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

I am pleased to announce that the newest senior member of the Oswald Innocence Campaign is the prolific JFK blogger on Facebook, Danny Vasquez.

Right now, this is the only image I have of Danny, although I hope he provides a proper image of himself. As you suspect, this is an image of him behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll in Dealey Plaza, and the year was 1990. It gives you some idea how long he has been at this in a serious way. 

Update: Danny has submitted a proper picture of himself, and here it is. This is what we are using on the OIC website.

Danny is a dynamo. I don't know that there is anybody who is pulling up more stuff, and always interesting stuff, about the JFK assassination. And when I discovered recently that he is indeed an advocate of Oswald in the doorway- the Altgens doorway- that was my cue to invite him to be a senior member of the OIC and he accepted. 

I always learn new things from Danny. For example, here is a recent post of his. Did you know about this? I didn't. And, as you'll see, Danny knows how to think, and he knows how to write. Danny may be the most prolific JFK blogger in the world today, and we are honored to have him in the OIC. 

On the morning Wednesday, November 20, 1963, in the center of Dallas, two police officers on routine patrol entered Dealey Plaza, through which the presidential motorcade would pass on Friday, and noticed several men standing behind a wooden fence on a grassy knoll overlooking the plaza. The men were engaged in mock target practice, aiming rifles over the fence, in the direction of the plaza. The two police officers immediately made for the fence, but by the time they got there the riflemen had disappeared, having departed in a car that had been parked nearby. The two patrol officers did not give much thought to the incident at the time, but after the assassination of the President two days later, they reported the incident to the FBI, which issued a report of it on November 26. For reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained, the substance of the report was never mentioned in the FBI’s investigation of the assassination and the report itself disappeared until 1978, when it finally resurfaced as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request.

Confirmation of this report comes from historian Michael Kurtz in his book Crime of the Century where on page 218 of the second revised edition he says:

Two days before the assassination, two Dallas police officers were making their usual rounds on patrol. As they entered Dealey Plaza, they observed several men engaged in target practice with a rifle. The men were situated behind the wooden fence on the Grass Knoll. By the time the policemen reached the area the men had vanished, apparently leaving in a car parked nearby.

Kurtz cites an FBI report, 26 Nov 1963, from Federal Bureau of Investigation. Papers on the Assassination of President Kennedy. 15 vols., 3847pp. Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA

Copy of an FBI teletype dated November 27, 1963 which reads in part as follows:

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI AND SAC, DALLAS
FROM: SAC, SAN ANTONIO (89-67)
(1p)
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
RE. OSWALD. EVIDENCE
….
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY LAST, THE DALLAS POLICE SIGHTED TWO UNKNOWN MEN SIGHTING IN A RIFLE NEAR SCENE OF WHERE PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED. RIFLE BEING SIGHTED IN AT TWO SILHOUETTES TARGET OLD MODEL CAR SEEN IN VICINITY OF MEN. POLICE CIRCLED TO CONTACT MEN AND THEY DISAPPEARED.