TSBD Doorway man - Oswald or Lovelady?

[James H. Fetzer]

Here is a summary of the evidence, beginning with points from Ralph:

1. Lovelady is MUCH stockier than both Oswald and Doorway Man.
Oswald was 5'9. Some reports have had him at 5'9 1/2". He weighed 128
to 130 pounds. So, he was quite slim.

2. Lovelady was 5'8" and weighed170 pounds. So, he was much stockier.
And we can see that difference in this collage. Lovelady looks like the
Incredible Hulk compared to Doorman. His arm is thick and beefy, while
Doorman's is scrawny.

3. Doorman's t-shirt is notched, v-shaped, whereas in every, single
picture of Lovelady that we have, including this one, he is wearing a
round-neck t-shirt. While the shadow may reinforce the v-shape,
Ralph has shown shadows do not change a round into a v-shape.

4. The shirt patterns don't match. Doorman has two white lines on
the cuff, one at the top margin and the other at the bottom margin.
Lovelady has one white line running down the middle of the cuff,
with no white lines at the margins.

And here are questions first raised by Richard Hocking, namely:

5. If Oswald was not on the steps, how did he know where Shelley
was? Oswald may have seen him there at 12:25, but that was no
guarantee that he would have stayed there.

6. Oswald is giving Fritz information that can be cross-checked
with another witness. He is now relying on Shelley to provide
verification for his alibi for the shooting.

7. Why would Oswald put himself in this position unless he had
thought Shelley would back him up? Shelly was a manager of the
book depository, not simply a friend of his.

8. If Oswald was making up a story, why not say he was behind
everyone on the steps where no one noticed him? It would have
eliminated being contradicted by anyone else.

9. Why would the Algents have been altered and the face and
shirt of a figure to Doorway Man's right front (left front from his
perspective) if Lee Oswald had not been in the photograph?

10. Ralph's points about the shirt all favor its being Oswald.
The face was tweaked or even replaced, but unless Lovelady
was wearing Oswald's shirt, Lee was in the doorway.

Those more serious than Albert Doyle may want to consider where they stand on this. My most serious question
is this. dkruckman has observed that, as we all know, in the backyard photographs, there is a matte line running
horizontally below the lower lip across the chin. And on Doorway Man there appears to be a matte line running
horizontally below the nose above where the lips should be. If you place your thumb over the top of Doorway
Man's face, what you see below does not resemble a human mandible. There is no discernible lips, chin or jaw
line. To me it looks like smeared lines running in mostly 45 degree angles. Oswald may not have been looking
directly at the limo, making a "cut & paste job" not easy. Lovelady's top of his face appears to be pasted over
Oswald's and the bottom part manipulated to fit. Mostly by having black tie man's white shirt jut over Oswald's
shoulder (obscuring his collar) and protruding into doorman's face, creating a crude jaw line. I am asking some
experts to confirm these observations. Can we all agree that, if these finding are accurate, the case is closed?