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

I think it is very important for us defend the innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald, and we can't do that if we concede that he had advance knowledge of the assassination. David Reitzes, on McAdams forum, correctly states that it would mean that Oswald had blood on his hands. If you know the President is going to get shot that day and you know when, where, and how, and you do nothing to stop it, you are guilty. How guilty? Almost as guilty as the shooters and plotters, in my opinion.

I don't claim to know what Oswald knew, and I don't claim to know what his thoughts were that day. It's possible that he had an eerie feeling that something bad was going to happen. We know that someone named "Lee" called the Secret Service in Chicago to warn them of a planned attack on Kennedy there. Could that have been LHO? Of course, it could have been, and I don't know that it wasn't.

But, what I am saying is that Oswald had no EXPLICIT knowledge of the planned attack in Dealey Plaza. If he did, and if he was the "Lee" who acted to save JFK in Chicago, wouldn't he have done the same for JFK in Dallas? 

I should think that the conspirators would have striven mightily to prevent Oswald from getting wind of what was happening in Dallas. Anything he found out was information he could have given to police. Even if they hoped and assumed that he would get killed before saying a word, they had to know that there was no guarantee, that he might spend some time in custody. He spent 2 days in custody, and it might as well have been 2 years for all he could have spouted. There was no need to tell him anything from the operational standpoint. There was nothing for him to do that someone else could not have done. He was the patsy. That was the entirety of his role. He was just the patsy; not the patsy plus a marginal participant. 

Telling him ANYTHING about it would have only harmed the conspirators' cause. It may have spurred Oswald to take action to stop it, to tell someone, to warn someone. It may have spurred him to run away or not show up that day. Or it may have caused him to act strange, weird, and nervous, and that alone would have been bad for them. Consider that Officer Marrion Baker, the first person to see Oswald after the assassination, said he did not seem nervous or agitated- at all. 

But, the main thing is, what really drives this line of reasoning, is that the conspirators would never have empowered Oswald with knowledge of the plot that he could use against them when in police custody. It is highly significant that we heard Oswald say, "I'm just a patsy!" If he knew he was a patsy, it means he knew that he was set up. At that point, if he had explicit knowledge of the assassination, would he withhold it? Would he keep it to himself when he had the means to say, "It wasn't me; it was them"?  

How would you feel if you knew that in 10 minutes the President of the United States was going to have his brains blown out before your very eyes? Would you feel like eating a cheese sandwich and an apple? Oswald ate a cheese sandwich and an apple at about 12:20 in the Domino room, and that is as solid as a rock.  

Oswald didn't know, and if he did know, I believe he would have tried to stop it. He may have had an eerie sense about it, a premonition, a fear, but no explicit knowledge, nothing that he could act on. At no time did anyone come up to him and say, "We are killing John Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on the 22nd." I don't believe that. I refuse to believe that. And I have seen no evidence whatsoever to support that.