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

 Ruth Paine drove Oswald to the bus stop when he was moving to New Orleans. Do you realize how significant that is? It means that she saw what he had with him, and if he had a rifle with him, she surely would have noticed that, and remembered it, and reported it. But, she didn't.

Some people are trying to deny that she drove him, and it's because of what I stated. But, Ruth admitted driving him. And there really is no alternative to her driving him because he had no friends. George DeMohrenshildt was already gone. Who else was there? There was no one.

And if Oswald didn't have a rifle with him when he went down to New Orleans, then he didn't have a rifle in September when Marina was moving back to Dallas with Ruth. It means that the whole story about the rifle and the blanket and the garage is a lie. It means that Michael Paine was lying through his teeth when he recounted all the times he moved the blanket with the rifle, wondering whether it was camping equipment or tent poles or a military shovel, but never checking to find out because that would have been an invasion of privacy. Every bit of it was a complete fabrication.

Oswald did not own a rilfe, and he said he didn't. And if he did own one, he would have admitted it. It wasn't a crime to own a rifle. He'd have said he owned one, but he didn't shoot anyone with it.

It's what anyone would have done. But, he denied owning a rifle because he didn't own one.