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

So, Oswald definitely did not get into Roger Craig's Nash Rambler. Is there a chance he got into some other private car on Elm Street? No, there isn't. And here's why:

Oswald arrived at work that morning without knowing anything about what was going to happen that day. He didn't know that JFK's motorcade would be driving past the Book Depository. He asked Junior Jarman why people were gathering on the sidewalk. He wasn't putting on an act for Junior Jarman. He wasn't trying to establish a state of mind of innocence just in case he got caught. He had no thought about getting caught because he wasn't going to do anything. 

So, he had no idea that JFK was going to be killed on Elm. I don't know what ideas and suspicions were rattling around in his head, but he had no concrete knowledge of the assassination plot. If he didn't know JFK was going to be on Elm, how could he suspect that JFK would be killed on Elm? 

Nobody could have informed Oswald that he would be picked up at work that day at 12:35. Because, in saying that, it would have included the idea that "something very disruptive is going to happen which will preclude the continuation of the normal workday; therefore, you will be able to leave at 12:35." 

They weren't going to give him a heads-up like that. Oswald was the patsy. That was his ONLY role in the assassination. He wasn't the patsy plus the guy who opened the door. He wasn't the patsy and the lookout. He was just the patsy. And, the first thing they teach you in Patsification 101 is: YOU KEEP THE PATSY IN THE DARK. You manage patsy. You try to control the patsy. You try to steer patsy. But, you're not truthful with the patsy. You don't tell the patsy about the thing for which he is going to be the patsy. 

So, there is NO WAY they could have arranged with Oswald in advance for him to be picked up that day at 12:35. 

Could they have arranged it after the assassination? No. There was no time. Think about what Oswald did after the assassination. He left the entranceway and proceeded to the 2nd floor lunch room. He had his encounter with Truly and Baker. Then he got a Coke. Then he had his encounter with Mrs. Reid. In both cases. Oswald did no talking. Then he went downstairs, and he gave two people directions to the pay phone. And then he left the building and headed home.  That's it. There is no reasonable basis to assume he was given instructions about being picked up in the midst of that. 

What about Joseph Backes' idea that there was no arrangement at all, that he just went outside, and somebody pulled over on Elm and yelled up at him, "Get in the fucking car, Oswald!" Well, that is just too stupid to even consider. It's just a stupid backesism, and there are a lot of them, but we don't have to go there.   

So, where does that leave us towards getting Oswald into a private car on Elm Street? It leaves us with no possible way to do it. You might as well say he stuck his thumb out and hitchhiked, and someone was nice enough to give him a ride. 

Oswald took the bus and cab. When you analyze it perspicaciously, you realize that he had to. It's like in Chess when you realize that you have only one move. Maybe it's not a very good move. Maybe you don't like the move. But, if it's the only move that's going to keep you alive in the game and avoid instant checkmate, you're going to take it. You have to take it. It's either that or lay down your King and resign. 

One thing I know for sure is: whenever CTs start waxing on and on about how Oswald was framed for riding the bus and cab, lone-nutters smile, and they feel that all is safe in their world. But, I'm here to tell them- as Dustin Hoffman did at the end of Marathon Man- it isn't safe.