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

No, Backes: YOU are the fucking idiot. 

The fact that Mary Bledsoe had a difficult time with the interrogation isn't mileage for you. She was an old woman who had trouble thinking straight. So what? She wasn't the first.  

What you have failed to provide is any MOTIVE for why Mary Bledsoe would get involved in such a fraudulent, nefarious scheme. 

Why'd she do it? Why'd she cooperate? For money? Did she die a wealthy woman? Did they threaten her? Did they threaten to harm or kill her son Porter?

You have failed to provide any reason why this simple-minded old woman would get involved in such a Machiavellian scheme. 

How did she even get linked up with them if it wasn't true that she came in voluntarily to report her sighting of Oswald? 

And how do you know that she didn't have the money to hire an attorney? Based on what? 

She was incoherent because she was an old woman. She probably had hardening of the arteries of her brain. Lots of old people do, and they have trouble recounting things that happened to them, even recent things.  

Why aren't her notes in evidence? It was an interrogation, not a written exam. Those notes were to help her express herself, and she was under no obligation to turn them in.

The strange way the questioning went, with her lawyer intruding repeatedly was due to one thing: her being a senile old woman who had trouble thinking straight and following the questioning. She got flustered easily. So what!

Who would recruit such a person to be part of their high-level conspiracy? It takes a certain kind of person to do that kind of thing; what makes you think she was that kind of person? She was just an old woman who had been a housewife and nothing else. Like they wanted to make her an insider in the Kennedy assassination. So, you had LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, Allen Dulles, John McCloy, McGeorge Bundy, James Jesus Angleton, Cord Meyer, Clint Murchison, HL Hunt, George HW Bush, Richard Nixon and Mary Bledsoe???        

I knew you were never going to try to explain how it went down: how she actually came to have contact with Dallas Police and how they broached her about lying for them. It's so preposterous that not even you can put it into words. 

Furthermore, all that confusion she was subject to, with the I don't knows, I don't remember, I don't recall, I wasn't paying attention etc. would have been happening during her training to learn the phony story- except it would have been MUCH WORSE because she would have been so stressed out from being coerced to do something she didn't want to do and had no background in doing. She was just a little old lady housewife from Converse, Texas, for God's sake. She was not recruited into the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.