Look at how differently Joseph Ball handled Danny Arce than Billy Lovelady. With Arce, Ball went straight for the jugular. He pointed at Doorman. He said look at that guy behind the colored people, who is he, what's his name. He was straight-forward and direct.
But with Lovelady, he was coy; he danced around it. He didn't finger Doorman at all; he just told Lovelady to draw an arrow to himself.
It was just an hour later, so why didn't he handle Lovelady the same way? Why didn't he pose the question exactly as he posed it to Arce? Why the hell not?
I'll tell you why not: Ball must have known ahead of time that Arce was OK, that he was on-board for the scam. They had an understanding; they had it all worked out.
But, Ball did NOT have it worked out ahead of time with Lovelady, so Lovelady was an unknown; Ball didn't know what Lovelady was going to say. So, he had to broach it tepidly, cautiously, and cunningly. He slyly told Lovelady to draw an arrow to himself in black- black on black- precisely so that it couldn't be seen. Who has someone draw an arrow in the black in black? But, had Lovelady drawn it to Doorman, I'm sure Ball would have done something to give visibility to that arrow.
Now read through these two polar-opposite handlings. This is some slick lawyering:
Mr. BALL. Just 1 minute, I want to show you a picture. I show you Commission Exhibit No. 369. I show you this picture. See this man in this picture?
Mr. ARCE. Yeah.
Mr. BALL. Recognize him?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, that's Billy Lovelady.
Mr. BALL. Just to identify it clearly, the man on the steps---well, you see the man on the steps, do you not?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. He is a white man, isn't he?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And you see his picture just above the picture of two colored people, is that correct; would you describe it like that?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. I am not going to mark this purposely because other witnesses have to see it.
Mr. ARCE. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Did you say that is Billy Lovelady?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, that is Billy Lovelady.
Mr. BALL. Now, there is only one face that is clearly shown within the entrance-way of the Texas School Book Depository Building, isn't there?
Mr. ARCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And only one face of a person who is standing on the steps of the Depository Building entrance?
Mr. ARCE. Yeah.
Mr. BALL. And that one man you see there---
Mr. ARCE. Yes, that's Billy Lovelady.
Then, an hour later:
Mr. BALL. I have got a picture here, Commission Exhibit 369. Are you on that picture?
Mr. LOVELADY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Take a pen or pencil and mark an arrow where you are.
Mr. LOVELADY. Where I thought the shots are?
Mr. BALL. No; you in the picture.
Mr. LOVELADY. Oh, here (indicating).
Mr. BALL. Draw an arrow down to that; do it in the dark. You got an arrow in the dark and one in the white pointing toward you. Where were you when the picture was taken?
Mr. LOVELADY. Right there at the entrance of the building standing on the the step, would be here (indicating).
Mr. BALL. You were standing on which step?
Mr. LOVELADY. It would be your top level.
Mr. BALL. The top step you were standing there?
Mr. LOVELADY. Right.
Why the difference, Joseph Ball? It was the exact same issue, so why didn't you handle the two of them exactly the same? Why didn't you just point to Doorman and ask Lovelady to name hiim? That's what you did with Arce, so why not with Lovelady?
And if anybody doubts that the mark on Black Hole Man's forearm is Lovelady's arrow, then find the arrow Lovelady drew elsewhere.
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9769/xxxxxxxxxxx3694larger.jpg
Surely, there has got to be a hint of it there. Right? Find it.