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

I hope you realize that the idea that Oswald did what they claim he did is extremely bizarre. It's very clear that he was a man who was working to get his family back in the full sense of the word, where they were united and living together as a family. He had just become a father for the second time with the birth of his daughter Rachel. He wasn't present at her birth but only because Marina thought it best that he stay home to watch June. It was Marina's preference, so he honored it.  He was with her in spirit, surely. And then afterwards, he was supportive in every way he could be. He provided Marina with money as best he could, and he thought about her needs and his children's needs and prioritized them.  

And at work, he was considered to be a good worker. Everyone said so. Nobody said that he was a slacker. And nobody said that he was ever hostile or belligerent. They just said that he kept to himself, and that he was a loner. But, that isn't a crime, and it isn't even a fault. 

So, he's sitting there in the lunch room. He's had his lunch. And now, he's browsing through the newspaper as he often did after he finished eating. And he sees an article about Kennedy's visit to Dallas, and he catches the motorcade route and sees that it will be passing the TSBD. And that ignites a demonic spark in his head: 

"I am going to kill him. I am going to blow his head off." 

How could Oswald think that? How could he have such a thought? How, when his mind was on his wife and his kids and his plan to reunite his family, could he revert to such thinking when it is so polar opposite? And it was provoked just from seeing an announcement in the newspaper?

I am reminded of the classic movie, The Manchurian Candidate. I mean the original with Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. In it, Laurence Harvey plays a veteran of the Korean War who is working as a newspaper man in Washington DC. He renews a relationship with a beautiful blond woman whom he loves very much, the daughter of a Senator. But, like Oswald, he flips into maniacal insanity on the spur of the moment and becomes a ruthless, heartless, soul-less killer. But, he was brainwashed and programmed during the Korean War when he was captured by the Communists, and his current handlers have a way to trigger him- to flip the switch in his brain- turning him into a demonic killer. The method was: they would get him to play Solitaire, and when he turned over the Queen of Diamonds, it would open up the door to that dark, suggestible part of his mind, and then they could impart an order to kill someone, and he would do it. 

It happened instantly, where the sight of that card would turn him into a different person: a monster. It was like a switch; a demonic switch. 

But think about it: they're claiming essentially the same thing for Oswald. He's sitting in the lunch room; he eats; he rests; he picks up a newspaper to pass the last few minutes of his lunch break before resuming work filling book orders, and the sight of that motorcade route affects his mind just like the Queen of Diamonds affected the mind of Raymond Shaw.

But wait. Raymond Shaw was a fictional character. And Raymond Shaw was programmed by the Communists to do that. He was an MK-Ultra subject extraordinaire. It was mind control. It was some kind of evil hypnosis. But, Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't hypnotized. Nobody has ever said that he was an MK-Ultra subject, and I certainly don't think he was. I think Sirhan Sirhan was and Mark David Chapman was, but I don't think Lee Harvey Oswald was. 

So, what they're saying is that Lee Harvey Oswald became a real-life Raymond Shaw all on his own. It just happened spontaneously, where the sight of the motorcade route did to him what the Queen of Diamonds did to Raymond Shaw.

I'm not going to tell you how the movie ends except to say that his friend, Bennett Marco, played by Frank Sinatra, figures out what happened and also figures out how to pull Raymond out of it, to disrupt the mental circuit. But, the question is: is it too late? It's a race against time. 

But, at least in the fictional version, they came up with a reason why Raymond Shaw flipped out, why he did what he did. Is it plausible? I don't know. but watching movies is all about suspending disbelief, and I had no trouble accepting it and getting into it. 

But, in Oswald's case, it is supposed to be a true story. At least in the movie, they provided a reason for Raymond's monstrousness. But, in the real life story, we have never been given a reason, plausible or implausible, for Lee's monstrousness. He was just sitting there reading in the most normal and harmless situation that you could possibly imagine, and then he saw that motorcade route in the paper, and it was like flicking a switch. He suddenly turned into Raymond Shaw.   

It is very foolish to think that Oswald had a motive to kill Kennedy. It isn't legitimate to use the word "motive." All they can claim is that he went nuts at the sight of the motorcade route- in a way that is distinct and apart from any real-life experience that we know of. There is NOTHING comparable to it. And there is no one in the annals of crime who is comparable to Lee Harvey Oswald, as history knows him to be.