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

There have been several more votes in favor of the legitimacy of the bus and cab rides, and I think we can call it a blow-out at this point.

 And remember also that every single lone-nutter in the world is also an advocate of the validity of the bus and cab rides. Obviously, if you think the investigation was honest and above-board, you don't think the Dallas Police planted a bus transfer ticket on Oswald. Therefore, you know he rode the bus. You also have no reason to think the Dallas Police got any witnesses to lie. That means that people like John McAdams, David Reitz, David Von Pein, Jason Burke and others can be counted among those who recognize the bus and cab rides as real. I won't tell you that they participated in my poll. But, that's because they figured it must be serving my interest in some way, and they didn't want to contribute to it. 

But, the point is that the vast majority of the JFK community believes in the authenticity of the bus and cab rides. It's really just a few people like Joseph Backes who think otherwise, and they are in the extreme minority. 

And, I bet that it puts a smile on the faces of LNs to hear CTs wax on and on about the bus/cab conspiracy. That's because it paints the whole CT community as been not just extreme, but extremely paranoid- like the government hiding the truth about UFOs.  

Another parallel I can make is to the idea that the driver Greer shot Kennedy. Again, it's all smiles for LNs to hear that. That really must take the pressure off  them. It's like pitching them a slow ball right down the middle.  Their work is done when they hear that kind of hogwash.

What freaks them out? I'll tell you what freaks them out: Oswald in the doorway freaks them out. 

They've got 5 attack sites going against that idea- that I know of. How many do you think they set up against Greer shooting Kennedy? It's a nice round number. 

It really is preposterous to think that the Dallas Police faked the bus and cab rides. There were too many people involved, and I mean too many people on the composing end (the cops) and too many people on the delivery end (the fake witnesses). It would have broadened the conspiracy tremendously. And for what? Just to get to claim that Oswald rode the bus for 2 blocks in the wrong direction? 

I'll tell you this: if those cops really did fabricate that story, then they had to be the Maxwell Smarts of the police world. And it's only because Joseph Backes is the Maxwell Smart of the JFK world that he thinks they were capable of such buffoonery. 

And there is no comparison between altering the Altgens photo and concocting the bus and cab rides. No one was ever going to see the original Altgens photo- the thing that the altered photo replaced. But, making up a phony story about how Oswald got home was not going to eliminate the true story, the evidence for which was certain to come out. No one outside the conspiracy was going to be privy to the Altgens alteration, and I bet you that very few people within the conspiracy were privy to it. The whole operation was conducted on a "need to know" basis- you only knew the part that concerned you. But, with the fake bus and cab rides, they would have to find phony witnesses, coerce those phony witnesses, train those phony witnesses, and forever watch those phony witnesses. The Altgens alteration was at least tidy, but concocting a phony bus and cab ride would be messy as hell, with loose ends all over the place. 

Another great advantage of altering the Altgens photo is that the very idea of photographic alteration is outside the mindset of, well, damn near everybody. Why is that? I think it's because we think of photographic alteration as something that fascists, Nazis, and Stalinists would resort to, but not Americans- not the American government nor the American press.  

Plenty of people before the OIC championed Oswald in the doorway, including some big names like Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, Jim Garrison, Gerald McKnight, Penn Jones, and more. But, as far as I know, most did it without ever claiming photographic alteration of the Altgens photo. Again, the minds of Americans just don't want to go there. 

But, I'm proud to say that Dr. David Wrone, our honored mentor, wrote that the Altgens photo was "crudely altered." It's crude alright.  

Anyway, we have to keep our eyes on the ball, and the ball is: Oswald in the doorway. It is certainly the biggest threat to JFK officialdom in the world today, and, we are going to destroy the official story of the JFK assassination with it.