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

Amy Joyce pointed out to me today that Jack Daugherty said that he was in the domino room eating at 12:30. And that means that those who falsely claim that Oswald was there in that room at that time need to stop saying it. Daugherty's testimony rules it out. 

Meanwhile, Marrion Baker's testimony rules out the 2nd floor lunch room because Baker observed Oswald just getting to the lunch room when he saw him. Oswald was on the move when Baker saw him. Oswald was moving through the anteroom next to the lunch room. 

This "anteroom" or "vestibule" was really just a passageway. It was a small room with 3 doors: one to the office area, one to the stairwell, and one in-between those two to the lunch room. Baker was in the stairwell, and he was looking through the glass window in the door that faced him. He saw Oswald moving through the anteroom, after entering it from the office side, and heading into the lunch room. 

If you understand the geometry of the situation, you realize that that is the only possibility. If Oswald had entered the anteroom from the side that Baker was on, the stairwell side, then the door still would have been swinging. Moreover, Baker and Truly would have heard Oswald on the stairs, if he was coming down from the 6th floor. But, Baker and Truly had no awareness of Oswald when they were climbing the stairs. Baker only became aware of Oswald when he saw him moving through the anteroom. 

Note that in his testimony, Baker referred to the anteroom as a little hallway.

Mr. BAKER - As I came out to the second floor there, Mr. Truly was ahead of me, and as I come out I was kind of scanning, you know, the rooms, and I caught a glimpse of this man walking away from this--I happened to see him through this window in this door. I don't know how come I saw him, but I had a glimpse of him coming down there.
Mr. DULLES - Where was he coming from, do you know?
Mr. BAKER - No, sir. All I seen of him was a glimpse of him go away from me.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do then?
Mr. BAKER - I ran on over there
Representative BOGGS -You mean where he was?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir. There is a door there with a glass, it seemed to me like about a 2 by 2, something like that, and then there is another door which is 6 foot on over there, and there is a hallway over there and a hallway entering into a lunchroom, and when I got to where I could. see him he was walking away from me about 20 feet away from me in the lunchroom.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do?
Mr. BAKER - I hollered at him at that time and said, "Come here." He turned and walked right straight back to me.
Mr. BELIN - Where were you at the time you hollered?
Mr. BAKER - I was standing in the hallway between this door and the second door, right at the edge of the second door.
Mr. BELIN - He walked back toward you then?
Mr. BAKER - Yes, sir.

Look at this diagram:

So, there's the lunch room and the little anteroom or vestibule or passageway room. You see the 3 doors. The middle door to the lunch room was a spring door, and it was sprung open. The other two doors were swinging doors. Baker saw Oswald in the anteroom as he was making his way to the lunch room. Now, Oswald came from the office area. We know that. We know it because if he had come through the door Baker was looking through , it would have still been open. It wouldn't have been closed. The door would have been moving. But, it wasn't moving. It was perfectly still, which means that Oswald didn't touch it. He had to have come through the other door, from the office side. And the only way he could have gotten there was to go up the 1 flight of stairs from the first floor to the second floor. These stairs:

Do you realize what it means? It means that there is NO CHANCE that Oswald came down from the 6th floor. He wasn't on the right side to do that. He came up from the 1st floor, which was right next to the doorway in the southeast corner of the building.

So, Oswald was in the doorway. He turned around, went back inside through the glass door, through the double doors that were a little beyond it, and then he turned right and headed for the stairs in the corner. He followed the path of the red lines in the diagram. 

Once upstairs, he had a choice: he could take the hypotenuse of the triangle and walk diagonally through the office area to the northwest corner where the lunch room was, or he could take the width and altitude of the triangle by walking through the hallway.

The case against Oswald should have been thrown out based on Marrion Baker's testimony alone, since it proves that Oswald could not have been up on the 6th floor. But, getting back to this:

Baker saw Oswald on the move as he moved through the anteroom from the door on the office side to the sprung-open door to the lunch room. In response, Baker went through his door and turned left to the lunch room, following Oswald. He said that by the time he was situated at the entrance to the lunch room, Oswald had walked 20 feet into it. He ordered Oswald to stop, to "come here." Oswald did. Oswald had nothing in his hands. No Coke. No change. Nothing. Truly returned by then and identified Oswald as an employee. Baker and Truly turned and left, and the encounter was over. 

But, the point is that what Baker saw proves that Oswald came up the front stairs next to the doorway. It proves that he was not up on the 6th floor. And it also proves that he was not in the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:30 because he was just getting there at 12:31.5.

Now, before anyone suggests that Oswald could have been there at 12:30; left; then changed his mind and come back; don't. That's because you have no right to suggest it. And it's not just me telling you that. It's a guy named Occam. And Occam has got a razor. And he will slit your proverbial throat with his razor if you mess with him. Just sayin'. Occam says that you don't have a right to assume anything you want. If it seems like Oswald was just getting to the lunch room, then you assume that he was just getting to the lunch room. Period. You can't assume otherwise without having a basis to assume otherwise. And you don't have a basis to assume otherwise. Therefore, the evidence shows that Oswald was just getting to the lunch room. And we have a segment of his vector: the segment of him moving through the anteroom. And that segment shows the direction of the whole vector; he came up from the 1st floor. And that means that he was in the doorway, just as he said. If he started from the domino room, which was in back, he would have used the rear stairs. But, he was in the doorway, which is in front; so he used the front stairs. 

And here is where it leaves us: It leaves us realizing that all alternatives to the doorway for Oswald's location during the shooting have been eliminated. He wasn't in the 1st floor lunch room (thank you, Jack Doughterty), and he wasn't in the 2nd floor lunch room (thank you, Marrion Baker). And, he wasn't up on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy, but I'm not directing this at those people. To hell with those people. I'm talking to the people who publicly admit that Oswald was innocent, that he was not up on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy. If you are one of those people, then you have to admit that he was in the doorway. You don't have any other choice. Your only choices are the 6th floor or the doorway. That's it. There is nothing else left. 

So, if you are a real Oswald defender, if you vouch for his innocence, then you have to place him in the doorway during the shooting. And if you don't, it means that you are NOT a true Oswald defender; rather, you are a fake, a fraud, and a phony.

Again, I don't make the rules, but I do enforce them, that is, I and Occam enforce them. And the only guy around here with a worse attitude than me is him.