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

 Let’s look at the Thursday and Friday in Oswald’s life. On Thursday, he rode with Frazier to Irving, and supposedly, he had a wad of brown wrapping paper with him. Frazier never claimed to see it, nor did Marina and Ruth. Did Oswald hide it? How and where? Did he stuff it in his pants? I don’t’ think so. And Troy West, the mailer, never saw Oswald milling around his mailing station. There is no evidence whatsoever that Oswald took any paper from the TSBD.

That’s a problem, but claiming that he made a bag? That’s just plain stupid. I am 75 years, and I have never in my life made a bag. I’ve never had the slightest notion to make a bag. I’ve never met anyone who told me they made bag. Making bags is not something that people do, nor do they know how. What they do is wrap things in paper, and that they do often. Surely, Oswald, had he sought to contain rifle parts in paper, would have stretched out the paper, but the rifle parts on it, and then wrapped it all together. Saying that “Oswald made a bag” is just another way of saying the U.S. government killed Kennedy.

I’ve been debating this with Chat GPT, and what it tries to do is back off the “make a bag” claim as much as possible, saying that he just folded the paper in half once, put the rifle parts within and started taping. It does not refrain from denying the obvious, such as that Detective Montgomery’s bag was a manufactured one and not just paper and tape. Then, it’s preposterous that rifle parts didn’t tear the paper, and it’s equally preposterous that Oswald didn’t tear the paper deliberately to access the parts when he was ready.  Everything about the bag story is goofy.

So, why did Oswald go to Irving? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: How did he come to have $68? He hadn’t worked since July, and he was poor and struggling even when he was working. He started at the TSBD on October 16 after being unemployed for 3 months. He made $1.11/ hour, and he had to pay his living expenses and give money to Marina. So, where did he get that $68? It is mathematically impossible that he saved it up from working. He didn’t steal it, so somebody must have given it to him.  That money was central to him going to Irving. He showed it to Marina and told her that he wanted to get an apartment for the four of them. She told him she wasn’t ready. She didn’t say that she never would or that she wanted a divorce. She just said she wasn’t ready. Then, they spent the night together.

Supposedly, Oswald got up in the middle of the night to go to the garage to look for the rifle. I repeat that you can’t get the rifle to that house from New Orleans, and you can’t get the rifle from Dallas to New Orleans in the first place. But, in addition to that, you have to recognize how much noise registers at night. Floors squeak; faucets squeal; doors rattle. And we’re talking about a project, starting with finding the rifle, making the bag, and getting it all ready.

But, let’s look further at Oswald imploring Marina to move back in with him in an apartment he would get for them. Marina attested to it, and there’s no reason to doubt her. But, how do you reconcile it with him intending to kill Kennedy? In other words, how can you have both on the table? It seems like it would have to be one or the other. How could he expect to kill Kennedy and establish a new domicile for his family? He couldn’t. Oswald’s appeal to his wife, and reported by her, defies that he had any thought of killing Kennedy. And of course, he surely had no thought of shooting Kennedy because he didn’t own a rifle. He had nothing with which to shoot him.

Frazier said that he and Oswald never discussed Kennedy’s visit to Dallas. But, Oswald and Marina discussed it. She said that she told him that she wished very much that she could see the President and First Lady. You’d think that at that moment, he would have piped in the President would be passing his building. But, he didn’t, and that’s because he didn’t know. The next morning at work, when he saw people congregating on the sidewalk, he did not know why they were doing it. So, he asked James Jarman, and Jarman told him about the motorcade passing by. And that’s when Oswald found out about it. It is yet another reason why there is no way Oswald ever had any thought of shooting Kennedy. That testimony of Jarman’s is one of the most powerful in the Warren Commission, and it exonerates Oswald. Of course, the Warren Commission ignored it. To be continued.