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

Did Oswald actually bring a rifle to work that morning to show to someone? 

That there is even one person who believes that is quite amazing.

So, let me get this straight: On the one day on which they were going to frame him for murder by rifleshot, he just happened to bring a rifle to work himself? 

How often does that happen? How often does any worker bring a rifle to work? I mean: counting all the workers and all the work places and all the work days, how often has a worker brought a rifle to work just to show it to someone? Maybe once in every million workdays that happens.

So, just by chance, just by freak coincidence, on the very day that the "Big Event" was to take place, Oswald, the man they were setting up, just happened to bring a rifle to work with him anyway. And since that happened, they went ahead and decided to use it to frame him for the crime.

But, what were they going to do if he hadn't brought a rifle to work? Surely, they didn't assume that he would. Surely, they didn't put someone up to asking him to bring his rifle to work. Wouldn't that automatically make that person a "person of interest?" And if Oswald was going to show his rifle to someone, wouldn't he most likely do it during the lunch break? And wouldn't that mess everything up? 

So, did they have another rifle that they were going to say was Oswald's? But then, after he, by chance, brought his own rifle, they decided to designate that one as the murder weapon? 

But, who made the call? Who wrote the memo? How did they get it circulated? And if Oswald had brought his rifle to work to showcase it to a potential buyer, then it was probably cleaned and oiled and sparkling. How were they going to say he shot it?

But most daunting thing of all, why would Oswald lie about it? What need did he have to lie about it? "Yes, I brought my rifle, but it was just to show somebody. It wasn't loaded. I had no ammunition. I certainly wasn't going to shoot anybody with it." 

Why would he lie if he knew that Frazier, and most likely others, saw him with it? Even though no one else claimed to see him with it, if he carried it into the building and was passing people left and right, wouldn't he assume that others saw him with it, and that it would be futile to lie about it? Wouldn't he know that his fingerprints were on it? 

Think about it as if it were you. You're arrested, charged with murdering the President of the United States with your rifle. It's nightmare for you because you know you didn't do it. You want to establish your innocence. So, they bring out your rifle which they say you brought to work, and you know you did. So, you decide to make like a criminal and lie?

Why would you lie? And how could you expect to get away with such a lie? And why, when every fiber of your being wants to proclaim the truth that you are innocent, that you have done nothing wrong, would you take to lying to the police? An innocent person has no reason to lie. It was not a crime to bring a rifle to work to show someone. 

The whole idea is crazy and stupid. Oswald did not bring a rifle to work, and if he had, he would have admitted it. Oswald did not even own a rifle. He said he didn't.

He left a rifle in Ruth Paine's garage which Michael Paine moved around thinking it was tenting poles of the Oswald's?