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

Granted, I made a mistake in referencing fibers on the shirt, since the fibers were on the rifle. But, that is now corrected, and my thesis- that Oswald did not change his shirt- is not harmed in the slightest. 

That's right, MacRae. There's been harm done to your ears from that crap music you make than has been done to my thesis. 

And regarding what Jerry Kroth wrote about Oswald changing his shirt, I have discussed it with him at length, and he now sees it differently, and any future edition of his book will reflect that. 

So, let's talk further about your crappy theory that Oswald changed his shirt because you haven't corrected a thing, and you're still just making noise- after all these years. 

First, I want to point out -again- that no one besides YOU, Duncan MacRae, has ever suggested that fibers from the shirt clung to the gun from a prior day. After 50 years, it took an aging rocker, still clinging to his boyhood glory, to come up with "Clung to the gun". Sounds like the title to one of your songs.

Second, the whole idea of the shirt-fibers getting "wedged in the butt plate" is far-fetched. They were no fibers from the blanket in which the gun was supposedly wrapped on the gun. And there is no reason to think that mere "handling" of the gun on any prior day would get shirt-fibers wedged into the butt plate.  But, we'll start with this:

"I never owned a rifle. . . I didn't shoot John Kennedy. . . I didn't even know Gov. John Connally had been shot. . . I don't own a rifle. . . I don't own a rifle at all. . . I did have a small rifle some years in the past."

So, we start off with the dubiousness of Oswald EVER having handled the rifle, period. I realize that that is not a position that LNs are attracted to, but what reason to CTs have to doubt it? And when I say CTs, I mean real CTs, not phony ones like Duncan MacRae who claim Oswald did the shooting but had an accomplice on the Grassy Knoll who missed. I have already explained why that is a maniacal position to take and will expound on it further if MacRae tries to defend it. 

So, if you are a real CT, and you know Oswald was an innocent patsy who was framed, you have no reason to think he was lying when he denied owning the rifle. 

I also found this:

http://elderlynegro.freehomepage.com/about.html

Again, if you are a real CT, you have no reason to doubt what Oswald said. You know he was innocent, and people who are innocent have NO reason to lie to the police. People who are innocent know that IF they lie to the police, it will MAKE them look guilty. Since they're innocent, they have nothing to hide, and therefore, they have no reason to lie. Oswald was not lying. 

But, besides Oswald's denial, there is no evidence that Oswald EVER handled that gun. And as I said, it would take more than "handling" to even theoretically get fibers wedged in the butt plate. 

If he was just handling the gun, moving the gun, cleaning the gun, how could that get shirt-fibers wedged into the butt plate? Even theoretically, he would have to be USING the gun right? Holding the butt plate against his shoulder firmly, something like this?

What evidence is there that Oswald ever had a shooting session with that rifle on any prior occasion? Even the phony reports of him going to the firing range and cross-shooting at other people's targets did not include the claim of him doing it with that particular rifle. That wasn't part of it. There is no evidence of Oswald having gone to the firing range with that particular rifle and done that, and there is no basis to think that he did. And it's not as though he owned land in the country where he could go shoot or that he had a friend with such land.  I don't know that anybody has ever claimed such a thing. I don't know that anybody has even suggested such a thing even as hypothetical possibility.  

Let's go back to this "elderly negro" guy, and it's his term, not mine. I don't know who he is:

"Oswald is supposed to have ordered the weapon by mail on March 12, 1963, long before he could have known that Kennedy would ever be coming to Dallas or that, stripped of the usual presidential protections, Kennedy would take part in a motorcade that would pass by his place of employment - a place where he would not even be employed until October. Even if Oswald's decision to purchase the gun was prompted by the idea of shooting at General Edwin Walker (Cinque: which is totally bogus; Oswald never shot at Walker), which he is alleged to have done within days of the rifle being shipped to him, he would not have been so foolish as to order a weapon by mail order. By ordering his intended firearm by this means, he was only creating a paper trail that would link him to the crime. He is supposed to have ordered it under an alias, A.J. Hidell. But not only did Oswald have to supply a money order to purchase the rifle, the package was to be delivered to a downtown Dallas mail box he kept in his own name. Why would someone planning to commit a crime with the weapon take such the risk of betraying his tracks, when he could purchase a similar (or superior) weapon anywhere in Texas for no more money without creating such a paper trail? And why, since he is alleged to have used the name 'A.J. Hidell' on a number of occasions, would he have ordered the rifle with an alias that could easily be connected with him rather than a completely fictitious name that no one could ever prove had anything to do with him?"

"What's more, according to the brief notes which remain of his interrogations, Oswald denied owning a gun at all. Numerous circumstances that support this claim, not least the fact that after the assassination his wife, Marina, admitted that she had not known that Oswald owned a rifle or a pistol. (Mark Lane, Plausible Denial, p. 343) A major problem with the view of Oswald as assassin is the unsatisfactory state of the documentary record of his alleged purchase of the weapon supposedly used to execute the crime. First, the 40-inch Mannlicher Carcano in the National Archives was never advertised for sale by the company from which it was allegedly ordered, Klein's Sporting Goods of Chicago. According to the Warren Report, Oswald responded to an advertisement in the February issue of the National Rifle Association's American Rifleman magazine. However, the American Rifleman ad was for a 36-inch 'carbine' with scope. If the mail-order coupon is authentic, where is the documentation explaining why the customer was supplied with a 40-inch weapon instead?"

"Even if the problems with the mail-order paperwork could be resolved, there is no evidence that Oswald ever received the gun in the mail. As a rifle would have been too large to have been left for him to find in his mail box, he would have been left a card telling him to collect the package from inside the post office. However, no such card exists and no post office employee recalls handing Oswald a package large enough to have been a gun."

"Two circumstances prove that, even if Oswald did order and receive the gun, he did so without the least intention of using it. First, like all firearms, the Mannlicher Carcano requires bullets to be fired. There is no evidence that Oswald ever purchased any. Second, the weapon was never cared for. After the assassination, investigators never found any gun cleaning equipment among Oswald's possessions. Oswald would have taken care of his rifle, if he had actually intended to use it. Instead, according to the Warren Commission, for many weeks before the assassination he left it lying around the garage of Mrs Ruth Hyde Paine in Irving, Texas. The neglected condition of the gun is indirectly attested by the fact that FBI experts asked to test it initially declined to do so on the grounds that its firing pin was so badly rusted it could not be fired safely. A rifle in such disrepair undoubtedly posed more of a threat to the person firing it than fired upon."

"Even if Oswald did own the Mannlicher Carcano, obtained ammunition by covert means and was stupid enough to think that a badly maintained piece of junk could be used to pull off the crime of the century, we cannot assume that he even brought his weapon into the TSBD. The official story of how Oswald is supposed to have smuggled the rifle inside the TSBD is risible. The only two persons who claim to have seen him bring a long package to work with him that day, Buell Wesley Frazier and his sister Linnie Mae Randle, described a package some two feet long - too short to have been a disassembled Mannlicher Carcano."

Cinque: I am going to get this post up since it's already lengthy, but I shall continue immediately. I'm not finished, MacRae.