The Man in the Doorway of Texas Book Depository |
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In order to cover for this obvious problem, the Warren Commission identified the individual in the doorway as Billy Lovelady, a fellow Book Depository employee who had a similar appearance to Oswald. Lovelady died on January 1979 from heart failure (the later House Committee Report on Assassinations was issued in March 1979, having begun in 1976). Lovelady identified himself as the person in the Altgens' photo to the Warren Commission. One problem with Lovelady's claim is that he testified before the Warren Commission that he was sitting on the steps to the Texas Book Depository eating his lunch when the Presidential motorcade drove by. He stated that two fellow employees, Bill Shelley and Sarah Stanton, were "right behind" him. As one can see in the photo, nobody is standing behind the person in the doorway and that person is clearly standing in the doorway, not sitting on the steps. Lovelady stated that he then heard what he thought at the time were firecrackers. He did not know that President Kennedy had been shot until a coworker, Gloria Cavalry, ran up and told him. If it was Lovelady in the entranceway, he would not have had to been told that the President had been shot, because the man in the entranceway had a perfect line of sight to the assassination. As one can see, the person in the entranceway is looking at Kennedy at the moment the first shot hit Kennedy; he would have seen the final shot explode President Kennedy's head; he would have seen Mrs. Kennedy crawling on the trunk of the limousine grabbing his brains and the Secret Service agent jump in the limousine before it sped off. The whole purpose for people to be watching the motorcade was to see the President, and man in the entranceway was no exception; he was looking directly at President Kennedy as he was being shot. Furthermore, if Lovelady were the man in the doorway, he would have testified to what he saw, but he did not, because he was sitting down on the steps eating his lunch; he was only able to testify to what he heard. That point is made clear by the question not asked by the Warren Commission counsel. The Counsel asked Lovelady what he heard, but he did not ask Lovelady what he saw. Why didn't he ask Lovelady such a basic question like "what did you see?" Because he knew that Lovelady would testify that he did not see anything at the time of the shooting, because he was sitting down eating his lunch. If he did not see anything, then he could not have been the man in the doorway, because the man in the doorway is looking directly at the limousine at the time the first shot hits Kennedy! If Lovelady answered that he did not see anything, it would have established that it was Oswald in the doorway, and that was something the Warren Commission did not want established. Another problem with that identification is that Lovelady stated that he wore a red and white vertically striped shirt that day.
Reportedly, Oswald told the Dallas Police that he was standing in the doorway of the the Texas Book Depository when Kennedy was shot, just as depicted in the photo. It appears that Oswald was just what he said he was: a "patsy." The conspirators had to kill Oswald, because they new that the evidence against him would never stand up to courtroom scrutiny. The fifth photo in the sequence is a montage of photos that appeared on pages 24 and 25 of the December 14, 1963 issue of Post. Notice in the fourth car back the Secret Service Agents in Vice President Lyndon Johnson's detail are getting out of their cars to come to the protection of LBJ as the shots are heard. That indicates that the motorcade must have come to a complete stop, which is consistent with the numerous eyewitnesses who saw the motorcade come to a complete stop. It is much easier to shoot a stationary target, and the conspirators planned to have the Kennedy limousine stopped. Oddly, Kennedy's Secret Service detail had not yet even made a move to protect Kennedy after the first shot. For the next revealing moment: The Most Revealing Wink of the 20th Century
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Never
mind the exhausting examination of photos, testimony of witnesses, the
voluminous Warren Commission Report, reams of analysis, several shelves of
JFK assassination books, and many documentaries, these simple, concise
photos and their analysis tells the most important story about the JFK
Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald watched the President's motorcade from
the street level doorway at a time when he was supposedly at a 6th floor
window of the Texas Depository getting ready to squeeze the trigger again.
The photos contradict the testimony of Billy Lovelady, the designated
doorway spectator who said under oath that he was sitting down eating his
lunch and didn't see the assassination. What does it look like to you?
The top photograph is a photograph taken by AP photographer
James Altgen immediately after President Kennedy was hit with the first
bullet. What is important about the photo is
that
in the background Altgen also photographs who appears to be Lee Harvey
Oswald standing in the first floor doorway of the Texas Schoolbook
Depository at the very moment Kennedy was shot. 
The
second and third photos are blowups of the Oswald figure in the doorway.
According to the official Warren Commission Report, Oswald was supposed to
be shooting at Kennedy from the 6th Floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository. 
Other photos taken on November 22, 1963 revealed that Lovelady was in fact
wearing a large squared, bold patterned, red and blue plaid shirt. The
man in the doorway could not be Lovelady, because it does not appear that
the man is wearing either a striped or a plaid patterned shirt. The real
fly in the Lovelady story is that the man in the doorway appears to be
wearing the same clothing Oswald was wearing on that very day, the day
Oswald was arrested, and the clothing is worn by him in exactly the same
fashion as the man in the doorway: unbuttoned to the midsection. The
fourth photograph down is a photograph taken of Oswald shortly after his
arrest, the day President Kennedy was shot. Notice, he is wearing the
same tweed shirt and tee-shirt combination, with the shirt halfway open.
Reportedly, color film photographs taken from a different angle that day,
show the color of the shirt worn by the man in the doorway to be
orange-brown. When Oswald was arrested, he was wearing the identical
orange-brown shirt with missing buttons and tee-shirt underneath. 
