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

 In 3 days, it will be the 61st anniversary of JFK's murder. The most important thing to realize about it is that Oswald didn't do it, and he was standing in the doorway of the Book Depository at the time.

To the people who admit that Oswald didn't do it, but who won't admit that he was in the doorway at the time, they need to realize that there's no place else he could have been. If he wasn't on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy, then he HAD to be in the doorway.

He wasn't in the 2nd floor lunch at the time. He told the police that he ate his lunch in the 1st lunch room early in the lunch break. And they wrote it down. Fritz, Bookhout, and Hosty all wrote it down. Here is Hosty's note about it. It says that he ate lunch in the 1st floor lunch room and then went outside to watch the P. Parade,. "P" was short for Presidential.

The note says that he went to the 2nd floor to get a Coke to eat with his lunch, and then he returned to the 1st floor to eat it. And then he went outside to watch. Now, Baker and Truly both said that he had no Coke when they saw him after the shooting. But, Mrs. Reid said that when she returned to her desk on the 2nd floor after the shooting that she saw Oswald with a Coke as he was passing through, presumably on his way down, the same way he came up, using the stairs in the southeast corner of the building, next to the doorway. So, if he got a Coke between when he was with Baker and Truly and when he was with Mrs. Reid, was that his second Coke? Did he have one with lunch and then get another one? I don't know. It's certainly possible.

But, it's relatively unimportant. The important thing is that he ate in the 1st floor lunch room, and then he went outside to watch the Presidential Parade.

And Oswald said that while he was eating in the 1st floor lunch room, that Jarman and Norman were hanging around. He didn't say he ate with them. He didn't eat with anybody. He was a loner at the TSBD. He just wasn't interested in making friends with anyone. He just cited that they were around at the time, and they confirmed it.

So, there is NO CHANCE that Oswald ate in the 2nd floor lunch room.

And realize also that according to Officer Marrion Baker, Oswald was just arriving at the 2nd floor lunch room when he saw him. Well, if Oswald was just getting there at 12:31.5 then it means he wasn't there at 12:30. You can't assume that he was there and came back.

And there's no place else he could have been. He wasn't working. He wasn't on the phone. He wasn't writing a love letter to Judyth Baker or to his wife Marina, whichever you prefer.

Do you want to suggest he was in the bathroom relieving himself? Well, that doesn't take that long. And they deliberately released the workers 15 minutes earlier than usual at 11:45 precisely so that they could take care of their eating and drinking and ablutions and biological functions, so that they would be ready to watch the motorcade at 12:25. That was the expected time of arrival, not 12:30. it was 5 minutes late.

And Oswald said that he was "out with Bill Shelley in front." How could he even know that Shelley was there unless he was there himself?

So, if you call yourself an Oswald defender, you have to place him in the doorway. If you don't, you're a liar. If you don't, you are NOT an Oswald defender.