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

You may have heard about the woman who went missing after Hurricane Harvey in Houston. They found her car, abandoned at a flooded hotel parking lot in Houston, and no sign of her. She was supposed to drive to Chambers County, which is east of Houston, to pick up her two children at the home of her ex-husband. He said she never got there. 

But apparently, she did; and he killed her. Then, he buried her in a wooded area in Chambers County. And then, apparently, he drove her car back to Houston and left it at that parking lot. I wonder if there is a record of her staying at the hotel.  

But, for reasons that are not completely clear, the police did not believe him. He became the prime suspect. Then, they actually located her grave in Chambers County. And then they went and arrested him.

She was a very beautiful woman. It is staggering to think that he did that; he killed her; the mother of his children.

But, the main thing that prompted me to put this up is how astonishingly good the police work was. I bow to those people. There was no mention of federal law enforcement being involved, although maybe they were behind the scenes. I don't know. But, with or without the feds, they figured it out and got to the bottom of it- and at warp speed. I am so impressed.

But, what I am NOT impressed with is the House Subcommittee on Assassinations. After 3 1/2 years, they came to the astonishing conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had an accomplice, a second shooter, who shot at Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll and missed. They assumed that both Oswald and his accomplice were working for the Mafia. But you see, according to them, Oswald was your "Good Samaritan" hit man. He didn't do it for money, since there is no record of him receiving any. He did killings for free. You see, he was well off, and he didn't need the money. He was just in it for the sport. And even though in Russia, he couldn't hit a rabbit with a shotgun, according to his Russian friends, the Mafia felt that Lee Harvey Oswald was the best man for the job. 

So, the HSCA released their Final Report in January 1979, and they urged the Executive branch, the Justice Department, and the law enforcement community in general to start looking for this second shooter and his Mafia bosses. 

Well, if Houston Police could correctly figure out the above case and actually find the victim's body within days, doesn't it seem like the combined efforts of the FBI, the ATF, the Justice Department, etc. could have produced something? But, nobody lifted a finger. Nobody did a thing. It was completely and totally ignored. Why? Because it was stupid that's why. Nobody but nobody took it seriously. And under their breath and in private, I'm sure a lot of people were laughing their heads off at the outrageous stupidity of it all. 

I don't know if the HSCA started with good intentions or if it was evil and corrupt from Day 1, like the Warren Commission. But, it really turned to the dark side. The people who grabbed control of it were interested in one thing and one thing only: protecting the U.S. government and its agencies from incrimination. The HSCA really was just Warren Commission II. And their conclusion at the end resulted from their having appointed a very stupid man to head the investigation, Robert Blakey, but also because they wanted to throw the conspiracy community a bone. They knew that if they confirmed every last thing that the Warren Commission said that there would have been deep and abiding resentment and disgust. So to prevent that, they came up with the ridiculous idea of Oswald being a Mafia hit man, one of two. And again, he worked for free because he wasn't into money.

You gotta hand it to Oswald. The guy spent 3 years in Russia working in a radio factory. He comes back here, and he's working odd jobs in Dallas and New Orleans, for very low pay, struggling to get by, but through it all and despite it all, the Mafia picks him to assassinate the President of the United States. 

Wow. That is quite a swing of the pendulum in less than a year and a half.