Then went outside to watch P. parade ( Parts 1 & 2 )

[Alan Ford]

There is a tall man, dressed in white, and apparently dark-complected, standing on a lower step by the EAST column, his left elbow out in front of that column:

How do we know he's tall? Because he'd need to be no higher than the first step up in order for his left elbow to come out in front of the column like this:



And he's towering over Mrs. Madie Reese

[Alan Ford]

Pre-motorcade:

[Alan Ford]

Pre-motorcade:

Cf this fellow:



Cf this fellow:



Cf this fellow:



Cf this fellow in BLUE:



Mr. BLUE's face ain't there in the version of Altgens shown to the American public by Mr. Walter Cronkite:

[Alan Ford]

Cf this fellow in BLUE:



Mr. BLUE's face ain't there in the version of Altgens shown to the American public by Mr. Walter Cronkite:

Friends, it's an inconvenient fact, but there is unmistakeable BLUE showing in FRONT of Mr. Lovelady in the Bell doorway frames:



Lengthier, wider clip---------------watch that blue come into view:





That blue ain't foliage.................. and it sure as heck ain't coming from the clothing of this fellow everyone assumes to be Mr. Carl Edward Jones:

[Alan Ford]

Well!

It's an extraordinary thing, but not a SINGLE person (outside the two known fabulators, Messrs. Shelley & Lovelady) saw Mr. Truly and Officer Baker go in the front entrance TOGETHER. We have Mr. Molina remembering Mr. Truly's entrance, and Mrs. Pauline Sanders remembering Officer Baker's. And that's it.

Here's what I think may have happened: they went in SEPARATELY. Mr. Truly went in BEFORE Officer Baker, who spent some time by the mailboxes speaking with the lady about the paper sack & banner.

This would explain, of course, how Ms. Vicki Adams and Ms. Sandra Styles could have come down the rear stairway without seeing Officer Baker and Mr. Truly

[Zeon Mason]

Well the other black guy named Lewis seems to have fuzzy memory of where he was on the steps of the TSBD.

If Lewis had taken off that dark  reddish brown jacket ( which he had  on when he was standing next to the BIG Carl Jones in the off white shirt with shirt pocket bulging)then IDK if the dark blue shirt would register as that light a bluish color or not.

Could it be Lewis who had taken off his reddish brown jacket as the man waving some kind of red something in the foreground of Towner film?

[Alan Ford]

Well the other black guy named Lewis seems to have fuzzy memory of where he was on the steps of the TSBD.

If Lewis had taken off that dark  reddish brown jacket ( which he had  on when he was standing next to the BIG Carl Jones in the off white shirt with shirt pocket bulging)then IDK if the dark blue shirt would register as that light a bluish color or not.

Could it be Lewis who had taken off his reddish brown jacket as the man waving some kind of red something in the foreground of Towner film?

I had considered that myself, Mr. Mason. But in Hughes, which shows the doorway just before Towner, we see the man in blue in front of Mr. Oswald raise his left arm to wave--------------and his hand appears to be empty. If he were waving his cardigan-jacket, it would surely be showing up here.............

[Alan Ford]

Friends, let's leave aside for a moment the identity of the man in blue and focus on a different question:

What do we see when the man in blue's arm is raised?



In that very small area, ABOVE A CERTAIN HEIGHT and WITHIN A NARROW FRAME, we see diagonal blue (man in blue's raised sleeve) + white (Red Shirt Man's tshirt).

The diagonal blue of the raised arm is covering the portion of the red of Red Shirt Man's red shirt directly behind it. Above and below, however, we see red shirt.

Could this very small area of DIAGONAL BLUE + TSHIRT WHITE ONLY be what these few Bell frames are actually showing? Leaves are covering the portion of red shirt above and below, so we're ONLY seeing diagonal blue + white--------------



[Note: For this to work, this rapidly downward movement-------------



-------------would need to be from a branch belonging to the tree.]

Now! Could the full sequence of Bell doorway frames be showing us--------------BEFORE Mr. Lovelady rises to his feet and the UPPER leaves clear-------------little glimpses of a portion of Mr. Oswald's red shirt that is NOT covered by the blue sleeve but is MOST OF THE TIME covered by the LOWER foliage? Look closely-----when you see what I'm talking about it, it will startle you:



Such that, when the foliage clears nicely towards the end of this sequence, we are getting a deceptive admixture of Mr. Oswald's shirt and Mr. Lovelady's shirt:



If so, then the fact that Mr. Lovelady's little eastwards lean after he has risen to his feet COINCIDES with the clearing of the foliage only enhances the illusion that the red belongs entirely to Mr. Lovelady's shirt.

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If anyone can offer a plausible alternative explanation for the curious fact that Mr. Lovelady emerges from BEHIND the colors BLUE and WHITE, I'm all ears