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

Harold Weisberg       Unpublished Manuscript          Excerpt 2

As I pointed out in Whitewash, based on the Commission’s own published evidence, the only way Oswald could have gotten to that second floor lunchroom before Dallas policeman Marrion Baker was if he had gone up from the first floor. 

The official reconstructions proved the impossibility of his having gotten there by that time if he had been at that sixth floor

window. 

The Commission’s way of wiping out this one possibility was to have Baker offer the opinion that Oswald “had no business” using the stairway that would have gotten him there!

(pages 36-38, citing the Commission’s relevant evidence).

Once I had the first full print made from the Altgens’ negative I wanted to assure myself that the photo lab I used would not be predisposed to oppose the official account of the

assassination. I therefore took that print to a lab owned by a former FBI agent in downtown Washington. I pointed out the areas I wanted enlarged. One was of that man in the doorway.

Another was of the background, the part showing the wall of the Dal-Tex building. It was on the same side of Elm Street as the TSBD and the other side of Houston Street from it. It was on the

northeast corner, the TSBD on the northwest corner.

In my writing I have never pretended to solve the crime and never pretended to be trying to. I was, as the subtitle of that first book says, examining the investigations of the crime. The subtitle is “The Report on the Warren Report”.

Groden saw all the photographic work I had done, not only what he had in Whitewash II, and he knew the questions I raised. What he presents as his own work, (pages 185-187) is the identical enlargements I had made of those areas of the Altgens full picture. 

In that Altgens picture that man in the doorway appears to look like either Lovelady or Oswald. From the Commission’s files, I had the FBI’s photograph of Lovelady in the shirt the FBI reported he wore that day, I publish it on the inside back cover of Whitewash II. It has vertical stripes so wide that the entire front of the shirt can be seen to hold only six of them.

At the Archives I made a close examination of Oswald's shirt itself. It had prominent flaws and other identifiers. These are visible in the photograph of Oswald in the shirt in which he

was arrested made by the FBI lab for the Commission. It is Shaneyfelt, Exhibit No. 24, which is also printed on that back cover. On it Shaneyfelt marked nine of these identifiers. For example, a torn buttonhole that will no longer hold a button. That visibly is duplicated in the Altgens picture, which shows the shirt not buttoned there, wide open. The patterns of the two shirts seem to be the same. 

Obviously, if they are not the same neither can be the shirt in which the FBI photographed Lovelady and said that was the shirt he wore that day.