I think we would actually see the hand on the end of that arm Alan, can you "manipulate" it a bit?
Here's the hand, Barry. It belongs to a black spectator.
I noticed elsewhere in the past people having real problems with Lovelady's "arm" and I must have found it interesting at the time becasue I read quite a bit of it.
Lovelady's 'arm' was one of the reasons the photo alteration mania over Altgens gripped so many people. It really does look wrong----in fact it's an
impossible arm-----but this has NOTHING to do with photo alteration! Just a case of misinterpretation of image.
Re. Lovelady's posited half-worn Jacket: if this is what Wiegman is showing us, then once Lovelady leaves the steps (assuming that's what he does), he will simply start carrying the jacket instead of having it hung from his his shoulder!
BY THE SAME TOKEN (and I trust you hear the
pain in my voice as I type these words!), I must reopen the possibility that this is Lovelady---------but with the jacket held in his left hand:
If so, then he must have slung it over his shoulder as he went higher up the steps and east to keep JFK & Jackie in view.