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

There is some confusion about Oswald's exact movements, and I believe it is due to Carolyn Arnold's conflicting testimony. She gave two conflicting statements.  In her first statement, she claimed to see Oswald between the double doors shortly before the assassination- and that makes sense because we know he did step outside shortly after that. She reportedly said that it was about 12:15 when that happened, but it has been attested that she really said 12:25, and the FBI made it earlier just to allow enough time for Oswald to get upstairs to the 6th floor in time to shoot Kennedy. Obviously, if he was standing between the double doors as late as 12:25, then all hope of casting him as the 6th floor assassin is lost.  But then in another statement, she said that she saw him in the lunch room at 12:25 on her way downstairs- and that is what they put into Oliver Stone's JFK movie.

Of the two statements, I am inclined to believe the first one. 

What we know for absolute fact is that Oswald went to the 2nd floor lunch room immediately after the assassination, 12:31, and we know for absolute fact that at 12:30, he was in the doorway. But, was he also in the 2nd floor lunch earlier, and was he seen by Carolyn Arnold there? It's possible, and if so, it had to be more like 12:15.

So, the timeline of his movements may have gone like this:

12:15  2nd floor lunch room, seen by Carolyn Arnold
12:20  1st floor lunch room, indirectly attested to by Jarman and Norman
12:30  Doorway
12:31  2nd floor lunch room, encountered by Truly and Baker