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

Let's look further at Oswald's statement to Bookhout in the hallway right before the 6:30 Saturday evening interrogation. It's interesting that by that point in time, the "air" about him was very different from how it was when they first marched him into City Hall the day before. Then, the tension in the air was thick, and you could cut it with a knife. But, by Saturday evening, it was much more relaxed. You hear someone saying, "Here he comes, there he is..." But, there is no tension with it; no animosity; it was more like announcing the arrival of a celebrity. Listen to it yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04aL80prg7U

Then, once in the hallway, Oswald goes up to Bookhout to talk to him. And what's amazing about it is that even though he was handcuffed in front, that he was so free in his ability to move. The afternoon before, the big cop had a grip on his arm, and it seemed like a vise. But here, I don't even know if Oswald was being held at all. I can't tell. Can you tell? But, if he was being held, it was a light hold. You see Oswald walking over to Bookhout, which obviously wasn't ordered or scheduled, and no one stops him. No one pulls him away; no one pulls him back.

So, if someone had Oswald's arm, and we can't tell from this image, he wasn't really steering him or restraining him. Oswald, on his own power, went up to Bookhout. And the fact that Bookhout's eyes are closed is probably photographic flim-flam. Why would that guy, whoever he was, have his eyes closed? Notice how the eye brow got erased laterally. And notice that he's got hair growing over his ear. An FBI agent? Do you see the haircut on the detective looming large in the picture? Well, that's about how all those law enforcement guys were groomed. None of them had hair growing over his ear. So yes, they doctored that image of Bookhout. But then again, we have yet to find an image of Bookhout that wasn't doctored. 

But, let's hone in on what Oswald said to Bookhout. He said; "What have you got against Broby?" Now, Broby may not be correct. That's the most I can gather from the sound of it, but they may have deliberately muffled that word so that we can't hear it correctly. And who knows: they could have even substituted "Broby" for whatever he said; an audio splice. But, what I think we can be sure of is that Oswald asked Bookhout what he had against somebody; against some person. 

So, Oswald must have cited a person, and Bookhout must have said something derogatory about that person. But, who could Oswald have cited, and why would he have cited him? He must have cited someone whom he thought would vindicate him; whom he thought would vouch for him; and it must have been someone from the intelligence community. Who else? You don't think they were making small talk, do you? They weren't talking about some team's quarterback, were they? 

So, Oswald must have said something like, "Talk to so-and-so. He'll tell you that I have ties to the intelligence community. And he'll certainly tell you that I could not have shot the President. The whole idea is crazy. Why would I do such a thing? I'd have to be out of my mind, and I'm not."

And then, that very night, he tried to call John Hurt in Raleigh, North Carolina, which was close to a Navy intelligence center. If we put aside the spin and just go to the testimony of the night operator who witnessed it, and actually, it was the supervisor of the woman who did it, who handled it, she said it was definitely an outgoing call. And she said that two detectives showed up and instructed the woman not to put the call through. 

So, Oswald attempted to do the smartest thing he could have done, which was to reach out to someone he knew in the U.S. intelligence community to vouch for him. 

It's a little complicated because the switchboard operator involved was L. Sweeney, I think Louise. But, this memo was actually written by her supervisor, Aretha something, if I recall correctly. 

  Look what it says there. It says Collect. That means it was outgoing. Who would call the Dallas Police Department to speak to Oswald and make the call Collect? That is absurd. The fact that Oswald had both of those numbers memorized to give to the operator tells you the importance he put on the connection. 

Besides, if you read the form, it definitely indicates outgoing. For instance, it says the call was "To" Raleigh, NC. It doesn't say "From".  Then, Oswald is described as the "Person calling" and Hurt is described as the "Person called." And Aretha stipulated it just that way. 

The only things Fritz wrote down about the Saturday evening interrogation was Oswald's denial of being in the Backyard photo and his complaint about being in just a t-shirt for the lineup. But, they had to talk about more than that, right? And once Oswald denied ever owning or possessing the rifle and claimed to be in the doorway during the shots, what else could they ask him about the JFK shooting? And when did they ever ask him anything about the Tippit shooting? We never even heard how Oswald said he got from his room to the theater. They must have asked, and he must have said, right? So, why isn't it part of the record? 

And then at the final interview on Sunday morning, presumably the longest, Fritz wrote down absolutely nothing about what was said. 

And let's consider that Oswald denied the claims of Frazier and his sister that he carried a long bag. And in Frazier's case, it wasn't even long enough to house the rifle. And he described the bag as an ordinary grocery bag- from the grocery store. Now, do you think that if you began with paper and tape that you could make a bag that anyone would mistake for a grocery bag from the grocery store? And think about the fact that they could find absolutely no one who could corroborate the claims of Frazier and his sister. No one in that building, apparently, saw Oswald with a long bag, even though it was something he couldn't hide. And after Jack Doughterty denied that Oswald carried such a bag, don't you think they canvassed the rest of the employees. "Did you see Oswald early this morning, and did you observe him carrying a long bag?" How many employees were asked that question? It had to be a lot. 

Oswald may well have alluded to his intelligence connections during those lengthy interrogations. And I mean that he named names.