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

 This UPI article from May 23, 1964 is very telling. For one, I didn't realize that the Doorman issue was still red-hot in May. That was 6 months after the assassination, and people were still clamoring about it? I didn't know that. I knew that immediately there was a lot of clamor but not 6 months later.

The lines attributed to Lovelady were certainly concocted and not his. Lovelady was not arrogant at all. He didn't talk like that. If you listen to the long interview Ken Brooten did with him in 1976. you'll hear that he was very terse, soft-spoken, and unassertive.

The article states that "newspaper descriptions stated the man bears an extraordinary resemblance to Oswald," but they must have meant foreign papers. U.S. papers did not use that caption. A caption was written for the photo by the AP, although not by James Altgens, who usually wrote his own captions. The caption said that you can see the Secret Service Agents looking at the source of the shots. The irony of that is that is that if the shots came from the 6th floor, they would have been looking up, not down at the doorway. They were, in fact, looking not at the source of the shots but at the patsy who, for some reason, was standing in the doorway.

But, the most telling thing of all is that no photos of Lovelady were ever released. He stated in the article that the FBI took pictures of him from various angles, but they were never released to the papers. They were sent to the Warren Commission, which chose not to publish them- or even to acknowledge their existence. They just let them in the "document pile." The only reason we found out about the FBI photos and got to see them is because Harold Weisberg foraged in the document pile and found them. And he went ballistic. He published them in Photographic Whitewash, and he started touring the country giving speeches and appearing on local talk radio shows espuising Oswald in the doorway. And that caused the FBI to go into the movie business, creating phony clips of Lovelady in a plaid shirt, including the Gorilla Man clip (taken supposedly at a time that Lovelady was definitely not in front of the TSBD) and the Squad room clip (even though Lovelady stated, under oath, that the last time he saw Oswald was at the TSBD.)

But, just think: if Lovelady really had an uncanny resemblance to Oswald, why didn't authorities call a press conference and let the world see him and take his picture? Why didn't they let the cameras click? Instead, they did just the opposite. Dallas Police spread the word that anyone who tries to take a photo of Lovelady would be charged with a crime. And I know there was at least one incident on the street in which the police were involved when someone tried to take Lovelady's picture. Thank God Mark Lane's photographer was able to do it despite the prohibition. If not, we wouldn't have any valid images of Billy Lovelady.

It made no sense to claim that Lovelady bore an uncanny resemblance to Oswald- to the extent that his wife and kids mistook Oswald for him- without showing his picture. Why not? What was the national security risk? Why just lip-flap it?

"We're telling you that Lovelady looked like Oswald, but you can't see his picture. Now, move along."

But, the most important thing is that the whole world saw the Altgens photo and recognized Oswald in the doorway. They recognized his face, his clothes, his look, and his stare. It's very obvious that this is the same man wearing the same clothes. It is insane to think that Lovelady, who wasn't related to Oswald, and whose phsyicality to Oswald was comparable to Hardy's physicality to Laurel, would look this much like him in a photo. And even if two men did look alike (which these two didn't) what are the odds that they would, spontaneously, dress this much alike? How far you going to go playing the coincidence care?

It's been 60 years, and the world was right 60 years ago when they thought they saw Oswald in the doorway. The only thing that has held up the Lovelady lie is the fiat power of the U.S. government.

Stop thinking that Oswald and Lovelady looked a lot alike. They didn't. And this much likeness, in the man and the clothing, with any other man is impossible- unless Oswald had an identical twin, which he didn't. 60 years is long enough to put with such a horrendous and monstrous lie. I say: Stop the lies! Oswald outside!