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

If people would just THINK, they would realize that there is no way that Oswald got in a private car to leave Dealey Plaza. 

Oswald could NOT have arranged such a ride. First, not having any friends, there was NO ONE he could have asked. Who? George DeMohrenschildt? Ruth Paine? His brother Robert? There is no one he could have asked. 

But, even if there were someone he could have asked, he had no reason to expect to be going anywhere at 12:30. He didn't know that JFK would be passing the TSBD that day, therefore, he had no reason to expect a big police commotion over that building which would disrupt afternoon work. 

Oswald asked Junior Jarman why people were gathering on the sidewalk that morning. He didn't know. And it is one of the most important and most telling pieces of testimony in the entire Warren Report.     

So, there is no way, on any basis, that Oswald could have arranged to be picked up at that time. 

So, who does that leave to do it? The conspirators? You think they arranged for Oswald to be picked up in a private car?

But, the conspirators were trying to cast Oswald as the LONE GUNMAN, with the operative word being: LONE. And, a lone gunman can't, by definition, have a getaway driver. It destroys the whole concept.

So, if they thought it would look better for Oswald to use public transportation, why wouldn't they let him? Why not? What was the risk? They weren't going to lose him. They could easily follow him and track him. He went home by bus every day anyway, so why not let him travel that way on 11/22? What was the harm?

Why arrange to have him picked up in a private car only to have to concoct a phony story of him using public transportation when they could just let him use public transportation?

These people were evil, yes, but they weren't insane. 

And, why would they send a private car to pick up Oswald in broad daylight and assume that NOBODY would see it? 

So, who did Roger Craig and the others see get into the Nash Ramber? That's easy: SOMEBODY ELSE. Somebody whom they mistook for Oswald. 

Ever hear of Barry Scheck? Do you I have to point out that mistaken identification is the cardinal reason why so many innocent men, and most of them black men, have wound up on death row only to be saved after decades of imprisonment by DNA analysis?  

Moreover, to frame Oswald for riding a bus and cab would have been a plot within the plot. It would have been just as big a plot as the main plot (framing him for murder) and fraught with just as much risk and danger- to the conspirators- as the main plot. And if it went wrong, it would have overturned everything. 

Can't you see that if it became known that Oswald was FRAMED for riding the bus and cab, it would have been instantly realized that he was FRAMED for killing Kennedy and Tippit? If Oswald had lived, the first thing he would have said to his lawyer (if he hadn't ridden the bus and cab) was: "I didn't kill anybody, and I didn't ride any bus and cab." And, the lawyer would have been just as interested in the second statement as the first.

But, do you think that they had it planned all along for Jack Ruby to kill Oswald? And the Dallas Police knew about it? 

Well, even if that's true, and I don't say it is, how could they be sure it would work? What if something went wrong with that plan? What if someone intervened? What if Ruby got the shot off but failed to kill Oswald? People have been known to survive gunshot wounds to the abdomen. 

I read Jane Fonda's autobiography, and in it, she recounts how her brother Peter, as a teenager, got shot in the abdomen. He almost died, but almost dying and dying are two different things. 

And if Oswald had survived that attempt on his life, they couldn't possibly have tried it again. How would that have looked? Who in his right mind would have believed it and not seen through it instantly? What would Bill Hicks have said about it?

The plot to frame Oswald for riding a bus and cab would have had to start as an IDEA in someone's mind. But whose? Someone at the Dallas PD? Jesse Curry? Will Fritz? Henry Wade? The latter didn't even reach City Hall until 7:00 PM that evening, so how could he have instigated it? So, who? Regardless, it was a VERY BIG decision. So, who thought of it, and who put it in motion? Who authorized it?

The killing of Kennedy wasn't a Dallas plot. It happened in Dallas, but it just as easily could have happened in Chicago or Miami- as you know. So, the idea that local Dallas officials took it on themselves to add this sub-plot to the main plot is ridiculous. It wasn't their responsibility. It wasn't even their problem.  

And why would they tie themselves down to an irrevocable piece of physical evidence? If they just said he rode the bus, but then something turned up proving that he didn't, they could just say that they got it wrong. No harm, no foul. But, once they claimed to find a bus transfer ticket in his pocket, they were locking themselves to the story for eternity. There would have been no backing away from it- no matter what surfaced. There would have been no chance for a retraction.  They would have been implicating themselves and giving Oswald a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card. Why would they take a chance like that? 

Do you think these people were stupid? Because they would have had to be awfully stupid to do such a thing. They were bad, but they weren't stupid.

From the conspirators standpoint, the best way for Oswald to have gone home was by public transportation. I dare say it was the only way good for them. So, why not let him do it? What reason was there not to? Whose bright idea was it to do otherwise? And who would have approved such a thing?  

Again: it would have been INSANE for them to send a driver for their LONE gunman, only to have to concoct a story that he traveled by bus, and there is no way Oswald could have arranged such a pick-up. So, it didn't happen. Period.