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

Now, let's shine a light on the Lovelady clips, which surfaced well after the assassination. In a word: the FBI went into the movie business. And it was all because of one person: Harold Weisberg. 

You see, the official story of the JFK assassination was immediately met with resistance, and the three most prominent resistors, out the gate, were Mark Lane, Vincent Salandria, and Harold Weisberg. All three were advocates of Oswald in the doorway. Mark Lane put his photo of Lovelady, which is the only one that is legit, alongside Oswald and Doorman, on the cover of Rush To Judgment. 

Harold Weisberg didn't just read the Warren Report; he combed through the mountain of unpublished documents they left behind. First, he found the FBI document stating that Lovelady said he wore a red and white striped shirt and blue jeans on 11/22/63. Then, he found the photos that J. Edgar Hoover had taken of Lovelady and sent to the Warren Commission, in which you can see that the striped shirt was short-sleeved. And, he observed that the FBI had Lovelady pose in that outfit, with the shirt unbuttoned and sprawled open- just like Doorman. Why would they have him do that, duplicate the look of Doorman, unless he was wearing the same clothes? 

You can see it here on the left. Notice how the shirt is unbuttoned and far down. I included Doorman and Oswald because Doorman has his hands crossed in the doorway- just as Oswald did at the PD on the right. I think it's ironic that Lovelady had the habit of crossing his arms in back, while Oswald crossed them in front. 

Now, that picture of Lovelady is not legit. It is definitely doctored. His hair, for instance is doctored. Again: the only undefiled image of Lovelady that we have is the one by Mark Lane. No other image of him is trustworthy.  This was taken on February 29, 1964. 

But, Harold Weisberg realized that the FBI must have instructed Lovelady to wear the clothes he wore on 11/22 because they were going to recreate the image of Doorman. The two FBI agents who took the photos on 2/29/64 were idiots, but the idiocy continued up the chain of command because J. Edgar Hoover, himself, sent a letter to the Warren Commission, accompanying the photos.

But, the WC didn't publish the letter or the photos. They left them in the "document pile" and that's where Harold found them. The only reason we know about them is because of him. And he put them in his book Photographic Whitewash, which was the sequel to his book Whitewash. And then he went on a speaking tour. He combed the country, speaking to groups and clubs, and appearing on local radio.  And he did a lot of damage, heralding that it must have been Oswald in the doorway because Lovelady wore a short-sleeved shirt. 

But then, in 1966, when he was appearing on local radio somewhere in Arkansas, this guy called in claiming to know about some footage  of Lovelady standing in front of the doorway 10 minutes after the assassination wearing a long-sleeved plaid shirt. And that clip we call the Gorilla Man clip because the Lovelady figure in it looks like a Neanderthal, as you can see on the right. 

The white lines indicate disparities in the shape of the forehead, size of the nose, and inclination of the neck. They are clearly different men. And, LOVELADY WAS STILL ALIVE! So, why didn't they go to him? Well, as I've said, Lovelady was a terrible liar. He was just no good at walking the walk and talking the talk. 

But, the fact is that Gorilla Man could not possibly have been Lovelady because Lovelady left the entrance right away with Bill Shelley. They joined the throng of people who descended on the railroad yard next to the TSBD. And after that, they returned to the TSBD by way of the back door. THEY NEVER RETURNED TO THE FRONT. So, there is no way that could have been Lovelady. 

And there's no way it was real footage. The story went that it was part of the Martin film, that after shooting his motorcade footage, Jack Martin went somewhere to call his wife to tell her what happened, but then he returned to Dealey Plaza and shot the Gorilla Man clip. 

But, that is impossible because Martin's film is very crude, and the Gorilla Man clip is the most clear and sharp footage that we have. 

And, the Gorilla man clip doesn't occur in the Martin film. There is no intact version of the film that has it. And I communicated directly with the director of the Sixth Floor Museum, Gary Mack about it, and he admitted to me that they didn't have the Martin film with the Lovelady clip. 

So, this clip is entirely bogus, and these people are all bogus. It was shot at the TSBD in 1966.

