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

This is unbelievable! It's incredible! The dirty, rotten bastards!

I'm talking about the Gallup Polling company. I have found the record of their polls of the JFK assassination going back to 1963. 

1963! So, Kennedy got killed in late November and before the year was out, they were already conducting polls?  

I have a good friend who used to work for Gallup as a pollster, and I learned a lot from him about how they do things. I learned that when they conduct polls, they usually ask a long list of questions. And, it irritated the heck out of him because he was paid no salary; he worked only for commissions.  He got paid so much for each completed poll. And it varied a lot. Some polls paid a lot, and some paid very little, and it all depended on how difficult it was to get people to participate. Political polls paid the least. 

But, the poll had to be completed. If there were 10 questions, and the person answered 9 and then hung up, it all got trashed, and he was paid nada.

So, my friend sweated it out. He'd be doing a poll, and it might be going well, but then suddenly the pollee would say, "Look, Man, you're taking too much of my time!" and just hang up.   

But, with the JFK assassination, they have always asked just one solitary question. Why is that? And here is how they put their solitary question in 1963:

"Do you think the man who shot President Kennedy acted on his own or was some group or element also responsible?"

What??? It was 1963! The Warren Commission didn't reach its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone until September 1964. The Gallup Organization wasn't a branch of the government. So, why were they conducting a poll that way in 1963? 

And, you can't tell me that not a single person responded by saying: "I don't think he did it at all. I think Oswald was innocent." So, what did they do with those results? Did they put them under "no opinion"? But, that's a lie! Please read every bit of this, including the fine print: 

So, in 1963, the choice was either "one man" or "some group or element". An element? What's an element? Who came up with that term, and why did they come up with it?

Then, from 1966 to 1976, they got rid of "group" and "element" and just made it "others". 

Then, from 1983 to 1992, they identified the man as Lee Harvey Oswald. 

Then, from 1992 onward, they added the word "conspiracy". 

I knew all along that in modern times, they have always conducted the JFK polls presuming Oswald's guilt. But now, I know that they have ALWAYS done it that way, including right after the assassination. Immediately after it. 

This is a manipulated result. The vast majority of the people who dispute the JFK assassination do so on the basis of Oswald's innocence. And the vast majority of the books that have been written which challenge the official story do so on the basis of Oswald's innocence. So, how dare they conduct a poll which presumes that everybody and his frickin' brother accept that Oswald was guilty, and the only question is whether he acted alone?

Why couldn't they word it as follows?

Do you accept the official story that Oswald acted alone? Or, do you think he murdered the President as part of a conspiracy? Or do you think Oswald was an innocent patsy, falsely framed for the murder? 

What would be so terrible about giving the respondents 3 choices instead of 2? 

In other words, the whole poll is a lie. It's only purpose is to declare Oswald's guilt and make it seem like everyone accepts it and no one doubts it.

It's propaganda. The poll is nothing but propaganda. It is all just a big fat lie. 

Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies.