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

Some people think Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade was the one to conceive of the plan to fake a bus and cab ride for Oswald. Presumably, it started with just a bus ride. But, if they were going to invent such a ride, why not do it cleanly? Why not have Oswald get on the nearest bus to Dealey Plaza and one that was actually going towards his house?  Why have him walk for 6 blocks and then get on a bus that was going the wrong way: back to Dealey Plaza? 

I know it's strange for Oswald to do it, but it's even more strange for someone to make it up and try to sell it as something Oswald did. 

The Dallas Police were committed to the Marsalis line bus #1213 by 4 PM. They produced the bus transfer ticket. It had the driver's, Cecil McWatters, symbol on it. So, why would they pick that bus? Wade hatched the scheme, according to some but did Wade also write the script? Or did somebody else do that? And, whether it was Wade who wrote it or someone else, why would ANYBODY write it that way?

And I'll remind you of something I've said before: There was no way a phony transportation story could hold up. OSWALD would have destroyed it. All he had to do was give a credible account of what he really did, which would not have been hard for him to do. And if the Dallas Police were exposed for such an monstrous frame-up- and monstrous is not too strong a word- then everyone would know that Oswald must be innocent. If the Police were lying, then they must be the guilty ones, not Oswald. This would have turned the tables on everything. 

And even if you think they knew about the plan to kill Oswald, how could they be sure it would work? What if Oswald had seen Ruby and reacted resulting in a different sort of melee, one in which Oswald survived? And they could hardly try again to kill him because who would have believed it? It would have been way too obvious that they were targeting him. One chance was all they were going to get. 

Plus, they, the conspirators, had plenty of time to think about this in advance. They could not have had any expectation of killing Oswald in Dealey Plaza, which means that they knew ahead of time that he was going to leave the Plaza. They had to give some thought to it. They would have recognized right away that having their lone gunman be picked up by a driver was not good. So, they would have made sure that that didn't happen. Is anyone suggesting that Oswald bypassed them, that he went around them and arranged the pickup himself? Is anyone suggesting that they lost control of Oswald? Again, they had plenty of time to think about this and work it out to their advantage. If they didn't want Oswald leaving Dealey Plaza in a private car, then I'm sure they had the power to prevent that. You can't say that they had David Sanchez Morales pick up Oswald in a car that he borrowed from Ruth Paine because that has the conspirators acting against themselves. The conspirators wanted Oswald to be the LONE gunman with NO accomplices, therefore, they would not have had David Sanchez Morales or Ruth Paine act in those ways. It just doesn't make sense.