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

This is incredible! It's unbelievable!

Boz, from McAdams' forum, is actually touting Gus Russo's book, Live by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK.

In the book, Russo claims that a tenant at the boarding house, Hugh Slough, claimed that Oswald joined the others in the living room the evening of Wednesday, November 20, and watched a television report which detailed every turn of JFK's motorcade, that it showed the parade route, every turn, showing that it was going to go right past the Texas School Book Depository. Here is the excerpt.

So, they had images or footage of the entire parade route to broadcast ahead of time? How likely is that? 

And then, according to Hugh, Jerry Duncan, who worked at the filling station across the street, who had already met Oswald and wanted to introduce him to Hugh, tried to do so, but Oswald was so absorbed in the program that he was in a trance? He was mesmerized by it? He just completely ignored the overture by Jerry to get his attention, and then when the program ended, he fled into his room?  

The credibility problems with that story are so immense, they are breathtaking. But first, read this review of Gus Russo from Amazon:   


Gus Russo is a man of many views, all of them contradictory. In the early 1990's, he embraced every conspiracy theory known to man, and was even listed as a "consultant" on Oliver Stone's JFK. He was a firm believer in the Stone school of conspiracy theories. He also endorsed Robert Morrow's dubious book "First Hand Knowledge" with a cover blurb. Then, came his conversion. After Gerald Posner's "Case Closed", Russo realized there was more money to be made in endorsing the opposite, i.e. "official", point of view espoused by the Warren Commission. Russo reversed himself 180 degrees and began hanging around with former CIA types who had been involved in the assassination plots against Fidel Castro (and possibly JFK as well). He was flattered by their attention and bought into their propaganda and disinformation. Hence this book. The book contains several theories, all contradictory: 1) Oswald did it, acting alone, 2) Castro was behind the assassination, and 3) It was all Bobby Kennedy's fault!! Russo also tried to persuade Seymour Hersh, and the Assassination Review Board, that the real assassin was a Cuban intelligence agent, but failed to convince either. Russo is being used, and is not to be trusted. His sources are dubious at best and have their own agenda. Don't believe everything you read.

And another:

Russo claims to present new material recently released by the AARB concerning the assassination, however, what he presents is just another re-hash of the same flawed theories presented several years ago by Gerald Posner in his slanted version of history "Case Closed." Mr. Russo falls into many of the same traps, omissions and spin that Posner fell into, and, as with Posner, we are presented with a work that is written to erroneously guide the reader into his own fabricated world. While this work may provide fodder for the uninitiated, there will undoubtedly be an uproar in the serious research community concerning Mr. Russo's neglect to address many of the unanswered questions concerning the life and times of Lee Oswald. This is a good read only if one wants to see how an author can bend facts to fit a scenario. More legitimate information can be obtained in a number of other works about the JFK murder.

But, it's worse than that. I'm telling you that the whole story is made up. It is fiction. It is complete CIA horseshit. It is utterly non-credible. 

First, we would all know about the tv broadcast if it happened. It wouldn't be a secret, and people would have reported seeing it. "I learned of the motorcade route by seeing it announced on television." But, there is nobody who said that.  

The issue, that is, the problem of how Oswald learned of the motorcade route surfaced right away, and if there had been a television announcement and demonstration of it, it would have been widely known. They'd have re-broadcast it. They'd rebroadcast it now. They can't possibly claim, after decades, that such a thing existed and happened. It is ridiculous. It is pure, blatant revisionism. 

And notice again the depiction of Oswald as a crazy person. He comes out of his room and is watching tv, and supposedly, somebody says to him: 

"Hey Lee, say hello to my friend Hugh here. He wants to meet you."  

And Oswald just ignores them? He is so absorbed in the program, he's like a zombie? Kind of like this?

Isn't that what they're implying? But of course, it's OK to say that about Lee Harvey Oswald, because he was crazy. He was the most anti-social, psychopathic, and sociopathic nut there ever was. And it makes you wonder how Oswald ever came to meet the filling station attendant Jerry when he had no car. Was he in a better and more sociable mood that day not having murder on his mind? 

But, I have absolutely no doubt that they had CIA operatives in the rooming house on Beckley, and Hugh Slough may have been one of them. Here is a list of the other residents: 

Bobby Joe Palmer, C. C. Lehmann, Roy Samuel Cleghorn, Floyd DeGraffenreid, Hugh Slough, Jack Cody, A. C. Johnson, George Gibboney, Donald Green, John Carter, James Watson, and Herbert Lee.

Oswald did not know the motorcade route, and that's why he asked Junior Jarman why people were gathering on the sidewalk outside the TSBD that morning. This is just another desperate attempt to fabricate a way for Oswald to have learned the motorcade route. It is comical, laughable, totally contrived, totally implausible, and utterly stupid- written by the stupid for the stupid.