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

When was JFK's trip to Dallas planned? It is a very important question because until his trip to Dallas was planned, Lee Harvey Oswald was useless. 

Oswald was in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. He settled there when he returned from Russia in June 1962. Unless the shooting was going to take place in Dallas, there was no way Oswald could be involved and set up as the patsy. They had to make the decision to do it in Dallas before they could begin to set their minds on Oswald as the patsy. 

What if they were going to do it in Miami? Then they couldn't use Oswald as the patsy because what would he be doing in Miami?

And let's remember that there were multiple plots to kill Kennedy. The one in Chicago was an absolute go. They had the patsy, Thomas Arthur Vallee, situated in the tall building. They had the guns; they had the gunmen. You can bet your bottom dollar that they would have done it there if someone hadn't tipped off the FBI. 

(Note: I am aware of the report that the person who tipped off the FBI about the Chicago plot was named "Lee". Was it Oswald? I understand completely why people want to think so. But, I do not think it is likely, and I certainly do not consider it bankable).

But, here is something that is bankable: Oswald started off only as the back-up patsy. Remember: the Chicago plot came before the Dallas plot. October comes before November. They probably thought the chances were very good that it would happen in Chicago. The whole Dallas thing was just an insurance policy- one that became necessary. 

But, be that as it may, they had to have a Dallas plan before they could have a Dallas patsy. So, the plan to do it in Dallas had to precede the choice of Lee Harvey Oswald as patsy. 

So, when did they decide to get JFK to go to Dallas? The first inkling about JFK coming to Texas was an April 23rd announcement by LBJ given in Dallas at the Second Annual NASA Manned Space Flight Conference. And the very next day, April 24, the Dallas Times Herald headlined, "LBJ sees Kennedy Dallas Visit - One Day Texas Tour Eyed."

Now, for LBJ to have said something about it publicly on April 23, it means it must have been a pretty well-developed idea by that time. I figure at the very least, the idea must have surfaced a month earlier.  That would make the origin of the plan for Kennedy to go to Dallas to be about late March.  

It may have been earlier than that, but I haven't found anything to substantiate that it was earlier than that. Have you?  

But, the reason it's important is because once it was decided to make Oswald the Dallas patsy, all the handling of him had to be geared to that and nothing else.

Recall that I said that late March was the approximate time that JFK's trip to Dallas was actuated. Well, guess what? April 1 was the very day that Oswald got fired from Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall, the Dallas printing and graphics company with ties to the CIA and the US Military. Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall made the maps of Cuba which identified the nuclear missile silos during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

So, Oswald gets fired from Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall on April 1, supposedly because he's belligerent and anti-social, and he decides shortly afterwards to go down to New Orleans, supposedly because he thought his job prospects were better there.

Are you buying that? I'm asking because I don't buy it. Let's remember that that is their account, and they have an account for everything. But, what we know is that it was crucial for Oswald to go to New Orleans to get his pro-Castro/pro Cuba credentials. 

Many people, including me, believe that originally they planned to kill Kennedy and blame it on Castro to justify an invasion of Cuba. But, that aspect of the plan got ditched. Cooler heads realized that killing Kennedy was plenty enough, and plopping a war on top of it was not a good idea. Besides being way too risky, it was also way too complicated. Someone must have realized that what was needed was a story with no loose ends; something cut and dry; where one guy conceived of it and did it alone, not breathing a word of it to anyone, and where he had the misfortune of dying promptly, such that it was all wrapped up neat as a drum within days, so that the country could move one. That was the whole idea. At least, that was what they were striving for.  

So, getting Oswald to go down to New Orleans and get involved with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was probably part of the above scenario. At what point did it change to the lone-nut scenario? I don't know, but I have a feeling that Johnson was involved in that decision. He had his own personal reasons for wanting Kennedy dead which had nothing whatsoever to do with Cuba. Johnson couldn't care less about Cuba. It was all an act for him. Johnson cared about Johnson. Period. 

But, as I said yesterday, it made no sense for Oswald to kill Kennedy over Cuba.  Besides refusing to invade Cuba, Kennedy agreed to pay $60 million to Castro to make amends for what happened at the Bay of Pigs. So, why would Oswald, as a pro-Castro guy, prefer to have Johnson as President than Kennedy? It made no sense for Oswald to kill Kennedy over Cuba. 

But, they probably figured that the American people wouldn't think it through that way. The dumb herd, right?  It sounded good for Oswald to be pro-Castro and pro-Cuba because it was the antithesis of being a loyal American; it was extremely anti-American. So, they stuck with that- proffering Oswald that way even though they decided against starting a war over it. 

But, the point is that Oswald must have been steered into going down to New Orleans. Oswald must have been steered into everything he did. And of course, when he got back to Dallas, he was steered to go to the Texas Book Depository. You don't believe that story of Ruth Paine's, do you? That she found out about the openings at the TSBD over tea and crumpets with the neighbor ladies in Irving? That is obviously a load of crap. Obviously, Oswald was sent back to Dallas specifically to land at the TSBD. The whole company landed in that building at 411 Elm for that very purpose. Until August, they were located in the Dal-Tex building across the street. Why would they move into a building that was way too big for their needs and whose wooden floors were saturated with meat juice that was ruinous to the books they were distributing? It was because of the assassination and the Sniper's Nest. They needed that building to frame Oswald.  

But, the most important thing is that they had no reason to tell Oswald about the assassination plan before JFK's Dallas trip was arranged, and they had even less reason to tell him about it after JFK's Dallas trip was arranged. Once it was arranged, and Oswald was chosen to be the patsy, he was the last person on Earth they would tell. What did they need to tell him for? What good could come from it from their perspective?  His only role was patsy. Why tell the patsy what you're doing? The whole idea that Oswald was both patsy and participant in the JFK assassination is insane.