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

I thought the idea was that Oswald stored his rifle in Ruth Paine's garage unassembled. I thought that because he, reportedly, stored it there without telling her. 

And the only reason I can think of why he wouldn't tell her is because he feared she wouldn't want him to store it there, perhaps because she was a Quaker. 

So, if he was going to store a rifle in her garage without telling her because he knew she wouldn't want it there, I presumed he would make it look un-rifle like, as much as possible, by disassembling it. 

But then the other thing is that her husband, Michael Paine, said that he repeatedly saw the rifle wrapped in a blanket without recognizing it for what it was. He thought it was tent poles. 

And he didn't just see it; he picked it up and moved it. Several times. He carried it. And the only thing between his hands and the rifle was a blanket- which really wouldn't reduce the form and shape and dimensions of the rifle at all. If you picked up a rifle that had a blanket over it, it would still have the feel of a rifle.

So, when he said that about "tent poles" I just assumed the rifle was disassembled. I still think it's preposterous that he would think that a disassembled rifle was tent poles, but: TO THINK THAT AN INTACT, ASSEMBLED, WHOLE RIFLE WAS TENT POLES???? Is he out of his mind? That is beyond preposterous. It is beyond outrageous. That is other-worldly. That is like from another universe. 

How could he have his hands on that rifle, even through a blanket, without knowing that it was a rifle? 

So, that's why I just had to assume it was unassembled. But now, I know that some are saying that it was assembled and that Oswald unassembled it in Ruth Paine's garage.

I was reminded by watching the video, and here again is the link to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cd0TbXq58 

of the importance of having a good work area to work on it. You need a work table that is long enough and spacious enough to accommodate the rifle and facilitate what you're doing. You need a nice flat surface at the right height. He could do it standing if the table was real tall. But, he certainly didn't have that. So, that means he needed a work table, and he needed a chair or bench to sit on. 

Here is Ruth Paine's garage:

 Let's hone in:

You think he disassembled that rifle, using a dime in place of a hollow ground screwdriver, in THAT garage? At night?  

You see, you need really good lighting. I don't think anyone would argue with that. But, this was at night. So, it was dark. If he just went into the garage and put the overhead light on, it would have been grossly insufficient.  Unless you install special lighting in a garage, which that one didn't have, the standard ceiling light in a garage is grossly inadequate to do any serious work at night. Look at that picture again. It was dark in there, and you can see that there was no special lighting.

So, the idea that Oswald went out there, at night, turned the light on, which provided no focused light at all, no bright targeted illumination, searched and found the rifle in that mess (and he had no idea where to look because Michael Paine put it who knows where) and then, with no special lighting, and with no work table to set the rifle on to do the work and with nothing to sit on, he took a dime out of his pocket and started disassembling that rifle? 

This is what the Warren Commission said about it:

"While the rifle may have already been disassembled when Oswald arrived home on Thursday, he had ample time that evening to disassemble the rifle and insert it into the paper bag."

Oh, I see. So, they sought to play it both ways. Have their cake and eat it too. However, the time it took to do it wasn't the issue. The issue was the time away from Marina and the others in the house and not being missed. It's just not normal to disappear when you're a guest in someone's house.  

But, it really doesn't make sense. It might if he had had the rifle stored in a bag. But, they're saying it was wrapped in a blanket. But, how do you store the small parts, especially the tiny screws, in a blanket? Wouldn't they get lost in the blanket? Was there a pouch or a satchel which contained the tiny screws so that they wouldn't get lost? No, it's not possible because it would have been found in the bag or near the bag. You can't make stuff up. You can't pull stuff from out your imagination and claim it as evidence. 

If Oswald had disassembled the rifle that night, he could, theoretically, have put the tiny screws in his pocket- his pants pocket or his shirt pocket, and then left them there until he was reassembling the rifle the next day. It's still an iffy situation, in my opinion. But, if the rifle was already disassembled, then where the hell were the screws in the first place? Loose in the blanket? And he actually found them? 

The disassembled story doesn't work, and neither does the assembled story. And neither does the bag story.

The Warren Commission said that the bag was homemade, that it was made from some wrapping paper available at the Depository. In other words, they said that Oswald manufactured the bag. He built it out of some paper. This bag; Oswald made it:

What the hell was wrong with them? Were they completely insane? Oswald did not manufacture that bag! It was impossible. 

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! The magnitude of their evil was matched only by the magnitude of their lies. 

Vince Salandria has said repeatedly to me that they didn't care about the credibility of their story. Not really. They didn't care how unbelievable, how preposterous it was. It was official, and it accounted for everything. That was the important thing; it had an answer for everything.    

But that anyone, today, in 2015, almost 2016, would continue to believe and defend the official story is incredible.