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

If you are an Oswald-innocent CT (and I mean a real one, not a fake who spends all his time attacking other CTs and never saying a word to defend Oswald) where do you think he was during the motorcade?

You have to have an answer because it's only natural. If you were falsely accused of a crime, the first thing you would say in self-defense is: 

"Me? I couldn't have done it because I was at xxx doing yyy."

Well, it's the exact same way for Oswald. It goes from being accused to citing your alibi without so much as taking a breath in-between.

So, let's consider the possibilities if you realize full-well that he was not on the 6th floor.

He could not have been on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 7th floors because this was his lunch break, and he had no business being on those floors. His only reason for being on those floors was: to work. And he wasn't that kind of worker to have worked during his lunch break. So, you can't even go there. If he was higher than the 2nd floor, he was up to no good; it means he was guilty. He had no credible excuse, no rational reason, for being any higher than the 2nd floor.

But, we can break it down more than that. The 2nd floor was mostly offices, and the only place there that he could have had any business being was the lunch room. That's it.

And the 1st floor was mostly an open space with a few rooms around the periphery. And the only one of those rooms that he would have had any business being was the domino room, which was another lunch room. 

So, look how far we've come already: He could have been in the 1st floor lunch room, the 2nd floor lunch room, or the doorway. And that's it.

Could he have been in transit in-between those places? Maybe briefly but not for the whole time that we are talking about. And we're talking about at least 5 minutes. The motorcade was expected to pass at 12:25. It was late. But, the people outside gathered to see it weren't late. You have to figure that they were out there by 12:25. So, we are not talking about a flash of time but a period of time- one of at least 5 minutes duration. So, where was Oswald from 12:25 to 12:30? That's what we are talking about, and he wasn't walking around, doing laps inside the building.  

What about Robert Groden's idea that at 12:30 sharp he was getting change from Geraldine Reed? It is too ridiculous to even consider. Geraldine Reed was interviewed extensively by the Warren Commission, and you can read her testimony here:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/reid.htm

She told them that she, herself, was outside during the motorcade with her boss, Mr. Campbell, and with Mr. Truly.

"I walked out to the street so I would be nearer to the people, and I walked out and was standing by Mr. Truly and Mr. Campbell."

And she said she heard the shots- when she was outside. Now, that is plain English, and it says what it says, and it means what it means. And to think that she concocted it and lied, or that the Warren Commission did so, is ridiculous. They would have just omitted her testimony completely, and nobody would have complained. 

Another thing is that Robert Groden said that he waited until Mrs. Reid died to reveal her revelations, but he actually waited 10 years AFTER her death. How come, Robert?

So, Groden's claim is just too ridiculous and farfetched to take seriously. I don't, and neither should you. 

And that puts us back to where we started: you have three choices to place Oswald during those 5 minutes from 12:25 to 12::30: the domino room, the 2nd floor lunch room, or the doorway.  And that's it.

So, what about domino room? Well, the fact is that Oswald said he ate his lunch there, and it was at a time when James Jarman and Harold Norman were around- in view to him, and they confirmed it. They didn't confirm him (at least, not that we know of) but they did confirm that they were there at that time. So, out of 70 employees, Oswald did correctly cite two who were milling around during the time in question. And it was well before the motorcade passed because from there, Jarman and Norman, went outside and got situated to watch the motorcade from outside, but then, they changed their minds and decided to watch it from an upstairs window. So, they went around to the back and took the elevator up to the 5th floor and watched it from the corner window, below the Sniper's Nest. Bonnie Ray Williams became part of their group, and we even have a picture of them at the 5th floor window during the time of the motorcade.

 So, there is NO CHANCE that Oswald was in the domino room at 12:30.

What about the 2nd floor lunch room? Well, the only way you can place him there is to say that he went from the domino room to the 2nd floor lunch room and just sat there doing nothing until 12:31.5 when Truly and Baker came in.