The guy on the left in the Fedora hat is supposed to be Fedora Man from the Altgens photo. The young black man beneath him is supposed to be Bonnie Ray Williams, but he wasn't out front either at that time. The man with the black hair and very white skin walking on the sidewalk with his head turned is supposed to be Danny Arce, but, he wasn't there either at that time. And then, the Lovelady figure in the plaid shirt is smoking, even though he has no pack of cigarettes in his pocket, and Lovelady could not have been there at that time, as I explained. I don't know who the old lady is supposed to be on the right. And I don't know who the woman in curlers is supposed to be. It seems strange to go to a Presidential parade wearing curlers. Is the woman wearing the scarf supposed to be Babushka Lady? Hey, they rounded up the whole gang! But, Babushka Lady definitely wasn't hanging around there. Another weird thing is that the woman in curlers and the woman in the scarf don't move. They don't even twitch. They are absolutely frozen. Other people are moving about, but not them. 

But anyway, the whole thing is fake, and the FBI went into the movie business. 

Fast forward to the HSCA in 1977, when Oswald in the doorway had reared its head again. That's when Robert Groden claimed to find a clip of Lovelady at the desk in the squad room when Oswald was brought in. Except: there are two versions of it. One was put into the David Wolper film, Four Days in November, from 1964, a documentary about the assassination, although it's more like a Nazi propaganda movie.  It could not have been in the original version of the Wolper film, since it didn't exist. But, it's in the version we have today. The other version didn't appear until 2009 in a documentary film made by the Disney corporation called 3 Shots That Changed America. It was broadcast on the History Channel in 2009 and issued as a DVD in 2010. 

The two versions of the squad room clip are different: entirely different. You can watch them both in succession right now. First, here is the one from the Wolper film, but I just made it myself with a string of stills from the film. 

The Lovelady figure wasn't there; he was dropped in artificially. 

And here is the second one by Disney. I refer to it as the DeNiro clip because the Lovelady figure reminds me of Robert DeNiro's in The Deer Hunter with his hair combed back. 

Of course, they are supposed to be the exact same footage because there was only one. But, I think what happened is that they became dissatisfied with the one in Wolper because they just inserted the image of the Lovelady figure into real footage. In the Disney version, they started from scratch with actors and reshot it. But, 2009 was a long time later, and film technology had advanced. It was all digital. However, they were able to use the background from the original footage, with the books on the lockers in back.  The two Lovelady figures look nothing like each other. 

Why would anyone think that those two are the same man, when the man on the left has arms like Charles Atlas, and the man on the right looks as scrawny as Barney Fife? And why does DeNiro have his shirt sprawled open, in a weird and impossible way, while Fife doesn't? But get this: they both have a pack of cigarettes in their left shirt pocket. Yet, Gorilla Man was smoking, but he had no pack of cigarettes. So, where did he get the cigarette? 

They also forgot to sprawl open his shirt too. How could these two be the same man?

The whole thing is a comedy of errors; production errors. I'm a filmmaker, so I know how easy it is to make production errors. But, I never made any as bad as this. 

Lovelady wore the short-sleeved striped shirt, just as Harold Weisberg said. It's him on the right from the Couch film, walking to the railway yard. 

So, his shirt is very mottled, but barely, you can make out the alternating stripes on the shirt, red-white-red. And you can see that it's short-sleeved, with his bare arm and elbow showing. 

Look, the fact is that a cabal within the U.S. government, consisting of Vice President Johnson, Pentagon officials, plus the intelligence agencies (FBI and CIA), including former CIA director Allen Dulles, killed JFK on 11/22/63, and they thought it was going to be neatly put to bed. They had no idea they were going to be making phony films into the 21st century. 

So, all of the Lovelady clips are fake and phony, and they were all done just to show Lovelady in a plaid shirt. But, I'll leave you with this: The irony is that Doorman's shirt isn't plaid. Plaid means recurring boxes. Doorman's shirt is such vaguely contrasted with light and dark, and it's due a combination of photographic haze and distortion plus light reflection. It is NOT a plaid pattern. These are NOT the same shirt.