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

I shall deal quickly with Judyth Baker's latest attempt to discredit John Armstrong- with help from Jim Fetzer.

Judyth continues to claim that the Oswald of fame could not speak Russian very well and that he was still practicing it with flashcards with her. And remember: it's always her. She's always at the center of everything Oswald did. 

But, Oswald was fluent in Russian. The very first thing he did when he got back to Texas after living in Russia was to seek work as a Russian translator or interpreter. 

A week and a half after his return, he went to the 15th floor of the Continental Life Building in downtown Fort Worth. Earlier that morning, my father, a successful petroleum engineer, received a call from a young man who wanted certification of fluency in Russian. Rather than tell him that there wasn’t much of a market for a Russian translator in 1960s Texas, my father, who fled Siberia during the civil war, welcomed the chance to meet this fellow Russian speaker in person. He told him to come in for a meeting.

Around 11 a.m., with the temperature climbing into the 90s, a slight, 22-year-old Oswald arrived, drenched with sweat and wearing a wool suit. My father asked Oswald to translate passages from a Russian book he chose at random, and he was surprised at how well the young man performed. He asked his secretary to type out a “to whom it may concern” letter stating that one Lee Harvey Oswald was qualified to work as a Russian translator. 

Here is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/lee-harvey-oswald-was-my-friend.html?_r=0

Next, amazingly, Judyth criticizes Armstrong for cropping Harvey's legs off in the image on the left, making him look shorter.

No, Judyth. He looks just as short on the right as he does on the left, and you are out of your mind to think otherwise. Harvey was a short, scrawny runt at that age, and there is just no doubt about it. The other Oswald, "Lee" was stocky and sturdy, in comparison.  

Judyth, these two men cannot possibly be the same human being. They don't even have the same body type. 

You are shoveling sand to stop the tide, Judyth. So are you, Jim. 

Then Judyth goes on and on about Oswald going to Mexico City. He never went there, Judyth. And he said he didn't go there. He said that the only place in Mexico he ever went was Tijuana. 

And why would he lie? If he went to Mexico City to deliver a poison to kill Castro, wasn't that a good thing, from the standpoint of being a good loyal American? If he was working for the CIA, why would he have to keep that a secret from the police?  

Look: when you're innocent, as he was, it means you don't have to lie to the police. Furthermore, you must certainly shouldn't lie to the police because to lie is to evince a consciousness of guilt. And in this case, nobody was accusing him of committing any crimes in Mexico City. He wasn't Poncho Gonzales. So, it would have been incredibly stupid of him to lie if he went there. And he didn't lie. They asked him, and he told them the truth, that he never went there. 

Why would he even expect to get away with lying if he went there? Wouldn't he have to know that people saw him there? Didn't he, by necessity, have to interact with people in Mexico if he went there? What's the point of telling a futile lie? 

And then, for some reason, Judyth can't see that the Marguerite below is too tall to be the short, dumpy Marguerite of fame. 

Do you understand, Judyth, that this a picture of employees at Paul's Shoe Store in Ft. Worth, Texas? And, the Marguerite Oswald of fame never worked there; she was a private duty nurse! She didn't work at any shoe store. 

And do you understand how short the Marguerite of fame was? She could not have been more than 5 feet tall. She was shorter than Marina, and Marina was short.

Judyth says these two below are the same woman, but they don't even have the same teeth.

Look closely on the right: that woman has an elevated, overlapping incisor, which is quite common. She needed braces but she didn't get them. Too bad. That's a shame. But, the woman on the left has perfectly aligned teeth. 

I'll tell you what is happening here: Some years ago, Jim Fetzer decided to back Judyth Baker- against the advice of some friends and colleagues who tried to warn him not to do it.  But, he did it anyway. And now, as things are falling apart for Judyth, with her credibility at a low ebb, Jim is doubling down on a bad bet. He's sending good money chasing after bad. Rather than face the fact that he made a mistake, and that like many others, he was duped by her, he is digging himself in deeper, as he did today in publishing her ridiculous article. 

She's making you look bad, Jim. Judyth Baker is a fraud. There is no evidence she even knew Oswald, never mind went to bed with him. And let's get something straight here: she was not his GIRLFRIEND. Stop using that word to describe her. Oswald was married. He had a child with his wife, and his wife was carrying his second child. His wife traveled 7,000 miles to make a life with him in a country where she couldn't even speak the language. If you want to say Judyth was his "mistress" fine, but, I don't even believe that. I know of no evidence that she had a romantic relationship with Oswald. I know of no evidence that she even knew him. 

It's going to get worse for Judyth. She's through. Her reputation is shot. She's heading south. And apparently, Jim Fetzer is willing to go down with her. And why? All because he doesn't have the courage to admit that he made a mistake.