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

So, why did Oswald go from the doorway to the 2nd floor lunchroom? It wasn't to get a Coke. And he didn't get one. Both Baker and Truly said that he had no Coke. And if you read the Hosty note, it says that Oswald got his Coke BEFORE he went to eat lunch in the 1st floor lunchroom. 

And it makes sense because he was eating cheese sandwiches, which is pretty dry food, and he needed something to wash it down. I'm not going to assume he drank a Coke between 12 and 12:20 and then got another one at 12:30. Are you? So, he just had the one Coke, with his lunch, and it was before the motorcade. He got no Coke at 12:31. Therefore, he didn't leave the doorway to get a Coke. So, why did he leave? The Dave Wiegman film tells us. 

Wiegman worked for NBC, and he was in the first camera car, which was a convertible. It was the 6th car behind the JFK limo. Wiegman panned the doorway as the car made the turn from Houston to Elm, and he captured Oswald. 

The guy boxed is Oswald. They deliberately blurred the film so that we couldn't see him well. Notice how bad the whole image is.  But, that's definitely him, Oswald. He was standing in the center of the doorway at the top level. 

Then the car completed the turn and was heading down Elm. But then, Wiegman spun around to his right to pan the doorway again. But, why?  There must have been some commotion in the doorway. He either saw something through the corner of his eye, or he heard something, or both.

This is his limit frame. if you think of Wiegman's motion as an arc, this was the limit of his arc. And, it's where they inserted a still image. 

The original Doorman was gone. This new Doorman wasn't Oswald or Lovelady. On the left is the first Doorman (Oswald),  and on the right is the second one, who was nobody. 

Of course, he wasn't the Altgens Doorman either. Why would anyone think that these two are the same man?

Bill Shelley must have ordered Oswald to go to the lunchroom. Oswald resisted, which caused a commotion, which triggered Wiegman to do his second pan. 

That's not speculation because we know that Oswald left, and his leaving must be connected to why Weigman did his second pan. And there is no one but Bill Shelley who could have ordered Oswald to go.  

William Weston in The Spider's Web established that the TSBD was a CIA front company that was doing espionage, gun running, and drug running under the guise of schoolbook distribution. Shelley liked to say that he was in Military intelligence during WW2, but actually, it was an ROTC program at Crozier Technical School, which was the high school he attended in Dallas. But, he actually did get training in military intelligence there. In 1947, he started working for the Hugh Perry Book Depository, which was the predecessor to the TSBD. 

Both Shelley and Oswald had been in the Civil Air Patrol as teenagers. It was founded and funded by David Byrd, the Texas Oilman and industrialist who was the owner of the TSBD building. Read this about the connection between Byrd and LBJ. 

"Byrd established a relationship with his fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson. He bragged in his autobiography that Johnson was "among the men I could go to at any time that I wanted action", Johnson in turn said that it was "wonderful" to have Byrd's friendship. As a senator, Johnson aided Byrd's aerospace endeavors by helping him secure government contracts, and Byrd in return made donations to LBJ's political campaigns. Throughout the 1950s and 60s they corresponded with one another, in 1965 Johnson wrote to Byrd that "You've done so much to be helpful to me. I can never thank you enough."

Shelley was one of the first to occupy the doorway. Why do you think he chose to watch the motorcade from there? I think it was to prevent Oswald from leaving the building. 

So, Shelley ordered Oswald to go to the lunchroom; Oswald put up resistance; and it created a scene that caught Dave Wiegman's attention. 

In a series of interviews in the 1970s, Shelley told the renowned journalist Elzie Dean Glaze (who was male) that he was briefly arrested on 11/22/63. Look at this image.

Look at that expression on Shelley's face. And notice how the cop to the left of him is leering at him with furious eyes. 

  So, Oswald went to the lunchroom because he was told to go there. Then, he went to the Texas Theater for the same reason. It's not like he had a hankering for a war movie. 

I don't know who told Oswald to go to the Texas Theater, but I agree with John Armstrong that he must have been driven there. Butch Burroughs told Jim Douglass author of JFK and the Unspeakable that he saw Oswald in the theater at 1:07. Oswald could not have gotten there that early by walking.  And John Armstrong points out that, had he walked, it's likely that someone would have seen him. John thinks that Oswald was driven to the theater, most likely by the cop who went to his boarding room and honked his horn. Who was that cop? It might have been Tippit, or maybe it was Captain Westbrook.

I would like to go further into this, but not right now. My point now is that Oswald did not leave the doorway to get a Coke. And that means he had no reason, on his account, to go there. Somebody must have ordered him to do it. And the only person who could have done that is Bill Shelley, his boss, who was definitely in the doorway.