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

 We don't know that Carolyn Arnold had any hesitancy when she said she saw Oswald at the doorway, shortly before the shooting. She wasn't allowed to make her own statement. She wasn't allowed to choose her own words. An FBI Agent named Richard E. Harrison did the writing, and he's the one who said that she thought she saw Oswald. And he knew how contrary it was to the official story. He and every other FBI agent- minions of J. Edgar Hoover that they were- knew that Oswald having done it was the law of the land.

And remember that Carolyn Arnold was a 19 year old girl at the time. There were grown men who trembled in their shoes when confronting America’s Gestapo, the FBI. And I’m sure that the FBI’s displeasure with what she was saying got through to her real fast. Fortunately for history, she stuck to her guns.

But, when the FBI returned to the TSBD on March 18, 1964, that’s when their Gestapo ways went down full-force. They demanded statements from every employee and made them sign them. Read Breach of Trust by Professor Gerald McKnight. And they got Carolyn Arnold to revise her statement and say that she didn’t see Oswald at all.

Notice that I didn’t say “change her mind.” I said: revise her statement. And what Gerald McKnight does so well in Breach of Trust is show us why it’s sound to believe that her first statement, on November 26, was the credible one; it was the truthful one.

But in the sign-it-or-be-damned statement they forced her to sign on March 18, they did allow her to use the real time that she went outside, which was 12:25, which was just 5 minutes before the motorcade arrived. Carolyn was one of the last to get out there. She was with two other secretaries (her friends) and they all said they were late in getting out there. Was it due to Carolyn being so very pregnant? Perhaps. Harrison actually made it that it was “a few minutes before 12:15” that she believed she saw Oswald. People don’t even talk that way. Can’t you see what his piddly little mind was trying to do? He was trying to leave Oswald enough time to get up to the 6thfloor to kill Kennedy. I guess he thought that 15 minutes was enough. But, smarter minds than his at the FBI, upon seeing his report, realized that it was still fatal to the official story to have Oswald at the doorway a few minutes before 12:15.

And it’s probably why the Gestapo descended on the TSBD to get signed statements on March 18. It was mainly, if not exclusively, damage control over Carolyn Arnold. And since they were getting her to sign a new statement denying that she ever saw Oswald that day, they let her put the real time she left to go outside, which was 12:25.

So, as Dr. McKnight lays out in Breach of Trust, what the astute observer will do is take her statement of what she saw from November 26, and marry it with her time from March 18, and that will give you the truth.

As for her supposed statement in 1976 changing her story completely yet again, it is a joke! No one should take it seriously. In it, she supposedly said that as she was leaving to go downstairs at 12;25 , she saw Oswald eating alone in the 2ndfloor lunchroom. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT IS ESTABLISHED BEYOND DOUBT THAT OSWALD ATE IN THE FIRST FLOOR LUNCH ROOM, ALSO KNOWN AS THE DOMINO ROOM, AND IT WAS EARLY IN THE LUNCH BREAK. Three investigators wrote that down that down: Fritz, Hosty, and Bookhout. And why would Oswald lie about where he ate lunch? Again, you should read Breach of Trust, in which McKnight asked: What are you going to believe? Something that someone said at the time, or a new story that they came up with OVER 5000 DAYS LATER?

And Earl Golz himself was a joke. At the Dallas Morning News, he was the staff reporter who wrote about UFOs and other strange sightings. Why would Carolyn Arnold go to him? If she wanted to change her story, why didn’t she go to the police or to the FBI?

But remember: it was during the HSCA, and Oswald in the doorway had reared its ugly head again. Claiming that Oswald was on the 2nd floor eating during the assassination was a way of getting him out of the doorway.

There is zero chance that that was true. And to claim that it’s true means that Oswald ate two lunches that day.

Of course, that’s impossible because he only had one lunch: cheese sandwiches and an apple from Mrs. Paine’s house, as he told Fritz. The workers were let go 15 minutes early precisely because of the motorcade. So, they got off work at 11:45. So, why would Oswald wait until 12:25 to eat? He had nothing else to do for 40 minutes. He had no one to talk to because he didn’t talk to anybody there. He was a recluse; a loner. And he didn’t have any love letters to write to Judyth Baker or Marina. So, of course, he went and ate right away. And he ate where he always ate, the first floor lunch room, which is where he habitually stored his lunch, and where there was a newspaper that he could browse through while he was eating.

This is Carolyn Arnold below Oswald in the doorway in the Dave Wiegman film. Read Breach of Trust.