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

Oliver Stone made some mistakes, and it's unfortunate.

For instance, he depicted Oswald's location during the shooting as the 2nd floor lunch room- as Carolyn Arnold claimed in 1978.

Why listen to her about that? Oswald said where he at lunch, and it was the 1st floor lunch room. It's in the Fritz Notes. It's also in the Hosty/Bookhout rendering. 

The fact was that the 1st floor lunch room was for the grunt workers like him. That 2nd floor lunch room was more for the clerical workers. Several workers said that he always ate his lunch in the 1st floor lunch room, the so-called domino room.

Why would he lie about that? He wouldn't. 

I recall the scene from the movie with the Oswald character looking detached, worried, withdrawn, and depressed. And this was before the shooting, so what was the point? What was he supposed to be upset about? 

Carolyn Arnold said in the immediate aftermath of the assassination that she saw Oswald between the double doors, which means at the doorway. It was after she had gone outside, when she had turned around and looked back. That's when she saw him.

So, how do you go from that to saying that you saw him eating in the second floor lunch room? And who are you going to believe? The Carolyn Arnold of 1963 or the Carolyn Arnold of 1978? I hope it's the Carolyn Arnold of 1963 because that's who I believe. 

Then there was the telex. Stone showed the telex and implied that Oswald sent it. 

There is NO CHANCE that Oswald sent it. Telexes are legal documents, and everything is verified: the sender, the receiver, the location, etc. That telex was supposedly from Washington from the Director of the FBI to the field offices. So, how could Oswald have sent it from Dallas? He could not have.

Others have tried to save the telex by saying that it was sent by Hoover but it was based on information he got from Oswald. But wait. What is that based on? What is it derived from? There is nothing in the telex that relates to anything that Oswald would have or could have told Hoover. It referred to an assassination attempt and the need to canvass racial and hate groups around the country. But, the response to a threat on the President's life in Dallas would have been to cancel his trip to Dallas, not to start a fishing expedition among hate groups. So, Hoover could NOT have sent it. Nothing about that stupid telex makes any sense. Furthermore, THERE WAS NO TELEX. There was just a guy who five years earlier had worked as the night watchman for the FBI in New Orleans, and he claimed to remember seeing the telex. The telex that we have today is a product of his fertile imagination and grotesque spelling- it is a mock-up- and that is all.  And when you add it all up, there is nothing to rest the stupid telex story on. It's like an artichoke; if you keep peeling the leaves away hoping to get to something, you never do. That's all there is to it. And there is nothing to the telex story except one goofy guy.

Another ongoing mistake of Oliver Stone's is to endorse the claims of Beverly Arnold as the Babushka Lady. In 1963, Beverly Arnold was 17 years old. Babushka Lady is obviously a middle-aged woman. Babushka Lady looks like she could be the mother of a 17 year old daughter- that's how matronly and middle-aged Babushka Lady looks. And that rules out any chance that Beverly Arnold is the Babushka Lady. 

In the JFK assassination, as in all of life, physics rules, and so does biology. It would help a lot if people would stop thinking that it happened in some separate realm, some other world, some pink world. It didn't.