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

There is absolutely NOTHING pointing to Oswald as the shooter at the Walker incident, except for his wife and the note found by Ruth Paine. But note, that the authenticity of the note is very much in doubt. The majority of the HSCA experts thought it was fake. Furthermore, it doesn't even say anything about Walker. 

It's absolutely certain that there is nothing incriminating about the note, meaning: there's no way that Oswald could get convicted on the basis of that note. Talk about "reasonable doubt." 

But, the one witness, a neighbor of Walker's, said that he saw two men fleeing, not one. Have I mentioned that Oswald had no friends? No friends, no friends, no friends, no friends, no friends, no friends. Also, they each dashed to and drove away in their own car. So, there were two men and two cars. Oswald had neither a car, a driver's license, a friend, nor the know-how to drive. 

The Walker bullet? Dallas police said it was a 30.06 caliber. The Carcano bullets were 6.5 mm. 

And the bullet shot at Walker went through brickwork. Talk about your high-powered rifle. The Carcano couldn't do that.

Do you see what I mean now that there was no evidence against Oswald in the Walker shooting- except Marina's flapping lips and the note?   And Marina, at first, didn't know a thing about it either. It was one of those "recovered memories" they helped her get back. 

Here's we she came around to telling the Warren Commission:

During the Warren Commission hearings, Marina was asked how she knew of the failed attack. “That evening we went out,” Marina testified. “It got to be about 10 or 10:30, he wasn’t home yet, and I began to be worried.” She looked around the house and found a note from him that began, “If I’m arrested …”.

“I couldn’t understand at all what can he be arrested for,” Marina testified. “When he came back, I asked him what had happened. He was very pale. I don’t remember the exact time, but it was very late. And he told me not to ask him any questions. He only told me that he had shot at General Walker.”

Why would Oswald do that? Tell her not to ask questions, and then say that he had shot at General Walker? If you don't want someone to ask questions, why bait them? At that point, what need would he have had to tell her? He was only making her liable by telling her. Wouldn't it be better if she didn't know? And since there was nothing she had to do, no action she had to take, why tell her? 

And since, presumably, he had never shot to kill someone before, and since he had to know that it would shock her and dismay her and rattle her greatly to find out that he had done that and was even capable of doing it, which would irrevocably alter their whole relationship, why would he tell her? Did he desire for his wife to perceive him as a homicidal maniac? Couldn't he have made up some excuse for the note without revealing that he had tried to kill a man?

And when you think about the nature of their marriage, in which he was very much the dominant partner, wasn't he? He could have just said, "Never mind, Marina. It's nothing. I wish I hadn't written the note, and I don't want to talk about it. Let's just destroy the note and forget about it, OK?" 

Even if you think that would be unsettling to her, it would be nothing compared to informing her that he is a homicidal maniac. Wouldn't it occur to him that she might not want to live with him any more? That she might not feel safe with him? That she might fear for her daughter's safety too? So, why tell her?

Wouldn't Oswald at that point want their lives to continue as they had been? And wouldn't he want her to see him as she always had? Plus, he knew they had a lot of fights and squabbles. By telling her, he was giving her something that she could possibly use against him in the future, the next time they weren't getting along, and she could tell others. So, he had no reason whatsoever to tell her, and every reason not to.  

And keep in mind that I am just waxing hypothetically. I don't think for one second that he shot at Walker or that he owned a rifle. He said he didn't, and I believe him. It's all a lie. But, that's the thing about lies; since they aren't real; they often aren't coherent. The liar doesn't always think them through carefully. 

The point is that there is nothing credible about her whole story, and her story is the only thing there is, except for the note. So, let's take a look at it:

 1. This is the key to the mailbox which is located in the main post office in the city on Ervay Street This is the same street where the drugstore, in which you always waited is located. You will find the mailbox in the post office which is located 4 blocks from the drugstore on that street. I paid for the box last month so don't worry about it 

So, Oswald was referring to his demise, and the first thing on his mind is her getting the mail???????? The mail???? Furthermore, post office boxes don't have the number of the box on the key. That would be stupid, right? So, why didn't he tell her the number? 

2. Send the information as to what has happened to me to the Embassy and include newspaper clippings (should there be anything about me in the news papers). I believe that the Embassy will come quickly to your assistance on learning everything. 

So, presumably he meant the Soviet Embassy, right? But, the Soviet Embassy was in Washington DC. She was in Dallas, and she had plenty of Russian friends in Dallas. Wouldn't she go to them for assistance? So, why go to the Soviet Embassy? What could they do other than arrange for her to return to Russia, which she didn't want to do?  

 3. I paid the house rent on the 2d so don't worry about it 

Don't worry about it? What about when the 2nd rolls around again? Did he think the whole world was coming to an end?

4. Recently I also paid for water and gas.

Such bills are for past usage. They don't cover you going forward. And why would he think that upon learning that he had died trying to shoot a man that her first thought would be "what about the utility bills?"

5. The money from work will possibly be coming. The money will be sent to our post office box. Go to the bank and cash the cheek. 

Oswald was working at Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall at the time. We're supposed to believe that they mailed paychecks to their employees? And how is she supposed to cash it if it's made out to him? 

6. You can either throw out or give my clothing etc. away. Do not keep these. However, I prefer that you hold on to my personal papers (military, civil etc.).

You can either throw out or give my clothes away? She was his wife; his pregnant wife. Doesn't it seem like he would have something else to say to her besides this crap? And why does he want her to hold on to his papers? For what purpose? All you can with papers is read them, and her holding them wasn't going to get them read. So, who did he expect to read them, and how was her holding them going to get them read? 

7. Certain of my documents are in the small blue valise.

Certain of them? What's the point of saying 'certain' if he doesn't say which ones? Shouldn't he have said, "Some" of my documents? And so what? What is she supposed to do with them? And why at a time like that would she care about his "documents"?  

8. The address book can be found on my table in the study should you need same.

If it's just on the table in the study, wouldn't she see it there? In other words, it wasn't hidden; it wasn't buried; it was in plain view.

9. We have friends here. The Red Cross also will help you. (Red Cross (in English). [sic]

I presume he meant the White Russians. She knows them. They're more her friends than his. He didn't have to tell her that. And the Red Cross is for disasters and emergencies. Her problem, presumably, would be poverty, so why go to them? They are not fundamentally a poverty relief organization; they are disaster relief. Have you ever heard of the wife of a criminal going to the Red Cross? 

10. I left you as much money as I could, $60 on the second of the month. You and the baby [apparently] [translator's note - illegible - possibly baby's name] can live for another 2 months using $10 per week.

I'm no Math major, but it seems to be that spending $10/week, the money would last 6 weeks, not 2 months.  And what is she supposed to do after that? 

11. If I am alive and taken prisoner, the city jail is located at the end of the bridge through which we always passed on going to the city (right in the beginning of the city after crossing the bridge).

"If I am alive and taken prisoner?" Who says a thing like that in that situation? That is a military thing. In this case, wouldn't he have said "If I am alive and I get arrested..." ?

It's stupid. The whole letter is stupid. Do you understand that? Stupid- extremely stupid people wrote it, and certainly not Oswald. It's just a ridiculous script that an idiot came up with. And you really have to be a blithering idiot to believe that it's real.