whole massive forearm on the table, while the other has just his elbow down. One has his shirt sprawled open, the other not. One has his hair combed back; the other has it combed over. What's the weight difference between them? I figure 30 or 40 pounds. It is just ridiculous to say that they are the same man. 

The one on the left is from Three Shots That Changed America by the History Channel, and the one on the right is from the much earlier Four Days in November by David Wolper. The latter came out in 1964, but don't make the mistake of thinking that the Lovelady figure was there in the original version. He wasn't. I don't know when they added him, but it was well after 1964. It wasn't a problem in 1964 because Harold Wiesberg's Photographic Whitewash did not come out until 1966.   

They eventually tried to reconcile the difference between these two by slimming down the one on the left, whom I call "DeNiro Lovelady" because of his resemblance to the actor. 

How ridiculous. It's just photographic flim-flam. Can't you see how freaky that man's head is on the left? Nobody's head could be that long and narrow. They just messed with the aspect ratio until they got him slimmed down sufficiently, distorting everything in the process, and not caring about how wacky it looks.  

The whole thing was a comedy of errors. Lovelady was never at the desk, and he told us so himself. 

Joseph Ball: Did you EVER see Oswald again THAT DAY (after breaking for lunch)? 

Billy Lovelady: NO.

That is plain English, and words mean what they mean. 

Billy Lovelady was never at that desk. It was all faked, and all to show him wearing a plaid shirt, which he didn't wear on 11/22/63, nor did Doorman, who was Oswald. 

We are living in a Bizarro World that the official story of the JFK assassination is accepted by anyone. The claim of Lovelady being at the desk in the squad room is as preposterous as the Single Bullet Theory. And, it should be categorically rejected by all thinking people who respect their own minds.