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

MacRae is now admitting that the cameramen were not filming Oswald being put into the room that the big cop was pondering. But, Joseph Backes said that the camermen were shooting directly into that room as Oswald was being put into it. That's what he said. So, you better get the word to Backes that he was wrong. 

But now, MacRae is admitting that there was a major reshuffling in which Oswald was not put in that room but into another room that was caddie-corner to it. Then, how the hell did all of that come about? If they were shooting when the big cop and Oswald were in that far corner, how did the cameras get turned off when they relocated Oswald to the other side of the larger room? Watch it again. You see the big cop and Oswald over by that door, and then you see the photogs shooting, and it's the very next frame. If they moved Oswald to a different little room on the other side of the bigger room, why don't we see that translocation? It's a major translocation, is it not?  

Wow, that is a hell of a lot to leave out. It sounds like MacRae is saying that they walked him back to that far corner, looked inside the room, decided not to put him in there, and then backed everyone up, back past Lovelady at the desk, so as to put Oswald in the more forward interview room which they passed going in. 

That is a hell of a lot of translocation, a hell of a lot of shuffling, and I'd like to know why it wasn't recorded on film. It must have taken quite a lot of time, and the cameras had to be rolling. They were rolling, weren't they? So, how did it all get clipped out? 

And are you sure about the placement of those cameramen? MacRae has them right in that corner facing the door of the small room which says "Oswald". But look at it again because you know where the florescent fixture was along that back wall.

It seems to me that they're taking up more space than that little spot that MacRae is assigning to them. And by the way, where are the cameramen standing who are shooting these cameramen? MacRae says they are standing in the hallway, but in that case, instead of shooting Oswald who has been placed in that room, they have chosen to shoot the other cameramen who are shooting Oswald. 

So, he has all the men we're seeing standing where the green arrow is and shooting in the direction of the open door with the other green arrow, where he thinks Oswald was put, but without explaining how he got from one end of the room to the other. And then he's got one or more other cameramen who could have been shooting Oswald in that room but who preferred to point their cameras at the other cameramen who were shooting Oswald in that room. 

And how can he say "the guy" when there are multiple versions of this footage which supposedly look different because there were different cameramen shooting from different angles? So, couldn't there have been more than one guy? But whether it was one or more, why would he turn his back to Oswald in order to shoot the other photographers who were shooting at Oswald in that room? MacRae has him shooting from the tip of the black arrow to the black X, as if all those photographers were occupying the small space of that X, but you can see that they are occupying much more space than that.

And isn't it obvious that if he were as close to them as that arrowhead is to that X that the perspective would be much different? Wouldn't he be too close to them to get the kind of clar picture we're seeing? Wouldn't his camera be right on top of them? There really isn't enough room to account for what we're seeing here with MacRae's tidy map. I see how his little mind is working, but he is desperately grasping at straws. 

So, he's got photographers in the corner shooting at Oswald inside the room, and then he's got another photographer next to them who prefers to shoot at them rather than to shoot at Oswald. It doesn't really make sense, but how did we even get to this point? A split-second before, we were at the opposite corner of the larger room with the big cop and Oswald pondering that other small room, and now we're suddenly back here, which we passed coming in, but how did it happen? How did this major backing up of the whole procession take place?  Moving back past Lovelady at the desk? Really? Then why didn't we get another look at Lovelady?  

"OK everybody, back it up, back it up, change of plan." 

But, if the big cop and the other cops moved Oswald back to that first interview room, then what happened to them? How in the midst of all that was there enough room for all those photogs to be there in that corner? Wasn't there a whole lot of re-shuffling that got left out here? Think of it like a Rubik's cube that got totally resorted, but, they're not showing us any of the work. This amounted to a major reshuffling of a lot of people in a very small space, but all we're seeing is this:

and then it jumps to this:

with nothing in-between. But, how did it get from A to B? How the hell could they leave out all of that transition and reversal and undoing?  What we have above are succeeding frames in the movie. Are you going to attribute that to "film editing"? This is like the missing 18 minutes from Nixon's tape, or even the missing 12 minutes from Johnson's and Hoover's taped conversation the day after the assassination. There's a lot missing here, MacRae. Maybe you are willing to brush it off, but I am not.