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

Brennan, you don't even know when something is contrary to your case, your own argument. You're that plain stupid. 

Fact: Fritz, Hosty, and Bookhout were present when Oswald said that he was "out with Bill Shelley in front". 

They all heard him say it, but, Fritz and Hosty NEVER mentioned it.  Not ever. It's as though Oswald never said it. Why? Because they knew it was given as Oswald's alibi, and their way of dealing with it, of suppressing it, of crushing it, was to just not mention it at all.  

But, Bookhout had another plan. He had another way of dealing with the uncomfortable truth, which was to change the time that Oswald was out with Bill Shelley to after the assassination. 

Fritz not only said nothing about "out with Bill Shelley in front" but he then lied and said that Oswald said he was "eating lunch with other employees" during the shooting. 

Think about how preposterous that is. For Oswald to skip the motorcade to be off eating, means that those other employees also did the same. They decided to pass on watching the motorcade in favor of eating- even though they had 45 minutes to eat before the motorcade arrived.

So, who were these "other employees" who did this strange behavior, who had more interest in eating at 12:30 than in seeing the Leader of the Free World and his glamorous wife? Didn't inquiring minds want to know? Apparently not. At least, not Joseph Ball, the Warren Commission interrogator. He heard Fritz say that Oswald said he was eating with "other employees" at the time of the shots, and it prompted nothing out of him. He never asked their names. He just wasn't interested.  

And it was a bold-faced lie. Oswald NEVER ate with other employees. I mean not that day and not ever. Not on any day. He was a loner. He ate alone. He wasn't an "eat with other employees" kind of guy. He was an "I eat alone" kind of guy. And the other employees to which he referred weren't even eating themselves at the time of the shots. For goodness sake, we have a picture of those "other employees" at 12:30 perched at the 5th floor window. 

Just think: Fritz didn't tell their names. Ball didn't ask their names. They just moved the fuck on.

And when Bookhout told his lie, his shrewd and cunning lie, he didn't know that Shelley wasn't outside when Oswald left for home. And he didn't know that it would become part of the official record that Shelley wasn't outside when Oswald left for home. Bookhout told his lie on November 25, the day after Oswald died, and he just took the liberty of thinking that he could get away it.  He didn't know that it was going to come back to haunt him. And perhaps he never did. Perhaps he died not knowing that his lie would be exposed. But, we are exposing it now, and better late than never. Shelley, himself, contradicted Bookhout. Shelley denied being out front at the time Oswald left for home, and he denied seeing Oswald at that time. 


How pathetic that you, Brennan, don't even realize that none of this is a winning hand for you. It is not good for your cause.  It is not anything that you should be brandishing or even talking about. You should be shutting the fuck up about it. It bespeaks of lies, fabrications, and deceit. And really it speaks of bloodied service to the state. Like soldiers who kill on order of the state, these were public servants who were railroading Oswald precisely because he was the only alternative to facing the ugly, monstrous truth that the state killed Kennedy. To save the state, there was a rush to convict Oswald. And if they didn't convict Oswald, if they were left without him to blame, then, it was only a matter of time before the pendulum swung back towards the only alternative to Oswald having killed Kennedy, which was that the leviathan state killed him. And, wasn't that unthinkable? But, I think that deep down inside they knew; they all knew it.  I don't know how much they brought it to the conscious level, but what they had to know on some level is that if they didn't convict Oswald, then it was going to turn into a nightmare. The preservation of life, as they and everybody else knew it, depended on pinning the hideous crime on Oswald. They knew that, and that's why they, unflinchingly, did it.