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

This exercise that I do in reenacting conversations between principals in the JFK assassination is not just a self-indulgence; I am not just trying to be funny. I consider it an essential thing to do to "check your premises" and test your assumptions about the crime. 

I keep reminding people that the JFK assassination did not take place in a different realm or another universe. It didn't happen in the Twilight Zone. It happened right here on Earth and in the USA. 
And one of the biggest mistakes we can make is to be glib and unrealistic about the behaviors of the people who were involved.

And, it is important to realize that there is a big difference between the Dallas Police Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA has always been- from its very beginning in 1947- extra-legal. It was founded under Truman, but it was only a few weeks after the JFK assassination that Truman wrote an article, published in the Washington Post entitled "Limit CIA role to Intelligence". It was in parallel with Eisenhower's warning about the rising power and "undue influence" of the "military-industrial complex" which came three years before. Considering the timing of Truman's warning, was he revealing his sneaking suspicion that the CIA was somehow involved in Kennedy's death? I would say: Duh. 

But, you can't compare the Dallas Police to the CIA. We refer to police as "law enforcement". I'm not saying that police have never done anything illegal. But, from an operational and organizational standpoint, respect for law has always been the face of the police and the bulwark of their actions. You can't say the same for the CIA.     

And even in the CIA, we're used to hearing them discuss their operations in code. Isn't that how it is in the movies? And it's not just the movies. Take the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1950s, Mohammed Mosaddegh. It was called Operation Ajax. I doubt they did anything in that CIA coup that wasn't done in spades in the recent CIA coup in Ukraine. But, we all know that things have gotten a lot worse. 

But, the point is that the CIA was used to that kind of thing, then and before then. And, they were used to talking about it, although often in code. But, there are no parallels to operations and delegations within a local police department, such as the Dallas Police. So, you can't have Curry and Fritz directing Sims and Boyd and others to do illegal things, such as framing Oswald for riding a bus and cab. And, for the vast majority of the people who worked at the Dallas Police Department, there was no foreknowledge of the JFK assassination. Did Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry have foreknowledge? I am unaware of any factual basis to make that claim. I know there are a lot of people who want to believe it, but there is no evidence for it that I know of. Individuals from the DPD may have been involved, and I'll admit that the evidence that Roscoe White was is strong, but it's foolish to think that their involvement came from a top/down coordination within the DPD. No, it came from outside the DPD. 

So, the idea that on the afternoon of November 22 that orders were flowing down from Curry to Fritz to Sims etc. to do illegal things, to frame Oswald, to commit crimes is ridiculous. This is the Dallas Police Department we are talking about- not the CIA. And you shouldn't confuse the two.