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

I just received another communication from Professor Jerry Kroth, and he asked a question:

"Ralph, One thing. Oswald's arrest shirt is the same as his shirt in the photo, but many researchers say he went home and changed shirts.  What's your response to them? Jerry"

Cinque: Jerry, that is a very contentious issue, and I know that a lot of CTs want to say that Oswald changed his shirt, and it's probably mainly because the WC said he didn't. But, if you analyze it carefully, you realize that he really didn't change it.

The first person to see Oswald after the assassination was Marrion Baker, and he correctly described it as a "light brown jacket over a white shirt." He referred to it as a "jacket" but about half the people who saw it did. It was really a hybrid between a shirt and a jacket. Can you blame him for calling this a jacket?

Then, Mary Bledsoe described Oswald's shirt on the bus as brown and old and tattered, with a hole in the right elbow (true) and that the shirt was not only unbuttoned but the buttons were missing. All true. And when she saw Oswald's arrest shirt, she identified it as the one she saw on the bus.

Some CTs like to think that the Dallas Police planted the bus transfer ticket in his shirt pocket, but it is not sound thinking. Whatever the Dallas Police were up to that day, they were not going to fabricate a bus ride for him and have to create and coach multiple witnesses to tell stories to support it and survive the questioning. That was way too risky. Whatever good such a phony story would do for them was far outweighed by the risks it posed to them (the police). 

So, the bus ride was real; the bus transfer ticket was real; and it was there in the pocket of his arrest shirt. There is no way he would have moved it from one shirt to another because it was already expired. It was only good for 15 minutes. 

So, Oswald did NOT change his shirt. The Warren Commission was right about that. And the Dallas Police would not have gone into the script-writing and theater production  business on the afternoon of November 22nd. They were pretty busy that day. You know? Ralph