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

This is Part 1 of a new series by John Armstrong, concerning the events that followed the assassination leading up to Harvey's arrest. 

A little discussed aspect of the assassination is the Dallas Police boarding McWatters' bus shortly after (Harvey) Oswald got off. Who precisely were the officers who participated in that raid? Who was in charge? And what was their purpose? 

John Armstrong has some ideas about it, and he has given me permission to publish this freshly written piece, and I can tell you that he is taking aim at Captain Westbrook and Officer Croy: 

PART I

Some of the brightest minds in the CIA planned the assassination of President Kennedy. Top-level CIA officers like Angleton, Phillips, Hunt, Joannides, and others could easily put together a hit team based on the Operation 40 group. And they were very experienced in creating a smoke and mirrors propaganda campaign and an evidentiary paper trail that would be easy for investigators (Warren Commission) to follow and fall in line behind, with the intractable conclusion that Oswald killed the President. A tremendous amount of time, money, and effort was put into setting up HARVEY Oswald as the one and only “patsy” in the murder of President Kennedy. And these people could not afford to have their one and only suspect remain alive for very long-with the real fear that he might start singing like a canary to the police. The longer he was held in custody, the greater that risk became. They needed him dead as quickly as possible after he left the TSBD on 11/22/63.

HARVEY, WEARING A LONG-SLEEVED BROWN SHIRT, LEAVES DEALEY PLAZA

Reed's photo of McWatters' bus as it approached the TSBD

Reed's photo of McWatter's bus stalled in traffic close to the TSBD which is in sight. 

HARVEY, WEARING A LONG-SLEEVED BROWN SHIRT, LEAVES DEALEY PLAZA

A few minutes after President Kennedy was shot HARVEY Oswald, wearing a long-sleeve brown shirt, left the book depository. HARVEY Oswald walked east on Elm Street and saw a city bus stopped in traffic as he was approaching Griffin St. He walked to the bus and began pounding on the door. Driver Cecil McWatters opened the door and allowed HARVEY Oswald, and a blond woman, to board the bus around 12:40 PM.
NOTE: Stuart L. Reed, a 30-year army veteran, photographed McWatters' bus a few blocks from the TSBD at about the very time HARVEY Oswald was on it.  Reed was a U.S. government employee, managing civilian employees under the auspices of the U.S. Army, which was in charge of the Panama Canal.
The bus was soon stalled in traffic and about 4 minutes later Oswald got up from his seat, obtained a bus transfer, and left the bus via the front door. The blond woman left the bus at the same time via the rear door. This blond woman may have been following Oswald, may have followed him to Whaley's cab, and may have been the woman who asked Whaley to call a taxi for her. HARVEY Oswald walked three blocks south on Lamar St. toward the Greyhound Bus station and got into William Whaley's taxi. Whaley said, "He wasn't in any hurry. He wasn't nervous or anything." Oswald was wearing adark brown button-up shirt, a t-shirt, and a grey jacket. As Whaley was driving Oswald toward Oak Cliff, two unidentified police officers boarded McWatters bus with pistols drawn, as described by Roy Milton Jones in CE 2641.  There are no police or FBI reports of DPD officers boarding this bus.
NOTE: Stuart L. Reed took a second photograph of McWatters' bus a few minutes later while the bus was stalled in traffic close to the TSBD. This was very near the time two police officers boarded the bus with pistols drawn, looking for the assassin of President Kennedy. Reed then took a photo of the 6th floor window of the TSBD, and one hour later he took several photos of HARVEY Oswald as he was being escorted from the Texas Theater in handcuffs. Stuart Reed took all of these photos, which sequentially followed Oswald's movements, within 1 1/2 hours. Reed dropped his film off at a photo lab in Dallas, and then hurried to New Orleans to catch a boat to the Canal Zone. Prior to boarding the boat, Reed signed an authorization that allowed the FBI to pick up his developed photo slides in Dallas. The FBI told the WC that a government executive (Reed), answering to the military, took the photos. This seemed to satisfy the WC, and Reed dropped out of sight without ever seeing his photos.

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