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

Boz, over on McAdams' forum, asked me, in a sarcastic way, whether I think Judyth Baker met Oswald at all, and here is how I responded:

Boz, putting aside your sarcasm, the only thing I accept about Judyth's claims is that she did work briefly at the Reilly Coffee Company as a secretary. That's it for me. It was a large company, so I don't assume that she knew Oswald, meaning that I don't accept it as a proven fact that she did. Why should a machine oiler at a large company come to know a secretary who worked there? Granted, it's remotely possible that they met, but I'm inclined to think that they didn't, and it's because of her story about how they met, which sounds very far-fetched to me. 

Supposedly, she was standing in line at the post office, and he was standing behind her, and she dropped her things, and he helped her pick them up, and then, for some strange reason, she started speaking to him (a complete stranger) in Russian, and then it was love at first sight for both of them? But, that doesn't have anything to do with the Reilly Coffee Company. So, it was just an odd, quirky coincidence that they should meet at the post office? 

When confronted with the unlikeliness of that, Judyth has said that maybe the plotters arranged for them to meet there. But, since they were both there, supposedly, to pick up their General Delivery mail, how could the plotters have anything to do with that? Didn't they each go there on their own accord? They were picking up their own mail, right? 

And why would the plotters think that just placing Judyth and Oswald in the same post office would result in them having an encounter and making a connection? How many strangers do you talk to at the post office? And even if you did, by rare chance, talk to a stranger at the post office, wouldn't it most likely be just a passing remark and not a conversation? What were the mathematical chances of them actually meeting and interacting there and forming a life-changing connection just from being there? How exactly did the plotters figure that that would happen? 

Plotter 1: I know! Let's get them to the post office at the same time, and they can meet there. 

Plotter 2: But, why should they meet just because they're both at the post office? What's supposed to happen there between them?

Plotter 1: Don't worry about it. With her ravishing good looks and his wild eye for the ladies, they're bound to meet. Something is bound to happen. We just have to get them through the door. 

Plotter 2: Well, I don't necessarily agree with you about that, but how about we just introduce them?

Plotter 1: Introduce them??? What's wrong with you, Man? We're in the spy game! It can't go down like that.

Plotter 2:  Look: we want them to work together to develop a poison to give to Castro to cause him to have cancer, right? Isn't that our purpose? So, why can't we just get them together and say: "Lee, this is Judyth; Judyth, say hello to Lee. You're going to be working together."

Plotter 1: Man! I have had it with you. It's like you never went to Spy School. Were you out sick the day they taught about setting up chance meetings? I'm telling Angleton about this. Your Christmas bonus? Forget about it.  

Anyway, my point is that if the very first story involving her and Oswald meeting is a lie, and it sounds like it is, why assume they met at all? If they really met, then no matter how it happened, it had to be more plausible than what she's telling. The fact that she is resorting to something so implausible tells me that she's most likely got nothing plausible to tell, that there is no "real" story. And, if your story starts off with a lie, then, in all probability, the whole thing is a lie.