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

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  Scott Kaiser Well, can't argue with you there, I'm not sure either why Shelley would've told Oswald to take off to the lunchroom, but of course unlike you, I didn't get a chance to hear Shelley tell Oswald that, you know, to take off, thanks for clearing that up!

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  Ralph Cinque We don't hear anyone tell Oswald to go to the theater, yet, we assume that someone told him to. It's inconceivable that after what just happened that he would shrug his shoulders and go take in a movie just for fun. He had to have been guided there to the theater. And the same is true of his going to the lunch room. You see: unlike you, the plotters weren't stupid. They knew beforehand that they needed to get Oswald to a place that was accessible from the 6th floor.  Obviously, if he was watching the motorcade from Houston Street, they were never going to be able to claim that he did it. The 2nd floor lunch room was actually a good place to have him spotted. They certainly were not going to leave it to chance. They weren't going to just let him go anywhere he wanted. That could have easily spoiled everything. I'm sure he was monitored constantly. I'm sure they had someone at every exit to stop him from leaving, and it was Shelley at the front entrance.  And it's possible that he was told not to leave the building, and it may be that he didn't regard going out the door and standing on the landing to violate that. He wasn't leaving the building and going anywhere, so he may have figured, no harm/no foul. But, I'm sure they wish he hadn't done it.