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

 This is going to settle it, once and for all. All claims of Lovelady being Doorman are now dead in the water.

On the left is Lovelady on February 29, 1964. He is at his FBI photo-shoot in Dallas, which preceded his Warren Commission testimony in April. They asked him to come in the clothes that he wore on 11/22 because they wanted to photograph him as he looked on that day. And, they insisted that he unbutton his shirt because the Doorway Man had his shirt unbuttoned, and they wanted it to be the same. So, this was him recreating his look on 11/22/63.

I know the names of the FBI agents who conducted this photo-shoot. They were Robert Gemberling and Emory Morton. And they may just have been the stupidest men involved in the JFK investigation. I say that because surely they saw the Altgens photo. They saw that the Doorway Man wore a long sleeve shirt. Yet, they glibly posed Lovelady in his short-sleeved shirt and had him unbutton it- revealing their intention was to duplicate the look- yet, it went completely over their heads that the short-sleeve shirt instantly disqualified him from being Doorman.

But now, we travel back in time to 11/22/63 to the image on the right of Lovelady in the Couch film. I did not find this. Gerda Dunkel did. And lo and behold, it is a match to the shirt that he wore at the FBI photo-shoot. I have circled two matching points: the sleeve fold and note on the right that you can see naked skin above his elbow, so it was definitely a short-sleeved shirt, and then the square bottom which you can see on both shirts. This was not a shirt that you would tuck in. It had a square bottom that you wore out.

So, there is no doubt now that Billy Lovelady wore a short-sleeved shirt on 11/22/63, which means that he could not possibly be the Doorway Man. It is time to write to the Attorney General.