Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Jim, Richard, Dennis, Larry, and I have been discussing the outrageous slide-show of Casey Quinlan this evening, where he espouses Oswald's innocence but adamantly and repeatedly denies Oswald's presence in the doorway. This is what I wrote:

I believe we're at the point where the CIA has relented that there is going to be a conspiracy movement, and there is nothing they can do about it. But, they want to make sure it steers clear of things that could resoundingly destroy the official story, and that certainly includes Oswald in the doorway. Look how much time Quinlan devoted to denouncing it.

And consider further that Quinlan DOES place Oswald AT the doorway. He has him watching the motorcade from the doorway. He just has him on the other side of the glass- not stepping through the door out onto the landing. 

But, one thing Quinlan does not provide is a reason why Oswald would not step outside. It was a nice day; the sun was shining; the temperature was pleasant. So why, when he reached the doorway as Quinlan admits he did, would he not step outside? Why would Lee Harvey Oswald have less interest in seeing JFK than all those other people who worked there? On what basis is he making this assumption about Oswald?

He is not only making the assumption; he is presuming there is no need to explain it, that Oswald's indifference, his apathy, his detachment from the whole thing is a given that requires no explanation.

Well, it requires plenty of explanation. The very night before the assassination Oswald discussed JFK's visit to Dallas with his wife, and she expressed her keen interest in seeing JFK, although she would not be able to. There is the fact that Oswald went to the library to check out and read Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage. How many 24 years old do you know who went to the library to get Obama's book?  And just a year before, Lee and Marina had endured the Cuban Missile Crisis with the US and the USSR at the brink of nuclear war. Remember: for them, it wasn't going to be just a bunch of dirty commies who were going to get nuked. To them, it was real people, on both sides. 

So, Quinlan, you've got Oswald right there, his nose to the glass and looking through it to take in what he could of the motorcade. That much you've admitted to. So, why doesn't he go out? You're so sure he didn't (even though we can see him there plain as day) but why didn't he? What was his thought process? "I won't go outside because ...." And don't tell me you can't finish the sentence for him because you've already shown us that you do think you can compose all kinds of sentences for him. You've put a plethora of words into his mouth, so put a few more. Complete that sentence.


But, whatever you do, stop making so many stupid presumptions, and stop implying that he was some kind of depressed, deranged person who was afraid to go through a door. Yes, he reached the doorway, and he went out on that doorway, and that is him in the Altgens photo, the Doorway Man.