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

To those who think that Oswald had explicit knowledge of the Dallas plot to kill Kennedy, I'd like to know when you think he came upon this knowledge. What date?

He arrived back from Russia in June 1962. He went through various jobs in the Dallas area, none of which lasted. He and Marina got involved with the White Russian community in Dallas, and they were quite impressed with his ability to speak Russian, and he enjoyed showing it off at parties. I learned that from reading Joan Mellen's book, Our Man in Haiti, which is about George DeMohrenschildt. 

Oswald's last job in Dallas was working at the CIA-connected photo lab, Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall.  And just think: during the Cuban Missile Crisis, they were churning out maps of Cuba for the US Military, including the missile sites. Oswald started working there 2 days before the Cuban Missile Crisis began. 

But, he got fired from that job, and I don't know exactly why. One report was that it was because of his "rudeness". Another said that he was using the facilities to make false IDs and documents for himself.  Whether that is true, I do not know. But, it's also possible that they needed to give him a reason to go to New Orleans.  As long as he was gainfully employed in Dallas, he might have stayed there. 

So, Oswald left for New Orleans on April 24, and Ruth Paine drove Marina down to join him shortly afterwards in May. 

I trust that among those who think that Oswald learned of the assassination plot that no one thinks that he did so before going to New Orleans.  

Now, I don't consider myself an expert on Oswald's time in New Orleans. Far from it. But, I think that it's fair to say that the main purpose of Oswald being in New Orleans, from the conspirators' point of view, was to establish his credentials as a Pro-Castro, Pro-Cuba activist. 

Now, it would not have been in the conspirators' interest to tell him about their plan to kill Kennedy in relation to that. He might have figured out that if they wanted him to look pro-Castro that perhaps they were setting him up. So, I can't see them telling him over that. I don't see any advantage in it for them. Why did Oswald have to know? There was no reason to tell him. There was nothing he had to do for it. Who would have told him? Bannister? Ferrie? Shaw? Why would they tell him? I just don't see him being told about it by the people he was involved with in New Orleans. 

Remember that Oswald was living with Marina most all the time that he was in New Orleans. Marina was there until September 23. So, he was going home to her every night from May until late September. And he never told his wife a thing about any plot to kill Kennedy. 

So, Marina left on September 23 to move to back to Dallas with Ruth Paine, who came to get her. Oswald followed 10 days later, arriving in Dallas on October 3. The claim is that during that 10 days, he made a trip to Mexico City. But, that is a lie. And it is not just Ralph Cinque who says so. Mark Lane says it is a lie, and he is certain it is a lie, and he told me so himself in a personal communication. John Armstrong also says it is a lie. And John likes to point to ridiculous images of "Oswald" in Mexico City as proof. These are the images of Oswald at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

And here is the image of Oswald at the Russian Embassy in Mexico City.

And note that Oswald, himself, said that he never went to Mexico except for Tijuana when he was in the Marines. I know about that. It was just five years after the assassination that I was in college at UCLA, and we would go down to Tijuana looking for excitement. I only did it once. 

So, where was he and what was Oswald really doing during this supposed Mexico City time? I do not know. 

But, he returned to Dallas on October 3, and I have no reason to think he had any knowledge about a plot to kill Kennedy.  

He started working at the TSBD on October 16, supposedly because of a tip that Ruth Paine got from a neighbor lady over tea, which I consider to be bull shit.  

The TSBD moved into that building that August, and it wasn't even suitable for their business. It was too big- much more space than they needed. And the floors were wet from a grocer/meat packer who was there before them, which wasn't good for the books. But, we know why they moved there, and it had nothing to do with books. It had to do with the location. It was for the assassination. 

I spoke to John Armstrong about this. He pointed out that Oswald was a loner, and he interacted with people as little as possible at the TSBD.  Armstrong: "I bet Oswald didn't know the last names of 5 people at the TSBD." There is no evidence that he associated with anyone in the Dallas area except his wife and the Paines. There is no evidence of him having any friends there. 

And since he was the patsy, there is no reason to think that anybody would have told him about the plot to kill Kennedy. 

We have two other examples of patsies we can cite. One is Ray Crump, who was the patsy in the Mary Pinchot Meyer case, and he certainly had nothing to do with her murder and had no knowledge of it. He was just walking out of the towpath when he was swarmed by police and arrested. 

The other is Thomas Arthur Vallee who was the designated patsy in Chicago. He was also an ex-Marine, disaffected, a loner, so with similarities to Oswald. However, in his case, they were pitching the idea of him as a rightist, not a leftist. He was allegedly a Bircher. But, he had nothing whatsoever to do with the Chicago plot. He was extensively interviewed, and it was determined that he knew nothing. 

So, this shows you that a patsy is just a patsy, and you keep the patsy in the dark. You don't involve the patsy in the actual criminal operation. You just set the patsy up. That is all they did to those guys, and that includes Oswald. 

Look, if Oswald had knowledge of the assassination, if he was part of an "abort team" why wouldn't he tell all that to police? I mean afterwards when he was arrested. At that point, why wouldn't he just come clean? Why wouldn't he try to help them? Why would he lie to them? Why would he withhold information from them? Why, at that point, wouldn't he just spill his guts? Let it all out?  

Oswald didn't know a thing about the plot. He had no explicit knowledge of it. He may have have had an inkling, a bad feeling that something might happen to Kennedy, but that's it. It did not go further than that. And the idea that he was up on the 6th floor collaborating with Malcolm Wallace is just plain bunk.