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

Backass, I was talking about the grey pants. Mary Bledsoe did not see any grey pants on Oswald on tv or in newspapers. So, unless they told her: "Say that Oswald was wearing grey pants" she could not have known. 

And, you don't get to presume that Oswald changed his shirt. When first asked by Fritz, Oswald said he only changed his "britches". There was no mention of any shirt. When he was again asked about it the next day, he did include the shirt. But, his first answer was his spontaneous answer and more likely truthful.

But, we have more than this. We have the testimony of Marrion Baker who said that Oswald was wearing a "light brown jacket" in the lunch room. Many people described Oswald's arrest shirt as a jacket because it had the lay of a jacket. It was lightweight like a shirt, but it folded over into a jacket-like lapel. And, Baker described a white shirt underneath the jacket, but that was surely just his white t-shirt. And surely, Oswald did not change his clothes between the doorway and the lunch room. And in the doorway, we can see an excellent match between Oswald's arrest shirt and the shirt he wore while watching the motorcade. 

So, I'll lay this out for you short and sweet: either Oswald did NOT change his shirt OR he changed into one that was exactly like the one he was wearing. Why would he do that?

In fact, why even did he change his pants? What was wrong with the grey ones? Were they soiled? Of course, we can only speculate about it. But, what it may have been is that the black pants he put on were better for containing the pistol or keeping it hidden. 

And why would he change into his arrest shirt? Most of the buttons were missing, and it was extremely worn and threadbare, with holes in the elbows. I could see changing out of it but not changing into it. 

Note that the Warren Commission said he did not change his shirt. I realize that they wanted to claim to find fibers from the shirt on the rifle, but if you read that testimony, it is weak. The expert was very cautious about it, saying that fibers were consistent with Oswald's shirt, but plenty of other shirts as well, which he couldn't rule out. Of course, Oswald denied owning the rifle, which means that he never handled it, and if fibers from his shirt were on the rifle, they must have been planted there.  

But, getting back to Mary Bledsoe, you only have to read her testimony to realize that she was the last person in the world they would have recruited to tell a phony story and make it sound convincing. She was ditzy. She may have had early Alzheimer's disease. And she died only a few years later. 

You've got it all wrong, Backes. The very fact that they were willing to put Mary Bledsoe on meant that they were willing to let her say whatever she wanted, and never would they have trusted her to keep straight a contrived tale that they told her. They could never count on her to get it right or even be discreet about it. You're talking about bringing her, Mary Bledsoe, into the JFK conspiracy as a full-blown participant. Fat chance.

Oh, and by the way, for the longest time, Joseph Backes said that Mary Bledsoe didn't even exist, that they made her up. I kid you not. Idiot.