03-02-2012, 05:57 AM
Magda, I don't think we have any reason to doubt Lovelady's testimony to the Warren Commission about that. They were working on one of the upper floors, and they quit to eat lunch and to go down to watch the motorcade. I mean, a bunch of them, which included Lovelady. And they got in the elevator, and according to Lovelady, Oswald asked that they hold the elevator for him. But, for some reason, they didn't. And they got downstairs, and without any major delay, they went outside, and Lovelady sat down on the steps to eat his lunch. Now, at some point, he had to get up- obviously. But when that was exactly, I don't claim to know. Some have expressed the view that because he only said that he "heard" shots and didn't see anything that it meant that he was seated at the time of the shooting. I don't claim to know about that. And then after the shooting, I believe he said that he walked down toward the Grassy Knoll with Bill Shelley because that's where they thought the shots came from.