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

When we were talking about how Oswald knew that Bill Shelley was out front, bpete asserted that he walked by the entrance and saw him through the glass on his way to the 6th floor to load and cock. 

That's what you said, bpete. 

So chirped the Wee Cock Sparrah. He was referring to the testimony of William Whaley, who, according to bpete, was a trainwreck. He got the numbers wrong, the time wrong, the address wrong, etc. bpete said Whaley was pulling stuff out of his ass. bpete said he blew it in his testimony. bpete said Whaley changed his story- repeatedly. 

Then why would Belin try to "salvage" the situation, meaning Whaley's testimony? Why would Belin make any effort, any movement in that direction? 

Didn't Belin have one, and only one responsibility: to arrive at the truth? Why should Belin have sought to try to legitimize Whaley's testimony, to make it work? According to bpete, Whaley's story was so bad, so egregiously and glaringly false in multiple ways, that it was screaming obvious that he was a spurious witness. So, why would Belin try in any way to salvage that situation.

On the contrary, wouldn't you expect Belin to do the obvious and treat Whaley as a hostile witness and cross-examine him with intent to discredit? After all, Belin was a lawyer. 

Apply your reading comprehension skills to this, Sparrow: 

salvage: to save from loss or destruction

So, why would Belin try to save Whaley's testimony? And considering how bpete regards Whaley's testimony, he can't regard Belin too highly for trying to save it. Can he?

You haven't? Maybe you should. Why should you let them off the hook for ignoring evidence which you say proves that Oswald changed his shirt? They even went so far as to say that shirt fibers were on the stock of the rifle. And remember that they also said that that rifle lay wrapped in a blanket, undisturbed, for 8 weeks prior to the shooting. So don't tell me fibers from a previous day's outing clung to the gun for 2 months. 

And considering that in the very first telling Oswald must have said that he changed his pants only, why does bpete act uppity that it had to be right that "pants and shirt" were changed? 

But, fortunately, there was only one telling in which Oswald said he was "out with Bill Shelley in front". There is clear. That is crystal. That is unambiguous. And it is definitive. Oswald named someone who was out in that doorway during the shooting, which he could have only done if he saw him there from being there himself.