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

Even without the Altgens photo, we could know that Oswald was in the doorway during the shooting. There is no place else he could have been. He was not in the 1st floor lunch room at 12:30 because he was there when Jarman and Norman were there, and they were there early in the lunch break. By 12:30, they were up on the 5th floor. And he was not in the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:30 because he was just getting there at 12:31 and 1/2 when Marrion Baker first saw him. The fact that he was just getting there tells you that he wasn't there a minute and a half before. So, if you realize that Oswald was not up on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy at 12:30, then there is really no place else but the doorway that he could have been. 

So, let's look at the people who oppose this. There are those who say he was up on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy, but that is ridiculous. You had Bonnie Ray Williams there on the 6th floor until 12:20 eating his fried chicken and drinking his Dr. Pepper. Plus, there are multiple witnesses who reported that Oswald sought to go downstairs at 11:45 when they broke for lunch. He asked them to hold the elevator for him. They didn't, but the point is that it's evident that Oswald had no intention of staying upstairs. Then, there were also multiple people who reported seeing him downstairs. And supposedly, he had to retrieve the rifle, assemble it using a dime as a screwdriver, and construct the Sniper's Nest. How long do you think all that would take? Don't you think he would have gotten started right away? 

Plus, there is no chance that Oswald was up on the 6th floor because when Baker first saw him, Oswald was entering the lunch room from the office side, and there was no access to the 6th floor from the office side.    

So, there is no chance that Oswald had come down from the 6th floor when Baker first saw him. But, what about the people who admit that but still refuse to accept that he was in the doorway? Where do they say he was? Most of them don't. Most of them just ignore the issue, as if it's unimportant. But, those that do provide an alternative usually say that he was either in the 1st or 2nd floor lunch room. 

Will Fritz told the Warren Commission that Oswald said he was "eating lunch with other employees" at 12:30. That was a lie. Oswald never said that, and he certainly never did that. Oswald was anti-social at the TSBD. He did not eat with anybody. He was not friendly to anybody.  He wasn't hostile or belligerent. But, he was not interested in being friends with anyone, white or black. And I don't think it is correct to say that Oswald was friends with Frazier. He used Frazier. His ONLY interest in Frazier was to get the rides to Irving. He never did anything else with Frazier. And the point is that there is no chance that Oswald was eating lunch with other employees on November 22 or any other day. Furthermore, we know who Fritz was talking about. He was talking about Jarman and Norman. But, Oswald never said he ate with them. He just said he saw them while he was eating. Plus at 12:30, Jarman and Norman were up on the 5th floor, and we have two photos of them.  So, Fritz lied through his teeth. 

So, Oswald ate lunch early, by himself, in the 1st floor lunch room- AS HE ALWAYS DID. He did not get to the 2nd floor lunch room until after the shooting, and he did not get his Coke until after his encounter with Baker and Truly. And that leaves no chance that Oswald was in the 2nd floor lunch room eating or drinking  at 12:30 or at 12:25, as per the alleged revision of Carolyn Arnold in 1978. I say "alleged" because all we have is hearsay, the Dallas Morning News reporter Earl Golz claiming that she said it. It couldn't be admitted in court. You couldn't have Earl Golz testifying for Carolyn Arnold. But, as a 19 year old girl on November 26, 1963, she told the FBI that she thought she saw Oswald standing at the doorway shortly before the shooting. And there is absolutely no basis to think that she was lying then. As Professor Gerald McKnight explained so thoroughly and convincingly in his book, Breach of Trust, the Carolyn Arnold story that you go with is her first one. It's the first thing she said - before she was affected by pressure and fear - that counts.And she said that she saw Oswald at the doorway. 

So Oswald was not on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy at 12:30. He was not in the 1st floor lunch room eating and reading the newspaper at 12:30. And he was not in the 2nd floor lunch room eating or drinking at 12:30. So, all that leaves is the doorway for him to have been at 12:30. There is no place else.

So, with that information plus the Fritz Notes which reveal that Oswald told Fritz that he was "out with Bill Shelley in front" we can correctly surmise that Oswald was in the doorway of the Texas Book Depository at 12:30.  And that's before we do any of the riveting photo analysis that cements him to the doorway.  You just can't fight it: Oswald was in the doorway.