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

That really stinks, MacRae. Oswald did not know the motorcade would be passing that day until he learned about it from Junior Jarman.

Mr. BALL - Did you talk to him again that morning?
Mr. JARMAN - Yes, sir. I talked to him again later on that morning.
Mr. BALL - About what time?
Mr. JARMAN - It was between 9:30 and 10 o'clock, I believe.
Mr. BALL - Where were you when you talked to him?
Mr. JARMAN - In between two rows of bins.
Mr. BALL - On what floor?
Mr. JARMAN - On the first floor.
Mr. BALL - And what was said by him and by you?
Mr. JARMAN - Well, he was standing up in the window and I went to the window also, and he asked me what were the people gathering around on the corner for, and I told him that the President was supposed to pass that morning, and he asked me did I know which way he was coming, and I told him, yes; he probably come down Main and turn on Houston and then back again on Elm. Then he said, "Oh, I see," and that was all.

That satisfies me that Oswald didn't know. Note also that Wesley Frazier didn't know either, and as a result, he and Oswald didn't discuss it on their way to work that morning. 

Mr. BALL - Do you remember any conversation on the way in about anything?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; I asked him did he have fun playing with them babies and he chuckled and said he did. And so that morning I said just a few minutes after we started you know it was a cloudy day and it started misting and rain and by the time we got out on the Freeway I said, you know, how those trucks throw that grime on the windshield and finally it was getting pretty thick on there with spots of rain, and I turned on the windshield wiper and you know how grime spatters your windshield and I said. "I wish it would rain or just quit altogether, I wish it would do something to clear off the windshield," and the drops stared getting larger so eventually it cleaned off the windshield and by the time I got down to Dallas there I just turned off the windshield.
Just a few clouds, and rained a little bit to get out of it. But other than that just saying the weather was messy, that is about all.
Mr. BALL - Was it foggy?
Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir; not in too particular. I say in other words, just old cloudy, dull looking day and like I say fine mist of rain and after we got a little bit further we got into larger drops.
Mr. BALL - Was there anything said about the President coming to Dallas that day?
Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir; it wasn't.
Mr. BALL - Did he say anything about that the day before?
Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir.
Mr. BALL - Did you ever have any conversation with him with reference to the President's visit to Texas?
Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir.

Doesn't it seem like if either one of them knew that he would have mentioned it to the other, as in: "What do you think of the President driving through town today? Did you know that he's going to drive right past our building?"

I'm satisfied that Oswald didn't know. He didn't say he knew. The description of the motor route was listed incorrectly in most of the papers until the day of the assassination. That is definitely true of the Dallas Morning News. And even if that were not true, there were no grounds to make the assumption that Oswald caught sight of it and took note of it in the paper.

What if we took a survey of all Dallas residents and asked them if they saw and took note of the motorcade route in the newspaper? What percent do you think would answer yes? There isn't anything in the newspaper that the majority of people would say they got from the newspaper. Nothing. There is no evidence that Oswald ever laid eyes on the motorcade route. It is a totally unwarranted assumption. 

I'm satisfied that Oswald didn't know. If you want to say there is a possibility that he did, go ahead. I say there is a great PROBABILITY that he didn't.