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

This is a letter I wrote to someone as to why I think Oswald's bus and cab rides should be accepted as true, that they really happened.

I lean towards the bus and cab rides being real, and for the following reasons:

1) The trip is very complicated and zany. Who would make something up that complicated? People tend to keep it simple when they make things up. And when you consider that they announced the finding of the transfer ticket at 4:00 and they didn't start interrogating Oswald until 3:00, how was there enough time to make it up?

2) If they invented it, they had to know that it would NEVER hold up in court. Oswald would have wound up with a good lawyer. Mark Lane or Vincent Salandria would have came forward to represent him. He may have had a Dream Team of lawyers. And if they proved that the Dallas Police concocted the story of his bus and cab ride, it would have been all over. It was more than enough to get him off.  And, Wade and Curry and Fritz would have know that. So, it implies that they knew there wasn't going to be any trial.

3) If they were going to produce phony witnesses, why would they have settled on Mary Bledsoe? She was an old woman who was easily rattled and who never could be relied on to get her story straight and tell it consistently.

4) The gathering of the witnesses involved the work of a lot of low-level cops and detectives who would all have been brought into the conspiracy, besides the phony witnesses being brought into the conspiracy. It's just too much.

5) Think about it logistically. Oswald was being managed and controlled.  If they didn't want him being picked up by anyone to leave Dealey Plaza because he was supposed to be the "lone" gunman and could not have any accomplices, then why would they have allowed such a thing to happen?  It would have been EXTREMELY risky for them to let their lone gunman be driven away. Anything can happen when you're in a car. They could have had a flat or other mechanical breakdown. They could have had a vehicular accident. They could have been pulled over by a cop for a traffic violation. Why risk all that? If public transportation was the story you wanted told, why not let it happen?

6) Oswald had no car, therefore, he must have used public transportation all the time. How do you think he got home every day? Presumably, he took the bus since it was cheaper than a cab. But, if he could do it all the other days, why not this day?

7) Presumably, Oswald set something up to get picked up at 12:45. But, there is no evidence that he made any phone calls from the TSBD to arrange it. So, how would he have known in advance that he was going to be ready to leave at 12:45? Why would he assume that? And who could he have called? David Sanchez Morales? That's ridiculous. If you are going to say that Oswald knew that Kennedy was going to have his brains blown out in Dealey Plaza, then you're saying that he was part of the conspiracy, that he had foreknowledge of the assassination, that the conspirators told him what they were doing. And as our enemies, such as David Reitzes, have rightly said: Oswald would have had blood on his hands if that were true.

8) That morning, Oswald asked Junior Jarman why people were gathering on the sidewalk outside the TSBD, and Jarman told him that the President was riding by. So, Oswald didn't know. Therefore, why would he have arranged to be picked up at 12:45?

9) The very fact that someone could have seen Oswald escaping by car was reason enough not to do it. As it is, several people reported it. But, why would the conspirators presume they could have Oswald RUNNING down the hill on Elm Street, and "wildly" at that according to Roger Craig, without being noticed?

10) The bus and cab rides are included in the Fritz notes. There was a discrepancy about the amount of the cab fare: Fritz had it that Oswald told him 85 cents whereas Whaley said it was 95, but that's neither here nor there. The point is that the Fritz notes were personal notes that Fritz took for himself and no one else. He never even acknowledged their existence. So, he wasn't going to fabricate anything. It means Oswald must have really said it. OSWALD SAID HE TOOK THE BUS AND CAB. 

There is more that I could say, but I've given you a lot to think about. The idea that the bus and cab ride were faked is poorly thought out and unsupported by the evidence, in my opinion. Ralph Cinque