Messrs Shelley & Lovelady: The Big Lie

[Alan Ford]

If A. N. Other went outside to watch the P. Parade wearing a white tshirt (no shirt, no jacket), then this complicates the Lovelady-as-Shelley's-companion deal.

Solution? Have Mr Lovelady pretend he was wearing a light-colored short-sleeved shirt when he himself went outside to watch P. Parade. (He won't get away with just a white tshirt-------------------> Altgens gives the lie to that!)

This---------again---------will make it easier to neutralize any pesky witnesses who might come forward ('Not X, but Lovelady'), and explain away the appearance of A. N. Other with Mr Shelley in the background of any photograph/film ('Not X, but Lovelady').

Well!

Mr Lovelady will later claim that the short-sleeved shirt thing was a misunderstanding: he never told FBI he was wearing such on the day of the assassination, he merely happened to wear it on the day of the photo shoot at the FBI Dallas Office (late Feb '64), and they got the wrong end of the stick.....................

Unfortunately, however, this doesn't wash. In May '64, before the photograph of Mr Lovelady wearing the short-sleeved shirt is out in the public domain, the following is published by Mr Dom Bonafede:



Are we really to believe that Mr Jones Harris made the exact same mistake as the FBI? Or that he enjoyed privileged access to their not-yet-public photographs of Mr Lovelady?



Hardly! For some reason, Mr Lovelady is sticking by the lie that he wore a shirt on 11/22 other than the one he actually wore.

I am suggesting that the reason may in fact be: in case the white t-shirt-wearing Mr Oswald should turn up beside Mr Shelley in the background of a Dealey Plaza aftermath photo.

And for the selfsame reason, Mr Lovelady is, in the months following the assassination, paranoid-------and I mean paranoid--------about having his photograph taken under non-controlled conditions. He has been told to keep himself viable as the Oswald Stand-In for the contingency of an Oswald+Shelley photograph turning up.

 

[Alan Ford]

Which brings us to this ridiculous, naturalistically impossible 'shadow' down Mr Lovelady's side in the Wiegman film:



We know beyond any doubt that, at the time this image was taken, Mr Lovelady was in fact facing into full direct sunlight.

But why would a fake shadow need to be added? To hide a simple but---------on the scenario outlined on this thread----------dangerous detail:

Mr Lovelady was in long sleeves

Sans fake shadow, Wiegman would have put the lie to this little charade:



 

[Alan Ford]

On this scenario:

Mr Lovelady's innocent presence on the front steps, and his innocent resemblance to Mr Oswald, meant that-------------through no fault of his own-------------he was used to help deprive Mr Oswald of a clearer-than-clearest-day alibi

[Alan Ford]

Still on this scenario:

What if Mr Shelley tells the 'investigating' authorities that
-----Mr Oswald was definitely not in long sleeves
-----however, he cannot be 100% sure whether Mr Oswald was wearing a white tshirt only or the reddish shirt he wore to work that day over his white tshirt



This is a potential headache! What if a color Dealey Plaza aftermath photograph or film should turn up showing Shelley+LHO together in the background?

Least worst solution: spread bets by giving Mr Lovelady a red-and-white striped short sleeved shirt. Should the worst come to the worst, 'photoanalyst experts' can be found to explain to the unwashed masses how colors can seem to wash into one another at long range. If the man with Mr Shelley looks to be in white, then the red of Mr Lovelady's claimed shirt can be explained away; if in red, then the white can be explained away.

 

[Alan Ford]

With the passage of time, worry about a Dealey Plaza aftermath image of Shelley+LHO recedes. Mr Lovelady is now free to 'clarify' the issue of his upper garment. And he loses his paranoia about being photographed:

[Alan Ford]

But there is one more shock in store for the poor man.

In November 1976, he is interviewed for the HSCA. All is going well until near the end of the interview, when Mr Robert Groden hits him with the Martin film, which shows Mr Lovelady out on the steps plenty minutes after the assassination:



Mr Lovelady goes to pieces. His story of leaving the steps with Mr Shelley and re-entering the building by the west door is blown. He finally admits the truth: he didn't in fact re-enter the building until 20-25 minutes after the shooting.

Nobody but Mr Lovelady realises it, but this is WAY more dangerous than all the crazy hooplah over Doorwayman in Altgens.

In January 1979, Mr Lovelady dies aged 41 of a heart attack.

[Alan Ford]

Still on this scenario:

The fact that Mr Oswald was seen dashing off those front steps very soon after the shots rang out reached the ears of Chief Jesse Curry, who related the fact later that day in garbled fashion------------------



"Oswald rushed out"

Chief Curry is erroneously combining Mr Oswald's 12:30 dash from the steps (following Mr Shelley) with his later front-door encounter with Lt. Kaminski. It is possible he has also heard word of Officer Baker's first-floor sighting of Mr Oswald (Mr Ochus Campbell's storage room report), and is putting 2+2 together to make 5 because of the fact that Officer Baker dashed into the building just after the shooting.

By next day, all of this will be cleaned up into a single second-floor lunchroom encounter---------------a fictional incident whose purpose is to disappear Mr Oswald's alibi, and whose location has its origin in what Mr Oswald actually told Captain Fritz: