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

For Pete's sake, Backes. What did I tell you about doing your scatterbrain shit? Stop it! You're worse than a monkey at the zoo flinging his feces around. 

And David Lifton is absolutely right that if Dallas Police were in on the plot to frame Oswald for riding the bus and cab, then they were in on the plot to kill JFK as well. They had to be. It can't be otherwise. Why else would they do it? 

And it is unfortunate that Harold Weisberg and Sylvia Meagher got caught up in this nonsense, but, that was a long time ago. This is 2015, and you have no excuse. 

And why don't YOU work the problem out. I have asked you to, but you refuse. I asked you: Who gave the order to frame Oswald for riding the bus and cab? Who set it in motion? WHO WROTE THE SCRIPT? It's pretty damn complex and convoluted, and it doesn't sound at all like anything anyone would write, and I've written two scripts. 

Why would Oswald take a bus? What do you think he did every day, Backes? Walk? Hitch-hike? It's how he got around. It's what he did in New Orleans all the time; It's what he did in Ft. Worth all the time; and it's what he did in Dallas. 

Why did he get on a bus that was going back towards the crime scene? Well, why would anyone who is trying to frame him write the script that way? People do baffling things all the time in real life, but why would a person shrewdly trying to frame him write it up that way? And by the way, who wrote it up?

Why'd he walk down the north side of Elm? He was on the north side of Elm when he left the building. So, he didn't cross the street. Big deal. Why'd he take a bus back towards the crime scene? But, it was going to keep going. It would have gotten him within 5 or 6 blocks of his house. And you keep repeating "crime scene" but it wasn't his crime scene. You make it sound like he was a criminal returning to the scene of the crime, his crime. He didn't do it; remember? So, it's not that "it" makes no sense; it's that YOU make no sense.

And why'd he keep a bus transfer ticket that wasn't good any more? Because he didn't think about it. He forgot all about it. He had other things on his mind. And he didn't change his shirt. 

The idea that, on the bus, Oswald laughed about JFK being killed is, of course, preposterous. But, it doesn't make the whole story of Oswald riding the bus preposterous. You mentioned McWatters not saying that Oswald laughed; rather, McWatters said it was the teenager who laughed. But, Bledsoe never said it either. Here's her testimony. According to her, it was McWatters who announced that the President had been shot, not Oswald, and she didn't say anything about Oswald laughing. 

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/bledsoe.htm

And you had the nerve to say that the police grabbed McWatters because he was the first bus driver to come along? What? Are you completely out of your mind? So, the Dallas Police decided, arbitrarily, hastily, and capriciously, at 6 PM to make McWatters the bus driver?????

Backes, you are one sick, twisted mudderpluck. This was a national coup d'etat. And, it was a top-down situation. These low-level people at the Dallas Police Department weren't going muck it up by doing their own thing, and scatterbrained at that, to frame Oswald for riding a bus and cab. You are so demented. 

And if it was a 6:00 decision to designate McWatters as the bus driver,  how'd they enter a bus transfer ticket from his bus into evidence at 4:00?

Your problem, Backes, is that you want to dissect the testimonies, look for inconsistencies, find conflicts between who said this and who said that, while all the while ignoring the big picture and the big questions, such as: WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT OSWALD WAS PICKED UP BY PRIVATE CAR IN DEALEY PLAZA?

There is only one alternate story to the bus/cab story, and that's the Roger Craig story. But, you don't even endorse it. You don't even go there. You never dissect it the way you do the bus/cab story. You act like you're not the least bit interested. You presume you can advance a private transportation story for Oswald without actually having one, BASING IT ON ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.  

The guy who got into the Nash Rambler could not possibly have been the Oswald of fame, and the time alone reveals that. Craig said it was at 12:45, and there is no way Oswald dawdled around in or in front of the building for that long. It's too much time. After the shooting, he had his encounter with Truly and Baker and then Mrs. Reid. Then he came downstairs, gave two guys directions to the pay phone, and then he left. The WC had him out of the building by 12:33. It might have been 12:34. But, it certainly wasn't 12:45. If he was hanging around that long, stuff would have happened; people would have seen him; there'd be stories to tell. He wasn't invisible. 

Also, Craig said that the guy running was wearing a white shirt, and Oswald wore a brown shirt. So, it wasn't him.

So, that rules out the Roger Craig story, which you never endorsed anyway. So, what have you got? Absolutely nothing. You have no idea who could have picked Oswald up, what car was involved, how it was arranged, when it was arranged, why it was arranged, or where they went. Instead, you parse through the testimonies of McWatters and others looking for inconsistencies. You dumb pluck. 

Backes, you are the most kooky, demented, scatterbrained, off-the-wall JFK buff there ever was, and you are NEVER going to speak at a JFK conference again.

My Facebook Likes are up to 265 for my VT article.

And no, I am not buying them. One thing I could do, that would be perfectly legitimate, is to promote the article on Facebook, to pay Facebook to give it visibility, to make people see it. And then when they did, if they clicked on it and read it and then gave it a Like, it would still be legitimate, and I would have no misgivings about it, none whatsoever. But, for the record, I have NOT done even that. All I have done is announce it on Facebook on the several pages on which I participate. That's it.