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

For Oswald to be working at the TSBD, eager to get his family back under his roof, and feeling elated about the birth of his daughter Rachel, and for him to be having an ordinary work day, and then to nonchalantly see the President's motorcade route in the newspaper, and from that, to get the instant, uncontrollable urge to kill the man, would have required an extreme degree of psychopathology, of insanity. He would have had to be completely out of his mind. 

It is undisputed that Oswald had nothing against Kennedy. He never spoke ill of him. On the contrary, he only spoke well of him and defended him to others. He even read Kennedy's book (Profiles in Courage) and he read other books just from knowing that Kennedy liked them (James Bond novels). 

In other words, his pendulum hadn't swung even a fraction of an inch towards killing Kennedy prior to 11/20, or whatever day you think he saw the paper. So, for him to swing the whole way, instantly, just from seeing the motorcade route printed would require complete, total, utter madness. 

But, didn't he try to shoot General Walker 8 months earlier? No, he did not. There isn't one shred of evidence that he did. The bullet Dallas police found did not match the Carcano bullets. Witnesses saw two men fleeing the scene, not one, each getting into his own car, which Oswald didn't have, nor did he have a driver's license, nor did he know how to drive. The ONLY evidence against Oswald in the Walker case was his babbling wife. But, she didn't start to babble about it until the FBI worked on her for over two months. When first asked, she denied Oswald had anything to do with it. Marina Oswald became the Stepford Wife to the FBI, and by some reports, she became a conjugal wife to them too.  

But, there is no evidence that Oswald was insane. First, he didn't act insane in the last two days of his life. Neither Marina nor anyone else who knew him characterized him as being insane. None of his interrogators characterized him that way. The judge he appeared before didn't either. 

The "insane Oswald" theory only surfaced AFTER he was dead by people who were connected to the official investigation. Absolutely nothing exists for it prior to the assassination- no evidence for it and no claims for it.  Never did Marina or Ruth Paine or anyone else cite Oswald's insane behavior prior to the assassination. George DeMohrenschild described  Oswald as stable and intelligent. In Marina's case, she lived with him, and so did her daughter. If she knew he had sudden urges to kill, and acted on them, why wouldn't she be concerned for her safety and her daughter's? Why would she move from Dallas to New Orleans to move in with a lunatic? Wouldn't she use his move to New Orleans as an opportunity to get away from him? To escape?  And if she knew that Oswald tried to kill General Walker, she had a responsibility to inform the police. Instead, she traveled to another state to move in with him? We're supposed to believe that?

There is nothing in Oswald's statements or behavior after his arrest to suggest that he was insane. His self-control, his civility, and his rationality at the Midnight Press Conference were absolute, meaning that there was no one in the room who came across more sane than he did. There is nothing in any report of any law enforcement officer or any reporter that Oswald acted insane or spoke insanely.  No one, then or now, has the slightest basis to assert that Oswald was insane.       

There is not only no evidence of Oswald's insanity; there isn't even any evidence that it happened at all, his seeing the motorcade route in the newspaper. It is based entirely on presumption and supposition.  It's a "What if?" that rapidly became a "What was." And there is direct evidence that it never occurred. James Jarman testified that Oswald asked him why people were gathering on the sidewalk.  If he saw the motorcade route, he would have known why. Right?   

We know that Oswald didn't shoot Kennedy because we have a photo of him standing in the doorway during the shooting.  And, if he didn't shoot Kennedy, he certainly didn't shoot Tippit.  Why on Earth would he shoot Tippit?  And, the case against Oswald in the Tippit murder must have been so weak, they couldn't even tell us Oswald's alibi for it. That was deliberately left out of every report- and I mean to this day. It is an unmentionable.  

The case against Oswald is based on nothing but phony evidence and outlandish reasoning, and, its acceptance comes from nothing but mental submission to the authority of the State. 

It's not reason that gets people to accept that Oswald's guilt; it's religion- the religion of Statism. 

When you think about what the Warren Commission did- started their investigation with the conclusion that Oswald did it and did it alone, and sought to prove it- with no consideration given to the possibility of his innocence-  it was not only the antithesis of a real investigation but was totally corrupt and criminal.  The Warren Commission committed an overt obstruction of justice. 

I assume that most of the men involved in the Warren Commission were not involved in killing Kennedy, the one known exception being Allen Dulles. So, why were they willing to be involved in such a corrupt and criminal enterprise?  

It's because, instantly, the immediate and unswerving acceptance of the official story that Oswald did it and did it alone became the litmus test for loyalty to the government and patriotism to the country. You didn't love this country unless you accepted that Oswald alone did it. You were attacking the foundations of America if you challenged it.  There was a polarization, an isolation, that took place immediately- if you breathed a word of opposition to it. You could either be on the side of democracy and freedom and decency and goodness by accepting that it was the act of a lone nut OR you could become a radical, an outcast, an untouchable, an extremist, a complete pariah- if you challenged it. The choice was overwhelming. It overwhelmed Robert Kennedy. And when it overwhelmed him, it overwhelmed the rest of the Kennedys. And when it overwhelmed them, it overwhelmed the friends, supporters, and colleagues of the Kennedys. It quickly overwhelmed everyone for whom acceptance in polite society mattered. The cost of not accepting it was gargantuan, and it still is today. If you work for the government, if you are in the military, if you work for a big corporation, if you work in education, if you work for the media, you are in very hot water if you publicly renounce the official JFK story.  You just can't do it.

But, the official JFK story is going to collapse, and when it does, the biggest scandal won't be the murder itself, but rather, the cover-up- the over half a century of lies and cover-up.