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

                     The Vast Significance of Oswald not owning a Rifle

It was John Armstrong who wrote this brilliant analysis proving that Oswald did not own a rifle. He never mail-ordered one from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago. What’s on the link below is some of the best work that has ever been done in JFK assassination research. 

https://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html

Oswald probably didn't even have a P.O. Box, and I know that John Armstrong agrees with that too. What did he need one for? The evil Harry Holmes (the postal inspector) told the WC that all Oswald had delivered to his P.O. Box (besides the rifle) was Russian and Socialist newspapers. There is no evidence that Oswald subscribed to any Russian or Socialist newspapers. Did they find a stack of them in his boarding room? No, they didn't find a one. Did Marina ever say that Oswald read Russian and Socialist newspapers? No, she did not. 

But, now that you know that Oswald didn't own a rifle and that the whole story about the mail-order from Chicago was an FBI concoction, you need to consider the implications of it. The fact that the FBI did that in advance tells us that they had every expectation that he was going to die that weekend. Because: even though they were confident they could bamboozle the media and the public with the ruse, they knew it would never hold up in court. They knew that Oswald was going to have a lawyer, and maybe a team of lawyers. And maybe the team would have included Mark Lane and Vincent Salandria; two very smart lawyers. And when Oswald told them that he never ordered a rifle from Chicago, they would have believed him, and they would have gotten busy demolishing the claim that he did.

So, what about that order invoice, supposedly of Oswald's? Fake. And if Oswald had lived, it means that Marina never would have been seized. She would have remained free and never subjected to the MK-ULTRA that they certainly did to her. And she would have been Oswald's witness at the trial. And she would have told the jury that he never owned a rifle except for the shotgun that he owned in Russia to hunt rabbits with.  

What else? Oswald would have testified that he was the Man in the Doorway of the Altgens photo; but they altered his image; they changed the top of his head, which they did. The AP would have been in the hot-seat for that because it was their photo. But, they didn't alter it. A CIA team of photo-alterers were there in Dallas, and they worked it over at the CIA photo lab in downtown Dallas: Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall, where Oswald worked in the Fall of 1962 until the Spring of 1963. I don’t know what the AP would have said in response to Mark Lane's grilling, but they would have been in the hot-seat. 

What else? Oswald would have gotten to say how he got from his boarding room to the Texas Theater, that somebody drove him, and it was probably a Dallas cop. Are you aware that the police never told us what Oswald said about that? And he must have said something. Apparently, what he said was so damaging to the official story that they just hushed it. 

And, Oswald would have gotten to explain how he went from the doorway to the 2nd floor lunch room, that he used the stairs in the southeast corner and went up the one flight to the 2nd floor, and then he walked across the great expanse of the 2nd floor to the northwest corner where the lunch room was. It was when he was in the vestibule of the lunch room that Officer Marionn Baker saw him through the glass and followed him in there. But, Oswald went up from the first floor, not down from the 6th floor.      

Not only was putting Oswald on trial out of the question; they couldn't even give him a lawyer. It would have been fatal for them to let him talk to a lawyer even once. They would have had to kill the lawyer. 

So, killing Oswald was the top priority. They hoped to get it done in the theater. The problem was that the cops involved weren't explicitly told to kill Oswald. The plotters wanted it to happen spontaneously, and pinning him with a cop-killing was supposed to help. But, it just didn't happen. And it makes me wonder if Oswald put up any resistance at all in the theater. Because: if he had, it seems like one of those itchy trigger fingers would have put him down. Apparently, none of those cops saw enough resistance from him to justify shooting him. 

So, when that didn't work, next up was the Midnight Press Conference. If this is the first time you are hearing that the purpose of the MPC was to kill Oswald, I realize that it's a shock. But, it is not a stretch. You name me one other criminal who was ever given a press conference to talk to the world. It is the first and only time it ever happened in the history of jurisprudence. And note that Jack Ruby was at the MPC, and I don't mean to shoot Oswald. He just went there to deliver sandwiches, but they were not going to let the opportunity slip away to frame him. But, apparently, he wasn't in the right position to pin it on him. And even though Oswald had only spoken for one minute, he was doing so much damage, saying over and over that Police were denying him a lawyer. He did so much damage that the next evening, they felt compelled to pull off the ruse with H Louis Nichols, fooling him into thinking that he met with the real Oswald, who denied his offer of a lawyer. Tell me: do you really think Oswald would have turned down the offer of a lawyer after having implored the world for one at least 13x on camera? 

In fact, I suspect they planned to try to kill Oswald again on Saturday, and the reason I say that is because Jim Leavelle wore his Easter suit on Saturday as well. That’s right; he wore it two days in a row, Saturday and Sunday.

So, the very day after President Kennedy and Leavelle’s good friend Officer JD Tippit got gunned down, Leavelle felt like wearing a sunny Easter suit? He wore that sunny Easter suit to create contrast between himself and Oswald, who would be in black, to aid the shooter.

But, it was evening before they were done with Nichols doing the damage control from the MPC, and that pushed the next shooting attempt to Sunday morning. 

And so it went, with Ruby getting there an hour early, being nabbed and taken up to the 5th floor. SS Agent Forest Sorrels sat with him as the Dallas Police pulled off the Garage Spectacle. Ruby wasn't even in the garage. FBI Agent James W. Bookhout masqueraded as him. But, Oswald was not shot in the garage; he was shot in the Jail Office afterwards. And they made sure they didn't get him to the hospital before it was too late, so that doctors would not be able to save him. They turned left on Commerce and went all the way down to the Pearl Expressway and then doubled back on Main to Hardin (making a loop) when they could have turned right on Commerce and been at Hardin in a jiffy, and it would have been a straight shot to Parkland Hospital. 

The magnitude of the evil, the monstrous evil, that happened that weekend is mindboggling. It's unfathomable. How could otherwise normal men do it? My answer is that it was like in war, where wanton killing is done by otherwise normal men. They are under orders to kill, and these men were under orders to kill by the Commander in Chief, President Lyndon Johnson. 

And that is how monstrous the weekend of 11-22 to 11-24 really was; so much worse than a lone nut acting alone to kill Kennedy.

But, the point is that they HAD to kill Oswald before he talked to a lawyer, and they did.