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

 

On the right is an imge of Billy Lovelady that did not surface publicly until the HSCA. We don't have a date for the image, but you can see that Lovelady looks young. He could still be in his teens. But, I'm going to designate an age of 20 for him and I think it's a reasonable and educated guess. Lovelady was born in 1937, therefore, that would make the year of the photo 1957.

His photo shows that Lovelady had prominent ears, which means his ears protruded; they stuck out. If you look at his right ear, which is left to us, it faces us more than it should. Oswald's and Doorman's ears look normal and identical.

At the time of the assassination, Lovelady was 5'8" 170 pounds whereas Oswald was 5'9" 131 pounds. It was from Dr. Gerald McKnight that I learned that the Dalas Police weighed Oswald. And he was skinny. I am 5'6" 138 pounds, which is 3 inches shorter than Oswald and 7 pounds heavier, and I'm lean. But, Lovelady was an inch shorter and almost 40 pounds heavier than Oswald. Therefore, an image of Oswald and Lovelady side by side should be Laurel and Hardy-ish. But, when you look at Doorman and Oswald, they are not Laurel and Hardy-ish; on the contrary, they appear to be the exact same size and weight. That's because they were the same person.

You notice that Oswald and Doorman are both wearing a t-shirt with a stretched-out collar, and that's because Oswald had the habit of stretching the collars of his t-shirtts. He would do it with his hand, and the effect of that stretching is what we are seeing on both Doorman and Oswald.

We do have images of Lovelay in a t-shirt, and he didn't have that habit. Therefore, his t-shirts always looked perfectly snug and round.

Another commonality between Oswald and Doorman is the length of the neck, which varies a lot among people. The necks are a spot-on match between Oswald and Doorman, but Lovelady's neck was shorter.

But, what about the hair? Doorman and Lovelady seem to have the exact same hair, and the exact same recession. They are balding exactly the same. Plus, their hair is the exact same length; the exact same style; and it's lying exactly the same way. The HSCA anthropologists took note of that with resounding conclusiveness.

But, they weren't too bright, those anthropologists. They forgot to consider that hair is a constantly changing thing. Hair is constantly growing, and in response to that, it is regularly cut. We know that Lovelady was a rapidly balding young man. And we know that baldness in men is progressive; it only goes in one direction, toward more hair loss. And there are other things besides growth and haircuts and the progression of baldness that affect the way the hair looks. For instance, weather affects here; changes in humidity, for example. The way we sleep at night makes the hair lie differently. What we put on our hair in the way of shampoos and conditioners affect it. Also, the way we brush it or comb it, and all of these thing change over time.

So, that perfect likeness between Doorman's hair and Young Lovelady's is actually a bad thing. Since he was balding rapidly and already had major recession when he was 20 years old, how could it look exactly the same 6 years later? Do you know how much hair a man can lose in 6 years? How could the length of the hair and the lay of the hair be exactly the same when this is a random comparison 6 years apart? Go ahead and inspect old pictures of yourself and compare how your hair looked then to how it looks now. You'll see that it never looks the same way twice. There are always observable differences. And again, it's because hair is a constantly fluctuating and changing thing.

So, the reason why the match between Doorman's hair and Young Lovelady's hair is so perfect is because the photo-alterers took the top of Young Lovelady's head and moved it over to Doorman's, replacing Oswald's. And it was a clever thing to do because we look at portraits from the top down. So, they reasoned that all they had to do was give Oswald Lovelady's crown, and voila, he would be taken for Lovelady. As it turned out, at the time of the assassination, Lovelady had lost a lot more hair, and was practically bald on top. I'll finish with the unauthorized photo that Mark Lane took of him. That is how Billy Lovelady really looked at the time of the JFK assassination, and he was not the Doorway Man.