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

It's shameful that JFK trolls should be allowed to spew their venality at the site of a movie review, but considering the character of the reviewer, I'm not surprised. Look above, and you'll see that Matthew Barnes (whom I don't know) was allowed to reply to himself in disparaging me with slurs but saying nothing and yet when I replied to Brian Pete, who attacked me (whom I do know) my response got deleted. Keep in mind that I would not have chosen to mix my JFK work up with a discussion of my movie, My Stretch of Texas Ground. But, it started, of course, with the reviewer, Christopher Hooks, who attacked me, at length, for my JFK work- in the movie review, even though the movie has nothing to do with JFK. He didn't attack me effectively. What do you think would happen if he were to publicly debate me about the JFK assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald? He would not fare well. But, it's no wonder that he lets these trolls in here- birds of a feather. 

So, I am putting this up again in response to what Brian Pete wrote. I have the right to respond.

There is an Economics professor from the University of Hartford in CT, Dom Armentano, who wrote a piece about Oswald in the doorway in which he reached the same conclusions I did from looking at the evidence. He doesn't acknowledge me or the OIC, so I assume he arrived at them himself. But, if he did in fact garner the facts from us, it's OK that he didn't acknowledge it because that doesn't matter to me. What matters is getting the facts out that Oswald was innocent, and anyone is welcome to use my materials freely without credit or acknowledgement. So, without knowing exactly how he arrived at his conclusions, here is Professor Dom Armentano laying out the facts which exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald in the murder of President Kennedy. 


"We know for certain that Oswald was near the 2nd floor lunch room within minutes of the fatal shot, but where was Oswald a minute or two earlier…at the precise moment of the assassination?"


"The famous Altgens photo (showing the motorcade in the foreground and the TSBD in the background) which was taken simultaneously with a bullet hitting JFK, also shows a man in the front doorway of the TSBD who looks remarkably like Lee Harvey Oswald. Speculation began almost immediately that it was Oswald, but the WC concluded that the man was Billy Lovelady another TSBD employee.  Lovelady testified before the WC that he was in fact the man in the Altgens photo and several other TSBD employees appeared to confirm Lovelady’s story."

"But like many other aspects of the WC theory of the assassination, the Billy Lovelady story has almost completely collapsed. Modern photo analysis has all but proven that the man in the doorway is Oswald and not Lovelady (although Lovelady is likely somewhere on the front steps also). The relatively thin face in recently enhanced photos appears to be Oswald’s. The chin looks like Oswald’s, but the clincher is the unique looking shirt that the man in the doorway is wearing. For all intents and purposes, it’s almost like a fingerprint."

"There are many films and photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas police station after his capture that show him wearing a rather strange looking, long sleeve shirt. The shirt has an odd gray weave design, has rather unusual looking lapels and is unbuttoned almost to the waist. Oswald is also wearing a white tee shirt that is exposed above his unbuttoned shirt."

"Well, the man in the doorway is dressed in exactly the same manner; there are just no dissimilarities whatever. The long sleeve shirt he is wearing looks identical to Oswald’s: same pattern and weave, same grayish color, similar looking white tee shirt peeking above a shirt that is open almost to the waist. Even the shirt lapels, especially the left lapel, appear to match up precisely with the Oswald shirt in police photos. It is unreasonable to believe that this man in the doorway is none other than Lee Harvey Oswald."

"Moreover, aside from physical appearance and dress, the man in the doorway is also standing and assuming a pose much like Oswald does in several police station photos. Lee Oswald had a habit of standing with his arms hanging down close to his body with his left hand reaching across his body to grasp his right arm. The man in the doorway appears to be standing in exactly the same manner as he leans in to watch the motorcade. In conclusion, the face, shirt and posture of the man in the doorway appears to match those of Lee Harvey Oswald. Either this is the world’s most amazing coincidence or “doorway man” is Oswald and, therefore, Oswald could not have been shooting at the President from the 6th floor."

"But what about Billy Lovelady? Lovelady may well have been on the steps of the TSBD at the time of the shooting, but his claim to be the man in the doorway is simply not credible. Lovelady’s face is rounder than the man in the doorway and  his chin is very different; he is stockier and heavier than the man in the photo. But the clincher, of course, is the unique shirt and the way it is worn.  Lovelady never had a shirt anything like the doorway man’s shirt; if he did, he never produced it.  Indeed, when asked to produce and be photographed in the shirt that he wore on November 22, 1963, Lovelady appeared in a short sleeve, boldly striped shirt that had no resemblance whatever to the doorway photo shirt. The Lovelady (self) identification is a hoax.

RC: The only thing I would "correct" in what Professor Armentano wrote is that Lovelady didn't really claim to be Doorman in his WC testimony. Instead, it was a bizarre and surreal exchange between him and WC Attorney Joseph Ball, in which they talked about Lovelady being in the Altgens photo, but neither one articulated who he was in it. Instead of simply asking Lovelady who the man in the doorway was, Ball evaded the question and instead had Lovelady draw an arrow to himself, and the result of that was equally murky. As I see it, Lovelady did not want to lie, but neither did he want to piss off the 800 pound gorilla. Hence: their bizarre conversation which is more like an Abbott and Costello sketch. So, Lovelady did NOT claim to be Doorman in his WC testimony. He never pointed to Doorman and said, "That's me."  But, he did start claiming it afterwards, and no doubt he was pressured to do so, as in, "Do it or die." And no doubt a green poultice helped grease the way for his conversion because this former warehouse worker who earned $1.11/hour went on to start his own trucking company in Denver CO. He died suspiciously of a "heart attack" at age 41, but his wife Patricia lived long, acquiring vast real estate holdings throughout Colorado. Only in America.