I located texas school book depository tsbd worker billy nolan lovelady 193779 in. Description affidavit in any fact by billy nolan lovelady, an employee of the texas school book depository. Lovelady has identified himself in the picture, and other employees of the depository standing with him, as shown in the. The man in the doorway the controversy has raged for some time about the famous james altgens photo showing a man resembling oswald sanding in the doorway of the school book depository building watching the motorcade go by. That picture resembles oswald, but its not lee oswald, its billy lovelady. He worked as a farm labourer until finding employment in the texas school book depository in december, 1961. Lovelady is similar in appearance to lee harvey oswald. Billy nolan lovelady and bill shelly did leave the steps almost immediately after the shots were fired.
Oswald was standing in the doorway of the texas school book depository. A close and detailed photo analysis deffinitively shows oswald. Return to previous tables on contents via the return to links. On november 22nd, 1963, at the time of the presidential parade, billy lovelady, an employee of the texas school book depository, joined others on the steps outside the building to watch the president drive by. The man who resembled oswald reported dead at 41 in. Carolyn arnold went into the lunch room and sees oswald sitting in one of the booths seats on the right side of the room. Warren commission report appendix 12 national archives. They quickly identified billy nolan lovelady as the man in the doorway, and. Billy nolan lovelady 19371979 find a grave memorial. Depository and was photographed standing in the buildings doorway when the president was, shot shortly after noon on nov.
Ten days after kennedy was assassinated, the associated press in dallas reported that the first photograph altgens made along elm street had captured the attention of. Click on an entry to navigate to a deeper table of contents or view scanned page images. I located texas school book depository tsbd worker billy nolan lovelady 193779 in the van alstyne cemetery. On november 22nd, 1963, at the time of the presidential parade, billy. A close and detailed photo analysis deffinitively shows. I was standing on the front steps of the texas school book depository building. Billy lovelady and buell frazier both testified that lovelady was standing on the steps at the texas school book depository. Official investigations identified him as depository employee billy lovelady. Lovelady advised that on the day of the assassination of president john f. Stern, assistant counsel of the presidents commission. The commission concluded that the spectator was not oswald, but rather another texas school book depository employee, billy nolan lovelady. The texas school book depository distributed school books to five states surrounding texas, including louisiana.
And besides, lovelady said he was sitting down during the shooting, not standing in the doorway. Altgens a few seconds after president kennedy was first shot shows billy lovelday, a texas school book depository building employee who bore a reasonable physical resemblance to lee harvey oswald standing at the west end of the texas school book depository. The woman next to doorway man jfk assassination debate. A close and detailed photo analysis deffinitively shows oswald standing in depository doorway and not billy lovelady, say the members of the oswald innocence comittee. The domino room texas school book depository lee oswald. The man was billy nolan lovelady, 41 years old, who worked with oswald at the texas school book depository and was photographed standing in the. Sarah stanton was in the doorway from the weigman photo courtesy of sarah stanton, a clerk and sometime phone operator for the texas school book depository, is a witness not often mentioned by those who think oswald was in the doorway. He is wearing identical clothes to the man standing in the doorway. Affidavit in any fact by billy nolan lovelady, an employee of the texas school book depository. One of the tsbd employees, bill shelley oswalds supervisor, may have traveled to louisiana in august, 1963 and been in contact with harvey oswald in new orleans. There is no doubt in my mind, however, that this was a conspiracy. Lee harvey oswald29 in the doorway of the texas school book depository. I heard several loud reports which appeared to me to be in the direction of elm street viaduct just ahead of the motorcade.
It is very likely that the man was in fact billy lovelady, not oswald. Oswald was posing as billy lovelady in the altgens photo. Billy lovelady in the texas school book depository building doorway a photo taken by associated press photographer james w. Curreys book, edward lansdale the unquiet american houghton mifflin, 1988. The timing is just after the first bullet strike on john kennedy. Lovelady witnessed the assassination of president john f. Afterwards he brought police officers up to the 6th floor of the building. The heads of billy lovelady and bill shelley were modeled as accurately as possible and that allowed to determine the patches in altgens6 that belonged neither to lovelady nor to shelley and therefore, the patches belonged to another person. Lovelady worked at the texas school book depository tsbd and witnessed the assassination of president kennedy on november 22, 1963.
The testimony of billy nolan lovelady was taken at 3. Below now lets enlarge that photo and you can see a man standing in the doorway of the texas school book depository. Kennedy, november 22, 1963, at the time ofthe assassination and shortly before, he was standing in thedoorway of thefront entrance to the texas school book depository tsbd building, 411 elm street, dallas, texas, where he is employed. This post has been amended on jan 29th, feb 14th, feb 16th, oct. He further said he was going up to get a coca cola.
