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

For the Dallas Police to fake a story of Oswald taking public transportation, the very first step would have been to write the script. 

So, who would have written it? Jesse Curry? Will Fritz? Henry Wade? Or did they have a scriptwriter on hand? 

And who would have written such a complicated tale where Oswald walks and then rides a bus for two blocks, and then walks some more, and then gets in a cab and overshoots his house and has to walk back?

Who would do that? Who would concoct such a thing? And realize that concocting it has a much greater credibility problem than doing it. Weird stuff happens all the time but to design such a weird story, especially in a situation like that, is unthinkable.   

So, incredibly, somebody concocts this very far-fetched and unseemly odyssey for Oswald. The next step would be to find out which bus would be involved. So, someone would have to look up the bus schedule to see which bus was coming down Elm Street at that time and who the driver was. 

But next, they would have to obtain the bus transfer ticket. So, how did they do that? Was it all planned in advance where they had their own person get on the bus and ask for the transfer? But that would mean that the plan to frame Oswald for riding the bus and cab was decided upon BEFORE the assassination.  Or, did they get to the bus when no one was around and jimmy the machine so that the date and time were right for what they wanted- Friday, November 22 and 1:00- and then issue the transfer themselves? Or, did it go back much further than that to a clandestine CIA print shop where a fake transfer ticket was produced that was a perfect match to the real thing?

All of those options imply that they had to know well in advance that Oswald was going to be swifted out of Dealey Plaza in a private car but that that would look bad for the lone gunman theory. But, they would do it anyway, and concoct a story that he fled alone using public transportation. 

But, why would they do that? If they thought it would look so terrible for the lone gunman to have a getaway car, then why give him one? And if you're going to say they didn't know what he was going to do, then you can't proceed at all because they had to know. As I have shown you, they couldn't possibly get their ducks in a row unless they knew well in advance. 

So, if it was better for the story for Oswald to travel by public transportation, why not let him? He probably rode the bus to work every day anyway, right? And that would mean that he also rode it home. How else did he go to and from work? He didn't have a car.

So, if he was taking the bus home from work every day anyway, why not let him do it on the day of the assassination?  

But, let's continue. So, they've got the script written for what they were going to say Oswald did. Then, they figured out the bus they needed. Then, they got the transfer ticket and announced it to the world. And then they talked to the bus driver. 

Do you see a problem here? Shouldn't they have talked to the bus driver first? Before they went public with the story? 

Remember what I said: once they went public with that transfer ticket, they irreversibly committed themselves to the public transit story. There was no way after that that they could possibly have reversed themselves. So, wouldn't they talk to the bus driver first?

If they made up the story, then they knew that Oswald never really got on Cecil McWatters' bus. How confident could they be that they could get Cecil to go along with their story? Wouldn't it have been wise to talk to him first before showing that bus transfer ticket to the world?  But, they announced the bus transfer ticket and 4 and didn't talk to McWatters until 6. 

We haven't even gotten to the cab ride yet. Couldn't they have just kept it simple? Why'd they have to fake both a bus ride and a cab ride? Were they really oblivious about making work for themselves? There were two simultaneous framings going on to peg Oswald as the killer of Kennedy and Tippit, yet, the fake odyssey story was every bit as complicated as the other two. It would have been a huge production, a huge conspiracy, a gargantuan scheme, in and of itself. And all for the sake of falsely showing him using public transportation when all they had to do was let him use public transportation? 

Why not? What could have happened? What was he going to do? Kill somebody? He didn't kill anybody as it was. He wasn't a killer.