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

Brian Pete put up this excerpt from Dr. Gerald McKnight's book, Breach of Trust. It is very good. It's the best and most concise statement of the evidence concerning Carolyn Arnold.

That's it. The FBI agent took her statement. He pushed the time back to a few minutes before 12:15 in order to leave Oswald enough room to make it up to the 6th floor. 

But then, the higher-ups must have realized that it still looked bad for Oswald to be seen down at the doorway as late as 12:15. Didn't he have to rebuild the rifle and set up the Sniper's Nest? Of course, he couldn't have done those things anyway because Bonnie Ray Williams was up on the 6th floor until at least 12:20 (and that's official) and more likely 12:25. Williams didn't budge until he heard his friends, James Jarman and Harold Norman, arrive on the 5th floor, at which time he decided to go down and join them. 

But nevertheless, it was before the Warren Report came out with Williams' testimony, and all they knew at the time is that it looked bad for Oswald to be seen downstairs by the doorway at 12:15. Meaning: even the fix by Agent Harrison wasn't good enough. 

So, when the FBI returned (Gestapo-like) to the TSBD in March 1964, they laid down the law: Nobody saw Oswald when they weren't supposed to. If you think you did, you didn't. 

And here's what they told Carolyn Arnold when they got to her:

"You didn't see Oswald by the door from outside. That must have been someone else you saw. That's because Oswald was already up on the 6th floor by then, and there is no doubt about it. So, we need a new statement from you. And this time, get it right."

So, Carolyn Arnold gulped, and then she said; "OK. Then I didn't see Oswald at all. I got outside at 12:25 and was standing there with my friends, but I didn't see Oswald."

And they said: "Good girl."

And that is about how it went, I am sure. 

Now, let's consider what happened in 1978. According to Dr. McKnight, 15 years later, an "investigative reporter" for the Dallas Morning News, Earl Golz, sought out Carolyn Arnold about what she told the FBI in 1963. 

BUT WHY??? WHY ON EARTH DID EARL GOLZ SEEK OUT CAROLYN ARNOLD? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE DRIVEN HIM TO DO THAT?

Somebody orchestrated it. Somebody arranged it. Somebody or somebodies wanted the story to be published- in the corporate media- to damage the case for Oswald in the doorway. 

And in one version of Golz' article, he intimated that Carolyn Arnold told the FBI about her lunch room sighting of Oswald back in '63 and '64.  But that is preposterous! First of all, her 1964 statement was signed by her. And, if it was signed by her, it was read by her. Secondly, the very idea that she could tell an FBI agent that she saw Oswald in the 2nd floor lunch room sitting and eating at 12:25, but that he would instead write down that she said she saw him between the glass door and the double doors at 12:15 is preposterous.

It is weird, wild, wacky preposterous. It is JFK assassination "other-world" preposterous. It is Op talk. Classic, quintessential Op talk.

Dr. Gerald McKnight had it right: Carolyn Arnold saw what she said she saw in 1963, and the Op-in-Charge changed it from 12:25 to 12:15. But, his superiors later decided that that wasn't good enough, that it had to be jettisoned completely; replaced with something better. 

So, they went back in 1964 and forced Carolyn Arnold to change her story, eliminating Oswald. But then in 1978, during the HSCA when Oswald in the doorway was again rearing its ugly head, they came up with something really Machiavellian for her to say; something that would really stir the brew; something that would throw the conspiracy advocates a curve; something that would deflect from the real danger, which was Oswald in the doorway. 

They knew that the 2nd floor lunch room story was never going to gain traction.  They knew that Oswald ate in the 1st floor lunch room. It was just noise, diversion, and distraction that they sought. It was an Op thing from beginning to end. And that's why it found daylight in the Dallas Morning News, a CIA newspaper. Believe me: if they (the CIA) didn't want it there; it wouldn't have been there. 

That is the reality. That is what happened. Thank you, Dr. McKnight.