Backes has been informed that there is no telex, that what people have been calling a telex is a fabrication of William Walter, who was a night clerk at the FBI office in New Orleans. He is the only person on Earth who ever claimed to see that telex. 

But, he didn't have the telex, and he didn't have a copy of the telex, and he didn't write down what the telex said. He didn't even surface with this claim of a telex until 1968, which was 5 years after the assassination.

So, at some point, he just sat down and composed a mock-telex, trying to recall from memory the wordage. Nobody ever came forward to confirm having seen this telex. And even though he was married at the time, his ex-wife denied that he ever said anything about it to her. 

And we know from logic and common sense that the telex- if it existed at all- could not have contained what he said it did. There is no reason to think that Oswald would have contacted the FBI about a "militant revolutionary group" plotting to kill Kennedy. If he knew anything at all, he knew something specific, and he would have said so. 

What would have been the point of saying that a "militant revolutionary group" was doing it? It wasn't a guessing game, was it? 

And then from Hoover's end, what would have been the point of responding by having agents start investigating all the hate and racial groups in the country? It was November 17. There was no time for that. It was just days away. The proper response would have been to cancel the President's trip and secondly to contact Oswald (or whomever sent it) for more information. 

Now keep in mind that Walter definitely said that the telex came from the FBI and not from the informant. So, all the people like Judyth Baker who are saying that Oswald sent it are utterly wrong. 

So, how did the informant contact the FBI? We don't know, and Walter didn't know either. He only knew about the telex; not about the informant

So, you can think anything you want about the informant and how he contacted the FBI, but it's just your imagination at work. We simply don't know.  

Remember: if the informant knew anything, he knew something specific. If it was a militant revolutionary group, then what militant revolutionary group?  

So, the fabricated telex by William Walter makes no sense- neither from Hoover's point of view nor Oswald's- that is, if you assume Oswald was the informant.  

But, since you don't have an actual telex, and since the fabricated one is ludicrous in its content, what it means is that you don't have anything. It does not begin to meet the threshold of being evidence.  
And then it was sent at 12:45 AM on a Sunday night (as William Walter recalled) which was a time in which Oswald could not possibly have sent a telex. He was in his room on Beckley. Say it's midnight, and he gets the idea that even though he's been aware of the plot to kill Kennedy for some time, that he really ought to get word to the FBI by sending a telex. What does he do at midnight to accomplish this? Where does he go? How does he get there? 

All of this has been explained to Backes, but his only response is to trash me for making use of David Reitzes materials. He thinks it's terrible of me to cite someone on the other side of the divide. 

The perpetual hypocrite Backass has been colluding with his "lads" such as bpete who places Oswald in the Sniper's Nest "locking and loading." Hypocrisy, thy name is Backes. 

And I didn't praise Reitze; I made use of his information. About this particular matter, he happens to be right. 

And it's the information that counts. Are you disputing it, Backes? Are you saying that you deny what I said about William Walter?

Here is how COPA wrote it up:

On November 17, 1963, FBI overnight code clerk William S. Walter, in New Orleans, maintained that he received an Airtel alert from FBI headquarters in Washington about “a threat to assassinate President Kennedy November 22-23” in Dallas “by a militant revolutionary group.” Instructions in the Teletype included contacting infiltrators in local racists hate groups. The original airtel and all copies disappeared shortly after the assassination. Word of the Teletype did not leak out until five years after the assassination. Upon receiving the Teletype (Walter said under oath), “I immediately contacted the special agent-in-charge who had the category of threats against the president and read him the teletype. He instructed me to call the agents that had responsibility and informants, and as I called them, I noted the time and the names of the agents that I called. That all took place in the early morning hours of the 17th of November.” Ray & Mary La Fontaine maintain that this Airtel is the result of LHO’s pre assassination interview with the Dallas FBI.

“URGENT: 1:45 AM EST 11-17-63 HLF 1 PAGE
TO ALL SACS:
FROM: DIRECTOR
THREAT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN DALLAS TEXAS NOVEMBER 22 DASH TWENTY THREE NINETEEN SIXTY THREE. MISC INFORMATION CONCERNING. INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY THE BUREAUS BUREAU HAS DETERMINED THAT A MILITANT REVOLUTIONARY GROUP MAY ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON HIS PROPOSED TRIP TO DALLAS TEXAS NOVEMBER TWENTY TWO DASH TWENTY THREE NINETEEN SIXTY THREE. ALL RECEIVING OFFICES SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT ALL CIS, PCIS LOGICAL RACE AND HATE GROUP INFORMANTS AND DETERMINE IF ANY BASIS FOR THREAT. BUREAU SHOULD BE KEPT ADVISED OF ALL DEVELOPMENTS BY TELETYPE. OTHER OFFICES HAVE BEEN ADVISED. END AND ACK PLS.”

