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

Rob Clark, the Conspiracy Cretin, has joined the campaign to claim Prayer Man as Oswald. Well, not wholeheartedly, but he's open to the idea, whereas he is not open to Doorman being Oswald, even though Doorman has Oswald's slender build, is doing Oswald's habitual stance, and most important, is wearing Oswald's clothes. 

Prayer Man doesn't even work out time-wise to be Oswald. Officer Marrion Baker had reached the entrance while Prayer Man was still standing there in the doorway. And Baker was on the run. He was moving fast. How could Prayer Man have beaten Baker to the lunch room and without being the least bit out of breath? 

But, there is a silver lining to this stupidity because it's just one more person who admits that it is perfectly logical to place Oswald in the doorway during the shooting. Where else could he possibly be? There is no place else. He wasn't in the second floor lunch room. If he were there all along, he'd have been seated by the time Baker arrived, but Oswald was moving through the lunch room as though he had just arrived. And sure, you can argue that he had been seated a while and then he got up, but that's a totally arbitrary assumption made out of convenience. One guy suggested that Oswald got up precisely because he heard Truly and Baker on the stairs, but why? Oswald hadn't done anything, remember? He had nothing to hide; not even himself. 

And what would he have been doing just sitting there, if you're going to surmise that? He already ate lunch. He ate in the Domino Room in the presence of Junior Jarman and Harold Norman, and it was at a time which left them enough time to make it up to the 5th floor with Bonnie Ray Williams to watch the motorcade from the window. And we have a picture of them doing it. 

So, if you are going to make the arbitrary assumption- based on choice and convenience- that Oswald was sitting in the lunch room at 12:30 sharp, you've got him doing nothing. He wasn't eating, and he wasn't drinking either. He didn't get his Coke until AFTER his encounter with Truly and Baker. Both of them testified that he had nothing in his hands, and no Coke. They were asked about it specifically. And, it's foolish to think they conspired to lie about this. They didn't know each other. Baker didn't even refer to Truly by name. He just called him the building manager. Don't you think you have to know someone pretty well before you conspire to commit perjury with him? Plus, they made their statements right away, that very afternoon, before there was any concern about the timeline. It's preposterous to think that they were lying about the Coke. And I realize that Truly, from working at the TSBD, may have been involved up to his neck and probably was, but I have no such suspicions about Baker. The conspiracy to kill President Kennedy didn't go all the way down to every lowly motorcycle cop at the Dallas PD. Baker was a straight talker. 

So, Oswald wasn't eating; he wasn't drinking; and if you're going to say he was in the lunch room, you've got him doing nothing there except counting the holes in the ceiling as he sat there. Or maybe he was cleaning the lint from his navel. It's stupid. It's ridiculous. And it didn't happen. 

So, Oswald was NOT in the lunch room at 12:30, and he wasn't in the Domino room downstairs either because his stint down there happened earlier- much earlier. It was in the 12:15 to 12;20 time frame- which left enough time for Jarman and Norman to go outside for a spell, and then change their minds and decide to go up to the 5th floor. 

What it means is that there is no place else but the doorway for Oswald to be at 12:30. And what did he tell Captain Will Fritz? He told him that he was "out with Bill Shelley in front". 

So, I think it's great that more people are coming around to vouching for Oswald in the doorway- even though some of them are choosing the wrong guy. There isn't a snowball's chance in Hell that Prayer Man was Oswald. He didn't look like Oswald. He didn't dress like Oswald. And he didn't hustle out of that doorway fast enough to beat Baker to the lunch room. So, he can't possibly be Oswald. 

But, in the long run, it serves our interests that more and more people are placing Oswald a few feet from where he really was. I give you Lee Harvey Oswald- twice- on 11/22/63.