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

Do you realize how important it is that authorities never revealed what Oswald told them about he got from his room to the theater?

Picture the interrogation. Oswald is telling them what he did. He took the bus. He took the cab. He got to his room. He changed his pants. He got his pistol. So, what would Fritz have said after that?

"OK, so you've gone home; you've changed your pants; you've got your pistol; and you're leaving your room. What did you do next?"

Had to be asked, right? And had to be answered as well. So, what did Oswald say?

He had to tell them something. But, they not only failed to tell us what he said, but they completely ignored the issue. Not Fritz, not Hosty, not Bookhout, not Holmes- nobody but nobody made any reference to Oswald's account of how he traveled from his room to the theater. 

The presumption, of course, is that he walked- the wrong direction to go to the theater- and at 10th and Patton he shot and killed Tippit. And then he walked another 15 blocks in broad daylight before sneaking into the theater even though he had ample money in his pocket to buy a cheap ticket. 

But, Oswald didn't admit to any of that. They never told us what he said. It is a glaring omission from the record. 

So, what do you think he said? First, I don't claim to know. It's all guess work. I admit it. 

But, let's start with what we do know. We know that Earlene Roberts said that while Oswald was in his room, a police car pulled up and tapped its horn twice. That sounds an awful lot like a signal to me. 

She said the car number was #107. Tippit's car was #10. Is it possible that she saw a 10 and mistook something else, perhaps some dirt, for a 7? Or maybe she just remembered it wrong because she seemed rather old and senile. That's just a speculation, of course.  John Armstrong was the first to suggest the possibility of confusion between 10 and 107 for Mrs. Roberts.  

And, she said that there were two officers in the car. So, if one of them was Tippit, who was the other one?

But, regardless of who they were, I think the idea that they transported Oswald to the theater rates as a strong possibility. That's because Oswald reached the theater by 1:07 (according to Butch Burroughs) which was 8 minutes before Tippit was killed, and he could not have walked there in that time. If he had taken a bus, somebody would have recalled seeing him on it afterwards. Plus, buses stop frequently, and that would have delayed his arrival at the theater. And I don't even know if there was such a bus. And he obviously didn't call a cab, and the idea that he had the chance to flag one down in that short amount of time is unreasonable. Plus, that cabbie would have come forward too, wouldn't he have? 

So, Oswald being transported to the theater by the police car that signaled him is at the top of my list of possibilities for how he got to the theater. And again, John Armstrong has been saying it for a long time; longer than I have. I got it from him. 

And it makes sense that if Oswald told investigators that a policeman drove him to the theater in a police car that they would want to leave that out of their reports. Obviously, it doesn't look good. Why would the assassin of JFK be driven to the theater by a Dallas cop? 

But, would Oswald have told them that if it happened? Frankly, he was a man suspected of killing a policeman and the President of the United States. So, he was in a lot of trouble. You might say he was in the worst trouble. But, he hadn't done anything wrong that day except to take a swing at a cop in the theater- a relatively minor infraction under the circumstances.  He certainly did NOT try to shoot a cop in the theater. And if you have any doubt about that, read this by Gil Jesus:

http://www.giljesus.com/jfk/DPD.htm


Special Agent Cunningham: We found nothing to indicate that this weapon's firing pin had struck the primer of any of the cartridges.

So, if it happened that Tippit or some other cop drove Oswald to the theater, then the only way Oswald could avoid telling police is if he told them an alternative story that was a lie.

Would Oswald do that at that juncture? Lie to police? I'll just tell you that I sure wouldn't.  No way. I would tell them the truth. Therefore, I'm telling you that I think Oswald would have told them the truth and did tell them the truth- if that's what happened. And that explains why we haven't heard a word about what he said. It was so damaging to the official story and so exonerating of him that they refused to go near it. They skirted it completely. They dodged it entirely. That's what I think.