Notice that COPA also corrected all the spelling errors in Walter's mock- telex. I guess they figured it was just his problem that his spelling was so atrocious, and that it did not apply to the actual telex. And frankly, I agree with that. I don't think there is any chance that a communication from J. Edgar Hoover could be as bad as Walter wrote it.  

Still, I think they should have at least pointed out that Walter's mock-up contained atrocious spelling errors because he is the man. This is all derived from him and no one else, and his atrocious spelling is part of who he is, and it is relevant.

And even if you believe Walter- and whether you do or don't, the fact is that his story is unsubstantiated- there is no reason and no basis to connect it to Oswald. Did you listen to Oswald at the Midnight Press Conference? He said: 

"I don't know what this is all about. Nobody has told me anything. I know I have been accused of murdering a policeman. I know nothing more than that."

Do you think Oswald was lying bold-faced to the world? He had to have been lying if he said the above (and he did say it, and it is filmed and recorded) when, in fact, he had infiltrated the plot and informed the FBI about it. 

And if so, why during his interrogations did he not bring it up, especially since A FBI AGENT WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE: JAMES HOSTY.

How could Oswald be sitting across from Hosty and not say, "You know I sent a telex to the FBI warning them about the plot. And you know I left you a hand-written note about it at your office." 

The bottom line is that Oswald definitely did not send the telex, and there is no rational basis to think that Oswald was the informant.     

  

Here is another rendering of the arrow from the history-matters pdf:

And here is the comparable view from the HSCA crop of the doorway, which is considered one of the best. 

  
So, you can see that there is absolutely no mark on the forearm, and there is nothing comparable to what we see in the black space of the other either. Notice that there is darkness at the margin of the cuff of the shirt. What is that? It's probably shadow. Here is Lovelady in the shirt he was wearing, and remember that he posed in this shirt for the FBI as the shirt he wore on 11/22/63.

You see the cuff. And notice how he posed with the shirt unbuttoned. Now why would he do that? The FBI agents must have told him to do that because they were trying to duplicate the look of Doorman. What the arrow is pointing to is where someone may have pushed the shirt out to get it to spread more. A shirt doesn't necessarily sprawl open just because it's unbuttoned. Sometimes it just stays together. In this case, they knew that they needed a sprawl, and so someone may have given it a little help. And I am thinking that someone may have nudged it at that point where I drew the arrow. 

Above is a comparison of Black Hole Man and Billy Lovelady from his photo shoot with the FBI where he reportedly wore the same clothes as 11/22. Notice that the builds of the two match. The shirts match too except for the lack of stripes on Black Hole Man. I account for that by saying that they simply got rid of them, which was very easy to do. It was not the kind of shirt that you tuck in. It was squared off at the bottom with a fold, and you wore it out. I put an arrow to the bottom fold on each of them. 

That is the same guy in the same shirt, and he is Billy Lovelady. And on April 7, 1964, Billy Lovelady drew an arrow to Black Hole Man in the Altgens photo to indicate himself. 

Here is my response to another senior member, Staffan Westerberg. 

Staffan, here it is a little larger. I can't go much bigger because it gets distorted. 

But, you see the black mark on the forearm, which is the tail of the arrow, which I first saw two years ago. And then in the black there is the head. Keep in mind that the other arrow- the big one on the left side pointing to Doorman- is definitely Frazier's arrow. 

What I am pointing to on Black Hole Man is the only contender there is for Lovelady's arrow. It's not as though there is something else that looks more promising. There is nothing else, period. 

One Op is trying to claim that Lovelady heaped his arrow on top of Frazier's- that what we have been calling one arrow is really two. But, that is obviously a desperate ploy that makes no sense in terms of what we see or in terms of human behavior- what a person would do in that situation. Obviously, the whole point would be to distinguish the arrows. 

So, you should look at this realizing that it is the only game in town. This is Lovelady's arrow drawn to himself in the Altgens photo. And it means, automatically, that Lovelady was conceding that Doorman was Oswald. It's like a toggle switch because if Doorman wasn't Lovelady, he had to be Oswald. There is no other candidate. Ralph 

Of course, I have written to John Armstrong about the discovery of the head of Lovelady's arrow, and among other things, he said:

IF YOU ARE RIGHT, RALPH YOU WILL HAVE AS MANY ENEMIES AS DO I.  AND IT FOLLOWS FROM IT THAT THE PEOPLE STANDING NEXT TO HARVEY IN THE DOORWAY ARE CO-CONSPIRATORS AND THEIR JOB WAS TO WATCH OVER AND "HANDLE" HARVEY PRIOR TO THE SHOOTING. 

