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

4:05 pm – Oswald was searched by Detectives Sims – who took Oswald’s USMC ring, and 5 live rounds of .38 bullets which were found in his left front pants pocket. Bus transfer 4459 was found in the left pocket of his brown shirt.

This happened in conjunction with the first line-up. Then they did the line-up, and then Oswald was taken back to Fritz for more questioning. 

Of course, the bullets and transfer ticket and ring were entered into evidence at that time. What else would Sims have done with them? 

There is no reason to have any doubt about that. And it led to McWatters being garnered at 6:00, just 2 hours later. The investigation of the bus ride was off and running. 

There is nobody who could have faked the bus and cab rides. Henry Wade did not reach City Hall until that evening. He dined out that evening, and remember that it was before the time of cell phones. When Fritz was ready to present the signed arrest warrant to the DA for the murder of Tippit, which was about  7 PM, he had to present it to the Assistant DA Bill Alexander because Wade wasn't there. So how could Wade have been involved in a decision to fake a bus ride? 

The CIA had no involvement with what the Dallas Police were doing on 11/22. The FBI was there, attending the interrogations and trying to influence the police. But, the FBI certainly did not ask the Dallas Police to fake anything. The FBI wanted the police to be sold on Oswald's guilt the same way the general public was to be sold. They certainly weren't going to ask the police to fake anything because that would be tantamount to admitting that Oswald was innocent.

Oswald didn't arrange to be picked up on a work-day at 12:40. The only way he could have done that is if he had foreknowledge of the assassination, and he did not.

It means that only those involved in the assassination could have arranged it. But, they couldn't do it without alerting Oswald. If someone told you he was going to pick you up at work at 12:40, you'd ask: What for and why bother? I don't get off until 5:00.

So, Oswald could not have done it, and the conspirators could not have done it, which means that it couldn't have been done. There is nothing about the circumstances that supports it, and there is plenty that rules it out.

So, there is no one who could have done it. And for the conspirators, there was no motive to do it. They were trying to brandish Oswald as the "lone" assassin, so why would they send a getaway driver for him? It was not anything that they would have wanted.

And going to work that morning, there is no reason to think Oswald expected to work anything less than his normal hours. So, he had no motive to arrange a pick-up either.

So, you have nobody who could have done it, and you have nobody with a motive to do it. And why would Oswald, who was not involved in the assassination, go riding off with Mac Wallace, Frank Sturgis, and David Sanchez Morales right after the killing? How could he possibly be free of guilt if he had done that?

And why would these three men be dependent on borrowing a car from Ruth Paine who lived over 20 miles away in Irving?

And, Backes has no explanation for why Oswald told Fritz that he rode the bus. It's in the very first interrogation, which apparently started about 2:30. Why did Oswald say it, Backes?

Then at 4:05, Sims and Boyd found the bus transfer ticket on Oswald. Then at 6:00, they grabbed McWatters as he was driving by on another bus. They couldn't have gotten the transfer ticket from McWatters because it wasn't the Marsalis line. And the time wasn't 1:00. 

That transfer ticket had a date, a time, and an identifying number, and it would have been impossible to know in advance what that number should be. The number I am talking about is 004459. The whole idea that it was forged by the CIA is ridiculous. Backes is bonkers.