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

Are you willing to believe that the New Orleans Police tortured Oswald by pinching him on his chin? To the point of scarring him? You know, to cause a scar, you have to break the skin. Imagine how raw and awful it must have looked the next day. 

But, we have the testimony of his wife Marina Oswald who saw him the next day. And this is what she said:

Mr. RANKIN. When did you learn about his arrest there?
Mrs. OSWALD. The next day, when he was away from home overnight and returned, he told me he had been arrested.
Mr. RANKIN. What did he say about it?
Mrs. OSWALD. He was smiling, but in my opinion he was upset. I think that after that occurrence he became less active, ,he cooled off a little.
Mr. RANKIN. Less active in the Fair Play for Cuba?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. He continued it, but more for a person's sake. I think that his heart was no longer in it.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he tell you that the FBI had seen him at the jail in New Orleans?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he complain about his arrest and say it was unfair, anything of that kind.
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you know he paid a fine?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you have anything to do with trying to get him out of jail?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
He was only there for 24 hours. He paid his fine and left. He said that the policeman who talked to him was very kind, and was a very good person.

Marina was his wife. Wouldn't she have noticed if his chin was tortured? So, can we just drop this pinching claim, once and for all? There is no basis for it- other than Judyth Baker, and that is not enough. There is no evidence for it. It doesn't even make sense. Who would do such a thing? 

Here is Oswald's chin 4 days later, and it looks fine.

And here's his chin when they were processing him. You can see that he already had the acne lesions on his chin. That's all they were. And, the New Orleans Police didn't put them there.

So, stop the nonsense, Richard Hooke, and grow up. There was no pinching, Jiminy Christmas.