Which means oswald could not have been at the same time shooting at the president from a snipers lair on the 6th floor of the school book depository. An associated press photographer, james altgens, took a picture which seems to show lee oswald standing in the doorway of the texas school book depository during the assassination. James altgens photograph of man in texas school book depository doorway during jfk assassination. Greetings radon, no, as explained in the article you read on my website, that person standing in the texas school book depository doorway is lee harvey oswald not billy nolan lovelady and the photos prove it. I did not at any time believe the shots had come from the texas school book depository building. One of the tsbd employees, bill shelley, may have traveled to louisiana in august, 1963 and been in contact with harvey oswald in new orleans. An 889page report was presented to johnson on september 24, 1964, concluding that oswald had acted alone and fired two shots at kennedy from the sixth floor of the texas school book depository. School book depository was seated on the entrance steps just in front of me.
Billy nolan lovelady and bill shelly did leave the steps. Frazier was standing on the front steps of the texas school book depository, with mr. Despite the warren commissions conclusion that it was definitely mr. Sarah stanton, and mrs, carolyn arnold, all employees of the texas school book depository, were also standing in this entrance way near me at the time pres. Transcription of a statement by billy nolan lovelady, an employee of the texas school book depository building, in which he describes the events the day of the kennedy assassination. Use the menu tabs on the left to learn more about how to use the archive or to access it in different ways.
Affidavit in any fact statement by billy nolan lovelady. Billy and patricia lovelady at van alstyne cemetery. The man was billy nolan lovelady, 41 years old, who worked with oswald at the texas school book depository and was photographed standing in the buildings doorway when the president was shot shortly after noon on nov. Photographer james altgens, and believed to show lee oswald in the doorway of the taxes school book depository building at the time of the shooting the fbi would determined the man in the doorway was actually billy lovelady. We have demonstrated that jfk autopsy photographs published by robert grodenwho served as a special consultant to the hsca during its reinvestigation of the assassination during 197778 and who falsely testified that the man in the doorway was not lee oswald but a coworker, billy lovelady. This picture shows a man in the doorway whom has been identified as billy lovelady who really looks nothing like oswald. Lovelady states that he was with danny arce, jack dougherty, bill shelley, and charles givens to watch the president in the parade when they heard gunshots. Lovelady who works under my supervision on the texas school book depository was seated on the entrance steps just in front of me. On 22nd november, 1963, lovelady was working on the.
Ball what is his position with texas school book depository. Positioned in the front doorway of the texas school book depository, watching the motorcade are. The man in the doorway of the texas school book depository as seen in altgens sixth photograph. Dealey plaza motorcade witnesses jfk assassination dallas. Wesley, buell frazier, danny arce, billy lovelady and fifteen feet away, near a lone vshaped oak tree. Ten days after kennedy was assassinated, the associated press in dallas reported that altgens first photograph along elm street had captured the. Lovelady was photographed on the front steps of the tsbd. Proof that the man in the depository doorway is oswald, and not lovelady, is the photo taken from page 48 of the same magazine, showing oswald in police custody. Was oswald on the tsbd steps during the jfk assassination. This conclusion was based upon lovelady s identification of himself in the altgens photograph and upon statements of other persons who were present in the texas school book depository entranceway at the. I left the texas school book depository at about 12.
Adams told shelley and lovelady that she believed the. Lee harvey oswald was visible in the main doorway of the texas school book depository as the gunshots were fired at jfk. But a check of depository workers revealed the man was not oswald but billy lovelady another employee. Lovelady who works under my supervision at the texas school book depository was seated on the entrance steps just in front of me. It may well be that shelley did not intend for it to sound as though lovelady was sitting on the steps as the motorcade passed, but either way, his affidavit is reconciled by the testimony of other witnesses and the photograph.
It may well be that shelley did not intend for it to sound as though lovelady was sitting on the steps as the motorcade passed, but either way, his affidavit is reconciled by the testimony of other. This conclusion was based upon lovelady s identification of himself in the altgens photograph and upon statements of other persons who were present in the texas school book depository entranceway at. The myth of oswald at the texas school book depository. Business as usual or meet the lone gunmanua666279841. The myth of oswald at the texas school book depository doorway. A brief guide to the jfk assassination is the essential jfk assassination book.
Billy nolan lovelady was born in myrtle springs, texas, on 19th february, 1937. Malcolm couch snippet of jfk assassination aftermath. Billy and patricia lovelady at van alstyne cemetery i located texas school book depository tsbd worker billy nolan lovelady 193779 in the van alstyne cemetery. On 22nd november, 1963, lovelady was working on the 6th floor of the texas school book depository.
Closeup of bill shelley and billy lovelady moving west of the texas school book depository. James william ike altgens was an american photojournalist, photo editor, and field reporter. Select the pdf icon to view the portable document format version of a document. Why did oswald leave the texas school book depository. Sarah stanton was in the doorway gayle nix jackson.
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