John, it is not as though there was any chance that if someone wanted to say it was Oswald in the doorway that it would have been allowed. You know as well as I do that witnesses were carefully screened and carefully selected. Oswald's Marine buddies, Zac Stout and George whomever, were not allowed to testify that they lived and work with Oswald in Japan, and he was not studying Russian day or night. 

Well, anyone who tried to say it was Oswald in the doorway was undoubtedly pulled aside and informed, in no uncertain terms, that they didn't, and they had better not say it again, in public or in private, if they value their life.

So just treat the Warren Commission testimonies about it like a Stalinist show trial. But, the exception was Lovelady, and before it began, Joseph Ball was afraid. There must have been stirrings that reached him that Lovelady was not cooperating. And that's why, instead of just asking him who the Doorman figure was, as he did with both Buell Frazier and Danny Arce, Ball played the game with the arrow. 

Why? It was because the arrow was non-verbal. It wasn't going to be picked up by a stenographer or anyone else. And at no time, did he or Lovelady articulate out loud where the arrow had been drawn. It was like they were talking in code.

Before you read it, think about what you would do if you were with someone, and you wanted him to identify someone in a picture. You would just point to the person and say, "Who's he?" Right? And that is exactly what Ball did with Buell Frazier and Danny Arce. And with Arce, it was JUST AN HOUR BEFORE BALL QUESTIONED LOVELADY. But, here is how Ball handled it with Lovelady:

Mr. BALL - I have got a picture here, Commission Exhibit 369. Are you on that picture?
Mr. LOVELADY - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Take a pen or pencil and mark an arrow where you are.
Mr. LOVELADY - Where I thought the shots are?
Mr. BALL - No; you in the picture.
Mr. LOVELADY - Oh, here (indicating).
Mr. BALL - Draw an arrow down to that; do it in the dark. You got an arrow in the dark and one in the white pointing toward you. Where were you when the picture was taken?
Mr. LOVELADY - Right there at the entrance of the building standing on the the step, would be here (indicating).
Mr. BALL - You were standing on which step?
Mr. LOVELADY - It would be your top level.
Mr. BALL - The top step you were standing there?
Mr. LOVELADY - Right.

Now, all that back-and-forth about where Lovelady was, which step, was just damage control. At that point, Ball was sweating bullets. He was shitting bricks. HE WANTED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. He wanted to segue to something else. And he never went back to it. 

And of course, Lovelady could have said something out loud, voluntarily. "I was the one shielding my eyes with both hands. The sun was streaming in; it was very blinding."

Lovelady could have said something like that, but he didn't, and it was because he knew that Ball didn't want to hear it. Lovelady knew what was going on. He knew that he was going out on a limb. He didn't want to make it worse by provoking the guy- defying him out loud. 

And look how small Lovelady drew the arrow. Nobody was controlling his hand except him. He did it that way because he was trying to be discreet. He was trying to tell Ball, as quietly as possible, "Psst. I wasn't Doorman. I was this other guy."  

But, in response to what you said, I would say that some of the people in the doorway were co-conspirators, and that definitely included Bill Shelley, and some of them were just scared, frightened people who stayed quiet afterwards in fear for their lives.

Are you familiar with what happened to Joe Molina? He was standing in the doorway in front of and slight east of Oswald. His home was stormed by Dallas Police the night of the assassination- in the wee hours of the morning on 11/23 actually. It scared the bejesus out of him and his family. Ostensibly, it was because of his involvement in the GI Forum, which was a Hispanic civil rights group. Supposedly, the FBI had determined that there were Communists involved in the GI Forum, ipso facto, maybe Molina was a Communist, ipso facto, maybe he was an accomplice of Oswald. It was really a warning to Molina: keep your mouth shut. Ralph  

As you would suspect, I am not remaining quiet about this devastating discovery of the head of Lovelady's arrow. This is in response to it from the great Vincent Salandria:


Dear Ralph,

          Thank you, Ralph.  You work so hard and so well and accomplish devastatingly valuable historical results. You have every right to be proud of what you have done and continue to do.

          Warmest affections,

          Vince

This is a write-up by Joan D'Arc, and it's very important because it demonstrates how Jim Garrison was an advocate of Oswald in the doorway.  

Lee Oswald in the Doorway?

