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

I've been discussing this excerpt from JFK the movie and how they handled the question of where Oswald was at the exact time of the murder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwylr_ZgAeM

They cite and depict Carolyn Arnold sighting Oswald in the lunch room about 12:20, and they seem to imply that Oswald just remained there until his encounter with Truly and Baker at 12:31.5. 

But, that is NOT reasonable. Oswald was finished eating by then, and Carolyn Arnold never said that she saw him eating- actually bringing food to his mouth. In the movie, they depicted Oswald eating- bringing food to his mouth when she saw him, but that was inaccurate. And, it is an important distinction. Oswald told police that he ate lunch earlier in the Domino room downstairs. If you know that Oswald did not kill Kennedy- and I presume that you do since you're here- then you know he had no reason to lie about where and when he ate lunch.  So, we have every good reason to believe him about that.

But, the movie correctly depicts Oswald buying and drinking his Coke AFTER his encounter with Truly and Baker, immediately after.

So, we've got an 11.5 minute time-span to account for, which is the time-span between Carolyn Arnold's last pre-assassination sighting of Oswald in the lunch room, and Truly and Baker's first post-assassination sighting of Oswald in the lunch room. But, did he just remain there the whole time?

NO, because that would mean that Oswald just sat there alone in the lunch room for 11.5 minutes, not eating, not drinking, and not doing anything. Just try it yourself. Sit down at your kitchen table and try to just sit there for 11.5 minutes doing nothing. It will be the longest 11.5 minutes of your life.

Furthermore, had Oswald done that, he surely would have gotten his Coke sooner. After all, why not? He's just sitting there. The machine is there. He's got change in his pockets. He likes Cokes. Out of boredom alone, he would have grabbed that Coke sooner- just to break the monotony and pass the time. The fact that he didn't get one until later, until after his encounter with Truly and Baker, tells you that he wasn't there during the interval. He left; he went outside; he stood in the doorway; and then he came back, and it was after his encounter with Truly and Baker that he got his Coke.

What I'm saying is that you can't have Oswald just sitting there, doing nothing, like a lump on log, for 11.5 minutes. It goes against the grain of human nature.

And when you add in all the other evidence: that he told Fritz that he was out with Bill Shelley in front, that we can see him standing there in the doorway: his build, his face, his clothes, his stance, his expression, etc. now there is no other reasonable place to put him during the assassination except in the doorway.

And remember that it's not just the Altgens photo; there is also the Wiegman film which shows a figure in the doorway who is entirely consistent with Lee Harvey Oswald. So, we have two images of a man with Oswald's slender build wearing Oswald's unique clothes, the unbuttoned, sprawled-open outer shirt over the white t-shirt, and clasping his hands in front of his body the way Oswald did.

There is no longer the slightest excuse for anyone who denies that Oswald was up on the 6th floor pumping bullets into Kennedy to deny that he was standing in the doorway.

What I'm saying is that you have a choice of where to place him: the 6th floor or the doorway. THERE IS NO PLACE ELSE.  All other options have been eliminated. So, take your pick. It's one or the other. 6th floor or the doorway. 6th floor or the doorway.

You hear me, Backes? I said it was the 6th floor or the doorway. There ain't no other place, Man.