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

What was more important than the Doorman issue to the HSCA? NOTHING! As Robert Groden said at the time in his testimony:

"The exhibit on the left is again the full frame photograph taken by James Altgens. It shows in the foreground the Presidential limousine, Secret Service followup car, and the flanking motorcycles that were just to the rear, to the right and the left of the President's limousine. In the background is the front and top and bottom two stories of the Texas School Book Depository, including the doorway. Within that doorway is the figure of a man, which is the second figure from the left in the exhibit on the right. A great deal of the issue as to whether Oswald was involved in a conspiracy or whether he was involved at all in killing the President, or if indeed as a lone assassin whether he pulled the trigger, has related to this particular photograph. The man in the photograph bears a striking resemblance to Lee Harvey Oswald. Again, that would be the second from the left. The two photographs on the right are Billy Nolan Lovelady, a coworker in the depository, who bore a very, very strong resemblance to Lee Harvey Oswald. Very soon after the assassination of the President, this photograph was pubished and the man in the doorway was seen, and the question that was initially raised, was: Is this Lee Harvey Oswald? If it was him on the first floor, it could not be him firing from the sixth floor. The FBI went back and investigated and established this was Billy Nolan Lovelady. The question still persisted, however, through the years because the clothing on the man in the photograph as we view it does not match the clothing that the FBI said Lovelady was wearing that day, which was a short sleeved broad red and white striped shirt. The man in the doorway appears to be wearing a tweed or plaid type of design which more closely resembles the over-shirt worn by Oswald that day."

Where did Groden get off saying that Lovelady bore a "very, very strong resemblance to Oswald"? 

Oswald's measurements were taken by the Dallas Police on 11/22/63, while Lovelady's were taken by the FBI on 2/29/64. Oswald was 5'9" 132 pounds, and Lovelady was 5'8" 170 pounds. 

So, Lovelady was 1 inch shorter than Oswald but almost 40 pounds heavier. In a word, Oswald was "slender" while at the time, Lovelady was "stocky" or you could say "husky". So, based on the difference in bodily proportions alone, how could they bear a "very, very strong resemblance" to each other? 

Also, we know that at the time of the assassination, Lovelady was practically bald on top. We have it directly from a witness, who is still living, Roy Lewis, who said that Lovelady's hair "was practically all gone on top."

And we can see it with our own eyes in an unauthorized image of Billy Lovelady from the winter of 1964 taken by Mark Lane:

What right did Robert Groden have to say that Oswald and Lovelady bore a "very, very strong resemblance" to each other?  

And, then when it was time to show the photos, why did they only show us this?

Do you see any image of Oswald in there? Even the image of Oswald's shirt fails to ring true to what we saw on Oswald.

If that really is Oswald's shirt on the right (and I am not at all sure that it is) why did they cinch it up like that? Oswald NEVER wore it like that. Why didn't they show it to us the way that he wore it? It's because they didn't want to remind us that that's how he wore it- which was the same way the Man in the Doorway wore it.  

And if honesty was at all a goal, why didn't they show us a comparison like this?

How much matching of the man, the face, the build, the clothes does it take to convince you that it's the same guy? That much likeness, in the man and the clothing, doesn't happen in our universe. Not in the one we're living in. Maybe in another one, but not this one.