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

So, you think this gives Bill Shelley credibility? It was the very afternoon, and he said he couldn't tell where the shots came from. But, months later he could:

Mr. BALL - What seemed to be the direction or source of the sound:?
Mr. SHELLEY - Sounded like it came from the west.
Mr. BALL - It sounded like it came from the west?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.

In the affidavit, he said that he ran across the street and ran into Gloria Calvary, but he put the order the opposite way in his WC testimony.

Mr. SHELLEY - Gloria Calvary from South-Western Publishing Co. ran back up there crying and said "The President has been shot" and Billy Lovelady and myself took off across the street to that little, old island and we stopped there for a minute.

What does he mean, the island? There are two streets: Elm Street and Elm Street Extension. 

It's Elm Street on the left and the Elm Street Extension on the right.

What's he talking about an "island"? Does he mean the top of Elm Street where the light is?

Regardless, that is NOT where the encounter with Gloria Calvary took place because it involved him and Lovelady and Frazier and others, and you can't tell me they all went over there. Here is Frazier's account:

Mr. BALL - Did anybody say anything about what had happened, did you hear anybody say anything about the President had been shot?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; right before I went back, some girl who had walked down a little bit further where I was standing on the steps, and somebody come back and said somebody had shot President Kennedy.
Mr. BALL - Do you know who it was who told you that?
Mr. FRAZIER - Sir?
Mr. BALL - Do you know who the girl was who told you that?
Mr. FRAZIER - She didn't tell me right directly but she just came back and more or less in a low kind of hollering she just told several people. 

He didn't mention Gloria Calvary by name, but that's who he was talking about, right?

Here is Lovelady's version:

Mr. LOVELADY - I thought it was firecrackers or somebody celebrating the arrival of the President. It didn't occur to me at first what had happened until this Gloria came running up to us and told us the President had been shot.
Mr. BALL - Who was this girl?
Mr. LOVELADY - Gloria Calvary. 

Lovelady said that she came up to them. She went to them. They didn't go to her. You can't assume from that that they all crossed the street. 

Then, in his affidavit, Shelley said that after that he went back into the building (without saying that he took the long cut by way of the railroad tracks and then around to the back door) that he called his wife. But, let's return to his Warren Commission testimony.

First, he had an Abbott and Costello Who's on First, What's on Second exchange with Joseph Ball.

Mr. BALL - Across the street, you mean directly south?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes, slightly to the right, you know where the light is there?
Mr. BALL - Yes.
Mr. SHELLEY - That little, old side street runs in front of our building and Elm Street.
Mr. BALL - It dead ends?
Mr. SHELLEY - There's concrete between the two streets.
Mr. BALL - Elm Street dead ends there just beyond the building, doesn't it?
Mr. SHELLEY - Well, that's also Elm that goes under the triple underpass.
Mr. BALL - That is Elm that goes under the triple underpass?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - You went to the concrete between the two Elm Streets?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes, where they split.

Then, Shelley said this, and there's not a word about calling his wife:

Mr. BALL - You went out there and then what did you do?
Mr. SHELLEY - Well, officers started running down to the railroad yards and Billy and I walked down that way.
Mr. BALL - How did you get down that way; what course did you take?
Mr. SHELLEY - We walked down the middle of the little street.
Mr. BALL - The dead-end street?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Did you see Truly, Mr. Truly and an officer go into the building?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yeah, we saw them right at the front of the building while we were on the island.
Mr. BALL - While you were out there before you walked to the railroad yards?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Do you have any idea how long it was from the time you heard those three sounds or three noises until you saw Truly and Baker going into the building?
Mr. SHELLEY - It would have to be 3 or 4 minutes I would say because this girl that ran back up there was down near where the car was when the President was hit.
Mr. BALL - She ran back up to the door and you had still remained standing there?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Going to watch the rest of the parade were you?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - The Vice President hadn't gone by, had he, by your place?
Mr. SHELLEY - I don't know. I didn't recognize him. I did recognize Mr. Kennedy and his suntan I had been hearing about.
Mr. BALL - How did you happen to see Truly?
Mr. SHELLEY - We ran out on the island while some of the people that were out watching it from our building were walking back and we turned around and we saw an officer and Truly.
Mr. BALL - And Truly?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Did you see them go into the building?
MMr. SHELLEY - No; we didn't watch that long but they were at the first step like they were fixin' to go in.
Mr. BALL - Were they moving at the time, walking or running?
Mr. SHELLEY - Well, they were moving, yes.
Mr. BALL - Were they running?
Mr. SHELLEY - That, I couldn't swear to; there were so many people around.
Mr. BALL - What did you and Billy Lovelady do?
Mr. SHELLEY - We walked on down to the first railroad track there on the dead-end street and stood there and watched them searching cars down there in the parking lots for a little while and then we came in through our parking lot at the west end.
Mr. BALL - At the west end?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes; and then in the side door into the shipping room.
Mr. BALL - When you came into the shipping room did you see anybody?
Mr. SHELLEY - I saw Eddie Piper.
Mr. BALL - What was he doing?
Mr. SHELLEY - He was coming back from where he was watching the motorcade in the southwest corner of the shipping room.
Mr. BALL - Of the first floor of the building?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - Who else did you see?
Mr. SHELLEY - That's all we saw immediately.
Mr. BALL - Did you ever see Vickie Adams?
Mr. SHELLEY - I saw her that day but I don't remember where I saw her.
Mr. BALL - You don't remember whether you saw her when you came back?
Mr. SHELLEY - It was after we entered the building.
Mr. BALL - You think you did see her after you entered the building?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes, sir; I thought it was on the fourth floor awhile after that.
Mr. BALL - Now, did the police come into the building?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes, sir; they started coming in pretty fast.
Mr. BALL - Did you go with them any place?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes; Mr. Truly left me guarding the elevator, not to let anybody up and down the elevator or stairway and some plainclothesmen came in; I don't know whether they were Secret Service or FBI or what but they wanted me to take them upstairs, so we went up and started searching the various floors.
Mr. BALL - Did you go up on the sixth floor?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes, sir.

Notice how skewed his time estimates were, such as 3 or 4 minutes before Truly and Baker climbed the steps. How is that possible when their encounter with Oswald in the lunch room occurred less than 90 seconds after the last shot?

And that is not in dispute. You can't make any sense out of what he said. It is simply way off. 

Then, he said they came in through the shipping room were Eddie Piper was "watching the motorcade in the soutwest corner of the shipping room"? 

And then, after all that, he saw Vickey Adams on the 4th floor? She was the woman who bolted down the stairs after the shots.

And then he was ordered to guard the elevator which is also in the affidavit where he said he was told not to let anyone out of the elevator. Out of the elevator? So, if someone came down the elevator, he was supposed to keep them in it, not let them exit? Hmmm.  What if it was a policeman? What if it was someone he knew? What if someone wanted to use the elevator to go up?   

So, in the affidavit, there is no mention of the trek to the tracks. He said instead that he went back to the building, went inside, and called his wife. How credible is that?

Not very because it was ongoing.  It was frenzied.  It was pandemonium. He worked there. He was considered a supervisor. He had responsibilities. He had to see if he could be helpful. The idea that that soon he would take the time and the leisure to call his wife, "Honey, you'll never guess what happened today..." is not very credible. 

Yes, Shelley and Lovelady made their trek to the tracks, and we have a picture of them doing it.

But, what is very clear is that Bill Shelley was a concocter. He concocted things. The phone call to his wife was probably made much later- not as soon as he went into the building. 

Shelley was in on the assassination. He was Oswald's handler. He was the undoubtedly the one who ordered Oswald to the lunch room from the doorway. 

And Shelley admitted to reporter Elsie Glaze that he was arrested. And in this picture, he looks like he was arrested.

Look at that expression. Look at the cop's expression.

Look, punk: Bill Shelley was like you; he was an Op. And being an Op, he lied at will. He worked for the same people you work for. He killed Kennedy, just as you kill Kennedy every day of your life.  
So, the idea that we can take anything he said at face value is ridiculous. But, he made that trek to the track, and we know it because Lovelady said it, and there is no reason to think that Lovelady would lie. And we know it because we can see him doing it. This is Shelley. It's not a guy who looked like Shelley and dressed like Shelley and combed his hair like Shelley. It's him.