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

The unfortunate truth is that in this field of JFK, there are a lot of people who decide what they want to believe, and then they look at evidence through glasses that are tinted with that perspective. It is the only way to explain how anyone could look at those two Lovelady figures and proclaim that they are the same man.

I suggest that the only thing that causes anybody to say they are the same man is: the JFK assassination. If you took that out of the equation and just asked people who were totally oblivious to JFK if they were the same man at the same moment or two different men, the overwhelming majority would say that they are two different men. And they would say it based on the differences in size, build, and weight. They would notice the difference in how their shirts were arranged. And they would likely notice other things like the differences in their hair and ears.

But, they are both wearing the same plaid shirt? So what. These two are also dressed the same, but you wouldn't say they are the same man. 

   
Ironically, they are both clasping their hands like Oswald except that instead of going left over right, they're going right over left.

But, what is most weird is that this practice of clinging tenaciously to coveted beliefs and then interpreting evidence in keeping with it rather than looking at the evidence and seeing what it shows occurs not just in Oswald accusers but in Oswald defenders.  For some reason, some Oswald defenders just don't want him to be in the doorway. It upsets them. It disrupts their world- their whole psychological balance. Why? 

Well, some of them are really just pretenders. They are liars and fakers. They are not really Oswald defenders at all. 

But, there are some who see this as a competition. They don't like me, so they don't want me to be right. Or, they don't like Jim Fetzer, so they don't want him to be right. But, the fact is that they have NO PLACE ELSE to place Oswald except that doorway. Once you grant that he was not on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy, then he had to be in the doorway. There is no place else he could have been. He wasn't in the 2nd floor lunch room eating at 12:30 because he ate downstairs in the 1st floor lunch room, and it was well before 12:30.  And, he wasn't in the 2nd floor lunch room drinking at 12:30 because he didn't get his Coke until AFTER his encounter with Truly and Baker, which both of them confirmed. Although I don't put much trust in Truly, I put a lot of trust in Baker. I don't think the JFK conspiracy went down to a lowly motorcycle cop.  

You can't just claim that Oswald was in the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:30. You have to provide him with an activity to do there, and it can't be eating or drinking. You could say he was just sitting there doing nothing- contemplating his navel- but it isn't reasonable. It doesn't compute. It doesn't make sense. 

Furthermore, you would have to provide an awfully good reason why Oswald didn't want to see Kennedy. The very night before, he discussed Kennedy's visit with his wife, and she expressed to him how much she wished that she could see Kennedy. Wouldn't he take a gander at Kennedy just for his wife's sake, if for no other reason? 

Practically all of the TSBD employees wanted to see JFK and took measures to do so. What is the basis for claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald- of all people- had no such interest? Didn't we go through the Cuban Missile Crisis a year earlier which almost led to nuclear war with the Soviets? Wasn't he married to a Soviet woman? Hadn't he lived in the Soviet Union, and didn't he have friends over there? Isn't it reasonable to believe that Oswald would have had MORE interest in seeing Kennedy than most of the employees who worked there? I don't understand why people who call themselves Oswald defenders are willing to depict him as this withdrawn, detached, eccentric, disturbed, anti-social, and in fact, psychopathic person who of course would prefer to sit in the dank lunch room, all alone, doing nothing, rather than go outside into the warm sunshine to lay eyes on Jack and Jackie Kennedy. The people who say this are not friends of Lee Harvey Oswald. 

We have to be scrupulously detached from our own emotions when we view JFK evidence. I know I was very excited for a while about the idea of Bill Shelley being in New Orleans. And, it was a very reasonable proposition because that guy at the Trade Mart really did have clothes and hair and a build and a look that resembled Shelley. But, as I kept probing and finding more images of Thomas Beckham, it dawned on me that it was him,  and once I realized it, I swiftly reversed myself; I admitted, publicly, having been mistaken. And frankly, it is one of the few times I have had to do that. EVERYTHING I have ever put up on the OIC website is still there. And I assure you that if I had doubts about anything, it would come down in a jiffy. So, there have been no reversals on anything posted on the OIC website going back to July 2012, when it started.