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

John Hankey sent me this video of Malcolm Kilduff, acting Press Secretary for JFK who made the announcement of JFK's death. The interview, concerning the assassination was done in 1991.

Kilduff said that he didn't know that anyone had been shot until they passed the Trade Mart without stopping. Don't you find that hard to believe? The motorcade starts racing off after bogging down, and after gunshots were heard, yet, Kilduff didn't suspect that someone had been shot? 

Then, he repeated the phony story about Rufus Youngblood jumping on top of Lyndon Johnson.

Kilduff kept saying that he was in the 4th car, but he wasn't. He was in the National Press car, which was either the 7th or 8th car, depending on whether you count the pilot car which was way ahead of the others. So, if you include the pilot car, Kilduff was in the 8th car, not the 4th. How could he be off by that much? 

He said that he effectively was the one who informed LBJ at Parkland Hospital that JFK had died, and he did it by going up to him and addressing him as "Mr. President".  How poignant. He said that Lady Bird gasped.

Then he said that Johnson was taken "back to Air Force 1". No. Johnson had flown into Dallas on Air Force 2, so he didn't go back to Air Force 1; for the first time, he went to Air Force 1. He commandeered it. He wasted no time taking it over.

And Kilduff said nothing about having gestured on national television that Kennedy had been shot in the right temple. 

That's got to be one of the most famous images from the assassination.

Then Kilduff said, when asked about it directly, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK. Then he said that both the Warren Commission and the HSCA found that there was nothing more than Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, and of course that is not true. The HSCA concluded that there was a second shooter from the Grassy Knoll. 

Kilduff accounted for the continued obsession with conspiracy in the U.S. because "Americans don't like to think their President is that vulnerable." 

Then, for the questioner brought up the Miami plot to kill JFK, which was extremely brazen, in my opinion. That could not have involved Lee Harvey Oswald, so are we supposed to believe that there were two separate lone nut plots to kill the President over a few weeks time? And then when you add the Chicago plot to the mix, that raises it to three. Is there anyone in this country gullible enough to believe that, that there were three separate plots to kill the President over a month's time? That these plots weren't connected in any way? 

Then, Kilduff goes off on a wild fantasy. He said that Oswald was discharged from the Marines under less than honorable circumstances because he went AWOL to Russia. No, that wasn't it. His going to Russia had nothing to do with his discharge. But, then Kilduff said that Oswald was really only trying to kill Connally, who was Secretary of the Navy at the time Oswald was discharged. Can you believe that? Of course, it is NOT any part of the official story. 

Kilduff said: "I have always felt, and I feel to this day, that Oswald was interested in killing John Connally. There was never a motive for Lee Harvey Oswald to kill John F. Kennedy."

Of course, the last statement is very true: Oswald had no motive to kill Kennedy. But, he had no motive to kill Connally either.

Then, Kilduff repeated the script that Jack Ruby was an extreme Kennedy-phile, that he had pictures of Jack, Jackie, and their children in his bar, that he loved them all and was only trying to spare them grief.   

But then, the interviewer wisely asked Kilduff: "If Oswald only wanted to kill Connally, why do it in conjunction with a Presidential visit when there was so much heavier police and Secret Service protection. Wouldn't it have been easier to kill Connally apart from Kennedy?"

Kilduff's responded that it was because the Presidential visit is what brought Connally to Dallas, as if Oswald wanted Connally dead but didn't want to have to travel to do it.

And, the reason, according to Kilduff that Oswald hit Kennedy instead of Connally is because the limo sped up.

Then, he said that if there had been a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, the Secret Service would have known about it. He said that two men in Buffalo were arrested for making remarks in a bar about wanting to kill Johnson. 

Then, he credited LBJ with the Civil Rights Act without mentioning that LBJ fought it tooth and nail all the while that Kennedy was President.

As Holden Caulfield would say, "What a phony."

Here's the interview if you want to listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpw9w5GGYk