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

OIC member Aaron Paterson sent me J. Edgar Hoover's 11/24/63 written response to the Oswald shooting. It was written at 4:00, I presume Eastern time, which was 3:00 Dallas time, and therefore, less than 2 hours after Oswald died. 

Doesn't it seem odd that Hoover would put his thoughts down that soon? Just hours after it happened? 

He starts by saying: "There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead." What does that mean? That was nothing further to say? Huh? Talk about your famous last words. 

Then he said that the night before, the Dallas FBI office received a call from a man with a calm voice saying that he was the member of a committee that was organized to kill Oswald. 

Now, why would anyone bent on killing Oswald inform the FBI of it? What benefit was there to the committee? And what kind of response did they expect? And what kind of response did they get? If there really was such a call, it had to be the plotters who did it. Or perhaps it was a lie. But, either way, it's obvious that Hoover said it for effect. And recall that the Dallas Police said the same thing, that on Sunday morning they got many phone calls threatening Oswald's life. And again, it's ridiculous because no one who was serious about killing Oswald would give the police or the FBI a heads-up about it.  It's just part of the theater. 

Then, Hoover started blaming the Dallas Police, saying that the FBI warned them of the danger and were assured that Oswald would be protected. 

Then, he talked about Ruby, saying that he ran two nightclubs and was a homosexual. Branding Ruby a homosexual was done repeatedly by Dallas Police at his trial, but I have never seen any evidence that he was a homosexual, and his roommate George Senator flat-out denied it to the Warren Commission.

Then, Hoover said that Ruby said that no one was associated with him, and that he didn't make any threatening phone calls. Then, Hoover delivered a whopper. He said that Ruby GUESSED that his grief over the killing of the President MADE HIM INSANE. Ruby had to GUESS about his actions? Why? It's because his only awareness of having shot Oswald was police telling him that he did it. 

That's it. There was nothing else. Ruby ONLY admitted doing it because he was told that he did it. He knew he had no plan to shoot Oswald. He knew he had no thought to shoot Oswald. He knew he had no desire to shoot Oswald. So, why would he believe it when they told him that he did it? Why didn't he say, "No fucking way! Your mother might have shot Oswald, but I sure as hell didn't." 

It just isn't normal to defer one's cognition about oneself and one's actions to others. Look at Ray Vaughn. He went the rest of his life adamantly denying that Ruby got past him. That's normal. That's what you expect. 

So, why was Ruby willing to accept and believe that he shot Oswald when it conflicted with his own memory? It's because of the bizarre and extreme adoration he had for the Dallas Police.  He hero-worshiped them, and that's putting it mildly. I just have to wonder to what extent mind control was involved in that.   

Then, Hoover trashed Curry and Fritz for talking so much to the press.  He said he wanted them to shut up.

Then, he brought the Katzenbach memo, except that it wasn't sent until the next day, the 25th. But, he repeated it- in advance, saying, verbatim, that the important thing is that the public be convinced that Oswald was guilty. So, Hoover was already in communication with the Assistant Attorney General? Why? You would think that the FBI Chief would communicate with the Attorney General. The FBI operates under the auspices of the Justice Department. So, you might say that the Attorney General is the boss of the FBI Chief. We know that Hoover talked to Robert Kennedy on the 22nd. But, why would he start talking to Katzenbach? My hunch is that Hoover, as well as LBJ, went to Katzenbach with the message, "Robert Kennedy is going to be busy grieving and taking care of his family, so we are going to assume that you are the Acting Attorney General."  And of course, he eventually became the Attorney General. He did succeed Robert Kennedy. And I'm sure they made it clear to him that his support of the official story would get him the job. 

Then, Hoover stated his opposition to a Presidential Commission. He said that he told Katzenbach that he would prefer a Justice Department investigation based on the findings of the FBI. But again, why would he be saying that to the Assistant AG? 

Hoover finished with a really odd statement about Oswald's civil rights being violated because he was "handcuffed" and "had no weapon." But, he was a prisoner in police custody, so obviously, he didn't have and couldn't have a weapon. So, why bring that up? And was he handcuffed? You only have to look at the Jackson photo to see that his wrists were too far apart to be handcuffed. And there is clearly no cuff on his left wrist. 

But, it's all so complicated because it's not even his wrist. That meat hook isn't even his hand. And the cuff that we see on his right wrist doesn't even look like a handcuff.  We know what police handcuffs look like, and they don't look like that. And then  Leavelle's wax-like hand coming over- this is art. Crappy art, but still art. 

So many lies. So many falsehoods. It really is disgusting. It's enough to make your stomach turn. Trying to wade through the official story of the Oswald shooting is just as revolting as the JFK shooting. But, I know what Vince Salandria would say: it's not meant to be believable. It's meant to be official.