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

Harold Weisberg was on our side in this fight. We have an unpublished manuscript of his in which he said that Gorilla Man (although he didn't call him that) was "staged". That's the word he used: staged. He also pointed out that even if he was Lovelady (which he wasn't) that he couldn't possibly be Doorman because his shirt isn't sprawled open. I shall provide some quotes from the great Harold Weisberg. 

"If the Altgens’ picture holds proof that Oswald was on the outside of the building during the assassination that is the most total destruction of the entire case of Oswald as the assassin."

"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."

"That Lovelady “verified” that Oswald was not there is a plain lie. He did testify that he was there but not that Oswald wasn’t.  Lovelady did not testify he was standing where that Man in the Doorway is standing in the Altgens photo. He did testify to those with him, by name, and they are not in that part of the Altgens picture."

"Where the greatest dishonesty comes in is on that pair of pictures, the one taken from the over-exposed Martin film and one not in color similar to and next to it. (He is referring to Gorilla Man) What is clear in both of them is that Lovelady had his shirt buttoned up to the collar! That was impossible on the shirt in the Altgens picture! It was impossible for the shirt I examined with great care at the Archives."

"Despite Groden’s obvious dishonesties in the picture of that shirt he staged at the Archives, he did not put buttons where there are none on that shirt (which the archivists would have prevented if he had tried)."

"What Groden has done is prove that the shirt Lovelady was wearing that day could not have been the shirt the man in the Altgens pictures was wearing that day! Lovelady’s shirt was fully buttoned at the very time the shirt on the man in the doorway was not buttoned where it could not be buttoned!"

"Robert Groden has STAGED the picture that proves that shirt on the man in the doorway could not have been on Lovelady and he comes as close as it is possible to come to proving that shirt in the Altgens picture is identical with what without question is the shirt Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing that day."

"With their STAGED picture, Groden and that assassins committee (Harold's name for the HSCA), through their dishonesties, have come as close as with any single item of evidence anyone can come to exculpating Oswald."

"But as we have seen, without exhausting the official evidence on the point this one item of evidence does not stand alone.
Oswald was seen on the first floor by a number of people who reported it. He could not have been on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting because the official time reconstructions alone (Whitewash, pages 36-38) proves he could not have been. This is not all the evidence on this but it is enough to cite at this point."

"Just as the FBI and the Commission set out to prove that Oswald was the lone assassin and could not avoid the proof that he was not and could not have been, so also did the House assassins, with their dishonesty and that of their hired hand Groden, prove Oswald’s innocence while proclaiming the exact opposite."

"It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that one of these pictures is worth a thousand words but the two of them together, the one of the shirt Oswald was wearing and the other of the shirt on (staged) Lovelady in the Martin film, certainly are. They show the possible value to honest people seeking the truth from the dishonesties of people who are not honest and are not seeking the truth."

Give him Hell, Harold.