Moved here from another thread:
Lovelady and/or Shelley said they started walking towards the railway yard when Gloria Calvery came up to them (factoid: Shelley had been best man at Calvery's wedding) and told them that JFK had been shot.
We know that big/tall, black-blouse-and-black-headscarf-wearing Calvery was standing only about 50 feet down Elm Street from the front steps with her three headscarf-wearing work colleagues at the time of the assassination.
We know that she is standing with her back to the camera on a lower TSBD step in Couch-Darnell, next to her dressed-in-all-white colleague, Karan Hicks or Carol Reed (who seems to be going up the steps), about 25 seconds after the final shot.
Even if it took Calvery and her colleague 5-10 seconds to walk/run the 50 feet to the steps after the final shot, Lovelady and Shelley still had 15-20 seconds to get to where they appear to be (approaching Royell Storing's HUGE GATES) in Couch Darnell.
In other words, the timing works.
*Calvery is #172, mislabeled as "Jean McKenna?" in this 2009 drawn-to-scale diagram of Dealey Plaza by Craig Ciccone. We do know that Calvery was standing immediately to the left of John Templin (#324) in the Zapruder film.
https://craigciccone.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img_3534.jpg
-- Tom
PS It looks as though Calvery was wearing a dark-blue blouse and a dark-blue headscarf that day, not black as I've always mistakenly said.
My bad.
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/23665-photographic-identification-of-gloria-calvery-karan-hicks-and-carol-reed/
You're forgetting that both Shelley and Lovelady told the WC the same lie - that it took Gloria at least 3 minutes to reach the steps (not 25 seconds).
In his same day affidavit, Shelley reveals that he went across the Elm Street extension where he bumped into Gloria, who was running towards the TSBD building. This is detail goes missing in his WC testimony. Instead he "remembers" something that didn't happen, that he was on the steps when Gloria came up at least 3 minutes after the shooting.
Shelley and Lovelady do not walk to the railroad yard after Gloria comes up to them. According to their WC testimonies they walk to the concrete spur that divides the Elm Streets. Both men refer to this spur in exactly the same way, as a "little, old island", even though it's not an "island". While they are at the "island" Shelley states that he turns and sees Baker and Truly outside the TSBD building but, as we can see in the Darnell footage, this is just another lie.
Taking their same-day affidavits at face value - Shelley and Lovelady are stood on the front steps at the time of the shooting, after which Shelley moves across to the spur where he meets Gloria coming the other way. He returns to the front steps and both he and Lovelady (who hasn't moved from the steps) enter the TSBD building. Approximately one minute after the shooting Vicki Adams sees them near the elevators at the back of the first floor. They are the two white men Baker sees in the area near the elevators.
The moment Gloria tells Lovelady about JFK being shot is captured by Darnell. Lovelady is still on the steps, Shelley is near the bottom of the steps having just returned from the concrete spur. In the short footage from which this still is taken, Shelley can be seen moving towards the steps before turning.
