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

This is a picture of the 5th floor after they finished resurfacing it. If we had a picture like this for the 6th floor- or even something close- there would be no issue. But, we have nothing like it. Look at the size of those plywood boards. Yes, that is plywood. But, how could this on the left below be plywood? 

You can tell the size of it by comparing it to other objects in the picture, such as the boxes of books, and you know how big they are. So, that can't possibly be a stack of plywood. 

You know, it's difficult to cut plywood because of its cumbersome size. A circular saw goes through it like butter, but if you had a to rip a piece the long way, it's hard to keep a straight line because of the distance. So presumably, they would have two horses, and they would have the board up on them, with the part to cut hanging over. Here is a guy cutting plywood across, which is easier since it's a shorter trip. But, he's still going to have to make two cuts. 

So, they were carrying on like that up there that day? God, those circular saws are loud. They make a racket. Wearing ear protection is a good idea. And besides the saws, there was the pounding of nails, right? Did people report loud noise from construction going on up there? Not that I recall. And look at the color of the plywood. That's the color that it is. So, I have to think that in this picture below, they applied some stain or something to get it so dark. 

It might have been a combination of things, like stain and then varnish. That isn't raw plywood. It can't be. So, were they going to do the same on the 6th floor? Then how could they move the boxes back? Didn't it have to dry? And you really would want to cover the wood. Plywood will warp, over time, just from the humidity in the air. I've seen that happen. It's happened to me. 

In the picture below, we're looking at the west wall, which is the only part of the room in which they claimed to have done any work at all. But, how could there possibly be enough room there to carry on such work? 

And didn't Bill Shelley know that he was going to be supervising a construction project that morning? If so, why'd he wear a suit to work? 

He's got a tie on. Who undertakes a floor-building project dressed like that? 

This issue of the 6th floor floor-laying is important because we know there were things that had to be done that morning on the 6th floor. The Sniper's Nest had to be built. Some have estimated that there may have been 40 or more boxes of books that had to be moved in order to create that enclosure. And what about the rifle? That had to be stashed away somewhere, where it was hidden but findable. It's not as though it could be done during the lunch break. Remember, Bonnie Ray was up there eating lunch. And he had every intention of staying and watching the motorcade from the 6th floor window. The reason he left is because no one else showed up to join him, and he liked company. Then, he heard Jarman and Norman when they reached the 5th floor, so he went down there to join them. But, that was very late. They were outside, prepared to watch the motorcade from the street, and they decided at the last minute to go upstairs to watch from a window. By the time they got up there, it had to be very close to 12:30. And that means that Bonnie Ray remained on the 6th floor until very close to 12:30. 

What would the plotters have done if Bonnie Ray had stayed put? The fact is that there are no shots that we know of that came from the 6th floor. The ballistics experts that I have talked to agree about that. Definitely none of the shots that struck came from the 6th floor. The first shot that missed was shot from a low elevation in the Dal-Tex building. There seems to be widespread agreement about that too. I think it's likely that sending someone to the 6th floor was only for show- to get someone to notice a gunman at the window. Was there any gunshot at all from the sixth floor? I don't know; perhaps not. But, if there was, it was just a decoy. There was no effort to kill Kennedy from the 6th floor. But, I don't know what they would have done if Bonnie Ray Williams had stayed put.