Ralph Cinque Yes. He was clever, and he was downright smart. He did a good job of vouching for his innocence in the two days that he lived. And it's one of the reasons they had to kill him so fast because if he ever talked to a lawyer, the entire case against him would have crumbled. They knew it, so they had to kill him before he talked to one. But, Oswald was innocent; not just innocent of shooting, but innocent of any involvement in the assassination. Jim Garrison came to that conclusion. So, don't read too much into Oswald's statement about being a patsy. Don't take from it that he knew whose patsy he was and how the assassination went down. He had no explicit knowledge of any of that. What he said that was very telling is that "they're taking me in because I lived in the Soviet Union." So, he thought that because he had defected to Russia that he was automatically a suspect, like he was on some kind of list, that it was a matter of "rounding up the usual suspects." That's what he thought. And I think his plan was to get the people that he knew in the intelligence community to vouch for him. That's why he attempted to reach the intelligence agent in North Carolina late Saturday night, John Hurt, as you recently reminded me his name.
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