This last detail became a MAJOR headache for the 'investigating' authorities, who became aware of the figure of a man in a red shirt in Hughes drinking from a bottle just as Pres. Kennedy is coming onto Elm. St.:
They needed this person to be Mr. Lovelady.
Now check out this interesting exchange from Mr. Lovelady's HSCA interview:
HSCA: If a movie camera showed you farther in the center of the doorway than that person there [i.e. Lovelady in Altgens, who appears, due to the deceptive angle, to be well over to the left/west of the entrance] would you still identify that person as being yourself?
LOVELADY: Sure would. I would say the other picture was not taken at the split second as the one to the left is.
HSCA: Okay, alright. If it showed two figures in that doorway at the same time, and you could positively identify one as yourself, would that have any bearing on your identification of that other figure?
LOVELADY: No, that’s still me at the left [of the] doorway.So no matter who else is on the west side of that doorway, one truth is non-negotiable:
The guy way over on the left is Mr. Lovelady and no other.It's a curious fact that, though Wiegman and Altgens clearly establish that Mr. Lovelady was in fact close to the CENTER of the doorway, Mr. Lovelady ALWAYS stuck to the same line:
Throughout the motorcade, I was way over at the left of the doorway.
Even when looking at Altgens, he says the same thing!
Has he
completely forgotten the fact that he was near the center of the doorway when the shots rang out?
Doubtful. More likely he is just parroting the line he was fed by the 'investigating' authorities desperate to disappear Mr. Oswald from the steps:
I was right over by the west wall... I was right over by the west wall... I was right over by the west wall...
