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

If Oswald made an arrangement to be picked up by somebody at 12:40 that day, then obviously, he knew ahead of time that it was not going to be an ordinary day, that something special was going to happen to disrupt the normal schedule.  

So, making such an arrangement means that he had foreknowledge of the assassination. There is no getting around that.

But, you know how Joseph Backes gets around it? He says there was no arrangement. He says that Oswald was just standing around outside the TSBD, not sure what to do, then somebody yelled at him, "Oswald, get the fuck in the car!"

Was that a good idea? Making a scene, a spectacle, on Elm Street involving Oswald, the supposed assassin, right after the assassination? Calling him by name? How did they figure that would go unnoticed? How did they expect to sell a tale about a bus ride if they've got somebody yelling at Oswald by name and having him enter a car in broad daylight? 

And don't you think that everything was planned? This was 12:40 or 12:45. What if Oswald had left at 12:35? What if he wasn't in front of the TSBD when that guy drove by? What if he just decided to leave? What if he had remained inside the building? What if the idea of going somewhere never occurred to him? 

But, if a guy yelled "Oswald, get the fuck in the car!" loud enough for Oswald to hear, then surely it would be loud enough for others to hear. Doesn't that shoot your lone gunman theory down the tubes? 

Backes, I really think you may have come up with the dumbest thing you've said yet, and that's saying a lot.