If you abandon the Oswald = PM theory, then you will have to return to an earlier theory that there was SOMEONE who resembled Oswald on the front steps whom the conspirators at FIRST thought was Oswald, but whom later found out the person was not Oswald.
Otherwise, if the Lovelady shadow anomaly is due to the necessity to blot out Oswald then would the conspirators have let Lovelady and Frazier live knowing these 2witnesses no doubt had to have seen Oswald? Even if they remained silent, could the conspirators risk them breaking their silence?
Everything--------on my scenario----------flowed from the simple fact that, within a very few hours of the assassination, the 'investigating' authorities knew that Mr. Oswald was up in the building's front entrance for the assassination.
They had to act fast, and they did, cobbling together a story they HOPED but could not be CERTAIN would hold over time.
They COULD have put 'I was on the sixth floor' in Mr. Oswald's mouth in the interrogation reports, but DIDN'T... because they KNEW that PROOF (photographic or otherwise) might yet emerge that he was in fact in the doorway at the time of the shooting.
They COULD have had Officer Baker/Mr. Truly encounter Mr. Oswald on, say, the fifth floor with a rifle in his hand, but DIDN'T... because they KNEW that PROOF (photographic or otherwise) might yet emerge that he was in fact in the doorway at the time of the shooting.
They COULD have gotten a controlled witness (or three!) to securely ID Mr. Oswald as the sixth-floor shooter, but DIDN'T... because they KNEW that PROOF (photographic or otherwise) might yet emerge that he was in fact in the doorway at the time of the shooting.
They COULD have faked up a photo of Mr. Oswald firing from the sixth-floor window, but DIDN'T... because they KNEW that PROOF (photographic or otherwise) might yet emerge that he was in fact in the doorway at the time of the shooting.
They COULD have faked the results of the paraffin test on Mr. Oswald's cheek, but DIDN'T... because they KNEW that PROOF (photographic or otherwise) might yet emerge that he was in fact in the doorway at the time of the shooting.
A story had to be created that catered to TWO different scenarios:
a) Mr. Oswald as sixth-floor shooter
b) Mr. Oswald as in the doorway
Enter: second-floor lunchroom story--------------a story designed to be physically possible on both scenarios.
As for killing Mr. Frazier and/or Mr. Lovelady, that would have been crazy extreme. Much better to satisfy themselves, as they evidently did, that neither of those two (or indeed Mr. Shelley) would talk (after having some pressure applied).
Believe you me, Mr. Mason, that ridiculous shadow down Mr. Lovelady, coupled with what we now know to have been Mr. Oswald's own (suppressed) claim that he "went outside to watch P. Parade", constitutes the true Rosetta Stone of this phase of the case.
The Prayer Man folks got SO much right, only they got the exact location of Mr. Oswald in that doorway wrong. But we certainly wouldn't be where we are now without their fine work......................
IMHO!
