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

 DOVEY’S PROMISE is now streaming on Tubi, where you can watch it for free. It is the true story of the Towpath Murder Trial of 1965 in which the victim was Mary Pinchot Meyer, the lover and very close confidante of JFK. She was brutally murdered 11 months after he was. Right away, a poor, hapless black man, Raymond Crump, was arrested and charged with the crime- even though there was not a speck of forensic evidence against him. The famous Civil Rights lawyer Dovey Roundtree went to see Raymond at the DC Jail, and she was so convinced of his innocence, that she offered to defend him for one dollar.

And thus began the Trial of the Century which put Dovey Roundtree up against the entire U.S. Department of Justice. It wasn’t a fair fight- but they asked for it. That tiny, little, deeply religious woman gave them hell in the courtroom. I have the transcripts of the trial, and I wrote the script from it.

And let’s face it:  this is suppressed history. It is all wrapped up in the dirty secret that the CIA murdered JFK in Dealey Plaza, and then 11 months later, they killed Mary Pinchot Meyer to cover their tracks. And if not for Dovey Rountree, they would have the won the case and put Raymond Crump to death without flinching.

But, they never dreamt that he was going to get Dovey Rountree to be his lawyer, and that was their undoing.

It's been 60 years, but the spin that government and media give it is that, even though he was acquitted, Raymond Crump was guilty. Well, that is impossible. You can’t even conjure up a motive for Crump. And he had a rock-solid alibi because his consort, a woman named Vivien, confirmed to Dovey Roundtree that she was with Raymond at the time- cavorting. Vivien was unwilling to testify because she was married, and she was afraid her husband would kill her. But, Vivien did provide an affidavit that Dovey filed. The Prosecutors definitely knew about it, and they could have easily gone to Vivien themselves- to test her credibility. But they didn’t. They ignored it.

And there was another piece of very exonerating evidence, which is that the FBI determined that Crump’s jacket never contained a handgun because it would have deformed the pocket and left residues. The case should have been dismissed on that basis alone.

The CIA murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer was such a monstrous evil, and its cover-up continues to this day.  So please watch Dovey’s Promise and encourage others to watch it. It’s free! You can help me spread the word about it without spending a dime.

https://tubitv.com/movies/100039797/dovey-s-promise