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

A messsage came in this evening to OIC members from Vincent Salandria:

Dear OIC members,

         On November 22, 1963, my brother-in-law, Harold Feldman met with me on that Saturday afternoon. We talked and concluded that if Oswald was really the assassin that he would certainly be protected and tried in due course. For we reasoned that no innocent government would ever have permitted an actual lone assassin who killed a national leader to meet an untimely end while in custody.  If an accused sole assassin is killed while in custody, then the government would be immediately suspect of having killed him to conceal a coup, we reasoned.  Conversely, we decided that if the U.S. government had killed Kennedy in a coup, then Oswald would have to be killed that very weekend.

We thought that the CIA was the only agency of government that could have managed the killing and could get away with it.

         It was not until January 6, 1967 that I informed Joe McGinnis, who then was a reporter for "The Philadelphia Inquirer," that President Johnson would not run for reelection, and that Robert Kennedy, would seek to run for the President, and would be killed.  McGinnis wrote an article which was printed in The Philadelphia Inquirer on January 7. 1963 wherein he set forth my predictions and concluded with his stated conviction that my thinking was "crazy and horrible."

        On January 4, 2012, at his invitation, I met with Arlen Specter for lunch, (See "Vince Salandria: The JFK Conspiracy Theorist" By Robert Huber, "Philadelphia Magazine, February 27, 2014.) I informed Specter that the Kennedy assassination was the work of the national security state to abort efforts by Kennedy and Khrushchev to end the Cold War. Specter did not offer one word in defense of his work or the Warren Commission Report. His only request was that I change my opinion of his work from corrupt to incompetent. I refused. And, I informed Specter that I never considered him incompetent.

        So, being a high school teacher and part-time lawyer at the time of the assassination I thought that the killing of Kennedy was no mystery.  I did not believe that it required great intelligence to see that we had just undergone a coup. It just required an open and unfettered mind.

        Vince Salandria