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

There is absolutely no doubt that this telex was not sent by Oswald, and any person of honesty and rationality will admit it. 

It was sent at 1:25 AM on November 17. So, Oswald was in his room, and then at 1 AM he decided it was time for him to send a telex to the FBI informing them about the assassination plot? But, why would he wait until November 17 to do that? Wouldn't he have done it as soon as he realized what was happening? 

And how could he do it at 1:25 AM? He would have had to go to a Western Union office or AT&T office, but they didn't offer telexes to the public in the wee hours of the morning. There was no place he could have gone to do it at that hour. 

And if there was such a place, how did he get there? Did he take a bus at 1 AM? Did he call a cab that picked him up? At that hour? Or did he walk? 

Telexes, then and now, are produced on a teleprinter which sends a text message through a network that is similar to a telephone network but totally separate from it. To send a telex, you have to have the subscriber number of the person you are sending to and their name. And you have to  be registered in the network yourself with your own identifying name and number. So, with telex, both the sender and the receiver are vetted and confirmed. 

This document is claimed to be a telex, but it is not. If it were a telex, you'd see the subscriber names and subscriber numbers, and you would also see the name of the office from which it was sent. 

A telex starts with a WRU message from the sender, which stands for Who Are You? Then there is an "answerback" from the recipient, and then there is an "answerback" from the sender. And then the message begins. But none of that is present in this document. 

And, this document contains no formal identifications of sender and receiver. It just says To: SACs and From:Director. And that 's it. Then the message begins. But, you couldn't send a telex that way. A telex is a legal document, and establishing the identity and authenticity of sender and receiver is absolutely paramount and required. 

What this appears to be is an internal document within the FBI that was transmitted on their own in-house tele-communication network. It went from the FBI to the FBI. It is not a telex sent from a public place or any place that Oswald could have accessed.  

I say what it "appears" to be because I seriously think that the thing is a hoax. I can't imagine that J. Edgar Hoover- or anyone in the FBI- could send such an atrocious communication with such deplorable spelling. It is inconceivable. 

Plus, the content makes no sense. What did they do in Chicago when they got the warning about the Chicago plot? They immediately cancelled the President's trip. The idea that they would receive a threat like this and then just say to start scouring racial and hate groups is ridiculous. That the FBI would respond like that to such a threat is absurd. 

It is time to stop the nonsense of saying that this was a telex from Lee Harvey Oswald to the FBI. It is an insane thing to say. And it hurts us to say it.