Messrs Shelley & Lovelady: The Big Lie

[Alan Ford]

Here is Mr Oswald (blue arrow) being brought into the Homicide Office in handcuffs:



Mr Lovelady is sitting on a chair, watching on.

Mr Oswald cannot immediately be brought into the small back room, because Mr Shelley is in there (purple arrow). He is giving his first affidavit, freely telling of his encounter with Ms Gloria Calvery out by the corner of the 'park'.

He will be asked to give a second affidavit, this one treating of the man who has just been brought in as a suspect.

Like Mr Oswald, Mr Shelley will honestly state that he went outside to watch the P. Parade:



But then his statement will be carefully worded so as to omit a key interval of time containing the simple sequence of events that clears Mr Oswald of the shooting:



What's been left out? Why the several minutes between being outside on the front steps and being back inside the building 'checking around' for employees.

 

[Alan Ford]

Has residual evidence of a sudden, downward movement managed to survive in the pre-penultimate and penultimate doorway frames of the publicly available Wiegman film? With the shadow-requiring Mr Lovelady now out of the picture, have the 'investigators' gotten sloppy in their doctoring and let a dangerous detail slip through?

Is this the moment Mr Shelley started to make his dash?

[Alan Ford]

Here's Mr Lovelady in Hughes (just behind Mr Carl Edward Jones):



Look closely, and you will see a figure in blue behind him, closer to the center of the doorway.

Who can it be? It can't be Mr Buell Wesley Frazier, who is not in blue. I believe it's Mr Shelley.

A few seconds later, and Mr Lovelady has moved over to the center of the doorway and back up a few steps. Just behind him, I believe, is Mr Shelley:



Now cf!:



 

[Alan Ford]

So!

If the scenario I have outlined in this thread is correct, then it follows that Prayer Man in Darnell is not Mr Oswald. He had already left the steps and was way west by the time Darnell filmed those frames.

So who might Prayer Man in Darnell be?

I believe it may in fact be Ms Carolyn Arnold, whom Mr Shelley in his March 64 FBI statement names as one of the people on the steps at the time of the shooting:



She may have been the young woman whom Mr Ronald Fischer noticed going into the building just before the motorcade arrived in Dealey Plaza.



She was six months pregnant, and may have wished to get out of the sun.

Because everyone on the steps was intently awaiting the motorcade, Ms Arnold's arrival there went all but unnoticed (only Mr Shelley, who ended up standing beside her, noticed).

She had noticed Mr Oswald up in the lunchroom several minutes before this. And as she now went up the steps to get into the shade, she noticed him again: standing behind the glass door. The FBI will see to it that this sighting is reflected in her FBI interview report, but they will grossly distort the true time and circumstances. This gives them insurance lest she go public with her story: 'She told us something different, now she's changing her story for sensational effect.'

 

[Alan Ford]

And here (I believe) is Mr Lovelady still on the steps in Darnell, and hearing about what has happened from Ms Gloria Calvery-----------the same Ms Gloria Calvery whom Mr Shelley has already encountered out by the corner of the 'park'.



Mr Shelley is nowhere to be seen in Darnell. He has left the steps and gone west with Mr Oswald.

 

[Alan Ford]

Mr. BALL - You went to the concrete between the two Elm Streets?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes, where they split.

If Mr Shelley is telling the geographical truth here, but pretending he went out there with Mr Lovelady rather than with Mr Oswald, then this may be Mr Oswald out there, in white teeshirt:



Imagine if this is indeed Mr Oswald, but we were getting a clearer/closer image of him than Darnell is giving us here. You see how the issue of Mr Lovelady's upper garment would become life-or-death for the survival of the official story...............

[Alan Ford]

And this may be Mr Shelley, his focus already turned away from the main street as he notices Officer Baker head for the front steps............



Mr Lovelady will notice Officer Baker too--------------only NOT from out on the concrete divider------------->Officer Baker is about to dash past him on the steps!