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

Watch the home movie of the Oswald family Thanksgiving from 1962.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHVz5PYwzM

It goes on for over a minute. You see LHO sitting on the sofa next to his (supposed) half-brother, John Pic. BUT, THEY DON'T INTERACT AT ALL. THEY DON'T LOOK AT EACH OTHER. THEY DON'T TALK. NOTHING! THEY'RE LIKE FFFFing STRANGERS!

Marina was sitting on the edge of the couch next to LHO, but he lived with her and talked to her all the time. Wouldn't he take the opportunity to talk to his brother whom he hadn't seen in years? Wouldn't he want to tell him about his experiences in Russia? And find out about his life? Isn't it obvious as Hell that these two were strangers?

And that's exactly what John Pic told the Warren Commission, that when he saw Lee, he did not recognize him as his brother. He was probably thinking to himself, "Who is this guy, and what have they done with Lee?"

And here's an important question: Where was Marguerite? Why wasn't she there? This was, supposedly, her three sons and her grandchildren, and she wasn't there? Where was she, and what was she doing? Why wasn't she there?

I'll tell you why she wasn't there. It's because they were willing to spring Harvey on John Pic, but there was no way on God's Green Earth that they were going to try to pass off- on him- the short, dumpy Marguerite of fame as his mother. That had as much chance of getting that air-born as a lead balloon. 

And they couldn't send the real Marguerite there because the switch had already occurred. The real Marguerite had already dropped off the radar. She was out of the picture. 

Now, here is the biggest question of all: 

What did John Pic think AFTER the assassination when he saw on television this short, dumpy woman parading around as Marguerite Oswald whom he knew was NOT his mother? 

Well, that's when somebody went and talked to John Pic- if not before that- and laid the law down to him. "You get with the program, Buster- or else." 

It was the exact same thing with Billy Lovelady. He didn't start claiming to be the Man in the Doorway until May 1964, and that was in an interview with Jones Harris outside the Depository building. Harris had traveled to Dallas from New York just to interview Lovelady. But prior to that, in all his testimonies, for the Dallas Police, the Warren Commission, and the FBI, there are no direct statements from him claiming to be Doorway Man. 

There was an FBI statement saying that they visited him the night of the 23rd in which he admitted being the Doorway Man, but it was just the FBI saying that. Why didn't they sit him down in front of a sea of microphones and let Lovelady say it to the world? It's because they knew better than that. They knew he didn't say it and that he didn't want to say it. 

In interrogating Lovelady for the Warren Commission, Joseph Ball diligently AVOIDED asking him directly if he was Doorway Man, in fear of what Lovelady would say. Instead, he just had Lovelady draw an arrow to himself. And this is what Lovelady drew:

He kept the arrow really small because he didn't want to piss Ball off. He knew he wasn't pleasing the guy. That tiny little arrow pointing to Black Hole Man is what Lovelady drew. And that was who he was in the picture; not Doorman. Lovelady was actually standing next to Oswald. 

And that was in April 1964, so as late as then- 5 months after the assassination- Lovelady was STILL resisting the idea of saying that he was Doorway Man. 

But then, they got to him. Big, tall men, in dark suits and sunglasses, and speaking in gruff voices, must have visited him. And I'm sure they made him an offer that he couldn't refuse. 

From then on, Lovelady assumed the persona of Doorway Man. But even as late as 1976, he didn't like talking about it. They never subpoenaed him to go to Washington to testify in front of the HSCA. Why not? They subpoenaed a lot of others. His lawyer must have told the Commission that he really didn't want to come there, but that he would issue a written statement. And they accepted that.

Of course, Lovelady just happened to die of a fatal first heart attack at the tender age of 41 shortly before the HSCA Report came out.

But, the point is that it must have been the exact same situation for John Pic. They must have scared the living shit out of him. So, he kept his mouth shut. He stayed silent about it for the remainder of his life.  

But, he had to know. For goodness sake, a man knows who is mother and his brother are. You can't fool him about that.