But!
Mr Lovelady's arm in the Altgens photo never was Mr Lovelady's arm, and the realization of this led to... complications.
Now!
Allow me, friends, to state once again the most important point:
The man in the doorway in the Altgens photograph is not Mr Lee Harvey Oswald but Mr Billy Nolan Lovelady!The FBI knows this, but they also know that they have a job of work to do if they are to convince the public of this-----------and thereby close down a
major threat to belief in Mr Oswald's guilt.
And so the FBI, in their zeal to make Mr Lovelady's appearance conform as fully as possible to the
apparent appearance of the doorway man in Altgens, photograph him on 29 Feb 1964 in a
short-sleeved shirt with several buttons open to show a white tee shirt underneath.
However!
In mid-March, the Oswald-Acted-Alone investigation gets wind of a film taken by
Mr John Martin, Jr. Upon studying his film, they discover to their horror that Mr Lovelady is shown standing on the steps in a long-sleeved red/black/white plaid shirt---------just after they have gone to the trouble of putting Mr Lovelady on the record about a short-sleeved shirt with vertical red and white stripes, and photographing him in that shirt!
Thus what began as a (semi-)benign fiction will ironically only serve to fuel conspiracy suspicions about the Altgens photograph and about Mr Lovelady himself for years to come...
Back to 1964:
The official script must change:
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Mr Lovelady must have misunderstood the instructions given to him ahead of the photograph session
-------the FBI must have misunderstood what he said about the shirt he was wearing that day.From here on in, it's bye bye unclothed lower arm of Mr Lovelady... and hello plaid-covered lower arm of Mr Lovelady!
But it was never Mr Lovelady's arm to begin with
---------------a fact all too unfortunately revealed in another film taken of that entranceway...
The Wiegman film!
