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

It's a shame, but what people do, when they decide they want to reject something like the public transportation story, is assemble all the problems that it has and all the reasons it seems doubtful. 

Fine. But, they don't do the same for the story they are pitching. That one gets a free ride. 

For instance, supposedly, Oswald confirmed Roger Craig's story with his glib and cryptic remark about "that station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine." But, there isn't a stitch of evidence that Ruth Paine owned a Nash Rambler. And she definitely owned a Chevrolet station wagon, and we know the license plate number. The odds that she would own two station wagons are astronomically low. 

And the idea that Malcolm Wallace and David Sanchez Morales would borrow a station wagon from her when she lived in Irving, and not Dallas, is ridiculous. It would mean that they drove farther to borrow the car than the amount of driving they had to do in Dallas.  Much farther. Would you drive 40 miles just to be able to drive 3 miles? 

And the importance of not linking Ruth Paine to the killers would have occurred to the conspirators. And what about Oswald? As far as we know, he didn't say anything to police about any of his associations, so why would he reveal that Ruth Paine was involved? And the very next morning, he told police he rode the cab and paid a fare of eighty-five cents. So, did he forget what he told them the afternoon before? Or was he just inherently erratic and inconsistent? Did he wake up in a whole different world every morning? 

Previously, I laid out 10 obstacles to rejecting the public transportation story, including having to reject the testimonies of a lot of people, including Oswald himself. The public transportation story is the story he told police. When he was undergoing interrogation with them, that is what he told them: that he rode the bus and cab. That was both before and after the encounter with Roger Craig. 

But, the most compelling evidence has to be that bus transfer ticket which was found on him and reported at 4:00. Even if you think the Dallas Police Department would have engaged in the fraud of planting that ticket on him, which would have been extremely reckless and dangerous from their perspective, how could they possibly come up with it by 4:00? Were they clairvoyant? Were they working on it beforehand?  Before he was arrested? Before Oswald even left the building? Before the assassination even took place?  But, the ticket had a date and time on it, so how could they come up with it ahead of time? Did they fabricate the ticket from scratch at a secret print shop? 

But, if they did that, they would have to know that Oswald would deny it. Why would they want to get in a he said/he said with him over that? Especially when they were the ones who were lying. 

And imagine how it would have been if Ruby were unsuccessful. Imagine if a major blood vessel wasn't hit, and Oswald recovered. 

I read the autobiography of Jane Fonda in which she related that, as a teenager, her brother Peter got shot in the abdomen in a shooting accident. It was harrowing, and he certainly could have died. But, he didn't. What would have happened in Oswald's case? My Good God! The Dallas Police would have been so fucked, it would have been surreal. It would have been the biggest police corruption scandal in the history of police. The tables would have been completely turned. Oswald would have had the upper hand. Even a mediocre lawyer would have won the day. Would they have taken a chance like that? How certain were they at 4 PM that Oswald would soon be dead? Certain enough to risk everything? And what for? To provide phony evidence for the story Oswald was telling? He, himself, said that he rode the bus. 

All these problems are completely ignored by the other side, and they also ignore all the problems with Roger Craig's story. The fact is that there are more credibility problems with the Roger Craig story than with the public transportation story- much more. It's not even close.