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

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  Ralph Cinque Thanks for that, Bob. Charles Givens is an intriguing witness. He claimed to see Oswald up on the 6th floor at Noon after they had broken for lunch. He claimed to go up to the 6th floor to get his cigarettes whereupon he saw Oswald walking from the southeast corner (where the Sniper's Nest is) with a clipboard in his hand. The WC tried to imply that Oswald was setting things up for the kill. Givens is also the one who reported about Oswald habitually reading the newspaper. He said it was usually the newspaper from the day before, so that if it was Tuesday, he would be reading Monday's paper. So, on that flimsy basis, the presumption is made that Oswald learned the motorcade route and decided to kill Kennedy.

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  Bob Wingate Ralph---- Sylvia Meagher & others have shown that the "cigarettes on the sixth floor" story only first came about in a WC deposition in April 1964, almost six months after the assassination, and also after repeated interviews/testimony where Givens never mentioned this, and placed Oswald in the lunch (domino) room at 11:50. Lot of questions never resolved here. Someone was lying or covering up.

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  Ralph Cinque Hmmm. I did not know that, Bob. If Givens placed Oswald in the domino room at 11:50 then it works out perfectly for Oswald to have eaten his lunch there, seen Jarman and Norman milling around, and then gone outside to stand in the doorway to watch the motorcade. if he got to the domino room at 11:50, surely it doesn't take 40 minutes to eat a cheese sandwich and an apple. This is very valuable information; thank you.