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

Backes thinks he knows who came up with the fake bus ride/cab ride story: District Attorney Henry Wade. And that is really good because it had to start as an idea in someone's mind. 

So, Wade got the idea. 

But, when did he get it? Oswald wasn't arrested at the theater until 10 til 2. Then, he had to be taken to City Hall, led through the building maze and the throng of reporters, and brought to the homicide division. It was after 3 before they started the first interrogation. So, what time did it hit Henry Wade like a thunderbolt that this would be a good idea? 

Next, there are two separate things: one is the general idea of concocting a phony bus and cab ride; and then there is the writing of the specific script that they went with. Did Wade personally write the script? Because remember, there was absolutely nothing behind it. So, it started from scratch. So, did Wade himself rack his brain and come up with the exact scenario that was laid out? Or did he assign an underling to write it? 

We'll assume that Wade did it. He conceived of the idea, and he wrote the script. So now what does Wade do with it? Who does he go to? Police Chief Curry? And then Curry presumably tells Fritz? And then Fritz tells his men, consisting of other detectives and uniformed officers. And then everybody goes about enacting the fake story, starting with obtaining the bus transfer ticket, and then finding McWatters, who they found at 6 PM?

But, my question is: did not one person in this chain of command give pause to what they were doing? They had to know that it was a crime to create false evidence. To the last man, they were willing to do that, to risk imprisonment and complete personal ruin all out of loyalty to Henry Wade? 

To do such a thing implies that Oswald was being railroaded, right? If evidence against Oswald was being concocted, it means that he was probably innocent, right? Is there any need to railroad a guilty man? It's amazing that all of these Dallas police personnel would be motivated to want to participate in such a criminal act. 

Did Henry Wade have advance knowledge that Oswald would be killed? Because if he didn't, this phony bus and cab ride story was headed for certain doom. You do realize that, don't you, Backes?

Oswald would have eventually gotten a lawyer. Oswald would have told his lawyer that he didn't ride the bus or cab. His lawyer would have built his whole case around exposing the fraudulence of the bus/cab story.  And it would have been EASY AS PIE to do because he would have known the facts, and that would have made disproving the bus/cab story a snap. And what makes it so terrible is that darn bus transfer ticket. Without that, they could just say that they got it wrong, confusing somebody else for Oswald. But, the bus transfer ticket was reportedly found in Oswald's shirt pocket, which means that they put it there, which means that they consciously and willfully and knowingly conspired to frame him. There was no turning back once they went down that road. But, you say that without the slightest bit of hesitancy or self-concern, all these police personnel did it all because Henry Wade ordered it? That's loyalty for you. You rarely see that today.