20-05-2012, 08:24 PM
In a letter to Roger Feinman dated September 16, 1988, Harold Weisberg puts to rest the Lovelady "different" shirts issue. The important paragraph is taken out of the body of that letter and reproduced, replete with original typos, in bold below:
"Perhaps you remember the work I did on the shirt on the man in the doorway in
the altgene picture, in Whitewash II. Then, when Photographic Whitewash had been
Rfinted, save for the last sig, held for the index, on the Saturday afternoon before
!-onday publication, when had just finished typing that index, of all unexpected
things, Mrs. Billy Lovelady phoned me. She had the purest of purposes - money. She told
me that the FBI had not asked Billy to wear the shirt he wore 11/22 when he went to
iti.offices to be photographed, that he hadn't worn that shirt, that like many men he
paid no4 attention to what he wore. She said that the shirt he had worn that day is
of large red and 'lick squares and that she would sell it to me - for $5,000. Which
l didn't have and wouldn t have if I had. I added a note on this at the end of the
index and nobody paid any attention to it. Save maybe a few critics.
The entire letter, reproduced below, was posted on The Swamp by the estimable Michael Hogan -- who, by the way, would be VERY welcome here at DPF:
Mr. Roger Feinman 9.110.88
142-10 Hoover Ave. ,#4i)4
Jamaica, N.Y. 11435
Dear Rogery
For the moment, be,:ause it involves a promise I made to someone for an exclusive
JFK assassination story, plesae keep this in confidence intil after the anniveraary.
L'erhaps you remember the work I did on the shirt on the man in the doorway in
the altgene picture, in Whitewash II. Then, when Photographic Whitewash had been
Rfinted, save for the last sig, held for the index, on the Saturday afternoon before
!-onday publication, when 141 had just finished typing that index, of all unexpected
things, Mrs. Billy Lovelady phoned me. She had the purest of purposes - money. She told
me that the FBI had not asked Billy to wear the shirt he wore 11/22 when he went to
iti.offices to be photographed, that he hadn't worn that shirt, that like many men he
paid no4 attention to what he wore. She said that the shirt he had worn that day is
of large red and 'lick squares and that she would sell it to me - for $5,000. Which
l didn't have and wouldn t have if I had. I added a note on this at the end of the
index and nobody paid any attention to it. Save maybe a few critics.
Later, when Bob Richter was working on a CBS special, he spoke to me, as I just
recalled, and I suggested photographing Lovelady in the shirt she had described.
There came a time, and I can date it, I'm pretty sure later, I asked l'ob 'roden,
wh they had the overexposed Martin film, DCAIs Martin, to search the frames of the
doorway to see if such a shirt is in it. It is and he sent me a color print. So, for
some years I've had both aspects of this shirt business nailed down.
The reporter friend is coming Monday so, with a few minutes, I checked the file
to be sure this print is there. (Overexposed and so greatly enlarged from an amateur
film it is far from a good picture but it corroborates Mrs. L 19eA.)
However, I also found a color slide, taken from behind the back of a man who
was looking at Lovelady standing on the TSAI) steps, what I'm pretty sure Inauggested
to Richter. I also think that the man facing L is Richter. But I don't recall how I
got that slide. I'm writing to ask if you have any knowledge or recollection.
The cardboard framing of the slide is completely blank - no name or anything else
on it and no notation.
I was distressed to hear that Sylvia's health is again iopaied. After you told
me 1 heard that Mae oruesell was given only a oouple of months, advanced vaginal cancer.
Also heard that ''in arrieon has a book in page proof, due soon. So also do iroden
and Harry "ivingston. Latter being published in Candela
Best,
"Perhaps you remember the work I did on the shirt on the man in the doorway in
the altgene picture, in Whitewash II. Then, when Photographic Whitewash had been
Rfinted, save for the last sig, held for the index, on the Saturday afternoon before
!-onday publication, when had just finished typing that index, of all unexpected
things, Mrs. Billy Lovelady phoned me. She had the purest of purposes - money. She told
me that the FBI had not asked Billy to wear the shirt he wore 11/22 when he went to
iti.offices to be photographed, that he hadn't worn that shirt, that like many men he
paid no4 attention to what he wore. She said that the shirt he had worn that day is
of large red and 'lick squares and that she would sell it to me - for $5,000. Which
l didn't have and wouldn t have if I had. I added a note on this at the end of the
index and nobody paid any attention to it. Save maybe a few critics.
The entire letter, reproduced below, was posted on The Swamp by the estimable Michael Hogan -- who, by the way, would be VERY welcome here at DPF:
Mr. Roger Feinman 9.110.88
142-10 Hoover Ave. ,#4i)4
Jamaica, N.Y. 11435
Dear Rogery
For the moment, be,:ause it involves a promise I made to someone for an exclusive
JFK assassination story, plesae keep this in confidence intil after the anniveraary.
L'erhaps you remember the work I did on the shirt on the man in the doorway in
the altgene picture, in Whitewash II. Then, when Photographic Whitewash had been
Rfinted, save for the last sig, held for the index, on the Saturday afternoon before
!-onday publication, when 141 had just finished typing that index, of all unexpected
things, Mrs. Billy Lovelady phoned me. She had the purest of purposes - money. She told
me that the FBI had not asked Billy to wear the shirt he wore 11/22 when he went to
iti.offices to be photographed, that he hadn't worn that shirt, that like many men he
paid no4 attention to what he wore. She said that the shirt he had worn that day is
of large red and 'lick squares and that she would sell it to me - for $5,000. Which
l didn't have and wouldn t have if I had. I added a note on this at the end of the
index and nobody paid any attention to it. Save maybe a few critics.
Later, when Bob Richter was working on a CBS special, he spoke to me, as I just
recalled, and I suggested photographing Lovelady in the shirt she had described.
There came a time, and I can date it, I'm pretty sure later, I asked l'ob 'roden,
wh they had the overexposed Martin film, DCAIs Martin, to search the frames of the
doorway to see if such a shirt is in it. It is and he sent me a color print. So, for
some years I've had both aspects of this shirt business nailed down.
The reporter friend is coming Monday so, with a few minutes, I checked the file
to be sure this print is there. (Overexposed and so greatly enlarged from an amateur
film it is far from a good picture but it corroborates Mrs. L 19eA.)
However, I also found a color slide, taken from behind the back of a man who
was looking at Lovelady standing on the TSAI) steps, what I'm pretty sure Inauggested
to Richter. I also think that the man facing L is Richter. But I don't recall how I
got that slide. I'm writing to ask if you have any knowledge or recollection.
The cardboard framing of the slide is completely blank - no name or anything else
on it and no notation.
I was distressed to hear that Sylvia's health is again iopaied. After you told
me 1 heard that Mae oruesell was given only a oouple of months, advanced vaginal cancer.
Also heard that ''in arrieon has a book in page proof, due soon. So also do iroden
and Harry "ivingston. Latter being published in Candela
Best,