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

Hi All,

Say, there has been rather a large amount of comment here recently about
the following page in the WCR, detailing a report by FBI Bookhout, now
described as the Bookhout Solo report:

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0322a.htm

There are all sorts of excuses being given as to how this report must be a
fake, is fraudulent etc etc even though, in all material ways, it matches
other FBI reports as published by the Commission.

One complaint is that the report was apparently used to debunk Lee Harvey
Oswald's claim that he left the TSBD and went home after the shooting on
the say so of his supervisor, Bill Shelley:

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0103b.htm

The claim is that the report should have been footnoted to support the
above conclusion in the WCR, therefore the report is a fake. It appears,
however, that this was simply an oversight in the compilation of the
report if we consider the following.

Page number 12 of the NARA PDF file on Bill Shelley contains the following
wording in an internal WC memo from Melvin A. Eisenberg to Joseph Ball and
David Belin:

QUOTE ON:

During the course of one of his interrogations, Oswald stated that after
drinking a Coke he stood around for five to 10 minutes with Bill Shelley
(who acted as foreman of Oswald's department) and then went home because,
based on Shelley's remarks he did not think there would be any further
work. (5.97)

1. In the course of your investigation into this claim, I think you
inquire whether... etc

QUOTE OFF

Now that reference, "(5.97)" is interesting, but what does it mean? Well,
by a process of deduction, it appears that it means THIS:

The 5 refers to CD 5, the 30 November 1963 report of FBI Gemberling:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10406

And if we look at page 97 of CD 5, what do we find?:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10406#relPageId=100&tab=page

That's right! The Bookhout solo report!

So it couldn't be MORE obvious that the Bookhout solo report WAS the
source used by the WC to question Bill Shelley as to whether Oswald was
ever "out with Bill Shelley in front" or not, a claim Shelley roundly
rejected when questioned by Joseph Ball:

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh7/html/WC_Vol7_0199b.htm

Also the discovery of the Will Fritz notes by the ARRB in the 1990s
incontrovertibly PROVE that the claimed encounter in question was AFTER
the shooting, given that these notes sequentially MIRROR the Bookhout solo
report perfectly at this particular point.

It's GAME OVER for those trying to claim that the Bookhout Solo report is
a fake AND/OR that Oswald was "out with Bill Shelley in front" at the time
JFK was shot. 

Ralph Cinque:

Brennan, Shelley wasn't out there when Oswald left for home. Shelley wasn't out there when Oswald left for home. Shelley wasn't out there when Oswald left for home. There is absolutely no chance that Shelley was out there when Oswald left for home. Shelley said, repeatedly and vociferously, that he wasn't out there when Oswald left for home. 

So, what does that leave? That Oswald MADE UP an encounter with Shelley that happened when he left for home? But, wasn't Oswald smart enough to realize that Shelley knew where he was at the time and would deny being out there, let alone seeing Oswald out there, let alone giving Oswald tacit permission to go home?

Why would Oswald be so stupid as to make up an encounter with Shelley when he had to know that the first thing that Shelley would do is deny it?

But, Oswald did say that he was "out with Bill Shelley in front" and Shelley definitely was out there in front: DURING THE ASSASSINATION. So, that must be what Oswald was talking about. Oswald could not have been talking about the other because the other didn't happen. What happened is that Oswald was out there in front when Shelley was out there in front, which was during the assassination.  

God, your fuckin' stupid.