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

The Fritz Notes are definitely one of the most valuable discoveries in the history of JFK assassination research. But, I have to laugh at the Wee Cock Sparrow bpete. He harps on discrepancies in the notes as proof that Oswald lied. But, he, Duncan MacFool overlooks the fact that most of the things involve nothing for which a motive to lie could possibly exist.

Did Oswald lie and say he took the bus alone and not a cab? Why? Is it a crime to take cab? I don't know how it is in Scotland, but it's not a crime here. And he got around to mentioning the cab. Hey, I don't call Lovelady a liar for not mentioning his "trek to the tracks" in his police statement. But, I know he took it. 

Did Oswald lie about the amount of the cab fare? What possible motive could he have to quote a figure of eighty-five cents rather than ninety-five cents? Yet, in the wee cock sparrow world of Duncan MacRae, that was a cold, calculated lie. 

Did he lie when he said he did not own a rifle? No, he did not.

'I never ordered a rifle under the name of Hidell, Oswald, or any other name. ... I never permitted anyone else to order a rifle to be received in this box. ... I never ordered any rifle by mail order or bought any money order for the purpose of paying for such a rifle. ... I didn't own any rifle. I have not practiced or shot with a rifle.' Lee Harvey Oswald.

Duncan MacFool, being a blood-soaked Kennedy killer, is the one who is lying. Hey Sparra boy! It doesn't matter what Marina Oswald said after spending months in the Gulag. She also said back then that Oswald was guilty, but do you know what she says today? She says that he was innocent. All that matters is what she is saying today. And what she also says today is that it's Oswald's shirt on the Man in the Doorway, one that she remembers seeing and washing. 

This is by George Evica:

Did Oswald Ever Possess Any Rifle?

Marina Oswald was the [Warren] Commission’s sole witness cited for the Report’s conclusions that Oswald possessed a rifle before the alleged attack on General Edwin Walker and that the alleged rifle was moved from Dallas to New Orleans and from New Orleans to Irving, Texas. The Commission’s own records help to establish that no piece of the Oswalds’ luggage or any other container used in moving the Oswalds was large enough to hold the Commission’s disassembled rifle.
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The Commission attempted to prove that a rifle was stored in the Paine’s garage prior to the assassination: it failed. Marina Oswald testified to the Commission that she had entered the Paine’s cluttered garage to look for parts to a baby crib; lifting a corner of a folded blanket on the floor, she said she saw part of a rifle stock (in another version of this incident Marina decided it was the barrel she had seen). But Marina’s testimony was not corroborated; she could not distinguish either between kinds of rifles or between kinds of pieces (rifles and shot-guns, for example) … When shown a rifle on November 22nd, at about 9:00 p.m., she was unable to identify it:

“Marina Oswald advised an Agent of this Bureau on November 22, 1963, that she had been shown a rifle at the Dallas Police Department … She advised that she was unable to identify it positively as the same rifle kept in the garage at [the] Paine residence … ”

Three months after the assassination, Marina’s memory improved so that on February 6th, 1964, when shown what the Commission alleged to be the same rifle, she said, “This is the fateful rifle of Lee Oswald.” But Sunday, September 6th, 1964 … the following odd exchange occurred:

Senator Russell: Did you testify that you thought this [CE 139] was Lee’s rifle that was shown to you?

Marina (translation): No – I’m sorry. As far as she knows about the arms, the rifle which was shown to her looked like the one he had.

Translator (Peter Gregory, an important member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth White Russian community) in English: Yes; That’s right.

Senator Russell: That’s all I asked her. That’s just exactly what I asked her.

Translator (in English): Yes, that’s right.

Most crucially, Marina’s testimony on the alleged assassination weapon was coached, altered, or corroborated by individuals associated with Jack Ruby, the Great Southwest Corporation, George de Mohrenschildt (who admitted consulting with a Dallas C.I.A. agent concerning Oswald), and two of de Mohrenschildt’s associates (the co-founders of a C.I.A.-subsidized Russian Orthodox church in Dallas). The F.B.I. reported that a Marina Oswald interview had taken place on February 18th, 1964, in the office of attorney William A. McKenzie, who had been recently associated with the law firm representing both the Great Southwest Corporation (owned by the Murchisons’ lawyers, the Bedford Wynne family, and the Rockefellers) and George de Mohrenschildt. The F.B.I. reported that:

“Marina said to her knowledge Oswald had only one rifle and that rifle is the one he maintained in the Paine Garage.”

But Mrs. Declan Ford (another member of the White Russian émigré group) admitted:

“… Mr. McKenzie didn’t know what they would talk about but he advised her [Marina], ‘They will ask you if there were two guns, you tell them there was one gun that was used … ’”

Peter Dale Scott found this involvement of the intelligence-oriented Russian émigré group in the transmission of Marina’s testimony ominous enough to suggest a House Select Committee investigation, pointing out that Peter Gregory altered Marina’s testimony on the rifle and supplied other details which were corroborated by Marina’s second interpreter – who, with Gregory, helped found an Agency-supported Orthodox parish. Details of Marina’s coached and altered testimony were echoed in statements given the F.B.I. by Charles Camplen and James F. Daley, employees of the Great Southwest Corporation.

William A. McKenzie, in whose office the February 18, 1964 Marina Oswald interview as recorded, and who Mrs. Declan Ford asserted had supplied Marina with the Line “ … there was one gun that was used,” had resigned from the Wynne family law firm to represent Marina Oswald. McKenzie had been a law partner of attorney Bernard Wynne whose law firm represented the Wynne/Murchison/Rockefeller Great Southwest Corporation – at whose motel Marina Oswald was hidden by the Secret Service. 

While acting as Marina’s lawyer, McKenzie was associated with attorney Peter White, who in 1954 arranged for the dismissal of charges against Jack Ruby. The Warren Commission ignored the fact that Peter White’s name, address, and phone number all appeared in Jack Ruby’s notebook – Peter White, the office mate of Marina Oswald’s attorney and representative – though the Commission questioned Ruby’s roommate George Senator about other entries in that same notebook.

With evidence available of coached and altered Marina Oswald testimony on the very existence of a weapon and on that weapon’s characteristics, directly traceable to individuals associated with an organized crime figure (Jack Ruby) and with the C.I.A. (George de Mohrenschildt), Marina’s uncorroborated testimony on a “rifle” must remain dubious and suspect.

In the first notation, Fritz noted Oswald having said he changed his pants, but his second notation indicated a change of pants and shirt. Does it mean Oswald lied?  Maybe, but we don't really know for sure. It's hard to imagine a reason why Oswald would have lied about that. Whether he changed his pants, or his pants and his shirt, neither was a crime. Besides, they found his bus transfer ticket in his shirt pocket, so that means he didn't change it. Surely, Duncan McSparrow is not accusing the Dallas Police of planting it. Is he? And, if we have more than a sparrow's brain, we go to the photographs to determine what Oswald actually did, and the photographs show us that he definitely did not change his shirt. We can clearly see Oswald's arrest shirt on the Man in the Doorway, and that settles it. 

So, did Oswald lie at all? Well, if he did, it was over some pretty minor stuff. And regardless, he was still innocent of killing Kennedy and Tippit, and of shooting at Walker, and he was still standing in the doorway during the assassination.  Like the song says, "He was just standing there... clasping his hands."