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

From OIC senior member Dr. Thomas Halle:

I, too, would like to applaud Dr. Cinque, in working to debunk the thoroughly disingenuous and "Mickey-Mouse" Dartmouth study of one of the "Backyard Photos." I will add, if I may, that folks who are devoted to "junk" investigation studies will work in a characteristic way. Typically they will formulate a conclusion, then selectively choose ("cherry pick") the available evidence to support that conclusion, in what is known in science as an "a priori" approach.

  

Please allow me to further elucidate. In a legitimate investigation (like in those big CSI TV programs of which many of us are fond), the investigators, in an extremely painstaking and elaborate, way, will gather every scrap of evidence, both physical and that based on the content of witness testimony and interrogation. Fundamental principles like maintaining the "chain of custody" in collecting evidence are strictly observed. Then begins careful analysis of that evidence in a search for patterns. 

  

Hopefully, one or more will begin to emerge, and they'll be led in fruitful directions in pursuit of their investigation. Further narrowing down of promising "trails" in this search will gradually occur. and they will follow all leads which present themselves. This, I want to particularly emphasize, is an essentially INDUCTIVE process. Only then, might they turn to more DEDUCTIVE work, such as consideration of similar crimes in the area, consulting with a psychologist about 

"profiling," running through photos of known criminals and suspects--this kind of thing. But the initial and PRIMARY work is always inductive (and in the absence of any pre-conceived conclusions).

  

The official JFK assassination investigation was riddled with problems. Though you may not be prepared to hear this, the crime was--in reality--a coup d 'etat. The "National Security State" felt it needed to remove a sitting U.S. president who had moved in directions which too strongly threatened its agenda, perhaps even its very existence. Not only had Kennedy pushed for the first nuclear arms control measure, spoken about the self-determination of nations and peoples, moved somewhat in the area of civil rights, determined that--upon re-election--he would remove all American troops from Vietnam, BUT, had even had the gall to fire the top three men in the CIA, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He also had personal enemies in the form of V.P. Johnson (whom he'd been forced to accept, on the Democratic presidential ticket, at the last moment (Symington had been his choice), and John Edgar Hoover of the FBI. Incidentally, Johnson was looking at the specter of imminent indictment for major corruption, in association with Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes. 

  

The Powers-that-Be removed Kennedy in Dallas (what I like to call "Treachery and Murder in the Lone Star State"), and, naturally, they needed what is known in intelligence "spy-craft" as a "cover story" for this "Dark Op." The "Lone Assassin" tale was that cover story. And, they already had--in a low-level intelligence operative--their "fall-guy," their "patsy" in the person of Lee Oswald. We are unclear about his exact mission (I mean what he understood it to be). My guess is that much of it was unknown to him, but was...in the U.S...essentially the monitoring of some very suspicious activities, such as a very significant amount of anti-Castro "mischief" being perpetrated in places like New Orleans. In the Bigger Picture, he was being groomed--and placed--to play his final role as Lone Assassin, unbeknownst to him until the very last minute. 

  

In Dallas--and elsewhere--local police and federal agencies played very free with the evidence--neglecting, manipulating and destroying vast quantities of material. After a few days, the FBI confiscated ALL of the Dallas Police evidence---just walked away with it. Like the members of the Dartmouth study, they chose their conclusion at the start, then searched for, or created, the evidence needed to support/sustain their already determined conclusion. In passing, I will emphasize that this was the very same pattern employed in the worthless (and poorly funded) "9-11" report, which was only pursued about a year after the disaster, because the families of some of the victims yelled loudly enough. A legitimate investigation was the last thing in the world Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld wanted. In working with the Warren Investigation of the assassination, the FBI, Secret Service--and particularly the CIA--were unusually uncooperative. The last even manufactured bogus evidence, such as the mythical Oswald trip to Mexico City, the phony "Backyard Photos" and the supposed murder weapon the "piece of junk" M-C carbine, with rusty barrel bore, loose scope and missing ammo clip. 

  

Are you getting the point? In a BOGUS criminal investigation, you determine the cause at the outset, then collect, manipulate or create evidence to support that conclusion: You pursue the investigative process "back-asswards." You also work closely with the media, and spew all kinds of junk propaganda..including lousy "tabloid style" character assassination of the victim, like we got in the extremely trashy "Dark Camelot" account by Seymour Hersh. And, you relentlessly push the Official Narrative that was--long-ago--established (just like the Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels' "Big Lie"). Every master propagandist knows that by "controlling the narrative, you control the reality," whether your product is a brand of cigarettes or laundry detergent...or a chunk of history.

  

So, the Warren Report was as legitimate as a wooden nickel (or your friendly neighborhood thug who promises to protect your little grocery story, you know--"insurance'). It was a supremely skewed account, nothing more than a patently dishonest "Brief for the Prosecution." Same with the Bugliosi and Posner junk accounts in support of the WR-- complete "snow-jobs." And, I will add that assigning Allen Dulles the key role in the Warren Investigation (though Warren was the "figurehead"), was the ultimate insult to the Kennedy family, and to John Kennedy's legacy, during some supremely dark days for the USA.