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

A supporter sent me this newspaper article by a Canadian reporter who attended the jail transfer. And it is truly astounding the things he claimed happened. Where did he get the nerve to make this stuff up? You probably can't read it, so I will cite what it says. 

He starts by saying that he was just a few feet from LHO when he got shot. Well, in that case, shouldn't we be able to identify this guy in the films? He described the shooter as bulky, and that he was wearing a brown hat and grey suit. In Ruby's property invoice, it says that the suit was brown and the hat was grey; so the opposite.

He said that Oswald's reaction was to bring his manacled hands to his abdomen, double over, and crumple to the floor. First, Oswald's hands weren't manacled, which you can see in the Jackson photo.

Can you, or can you not see that there is no handcuff on Oswald's left wrist? And what he's doing is slapping his left arm to his chest. And what he does after that is veer back and go up on his toes. And only after that does he go straight down like a freight elevator at the TSBD.

"My God, he's shot!" someone yelled? Well, we don't hear that. Should we believe it? Just because this guy claimed it? No can do. 

"People began to shout wildly." Ditto. And then the assailant was quickly identified as Jack Ruby? Well, that would not have been this guy's experience. It's not as though any of the cops said anything about it during the scuffle. 

"A dark powder burn showed on Oswald's gray sweater." 

What? Oswald's sweater was black, and we have never seen powder burns on it. 

"He was carried into an anteroom. I saw no signs of blood." 

Oswald was carried into the jail office. I don't know where this guy got anteroom from. And I don't see how he can imply that he saw Oswald being carried because none of the cameras saw it. 

Then, the reporter claimed that Oswald never got more than 10 feet from the elevator which brought him down. Obviously, that's not true. He had to walk a multiple of 10 feet just to get to the door to the garage. 

Then, he said that extraordinary precautions were taken, and that all reporters were screened. I wish someone would detail that. When, how, and where were reporters screened?

He said that policemen asked him for his press card at least half a dozen times and inspected it closely. Well, if so, not one of those inspections was caught on tape, not for him or anyone else. 

He said that "a uniformed policeman was clutching each of Oswald's arms" as they walked out. Was this guy in a different universe? He didn't notice Leavelle's famous Easter suit and Graves' dark suit? Obviously, neither was in uniform.

Then he said that Dallas policemen and Texas Rangers formed a cordon behind which reporters and cameramen were kept. Wrong. There were no Texas Rangers there. And that Dallas policemen were lining the walls, but they weren't forming a cordon to keep reporters back. 

Then, he described the shooter as short and heavily built. Heavily built as in fat. But yes, short is correct. So, how could this guy be the shooter? Why would anyone describe this guy as short?

Yeah, the other guy, I could see calling him short.

But, they are not the same man. We don't know who "Sunglasses Ruby" was. We just know that he wasn't Ruby, and he wasn't Bookhout.

OK, now, we are at the part that is really surreal. It is just incredible that he would claim that the following happened in the garage.

"While Oswald was lying prostrate after the shot, a detective leaned over him and said, "Well, Lee, can you tell us anything now?" 

That certainly did not happen, and it would be bizarre if it did. If the man was just shot, your immediate and exclusive attention would be in him, as to how badly he was hurt. You wouldn't start by trying to solicit a confession. And the idea that the detective would start it with "Well..." which is a leisurely, unrushed expression, at a time like that? 

"The critically wounded prisoner could not talk, but he shook his head negatively, with lips pressed tightly together." 

What the mudderpluck? Oswald didn't do that in the garage, nor did he do it in the jail office. Oswald was, reportedly, unconscious the whole time. The only other person who said that was Combest, but he said it happened inside the jail office, and he was contradicted by everyone else. 

Then, he said that at 11:30 an ambulance arrived and Oswald was carried into it. It arrived well before 11:30, and Oswald was rolled, not carried, on the stretcher.

A Dallas plainclothes policeman feverishly massaged Oswald's chest? That did not happen. 

Texas Rangers in stetson hats kept people back? Again, there were no Texas Rangers. Dallas detectives, specifically Fritz' men, wore those Stetson hats. 

"I'll knock down the first man who steps forward," one said. There is no evidence anyone said that.

He said there was at least 100 men in the garage, but I doubt it was that many. 

"When word spread among the crowd, several shouted 'good' and 'hurray.'" That certainly did not happen in the garage, and if it happened on the street outside, how would he know when he was in the garage?

Finally, he said that "Ruby" was hustled up to the 4th floor room, but reportedly, he was taken up to the jail on the 5th floor.

Do you see now how wrong newspaper articles can be? And this is much worse than usual. Who the hell was this guy to spew this crap? Or, did he get help? Did some CIA asset at the newspaper embellish what he wrote, you know, for dramatic effect? 

It is just incredible that something this erroneous could be published. But, realize something: THE WHOLE STORY WAS A LIE. And when the whole story is a lie, it's inevitable that different versions are going to appear because none of it is tethered to reality. So, it can go any which way.

It's the evil and filth of it all that gets to me. There is blood in these spewings- the blood of innocent men. Evil has ruled the roost in this country for a very long time. And of course, it still does.