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

Bigdog:

Oswald only read the paper from the day before. DUH!!! So he found out one day later than everybody else that JFK was coming right past his work place. It was announced on Monday. It would have been in Tuesday's paper. Oswald would have read it on Wednesday at the latest.

Ralph Cinque:

I am going to have to make you famous for saying that, bigdog. That's because the whole idea that Oswald could suddenly decide to kill Kennedy WITHOUT ANY ANTECEDENTS, meaning without any resentments toward Kennedy, without ever having uttered a single negative word about Kennedy to anybody in his life, without having to boil the idea around in his head for a while before reaching the threshold of being able to go through with it, of overcoming and extinguishing all mental restraints and resistance, of mentally getting there to that twisted, deranged, unhinged state of mind THAT FAST is beyond unusual. It is beyond unexpected. It is even beyond bizarre. It's more like: unheard of in the annals of crime. Name me one murderer from the annals of crime whose pendulum swung that fast. It makes Lee Harvey Oswald the most insane criminal in the history of crime.  

And let's be clear: it is not only lightning-fast to make such a monstrous decision, but in Oswald's case, it was seemingly done without any motive whatsoever. You can't use Oswald's pro-Castro leanings- even if you think they were sincere. That's because, not being stupid, he would have known that killing Kennedy meant putting LBJ in power- which was no favor to Castro. You don't think the Fair Play for Cuba Committee celebrated Kennedy's death, do you?

And, the idea that Oswald did it because he was a failure in life and wanted infamy is insane because he adamantly and repeatedly denied doing it. What part of: "I adamantly deny these charges" do you not understand?

What you are left with is nothing. Zero. Zed. Nada - just the idea that Oswald was the most insane psychopathic killer in the history of insane psychopathic killers- and more inexplicable than any of them. 

As a metaphor: I enjoy watching Olympic ski jumping, and as I watch it, I try to understand how anyone could take off down that long hill to go flying off into space. How does anyone get the nerve to do that? The answer is: in baby steps. They start by just going over bumps in a downhill course where they have a short flight. But, imagine never having skied before at all and going down that hill. Bingo. That's Oswald killing Kennedy on November 22, 1963.