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

Top 10 reasons why Oswald really did ride the bus and cab


If you are going to say that the official story of Oswald's transportation is a lie, here is what you have to assume: 

1) that Oswald lied to police about it because the second thing in the Fritz Notes, after denying that he owned the rifle, is "home by bus changed britches" 

2) that Earlene Roberts lied OR that somebody else showed up at the room whom she mistook for Oswald 

3) that Mary Bledsoe lied OR that she encountered an Oswald double on the bus and completely mistook him for Oswald

4) that Cecil McWatters the bus driver lied 

5) that William Whaley the cab driver lied 

6) that police were able to locate an appropriate bus transfer ticket for Oswald by 4:00 PM 

7) that low-level cops were willing to get involved in the fraud of planting it on him; "Sure, Captain Fritz, anything you say"  

8) that after they claimed to find it on him when they really planted it on him, he never objected. Note that when police showed Oswald the Backyard photos, he said that they were fake, that somebody transplanted his face to someone else's body. But, he made no claim  that the bus transfer ticket wasn't his 

9) that this plan to fake a bus and cab ride for Oswald was enacted even though he himself said he took the bus and cab. So, they were fabricating phony evidence for the story that Oswald was telling. 

10) they were ready to go with this plan immediately. Oswald didn't reach the police station until 2:00.  According to the records, he wasn't interviewed for the first time until 3:15, and presumably, they didn't know what he was going to say. But, by 4:00, just 45 minutes later, they already had a phony bus transfer ticket in hand. And that was 2 hours before they interviewed Cecil McWatters for the first time. So, I guess they knew he would go along with it. And do you realize that once they played that card, there was no taking it back? If any evidence popped up which proved that Oswald did something else instead to get around, (and I mean something more solid than the Roger Craig story) it would have been a permanent revelation that the Dallas Police had planted phony evidence, a criminal act. They would not have been able to deny it or make any excuses for it or take it back. They took a big huge chance, despite all the risks and all the unknowns, even though Oswald, himself, said that he rode the bus. Why would they go to such lengths and such risks to falsely prove what Oswald was telling them? What did they need the ticket for? He said he rode the bus. Why couldn't they leave it at that? If he was lying, then let it be his lie. Why turn it into their lie? Let him own the lie. That's what he was claiming. He wasn't claiming anything else. So, what did they have to prove it for with phony evidence? There was no disagreement between them about it. So, what did they need that ticket for? Oswald was saying the same thing that they were.

The transfer ticket is really the biggest issue. That's because if something surfaced that disproved the whole story, they could never say it was an innocent mistake. Everything else they could rationalize- if necessary. McWatters, Bledsoe, and Whaley- they all got it wrong. Mistakes happen. It's not our fault. No harm, no foul. But, a bus transfer ticket does not accidentally get into someone's pocket. Putting a phony bus transfer ticket into Oswald's pocket was like giving him a Get Out Of Jail Free card.  And had he lived, and when he told his lawyer that it wasn't his, Mother of God! How good a lawyer would you have to be to know that that was the bleeding cut at the eye of the other fighter which needed to be pounded until he couldn't see? Even Jackie Chiles would have known that. How stupid do you think these Dallas Police were?