You can't say he was eating there because he already ate- in the domino room. And you can't say he was drinking there because both Truly and Baker said that he had no Coke when they encountered him. No Coke, no Coke, no Coke. And Mrs. Reid, who saw Oswald about 30 seconds after Truly and Baker continued their trek to the roof, said that he had a "full" Coke. So, Oswald must have gotten his Coke AFTER his encounter with T&B. So, what would he have been doing in the lunch room before Truly and Baker got there?

That is the problem with citing the 2nd floor lunch room as Oswald's location during the time of the motorcade: he was not eating there; he wasn't drinking there; so what was he doing there?

He didn't have a book to read. He didn't have a crossword puzzle to work. He wasn't writing a love letter to Marina- or to Judyth, for that matter. And I'm pretty sure they didn't have a piano there on which he was playing I Love A Piano, although it would have been a good choice. 

So, you're left with saying that he was just sitting in the lunch room- doing nothing. 

But, that isn't normal. Human beings HATE to do nothing. 

I am currently reading a biography of Steve McQueen, and it says that during the making of The Great Escape that his character kept getting thrown into solitary confinement at the POW camp in Germany. And I mean for weeks at a time. Where he was just confined to a small cell. And McQueen complained about it to the director, that his character didn't have anything to do, that he needed a "thing." So, they came up with the idea of him having an old baseball mitt and a baseball, and he would just bounce the baseball against the wall and catch it, and do that repeatedly, and that's how he spent his time in Solitary. It may have even been McQueen's own idea. 

But, Lee Harvey Oswald didn't have a ball to bounce, and so you are left with him doing nothing in the lunch room for at least 5 minutes and maybe longer. And why would he prefer to do that than to go outside in the sunshine and watch the President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, ride by with his glamorous wife? 

I know that LNs portray Oswald as this disturbed, withdrawn, eccentric person who was extremely anti-social, but why are Oswald defenders doing it? Because, that is what you are doing if you are going to say that Oswald preferred to sit in the 2nd floor lunch room alone, doing nothing, rather than go outside and watch the President.  

There were 70 employees of the TSBD, and most of them went outside to watch the motorcade. Of those who didn't, most of them watched it from a window. There were a few who, apparently, ignored it. But, to put Oswald into a category with them is ridiculous. Oswald had lived in the Soviet Union, and he had friends there. Oswald was married to a Soviet woman whose family was there. Oswald spoke Russian. We almost went to war with the Soviet Union just a year before, at a time that Oswald was working for Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall in Dallas which did top secret work for the US Military, and that was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They were actually making maps of Cuba showing where the missile stations were. And at the center of that crisis was John F. Kennedy. 

Oswald liked Kennedy. He went to the library and checked out his book, Profiles in Courage. Have you gone to the library to check out Obama's book? Neither have I. It's said that Oswald read James Bond novels precisely because he heard that Kennedy liked them. Marina said that Oswald defended Kennedy to her relatives in Russia- vigorously. So, why would Oswald, of all people, NOT be interested in seeing Kennedy? Why would Oswald, of all people, prefer to sit alone in a dank lunch room doing absolutely nothing rather than go outside in the sunshine and partake of a rare, momentous, and historical event that involved a close encounter with the most powerful and most respected man on the planet?

If you are an Oswald defender, and I mean a real Oswald defender, then you have NO PLACE ELSE but the doorway to place Oswald during the shooting. And note that most of my opponents who fight me about Oswald in the doorway do so without citing any alternate location for him. Correction: not most of them; all of them. So far, nobody has argued against me on the basis of Oswald being somewhere else- except, of course, the LNs who say he was on the 6th floor.

But, I don't care about the LNs because they are just automations. They support the official story because it is the official story. They start with the official story being true and they work backwards from there. They are puppets; they are robots. They are mechanical. They are not independent minds.  

But, if you an Oswald-innocent CT, you need to look at this, hone in on it, and if you do, I believe that, through the process of elimination, you will realize that the doorway is the ONLY place that Lee Harvey Oswald could have been at 12:30 sharp. There is NO PLACE ELSE to put him. Nada.