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

Let us return to that day from yesteryear when the decision was made to peg Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of President Kennedy. Obviously, Oswald did not know anything about it. 

When was that decision made? I don't know, but I presume it was not long after he returned from Russia. 

So, when the decision was made to frame Oswald for the murder of Kennedy, what was their game plan? What did they intend for Oswald to know or find out about it?

Well, obviously, nothing, right? They were not going to say:

"We are going to frame this guy for the murder we are going to commit, and we are going to tell him about it, so that he will know exactly what we're doing- except the part about us framing him. Then, once he's arrested, he'll know he was framed, and he'll also know who framed him, and who did it. At that point, he will know everything, and he'll be able to tell police everything, but we don't care." 

Something tells me that they would care, and they wouldn't tell him anything. They didn't need to. They didn't have to. And it's because they didn't need him for anything except being the patsy. They certainly didn't need him to shoot, and they didn't need him to open any doors or do anything else. So, there is no way they would have actually involved him in the crime or even told him about it.

So, it makes no sense at all to think the conspirators would have wanted Oswald to shoot or asked him to shoot. He wasn't even remotely qualified, and they had to know that. 

So, the whole idea that the conspirators were including Oswald in their planing and scheming, that he was included in the operation and even assigned as a shooter, is utter and complete nonsense.

The only thing that makes even a modicum of sense is that, despite their best effort to keep him in the dark, that he figured some of it out anyway. I wouldn't jump down your throat for suggesting that as a possibility. 

But, it can't entail any openness on their part to include Oswald. The whole idea that the Oswald of fame was going to planning sessions with Jack Ruby and Malcolm Wallace is insane. And, it's equally insane to think that the FBI put Oswald up to infiltrating the plot. That's ridiculous.

I have to think that the plotters who were managing Oswald were very careful not to reveal anything to him about the plot to kill Kennedy. They didn't breathe a word. And frankly, I don't see them making a mistake about it and giving away something by accident either. 

At the very most, Oswald may have had a vague and amorphous feeling, an eerie feeling, that something could happen to Kennedy, but he had no knowledge of the Dealey Plaza ambush (as evidenced by James Jarman's testimony) and he certainly was not included in the operation in any way except as the patsy.