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

The reason I emphasize Professor McKnight's advocacy of Oswald in the doorway is because it demonstrates the hypocrisy of Joseph Backes and his now sidekick bpete. And that is weird. I never thought that bpete was going to turn out to be the "Lennie" in this relationship and Backes the "George". Imagine being Lennie to Joseph Backes.

bpete thinks Backes made a "great reply" when he said that Dr. McKnight has an unfavorable opinion of me. But, Backes didn't say what Dr. McKnight said. Therefore, what reason is there to think that Dr. McKnight told Joseph Backes anything about me? In a case like this, credibility requires that you say what the man said.

The hypocrisy is that Gerald McKnight and I hold the same core belief: that Lee Harvey Oswald was standing in the doorway when JFK got shot. Yet, for my extolling that fact, they rant and rave and spew bile at me, yet they do not dare disrespect Gerald McKnight. They seem to think that he is entitled to have his conviction, and it does not warrant abusing him.

What's the difference? Well note first that if there is any difference, it constitutes an admission on their part that it's not my advocacy of Oswald in the doorway that provokes their attacks. Is it because I send them emails? I do not send them emails.

Considering how long I have been denying sending them emails, and considering how obvious it is that I do not wish to be associated with that, and considering that I have cited other people who have received fraudulent emails, such as Jerry Dealey, isn't it likely that I am the last person who could be sending those emails?

Back in the very early days, before the OIC was even set up, when Joseph Backes first started his public rampage attacking me, I wrote to him a few times. That was before the fraudulent emailing started. I have never written to him since it began. And I have never, ever, written to bpete at any time. And I swear to that in the names of my three grandchildren.

And note also that to most people,-mature people-my saying that would suffice. To Jerry Dealey, it sufficed. Once I explained to him that I am not the one sending out these emails, he believed me and informed others.

This is a serious matter since some of the letters have included threats of physical harm, which makes it a criminal matter.

But, this has gone on long enough. I am not and have not been the source of these letters, and I demand that the accusations stop. And you listen up, Joseph Backes: I know where you are; I have your street address in Albany, New York. I am threatening you with a lawsuit if you continue doing this. I am telling you categorically that I have not sent these letters, and I have nothing whatsoever to do with them.  It's reached the point that I have the strong desire to say it under oath in court and to hold you legally and financially responsible for your false accusations. So, continue doing it at your own peril.

But, getting back to Gerald McKnight, he inherited all of the research materials of Harold Weisberg, which he then donated to Hood College in Maryland. And it no doubt includes Harold Weisbergs materials pertaining to the Man in the Doorway. In fact, if you listen to Gerald McKnight's statements in that speech he gave on CSPAN, he stated that there were witnesses who said that Oswald was outside.

I do not know whom he was referring to or what evidence he was referring to. But, I'll remind you that Gerald McKnight is the one who came up with Oswald's exact weight at the time of the assassination: 131 pounds.

It's not surprising that they would have weighed Oswald because police commonly do. The New Orleans police weighed Oswald there at the time of his arrest, and he was 140 pounds. There is a photograph of Oswald in custody in New Orleans in which he is standing in front of a height ledger showing him to be 5'9".  If they took his height, they must have taken his weight. And the same is true in Dallas. Where that was in the records, I do not know, but Gerald McKnight reported it. And it meshes perfectly with the physical evidence because it's obvious that Oswald lost a lot of weight between New Orleans and Dallas.

Based on what we see above, that figure of 131 pounds rings true.

And it's a very important issue too because if Oswald was 5'9" 131, and Lovelady was 5'8" 170, then obviously they weren't "twins" or anything close to it. The FBI letter below establishes Lovelady as 5'8" 170 pounds at the time of the FBI photo shoot on Feb 29, 1964. Since Lovelady started losing weight after the assassination, it may have started immediately, in which case he may have been even heavier on November 22, 1963.  So, the shorter man was 40 pounds or more heavier.

We have Dr. McKnight to thank for this, and it's information like this that clears ground in the case. What might Dr. McKnight be able to tell us specifically about the Doorman issue? What possible witnesses might he cite? I don't know, but I mean to find out.