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

bpete: You got problems with your witnesses Ralphie. 

The ex-landlady supposedly saw a hole in the elbow of a shirt that two 
other people on the same bus said was covered by a jacket. 

In fact, the ex-landlady testified that the shirt Oswald was supposedly 
wearing was brought to he before she testified... 

Mr. Ball.- No, I am talking about---I am showing you this shirt now, 
and you said, "That is it." You mean---What do you mean by "that is it"? 
Mrs. Bledsoe.- That is the one he had out there that day? 
Mr. Ball.- Who had it out there? 
Mrs. Bledsoe.- Some Secret Service man. 
Mr. Ball.- He brought it out. Now, I am---you have seen this shirt then 
before? 
Mrs. Bledsoe.- Yes. 
Mr. Ball.- It was brought out by the Secret Service man and shown to you? 
Mrs. Bledsoe.- Yes. 
Mr. Ball.- Had you ever seen the shirt before that? 
Mrs. Bledsoe.- Well--- 
Mr. Ball.- Have you? 
Mrs. Bledsoe.- No; he had it on, though. (6H413) 

So she testifies that she had never seen it before the SS man "brought it 
out" but it was the one Oswald was wearing. 

Then the cab driver testifies that he was wearing two jackets over his 
shirt... 

No credibility what so ever in that bunch. 


Cinque: You're one strange duck. On the hand, you claim that Oswald sneered out the doorway from inside on his way to load and cock his rifle on the 6th floor. But, you also think the Dallas Police made up a story about Oswald riding the bus and cab.

Why would they do that? They had nothing to gain from making up such a story- even if you think they were in on the murder. Oswald only rode the bus for 3 blocks, and it was going the wrong direction- setting him back. So, why would they concoct a story like that?

Mary Bledsoe said "He had on a brown shirt." That's just what Marrion Baker said. Think about how many other colors there are for shirts to be. "His shirt was undone". Hey, that's just like the Man in the Doorway. How many men go around with their shirt undone and where the shirt happens to be brown? Where does that put us in terms of probability?  She said "hole in his right sleeve" which she qualified to mean "elbow", and that's a dead ringer for Oswald's shirt.

But wait: she not only said the buttons were unbuttoned but that they were missing:

Mr. BALL - Did he have anything on. Was the shirt open or was it buttoned?
Mrs. BLEDSOE - Yes; all the buttons torn off.

She's batting a thousand so far.

Mr. BALL - Notice the color of his pants?
Mrs. BLEDSOE - Yes, they were gray, and they were all ragged in here [indicating].

That was also true. Oswald wore grey pants to work, and others confirmed it. He changed into black pants at his room.

Mr. BALL - How far had he been on the bus before he got off? Until the time he got on until the time he got off?
Mrs. BLEDSOE - About three or four blocks.

This too was spot-on.

Then consider how she came to be involved.

"Well, I turned on the radio--television--and we heard ambulances and going around and there was a little boy came in that room in the back and he turned it on, and we listened and hear about the President, only one I was interested in, so, he went on back to work and they kept talking about this boy Oswald and had on a brown shirt, and all of a sudden, well, I declare, I believe that this was this boy, and his name was Oswald---that is---give me his right name, you know, and so, about an hour my son came home, and I told him and he immediately called the police and told them, because we wanted to do all we could, and so, I went down the next night. He took me down, and I made a statement to them, what kind of---Secret Service man or something down there."

So, SHE, Mary Bledsoe, went to them. They didn't go to her. It was a spontaneous act on her part. It was her initiative. She was the prime mover in the association.

Leave the old woman alone, bpete. You're wasting your time trying to discredit her. Oswald rode the bus and cab. Stop fighting reality.