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

The history of the issue of Oswald in the doorway is so strewn with lies, fraud, and deception by those denying it was him, that their malfeasance- in creating the phony debate about it- is blatantly and nakedly obvious. 

First, realize that people from all over the world recognized Oswald in the doorway. I heard from a woman in Russia who said that her uncle knew Oswald, and as soon as he saw the Altgens photo, he said, "That is Alek." 

Of course, it was followed by a public announcement stating that it was another TSBD employee Billy Lovelady who happened to look a lot like Oswald.

If that were the truth, they would have called a press conference and presented Lovelady to the world. And they would have let him speak to the world. And they would have disseminated pictures of him to the press. But, all they did was lip-flap it. They just claimed it. They never showed any pictures of Lovelady, and they never intended to. Even when the FBI took pictures of Lovelady, they neve showed them to the world. They just sent them to the Warren Commission along with a letter from J. Edgar Hoover.  And the WC didn't publish the images either. The only reason the world found out about those images is because Harold Weisberg dug them out of the "document pile" that the Warren Commission left behind. 

So, they didn't show Lovelady to the world, and they didn't show pictures of Lovelady to the world. The first image of Lovelady that they finally showed the world was introduced 3 years later in 1966. And it was phony! It wasn't him. 

That image was supposedly taken 15 minutes after the shooting in front the TSBD, but Billy Lovelady was not there at the time. He was inside the building. He was guarding the freight elevator, and then he was taking the police up to the 6th floor. There is no chance that he was out in front at that time. So, that guy can't be Lovelady, but neither can he be Doorman.

How could those two be the same man, when Doorman looks thin and gaunt, while "Gorilla Man" (as Jim Fetzer dubbed him) looks burly? How can they be the same man when Doorman's shirt was gaped open while Gorilla Man's shirt was closed and snug? And by the way: their shirt patterns are very different. Gorilla Man's was plaid, while Doorman's was splotchy. And actually, what we're seeing on Doorman's shirt is due to photographic haze and distortion and also light reflection. We should not assume that his shirt actually looked like that, that that was the "pattern." 

The whole case for Doorman being Lovelady was strewn with lies and corruption and downright evil- from the beginning.  It's rank, exposed, naked evil. 

And that was just the start. More phony images of Lovelady were to follow; images that did not look like him; that did not look like Doorman; and that did not look like each other. It has been a cavalcade of fraud and contradictions. 

And by the time of the HSCA which started in 1976, so 13 years after the assassination, Lovelady was a wreck. He was hiding out in Colorado, avoiding the press as much as he could. And when HSCA lawyer Ken Booten went to see him, Lovelady pleaded with him not to make him go to Washington to testify. And Booten agreed. Why? It's because he could see for himself that Lovelady was a wreck and would make a lousy witness. Simply put: Lovelady was not a good liar; he was a terrible liar. So, Booten quit his job with the HSCA to become Lovelady's lawyer. When has that ever happened before or since in the history of jurisprudence? And Lovelady wasn't even a defendant. He wasn't being accused of anything. So, what did he need a lawyer for? 

And then, just when the HSCA Final Report was being released, 41 year old Billy Lovelady died suddenly of a "heart attack." I think it's more likely that he died from the heart attack gun. You know, the one that was loaded with an ice dart containing a nerve agent, shot into JFK high on the hill to soften him up for the turkey shoot, so that he would be a helpless and cooperative victim when he entered the Kill zone. Except: in Billie's case, they stuck with the original plan and armed the gun with a drug that would mimic a heart attack. 

Realize also that the Altgens photo containing Oswald in the doorway is probably the most abominated photograph in the history of  photography. It was so crudely and grossly altered, it turned the doorway into a freak show. 

The Altgens Family

Da dah nah nah.

Da dah nah nah.

Da dah nah nah; Da dah nah nah; Da dah nah nah.

They're creepy and they're kooky, 

Mysterious and spooky, 

They're all together ooky, 

The Altgens Family. 

 

Their doorway's a museum 

When people come to see 'em 

They really are a scree'um 

The Altgens Family. 

 

Neat.

 

Sweet.

 

Petite.

 

So get a witches shawl on 

A broomstick you can crawl on 

We're gonna pay a call on 

The Altgens Family.

 

 

Their names are still debated,

Black Hole and Obfuscated,

Their histories are related,

The Altgens Family.

 

See Oswald is the Doorman,

He doesn't have a prayer, Man,

Lovelady's got no hair, Man,

The Altgens Family

 

Lee.

 

 

Shel-ly'.

 

 

Bil-ly'.

 

 

Lee's innocent, you dodo,

Scan Altgens' altered photo

For characters we all know,

The Altgens Family.

The point is: there is no debate. There is just the truth and an outrageous, egregious campaign to lie about it. And that's from the very beginning, from the very day of it. The fact is that Doorman looks like Oswald, and he is wearing Oswald's clothes. It's one thing to lie and say that Oswald and Lovelady looked alike, that they were doppelgangers. But, even doppelgangers don't wear the same clothes, unless perhaps they're both participating in an Elvis impersonation contest. 

Anyone who says that these two aren't the same man is either very stupid or very evil. But, that/s not to say that they can't be both.