Witnesses who worked in the TSBD have stated that Oswald was in the lunchroom on the 2nd floor eating his lunch just prior to the shooting, and was in the same lunch room just minutes after the shooting, when police entered and saw him drinking a Coke. In fact, it seems that Oswald was photographed in the doorway of the TSBD as the procession was going by (see picture at www.whokilledjfk.net/altgens.htm). 

The person in the doorway not only resembles Oswald’s facial and hairline characteristics, but is wearing the same denim style shirt over a white t-shirt that he was arrested in a few hours later. He consequently “lost” the shirt during his lineup session, where he was allowed to wear only his t-shirt. After complaining bitterly, he was finally given a black sweater. One wonders why this shirt was taken away.

District Attorney Jim Garrison believed it was likely Oswald standing in the doorway watching the parade. In an October 1967 Playboy interview, Garrison stated: “As the first shot rang out, Associated Press photographer James Altgens snapped a picture of the motorcade that shows a man with a remarkable resemblance to Lee Harvey Oswald, same hairline, same face shape, standing in the doorway of the Book Depository Building. Somehow or other, the Warren Commission concluded that this man was actually Billy Nolan Lovelady, an employee of the Depository, who looked very little like Oswald. […] The Altgens photograph indicates the very real possibility that at the moment Oswald was supposed to have been crouching in the sixth-floor window of the Depository shooting Kennedy, he may actually have been standing outside the front door watching the Presidential motorcade.” (www.jfklancer.com/Garrison3.html) (Incidentally, Billy Lovelady was wearing a red and white vertical striped shirt that day.)

Oswald was also noted to be somewhere near the doorway by NBC news correspondent Robert MacNeil, who was riding in the motorcade when shots rang out. MacNeil jumped out of the limo and ran to the TSBD. One must realize that Dealey Plaza is a very small area, and it probably took seconds for him to run to the front entrance of the building. There he encountered a man at the door, whom he asked where he could find a telephone, and the man pointed inside. MacNeil later identified the man as Oswald. In fact, Oswald also recalled the conversation; according to Dallas Police, a man asked Oswald for a telephone as he was leaving the building. (Who’s Who 271) However, no notes of Dallas Police interrogations of Lee Oswald exist or have surfaced.

Using this terrific webpage from history-matters, which has the enlargement tool at the bottom:

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh16/pdf/WH16_CE_369.pdf

I did a screen-save, and this was the result:

And it shows something I have never seen before: the head of Lovelady's arrow. 

You will see it more clearly with a magnifying glass. It is different than I expected. I imagined it the way I would have drawn it myself: as a left arm and a right arm. But, what it appears to be is a solid triangular shape. It's all filled in. Again: a simple magnifying glass is all you need to see it clearly. 

Why did Lovelady draw it so small? It's because he knew that he wasn't giving Joseph Ball what he wanted. He knew there was going to be some major disappointment involved, and he was trying to let Ball down easy. After all, this was a powerful government lawyer, and of course, there were many more powerful people behind him. 

Why did Lovelady do it at all, tell the truth? Well, at the time, he simply didn't want to lie. He knew who he was in the photo. And he knew who he wasn't. 

But afterwards, he must have been visited by some very intimidating people who made it clear just how much was at stake- just how much he stood to lose if he didn't cooperate. And they probably also told him what he stood to gain if he did. 

Look what happened to Lovelady. At the TSBD, he was an order-filler making presumably $1.16/hour, like Oswald. Presumably, he made the same or about the same. He had been there for nearly a year, so maybe he made a little more, but it couldn't have been much more. And the Loveladys were a family of 5. 

But, after the assassination, Lovelady moved his family to Denver, where he started his own trucking company. His own trucking company? So, he was buying trucks and hiring drivers and bonding them and paying for an office and secretaries, etc.? 

Of course, we know that Lovelady had the misfortune of dying suddenly at age 41 of a fatal heart attack. That was in January 1979, shortly before the HSCA Final Report came out. During the investigation, one of the top lawyers for the HSCA resigned so that he could become Lovelady's lawyer. Now, that is unusual. How many times during a government investigation has a government lawyer resigned so that he could represent a witness? But, that is what happened. And after Lovelady died, this lawyer made a statement that conspiracy theorists killed him. Of course, he did not mean that literally. 

But, at the time of her death, Patricia Lovelady had rather vast real estate holdings across the state of Colorado. 

So, where did the means come from to acquire all that wealth? What was the basis for Billy Lovelady's rags to riches story?  

One thing is for sure: finding the head of Lovelady's arrow is very big. It removes any and all doubt that Lovelady pointed to Black Hole Man to indicate himself in the Altgens photo. And, since this is an either/or situation, he effectively admitted, in graphic demonstration, that Doorman in the Altgens photo was Lee Harvey Oswald.