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

Richard Hooke is now claiming that Oswald was fully aware of the plot to kill Kennedy and was part of it- like in an under-cover cop in a  sting operation. 

We can compare it to other under-cover police operations, and we know of many. They have concerned murder for hire, drug distributing, illegal weapons sales, selling contraband to terrorists, selling national or trade secrets to the Chinese, money laundering, politicians accepting bribes and hiding money in the freezer, etc. etc. etc. How many of them have we heard about?

But, in all cases, the under-cover cop acts to end the situation BEFORE the crime goes down, especially when it involves pending physical harm or death to an intended target. He doesn't let the murder-for-hire occur. They arrest the housewife who was planning her husband's murder or that of the girl who was competing with her daughter to be cheerleader BEFORE it happens. They don't let the murder go through.

So, if Oswald was like an under-cover cop who had infiltrated this plot to kill Kennedy, just imagine his drive and determination to save the man's life. He would not have gone out to "pay his respects". Pay his respects????? Is Hooke kidding???????

Imagine if it were a movie and it got to the point where the crime was about to happen. What would the protagonist do? Would he just go outside and "pay his respects" to the man he was trying to save for so long? Or, would he reach deep inside and call forth his inner knight and do whatever it took to stop the God-damn thing from happening?

I'm here to tell you that Lee Harvey Oswald would have stood up to them. He would have fought back. He would have refused to accept the outcome that they decreed. He would have risked life and limb (his own) to sabotage their plan. He would have run out into the street to physically block the forward progression of the motorcade into the Valley of Death. He'd have stopped the evil thing from happening.

There is no way he would have resigned himself to the inevitability of Kennedy's death- any more than you or I would have. In fact, considering all he had done and all he had been through, his determination to stop it would have been astronomical. Hooke's fantasy that Oswald just watched it happen in complete passivity and then rode off with the killers is sick and twisted. And in saying it, Hooke does a terrible disservice to Lee Harvey Oswald and his family.

I'll finish by sharing a response from OIC senior member Dennis Cimino, who is a former Navy test pilot and engineer and also a security officer.

Dennis Cimino:

"It seems tonight that after a conversation with Jim Fetzer, we concluded that Richard Hooke's stuff is hard to swallow, but if he still agrees that LHO was in the doorway during the shots, then he meets the criteria to remain in the OIC."

"But, having said that, and having been a 'Richard Hooke' fan for his works, I spent hours today pondering what LHO would have done had he known of the plot in advance."

"In my wildest dreams, standing in the doorway doing nothing was NOT ON MY LIST. Nor was his being up in the sniper's nest."

"Now, having said that, as LHO was an O.N.I. asset (spook), he clearly wasn't selling cookies for the girl scouts. As a bona fide member of a U.S. intelligence community, his responsibility was to do whatever his superiors ordered him to do."

"Was LHO a boy scout? No. But I don't think he would have stood idly by and let the plot unfold without doing SOMETHING to stop it."

"The mere fact that he was in the doorway, and hence, 'clueless' about what was to befall him and the President that day, meant he was removed from the plot enough not to be involved in it."

"Richard Hooke's work, as good as it has been in the past, doesn't work for me in this case because it does not show any meaningful effort on LHO's part to stop the plot. His assertions about LHO's nature and character and actions on November 22, 1963, are hard for me to buy."

"As a former spook, I have more in common with LHO than most people do, and if I had been in his shoes, I would not have done any of the things that Richard Hooke has asserted, I would have gone into the middle of ELM ST. and screamed my head off about assassins and blown the entire gig for them. That sole action would have ended the whole thing. That's what I would have done, and that's what LHO would have done. I have to believe that."