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

This just came in from Bobby Quattro, which I must appreciate:

Hi Ralph

I know this probably isn't my business so please forgive me if I'm crossing the line.  I'm appalled at the conduct of Richard Hooke who referred to you in a disparaging manner. That was completely uncalled for. You were in your right to amend his  collage of the unsubstantiated Judy Baker claim about the chin marks. There is no room for error about this.

You can't trust the word of JVB who has changed her story many, many times. I feel Richard has given ammo to your enemies by publicly insulting you . Hooke really needs to get his act together. I'm sorry. It's just simple. The lack of respect towards your judgment is only aiding the enemy. Nobody cares more for Oswald's innocence than you Ralph, and your actions are only to benefit the cause. Hooke owes you an apology.

Bobby Quattro

 

Thank you, Bobby. The plain truth is that there is no evidence that the New Orleans police tortured Lee Harvey Oswald. And, there is also no reason to think that they would have. Oswald was arrested for creating a disturbance and being involved in an altercation on a public street, an altercation in which no one, apparently, got hurt.

 

So, why they would start off by hurting Oswald is beyond me. Were they sadists? Were they torturing him for the fun of it? Because most of the time, people are tortured to obtain information from them. Whatever information they wanted from Oswald about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee he gladly would have provided. When he got out of jail the next day, he went immediately to the newspaper office to give them information about it. He liked talking about it. They didn't have to torture him. It's ridiculous.

 

Oswald, apparently, had some perioral dermatitis. Here's an example of it:

 

 

Here is Oswald when he was first being processed at the police department: his mug shot.

Those aren't fresh wounds from torture. And they looked the same 3 months later in Dallas.

No one besides Judyth Baker has ever claimed that Oswald was tortured by New Orleans Police. Marina saw Oswald just a couple weeks later in Dallas, and she never said anything about him having been tortured. Wouldn't she notice fresh scars on his chin? She was his wife.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who are taken in by Judyth Baker, but I am not one of them. I have no reason to doubt that she knew Oswald, but I have no certainty that they were lovers. But regardless of what the truth is about that,  I have no reason to think that Lee ever considered abandoning his wife and children to run away to Mexico with Judyth Baker.

There is much that Judyth Baker has said that I know to be false. She told us that she bought the shirt that he is wearing in the doorway- his arrest shirt. She told us she bought it on Canal Street in New Orleans, and that she bought a medium because they didn't have a small. But, we all know the pace at which shirts wear out, and Oswald's arrest shirt was very tattered and torn. There is no way it was only 3 months old. Even if he wore it every day for 3 months, it would not have been as tattered as it was.

 It had a hole in the right elbow. It was paper-thin in spots. It was an old, tattered shirt. There is no way that Judyth Baker bought it for him in New Orleans 3 months before.

She has said that Oswald had foreknowledge of the assassination plot- the specific plot- and that he was expected to be an assassin. Not THE assassin but AN assassin. But, that is ridiculous. Oswald was no assassin. The conspirators would never have wanted him shooting in the direction of Jackie and Nellie and others they didn't want dead or hurt. Remember, LBJ was counting on Jackie standing next to him at the swearing-in ceremony. She, and she alone, legitimized the whole thing. He didn't want her dead, so they weren't going to put a gun in Oswald's hands.

Plus, that morning, Oswald asked Junior Jarman why people were gathering on the sidewalk outside the TSBD. Was he putting on an act? For Junior Jarman? Was he setting up an alibi? That is ridiculous because he wasn't going to be killing anybody.

My gut feeling about Judyth Baker is that she is mentally disturbed. She may have a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. I believe she has no ability to distinguish between what really happened and what her mind has conjured up. And my advice to those who pay attention to her is that they need to be very judgmental, critical, and suspect about everything she says. Undoubtedly, some of it is true. But certainly, much of it is false. You have to assume the responsibility of distinguishing between the two. And don't expect her to help you.