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

I would like to think that all Oswald defenders can agree that Oswald must have been told to go to the theater. He didn't go there because he had a hankering for a war movie. At a time like that, that would really be sick. And, it had all the signs of being a rendezvous. Oswald was following orders.

So, if Oswald was ordered to go to the Texas Theater, don't you think it's likely that the person or persons who gave him the order also told him how to get there? Don't you think they tried to control him in every way they could? Don't you think they tried to control everything he did?

That wasn't the case before the assassination. They let him wander around freely. It certainly wasn't good for them that he was seen by people as late as 12:25 by Carolyn Arnold. But, even if it was really 12:20, it ruled out any chance that he could accomplish the assassination. He would have had to get up to the 6th floor, assemble the rifle, USING A DIME AS A SCREWDRIVER, arrange the boxes, etc. 

Then, to make matters worse, he stepped outside and got photographed by Ike Altgens. Holy Moley! What could have been worse than that?

So, why'd they take that chance? Why didn't they give him a reason to stay out of sight the last half hour? You know: hide. 

Well, they didn't want to tell him what they were doing as in, "We're going to kill Kennedy today, so we need you to do something for us." They weren't going to say that. So, what reason could they have given him? 

I'm absolutely sure that they were watching him the whole time from the moment the lunch break began at 11:45. And when he stepped out into that doorway, somebody's heart started racing. Holy Fuck! He stayed in back on the landing, and I'm sure that if he tried to venture any farther out, Bill Shelley would have stopped him. And who knows, maybe that happened. I suspect it was Shelley who told him to go to the lunch room. What reason did he give him? I don't know.

But, after the assassination, it was very different, and then they exerted complete control over Oswald. Whatever he did at that point, and however he got from A to B, they, his handlers, determined it. So, if he traveled in a private car, it's because they wanted him to.  

As I see it, they only wanted two things from him at that point: they wanted him to get his revolver- so that there would be an excuse for cops to shoot him dead in a fire fight AND they needed him to get to the theater. What else did they need from him at that point? Nothing. 

I'll admit that there are no easy answers to this. John Armstrong and Jim Douglass believe that the most likely thing is that Oswald was driven from his room to the theater in the cop car.What's the alternative? He didn't walk; there was no time. He didn't take the bus because, likewise, there was no time; it's a lot slower than being driven directly. Could he have been driven by someone else? Yeah, I suppose, but who? 

But, what's weird about it is that not the Fritz notes and not anybody's notes convey what Oswald told them about how he got from his room to the theater. He spoke at length about going to his room, changing his clothes, stuffing them in the dirty laundry, etc. They wrote all that down, but they didn't write one word about how he got from his room to the theater. 

Could they have not asked him? No, that's ridiculous. Naturally, they were going to want to know what he did after leaving his room and how he got to the theater. They charged him with the murder of Tippit, didn't they? So, wouldn't they have wanted to know where he said he was at the time? They didn't put anything down about it; not that he walked; not that he was driven, not that he took public transportation. Nothing. So, why not? It's a stunning omission.

So, what do you think Oswald told them? Somebody had to have driven him to the theater; I think we can say that with quite a lot of certainty. So, what did Oswald say about it? The second page of the Fritz notes end abruptly with him saying that he changed his clothes at his room, and then nothing. And it never goes back to continue it. 

I think it's fair to say that there was a heck of lot left out of those notes. Oswald underwent at least 13 hours of interrogation, so he had to say a great deal more. Did he name names of people he was involved with in the US intelligence community? Maybe he did.