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

This is from the 6 second clip of Lovelady milling around outside the TSBD doorway 15 minutes after the assassination. It is said to be from the Martin film, but it wasn't discovered in the Martin film, and there is no version of the Martin that has it. It was discovered in the Dallas Cinema Associates film compilation in 1966. But, the weird thing is that the DCA film came out in 1964. So, why didn't anybody notice this Lovelady clip back then? Why wasn't it spotlighted then? 

But, I have some questions about it. I really want to proffer some questions for discussion. First, there is an old woman at the top on the right hand side whose face looks pasty white. Do you notice how weird she looks? Notice how the face of the cop next to her looks flesh-colored/ as you would expect. But, look at hers compared to his. And hers stays like that too. Even as the clip continues and she turned her face towards us, it is still pasty white. You can't say it is a sudden light reflection because her face is constantly white, in contrast to the others. And what is she doing there? She can't possibly work there; she's too old. Is she somebody's mother? Most of the employees at the TSBD were so young, she could be their grandmother. So, what was she doing there? What was her purpose in being up there? 

Second, who is the older man in the Fedora Man on the left? He definitely wasn't there during the motorcade. There was a man in a Fedora hat on Elm Street close to the Monument whom we can see in the Altgens photo. Is he supposed to be the same guy or someone else? But regardless, what business does he have to be up there crowding that doorway at a time like that? It can't be that he works there because if he worked there, we would know who he is. And like the old woman, he is too old to be working there. 

Third, there is a strange casualness to the whole thing. The checkpoint cops are letting this young man who, strangely, looks like Lee Harvey Oswald from behind. He's wearing a shirt that looks very much like Oswald's arrest shirt. Apparently, he's got business there, so the cops let him enter. The others seem very curious about it, as they peer inside, including Lovelady. (Psst. I call him Lovelady because he is supposed to be Lovelady, but he wasn't really Lovelady. And I don't think he was even there. I think they implanted him into the film. But, we don't need to address that now. Let's stay on point.) And, the point I want to make is that it seems strangely commonplace. The big cop on our left is apparently a touchy-feely kind of guy because after letting the young man in, with some contact, he pats the other cop on the shoulder.  In fact, he pats him twice: first with one hand, and then with the other. This strikes me as strange, mainly because the President of the United States had his brain blown out just 15 minutes before. It seems like everybody would still be a little shell-shock from that. The whole clip has a very business-as-usual, ordinary-day feel to it that is surreal. 

Fourth, I draw your attention to two figures, and I mean the two ladies who are closest to Lovelady. Neither one of these ladies move in the whole 6 seconds. Other people move and some move quite a lot, but these two are like statues. They don't twitch. There's not so much as a slight head turn from either of them. 

And what's with the curlers in the one? She's got curlers in her hair, right? That's what it looks like to me. Well, you know that she doesn't work there because who would go to work with her hair in curlers? But, who would go to watch the President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World with curlers in her hair? So, what is she doing there, and I mean there at the doorway and there in Dealey Plaza? She seems out of place. And I wonder similarly about the other lady in the coat and scarf because she doesn't move a muscle either, and she seems over-dressed. It was a warm afternoon at that point. Wasn't she overdressed? Wasn't she hot?

Again: who is she? What does she want? What is she hanging around for?  

And why plant yourself right in the center there? Could she be any more in the way than she is? And she's a hefty woman too. She's got shoulders like a linebacker. 

I'm going to try to put up the gif of the whole 6 second clip so that you can watch it. But, friends and enemies alike may feel free to weigh-in concerning my questions about these strange characters. There is some strange stuff here.