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

Let's get back to JFK. An interesting comment came in tonight from Dennis Cimino:

"They had to keep the patsy in the building at all costs. Had he left and been visibly seen by lots of people outside, it would have totally blown everything. The timing of him allegedly being in the sniper's nest during the shooting would have been ruined. He couldn't be out and about in front and at the same time up on the 6th floor."

 

"So, Oswald was on a leash- a short leash. They let him step out onto that doorway, but if he had ventured any farther, someone in that doorway would have stopped him. I'm sure of it. They could not allow him to go any farther than he did- to the inch. He went to the edge of the landing, but that was all. If he had tried to go any farther- meaning down the steps- somebody would have stopped him."

That is very sound analysis by Dennis. As we see him in the Altgens photo and the Wiegman film, Oswald is at the very edge of his universe. They would not have let him go down those steps. 

So, how did he wind up at the very edge? Was that just an accident? For all we know, Oswald got outside about 12:25, therefore, 5 minutes before Altgens. In this context, that's a long time, isn't it?

So, maybe he DID try to venture farther out, farther away. And if so, then somebody surely got in his way and gave him a compelling reason to stay put on that landing. 

Who was it? Was it Shelley? Could have been. He's a good candidate. But, we don't see Shelley in the Altgens photo, and we presume he was behind Oswald. It seems to me that it would more likely be someone who was IN FRONT of Oswald, someone physically blocking his way, like a guard does in football. 

What about Joe Molina? He's standing in front of him with his arms across his chest, a defiant gesture. 

  

I'll admit that we are totally in the realm of speculation now. But, what is NOT a speculation is this: somebody in that doorway had the job of making sure Oswald didn't venture one step farther than he did.