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

Jean Davison, I did not jump to a conclusion. I logically followed the evidence. I have the plat of the 1st floor, and it shows no shipping room. 

And then when you read this statement by David Belin, it appears that he had the same plat because he read off the rooms that he could see identified, but not shipping room. 

Mr. BELIN – Well I have a first floor map here of the Texas School Book Depository. Here is Elm Street and here is the front entrance. Here is Mr. Truly’s office, and Here is Mr. Shelley’s office. There is the stairway down to the basement, and there are the elevators and the back stairway. There are the toilets there. About where would you wrap mail there? Here is the Domino room and the shower. You are looking here, that is north Elm Street runs this way and Houston Street runs that way. It is shown on the diagram.

To my mind, that was just a polite way of saying, "Where the hell is the shipping room, for Christ's sake?" 

And Troy West's response was:

Mr. WEST – Well, my place was in the west side of the other building.

That was his response to that long diatribe. Belin ignored it when Troy said that his place (presumably of work) was in the west side of the other building. Are you going to ignore it too? 

Now, I never said anything about the 1st floor being an empty space. I simply posted the only plat there is of the 1st floor of the TSBD. I didn't say a word about it being empty. But, you submitted this image which you claim is of the 1st floor. You claim it is the shipping station that was on the 1st floor. 

What proof is there that that is the 1st floor of the Book Depository? Maybe it's an image from the other building in which Troy West said he worked. Doesn't it seem a bit dark to be the 1st floor of the Book Depository? The first floor had Truly's office; Shelley's office; the Domino room where the workers ate lunch; bathrooms; and it seems like such an environment as that would never be kept so dark. There is another image that is also dark.

Then, you submitted this view from the back door:

What are we looking at there? It looks crowded, but I don't see the mailing station. But, you think the mailing station was there somewhere too? All on the first floor, eh? 

Well consider the testimony of Officer Marrion Baker:

Mr. BELIN - What did you see and what did you do as you ran into the building?
Mr. BAKER - As I entered this building, there was, it seems to me like there was outside doors and then there is a little lobby.
Mr. BELIN - All right.
Mr. BAKER - And then there are some inner doors and another door you have to go through, a swinging door type.
As I entered this lobby there were people going in as I entered. And I asked, I just spoke out and asked where the stairs or elevator was, and this man, Mr. Truly, spoke up and says, it seems to me like he says, "I am a building manager. Follow me, officer, and I will show you." So we immediately went out through the second set of doors, and we ran into the swinging door.
Mr. BELIN - All right.
Now, during the course of running into the swinging door, did you bump into the back of Mr. Truly?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir; I did.
Mr. BELIN - Then what happened?
Mr. BAKER - We finally backed up and got through that little swinging door there and we kind of ran, not real fast but, you know, a good trot, to the back of the Building, I was following him.
Mr. BELIN - All right.
Then what did you do?
Mr. BAKER - We went to the northwest corner, we was kind of on the, I would say, the southeast corner of the Building there where we entered it, and we went across it to the northwest corner which is in the rear, back there.
Mr. BELIN - All right.
Mr. BAKER - And he was trying to get that service elevator down there.

Alright, we can quit there. The point is that after they went through the third door, Baker said that they ran across the first floor to the back where the elevator was. 

Certainly the implication of Baker's statement is that it was an unobstructed area and not consistent with the images you provided of the mailing station being located there. So, I reject the claim that that was the 1st floor of the TSBD, and the fact that Troy West said that his workplace was in another building backs me up. We have an image of the entrance lobby of the first floor.

OK, notice how there is a nicely finished floor, consistent with an office, and notice that it seems perfectly bright like an office. So, from that it goes to this?

Jean, you've been hoodwinked. No way was that the first floor. It is literally a different floor. That must have been another location, perhaps the place that Troy West was referring to in the other building. No way did it go from this:

to this:

It's just more lies in a sea of lies. The lighting, the flooring, and everything else argues against that being the first floor. That had to be somewhere else.