Lovelady in front of TSBD

[David Josephs]

Hi Dave

Everything about Lovelady would have worked like clock work, if only he and Shelley had not testified to remaining on the steps for 3-4 minutes following the last shot. In fact, if we read this excerpt from Officer Marion Baker's affidavit of August 11, 1964, we begin to have even worse problems with Lovelady (and Shelley):

"3. On March 20, 1964, counsel from the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy timed a re-enactment of my actions after hearing the shots on November 22, 1963. During this re-enactment, I reached the recessed door of the Texas School Book Depository Building fifteen seconds after the time of the simulated shot."

Fifteen seconds for Baker to reach the door at the top of the steps to the TSBD. Hmmmm, so, for Lovelady and Shelley to be seen strolling casually down Elm St., following the last shot, they had, at the most, 5 seconds to get from the steps to their position where they could look back and see Baker and Truly entering the TSBD.

Anyone else see a problem here? Or two?

Hi Bob....

I'm not a real fan of using people's timing extimates for reality. 3 minutes is an eternity at this point.

Mr. BALL - By the time you left the steps had Mr. Truly entered the building?
Mr. LOVELADY - As we left the steps I would say we were at least 15. maybe 25. steps away from the building. I looked back and I saw him and the policeman running into the building.

This matches the two frames with the cirlce posted above... we see these two men walking east as Baker and some other woman are running west.

I'd have to believe that Lovelady and Shelley did not wait at all and the "3 minutes" is a woefully bad estimation of a few seconds.

Everything else about the story works... right?