I think it's fair to say that interest in the JFK assassination has remained robust. It hasn't waned. Certainly, it has remained robust online. I know there was talk of waning interest in the assassination following the 50 year milestone, but fortunately, that hasn't happened.
The Oswald Innocence Campaign has certainly grown, presently at 52 senior members, and I want to acknowledge several who have come on-board in the last year.
There is Tom Rossley, who is the proprietor of the
www.whokilledjfk.net website, which is one of the largest and oldest JFK websites on the net. Tom and I have become fast friends, and we talk on the phone about twice a month.
I also want to thank Jeff Smith, who backs me up on Facebook, and who always expresses himself with clarity and precision. Jeff is very articulate, and he's got my back. Thank you, Jeff.
And I want to thank Stephen Requa, who has also become a valued friend, and more than anyone, Stephen has broadened my historical perspective on the JFK assassination, showing me how it evolved from prior events, going back to the assassination of Stanford University founder Jane Stanford in 1905, which was truly the first political assassination of the 20th century.
And I certainly have no complaints about the visibility of the OIC on the internet. We pull very well on the search engines for many JFK search terms, particularly the OIC website, which is: http://oswald-innocent.com. We have a big web presence, and it grew over the last year.
And even this blog has very good visibility and very decent traffic.
And most important of all is the fact that Oswald in the doorway has returned, and it is now the most dominant conviction about Oswald's physical location during the shooting among Oswald-innocent CTs.
I say "Oswald-innocent CTs" not as a reference to our organization but just to acknowledge that there are people in the JFK community who believe in a JFK conspiracy in which Oswald was a participant and a shooter. I call them "Oswald-guilty CTs."
And, regrettably, there is now a contingent that believes that Oswald was a participant in the assassination but not as a shooter. But, it is a position that maligns Oswald every bit as much. It doesn't matter if he was a shooter or not. If he participated in the conspiracy at all- such as prepping the rifle for a shooter or even just opening a door for one- then he has to be considered guilty, and I mean as guilty as anyone else.
And even though Richard Hooke, who is the most vocal proponent of this theory, thinks that it is still allows for Oswald innocence, he is mistaken; it does not.
How could Oswald be prepping a rifle for a shooter and still be innocent? Well, Hooke maintains that Oswald sent a telex warning the FBI of the plot, and he thinks that gets Oswald off the hook and preserves his innocence. So, even though Oswald prepped the rifle for a killer and then went downstairs to watch the bloodbath knowing for sure that Kennedy was doomed, and then rode off with the killers afterward, he's still innocent. That, unfortunately, is the way Richard Hooke's mind works.
The problems with that are legion, but the fact is: there is no evidence of Oswald having sent any telex. The one telex which they attribute to him is NOT a telex, and there is no way that Oswald sent it, since it was sent from the "Director" to the "Special Agents in Charge" at the FBI. It was an internal FBI memo, sent from the FBI to the FBI. And frankly, I am convinced that it is utterly bogus, and that's based on what it says and how it says it.
So, the one telex that Hooke relies on as a "Get out of Jail free card" for Oswald isn't really a telex, and it is not something that Oswald sent or could have sent. And it means that in Hooke's scenario, Oswald goes to jail- if not to the electric chair.
So, this is a very unfortunate development, and I see it as a setback, especially since Richard Hooke has been associated with the OIC. But, here's my take on it:
What I realize is that in order to do this - in order to separate truth from falsehood, fact from fiction, in the JFK assassination - it takes certain qualities. These include: intelligence, scrupulous honesty, dogged objectivity, a very high level of integrity, a very high level of maturity, and the ability to view the evidence as a hierarchy. One also has to be able to acknowledge one's own mistakes and correct them as swiftly as possible.
If you don't have those qualities, you are never going to avoid the many landmines, and you really shouldn't be doing this.
But, on the bright side, I have developed a good working relationship with John Armstrong, and I think it's fair to say that he's helped me, and I've helped him. And over the last year, my working knowledge of the Two Oswalds history has grown by leaps and bounds.
The other very promising thing is that when one becomes aware that Oswald was innocent- that he was just standing in the doorway clasping his hands during the slaughter- that it's a one-way street. Once the light goes on in your head that that's the truth, that that's what happened, you are never going to change your mind. You are never going to be vulnerable to believing anything else. And that's true of everyone who comes to this. So, we only gain followers; we don't lose them. And it's for life. And that's why our continued growth is guaranteed. We know how this is going to end: with the completely annihilation of the official story of the JFK assassination. Time is on our side, and we are not even under any time pressure.
So, despite this rather jarring problem that has popped up, I like our position much better than that of the other side, whose days are numbered. They don't have a snowball's chance in Hell of prevailing. Oswald (in the doorway) shall prevail. You can bet the farm on that.
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