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

If Lee Harvey Oswald had actually done the things that Richard Hooke is saying he did, he would have been charged and convicted of murder- murdering President Kennedy- even if he fired no weapon.   

Medal of Honor? He'd have gotten the electric chair. 

What Hooke doesn't realize is that if you know that a murder is about to happen, and you just stand there and watch it without doing anything to stop it, as Hooke alleges for Oswald, then you are guilty of murder in the eyes of the law.

They might not call it murder. They might call it manslaughter or "reckless disregard for human life". But, in this case, I believe they would call it MURDER and charge him with that.  

That's because, according to Hooke, Oswald was up on the 6th floor collaborating with the killers until minutes before the assassination, then afterwards. he drove off with them in the same car and did what they said. Then, after he was arrested, he lied to police and continued to protect the killers. 

Do you think Oswald's claims of being an intelligence agent would save him? "But, I was just paying my last respects to a man I loved." How do you think that would play in Peoria? 

And he couldn't use the excuse that he was framed, unless he wanted to say he framed himself. Nobody forced him to remain at the top of that doorway doing nothing- just clasping his hands. He could have moved out into the Plaza and gone out into the street. And if Bill Shelley or anyone else tried to stop him in the doorway- physically stop him- it would have created a scene. He could have fought, struggled, and yelled what he knew. A loud scuffle in the doorway would have drawn a lot of attention, and it would have been enough to stop the motorcade. Think of the ending of Soylent Green with Charleston Heston screaming in the street, 

"Soylent Green is people! It's people! We gotta stop them!"  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE

Why couldn't Oswald do that? Why wouldn't Oswald do that? Why instead would he just "pay his last respects" and watch Kennedy die? At what point do you pull all the stops? At what point do you say: 

"No fucking way. Not on my watch. They'll have to kill Kennedy over my dead body."  

At that point, would you attribute any less to Oswald? Wouldn't he have gone down side by side with Kennedy? Died with him, if necessary? 

Unjustifiably, Hooke is willing to attribute a telex to Oswald which he probably didn't send. There is no proof that he did. There is nothing linking him to it. And why would Oswald blame the plot on a "militant revolutionary group" if he knew better? Why would he lie in the telex? Plus, Oswald had contacts within the FBI, people whom he knew and could contact directly. Wouldn't that be better than sending a telex? What evidence is there that that Oswald ever sent a telex? 

So, it's just wishful thinking on Hooke's part that Oswald was the one who sent that telex.  

But why, at crunch time, wouldn't Oswald make like Charleston Heston? Why won't Hooke assign that much decency and courage and honor to Lee Harvey Oswald? 

"Help!  Assassins are waiting to kill Kennedy! Several teams!  In three buildings and behind the picket fence! It's an ambush! We have stop them! Move into the street with me! Block the road! Help me!"