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

Amy Joyce has made another brilliant observation, and I kick myself for not having seen it myself. The ambulance that came for Oswald was just a standard Ford station wagon, and the only way a stretcher with a man on it could be slid into it is if one of the second row seats was folded down. There was no bench seat there; there were separate seats, you might say bucket seats. Either or both could be folded down, and at least one had to be to accommodate the stretcher. That means there was at most just one seat remaining for a person to sit in that row. And that person was presumably Dr. Fred Bieberdorf. 

But, it's baffling when we read the Bieb's testimony. He said this:

"Officer Leavelle and myself were sitting in the seat directly behind the front seat."

That's impossible for two reasons. For one, we have images of Leavelle getting into the back of the ambulance when he boarded and getting out of the back of the ambulance when the ambulance arrived  at Parkland. 

That's Leavelle in his Easter suit getting out at Parkland. He's got his hat in his hand, and he puts it on momentarily. Now obviously, we have to assume that he rode in the back and not in the second row compartment with the Bieb. But, how could the Bieb make a mistake when there was no chance that anybody rode next to him in the second row except for the head of Oswald's stretcher, which is to say, except for Oswald himself? 

So, why'd the Bieb lie? Why WHY WHY did the Bieb lie?