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

There are people claiming that Oswald was in the 2nd floor lunch room during the shooting, and Oliver Stone even put it in his movie JFK, but they are all wrong.  

You should read the testimony of Officer Marrion Baker because he was legit. And he said that Oswald was JUST ARRIVING at the 2nd floor lunch room when he first saw him. Oswald was passing through the vestibule of the lunch room when Baker first saw him through the glass. 

So, if Oswald was just getting to the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:31 and 20 seconds,  how could he have been there at 12:30? Are you going to assume that he was there, and then left, and then came back? There are no grounds to assume that. The only rational assumption is that he was just getting there when Baker saw him.  

But, how did Oswald get there, and from where did he come? Did he use the same staircase that Baker was on in the northwest corner of the building? No, that is impossible because if Oswald had come down those stairs, he would have been heard by Baker and Truly. And remember that Truly was ahead of Baker, which means that Truly and Oswald would likely have encountered each other.  

Then, there was Victoria Adams who came down those stairs shortly after the shots, and she would have encountered Oswald too.

But, the most important thing to realize is that the vestibule to the lunch room had 3 doors: an access door from the office side, an access door from the stairwell side, and a door into the lunch room. So, Oswald had to have entered the vestibule through the office access door or the stairwell access door. But, Baker was looking through the glass of the stairwell access door, and the door wasn't moving. It was stationary. So, Oswald could not have used it because it never could have returned to being still and closed that fast. It would have still been in motion. So, since that door was stationary, it means that Oswald must have used the other door: the office access door.

So, if he came from the office side (and he did) it means that he must have come up the one flight of stairs that went from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor in the southeast corner of the building. And that was very close to the doorway. 

So, Oswald went from the doorway, where he was captured in the Altgens photo and the Wiegman film, to the southeast stairs. He climbed them to the 2nd floor. Then he crossed the great expanse of the second floor to get to the northwest corner where the lunch room was. Here is a picture of the stairs that he used.

 Oswald was NOT in the 2nd floor lunch room eating when JFK was being shot. Oswald ate in the 1st floor lunch room, and it was early in the lunch break. Three interrogators wrote that down: Fritz, Hosty, and Bookhout. And Oswald always ate in the 1st floor lunch room, which was also called the Domino room because there were dominos there for men to pass the time when they were on breaks. There was also a newspaper there that Oswald liked to browse through as he ate. And there was also a shelf  there to store your lunch, which Oswald used. There is no reason to think that Oswald ever ate in the 2nd floor lunch room, which was for the office workers, not the warehouse men, which Oswald was.  It was a huge mistake for Oliver Stone to put that in his movie. After eating in the 1st floor lunch room, Oswald went outside to watch the Presidential Parade, and that is exactly what FBI Agent James Hosty wrote down in his notes.