Mr Billy Lovelady

[Ray Mitcham]

Friends, I find it hard to believe that the FBI misunderstood what Mr Lovelady told them about the short-sleeved shirt with red and white stripes, or that Mr Lovelady misunderstood their instructions to him regarding what to bring to the photograph session:



The point of this session was simple-----------------to lock down the (correct) identification of Mr Lovelady as the man in the doorway in the Altgens photo. How? By showing that he looked just like him!

No way is it an accident that Mr Lovelady poses for the camera with several buttons of his shirt open to reveal a white tshirt below. This is the 'Altgens Look'!

Now!

I think there may be a benign (well, semi-benign!) explanation for the Lovelady shirt fiasco we've been considering...

In the weeks and months following the assassination, there was intense interest in the Altgens photograph. Many people were convinced it showed Mr Oswald.

It didn't! The man in the doorway was Mr Billy Lovelady. But! The FBI had their work cut out in convincing people of this. And convince people of this they must, at all costs...

Now! If we look at the wirephoto that for a long time was the Altgens photo as far as the general public were concerned, we see something interesting.

Let's start with what Mr Walter Cronkite showed the American people that evening:



And!



And!



And!



What do we see here? Not the right question! The right question is: What did people at the time think they saw?

The man in the doorway's unclothed lower left arm.

The Altgens photograph as published by the WC will have done little to dispel this impression:



Theory!

The FBI told Mr Lovelady to bring a short-sleeved shirt to the photograph session, in order that his appearance in those photos would conform to that of the man in the doorway!

Trouble is Lovelady's arm in Altgens6 is not a bare arm. You can see the same pattern of his shirt on it.

[Alan Ford]

Theory!

The FBI told Mr Lovelady to bring a short-sleeved shirt to the photograph session, in order that his appearance in those photos would conform to that of the man in the doorway!

But!

Mr Lovelady's arm in the Altgens photo never was Mr Lovelady's arm, and the realization of this led to... complications.

But if not Mr Lovelady's arm, then what?

Let's start with this!:



Now!

What if...



To illustrate more graphically!:



Another person on those steps (lower than Mr Lovelady, not as far west as Mr Carl Edward Jones)... shielding their eyes from the sun.

 

[Alan Ford]

Another person on those steps (lower than Mr Lovelady, not as far west as Mr Carl Edward Jones)... shielding their eyes from the sun.

 

But who can this person have been?

Why, Mr Lee Harvey Oswald, obviously!

Only kidding 

No! The guy who said this:



That's right: young Mr Roy Edward Lewis!



 

[Ray Mitcham]

But who can this person have been?

Why, Mr Lee Harvey Oswald, obviously!

Only kidding 

No! The guy who said this:



That's right: young Mr Roy Edward Lewis!



 

So you believe Roy Edward lewis was standing in front of Carl Jones, Alan?

[Alan Ford]

So you believe Roy Edward lewis was standing in front of Carl Jones, Alan?

No, Mr Mitcham, I'm suggesting he was slightly east of, and a step back from, Mr Jones! 

[Ray Mitcham]

No, Mr Mitcham, I'm suggesting he was slightly east of, and a step back from, Mr Jones! 

So that would make him between Lovelady and Jones? Do any of the frames from the various films show anybody in that position?

[Mark A. Oblazney]

But!

Mr Lovelady's arm in the Altgens photo never was Mr Lovelady's arm, and the realization of this led to... complications.

But if not Mr Lovelady's arm, then what?

Let's start with this!:



Now!

What if...



To illustrate more graphically!:



Another person on those steps (lower than Mr Lovelady, not as far west as Mr Carl Edward Jones)... shielding their eyes from the sun.

 

This looks like a job for........ Ralph Cinque !!!

[Walt Cakebread]

Alan, it is the shadow of the left pillar at the entrance of the building.

I agree, Ray.....