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

Joseph Backes points out that this article in the Montreal Gazette is actually based on an article that appeared the day before in the New York Herald by Don Bonafide which involved Jones Harris.

So, an American paper was involved, and I don't mind a bit being wrong about that. It's actually very heartening. The New York Herald apparently dropped the issue after that and probably from pressure. But, it's still very significant that they addressed it when they did. 

But, Backes, true to form, made a ridiculous statement, claiming that the article in the New York Herald is what initiated the public's awareness of the issue. What initiated the public's awareness of the issue were the articles that appeared in the days following the assassination when the Altgens photo, including crops of it which included the doorway, appeared in US newspapers. It was their own sighting of a figure who looked like and dressed like Oswald that initiated the public's awareness of the issue. 

So, the issue didn't start in May 1964; it started in November 1963. 

Backes, are you really maintaining that nobody was aware of this until May 1964? Photographers were following Lovelady around the streets of Dallas trying to nab his picture. Mark Lane's photographer succeeded that winter. Lovelady got in a fight on the street with one photographer who tried to take his picture. Shirley Martin cleverly sent her kids to hang around outside the TSBD hoping to get a good look at Lovelady, thinking that they would not raise suspicions. All of that and more took place BEFORE May 1964 , yet you have the nerve to claim that it was that article that initiated all the clamor? 

You're stupid, Backes. You were born stupid, and you're going to stay that way.