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

Joseph Backes admits that it's ridiculous to think that Oswald would have arranged a pickup for 12:40. What for? He wasn't going to kill Kennedy that day, and he knew nothing about it. So why should he expect to be going anywhere at 12:40?

So, that leaves someone else to arrange it. But the problem is that if someone else arranged it with Oswald in advance, they couldn't do it without revealing to him that something extremely disruptive was going to happen that day. 

So, that doesn't work either and that's why Backes gravitates to no arrangement at all. Nothing was set up. Somebody just pulled up, yelled at Oswald to get in, and off they went. 

But, how did the driver know that Oswald would be standing outside? Oswald could have been inside. Then what? Would the driver have parked and went in to look for him? Or, Oswald could have left already on foot. So then what? Would the driver have started driving around the area looking for Oswald on the street? Do you really think the conspirators would have left Oswald's movements after the shooting up to chance? Or up to him?

What the conspirators needed was for Oswald to obtain a gun- so that there would be legal grounds to shoot him to death. And they needed a place for this to happen. Since, the story was that he was the LONE gunman, with the emphasis on lone, no one could be involved in aiding Oswald's actions or movements. So, his ACTIONS and his MOVEMENTS could not involve anyone else, except perhaps a bus driver or cab driver, which isn't personal. It's just public transportation.  

So, what I think happened is that Oswald was told NOTHING in advance about what was going to happen. And then after the assassination, he was told to go home, get his gun, and then go to the theater, so that he could die, but not telling him the last part. Who told him? I don't know. Maybe it was Bill Shelley, or maybe it was Jack Ruby. There is a possibility that Jack Ruby gave him the pistol. John Armstrong puts a lot of stock in that. But, if that didn't happen, and Oswald got the pistol from his room, then surely he was told to get it. They wanted him armed. 

And Oswald went home every day by bus anyway. So, why shouldn't he go home by bus that day? Since it would look very bad for there to be a getaway car for him, why would the conspirators send one? Backes has already admitted that Oswald didn't arrange a pickup, which means they must have done it. So, why would they send a getaway car for Oswald when it was the worst thing in the world for them? They couldn't. They wouldn't. They didn't.