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

 I just realized something for the first time. The shirt Lovelady posed in wasn't a shirt; it was a pajama top. Look at the size of the buttons. Men's shirts don't have buttons that big, but men's pajamas do. On the left is a pajama top of mine, and you can see the large buttons.

What led to it was my listening to Brooten's painful interview of Lovelady in Colorado. It was a very informal interview in which Brooten asked Lovelady what shirt he wore on 11/22. And Lovelady responded by saying he wore an ordinary work shirt. He didn't say any more than that, but Brooten queried him further and got him to say that it was red and plaid.

But, I began thinking that that pattern is not that of an ordinary work shirt. Work shirts aren't flashy and flamboyant. They are very subdued. They don't have kaleidoscopic colors and patterns. So, what does? And then it dawned on me: pajamas.

So, I looked at it again, and that's when I honed in on the large buttons. Men's shirts don't come with large buttons. But, men's pajamas do. Why they put such large buttons on men's pajamas, I don't know. Maybe large buttons are supposed to be easier to button or unbutton when you're half-asleep. But regardless, they do it, and they've always done it.

Also, pajamas have soft collars that don't stand up. They don't have the rigidness of a shirt collar. It's true that Oswald's shirt had a soft collar, but that's because it was a Russian shirt, not an American one. And we can see his collar lying flat on Doorman. But, I guess the closest thing they could find to it in this country was a pajama top.

But, pajama tops are crumpled. So on Lovelady, his pajama top was ironed and maybe even starched. Look how it's folded over and creased. What are the chances that he did that to his shirt on 11/22, knowing that he was going to be laying plywood on the 6th floor that morning? I'll tell what the chances are: zero.

That is a pajama top on him, and he certainly didn't wear it on 11/22/63. He didn't wear a pajama top to work.