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

To those who support me, I want you to ponder a question: What was really going on at the TSBD with the book business? They were supposed to be shipping textbooks to schools for classes, but there were no school-size orders that we know of. The "order-fillers" had a clipboard but nothing else- not even a straightedge to open the boxes. 

The boxes weighed about 50 pounds, and that is a lot of weight. Picking up a 50 pound barbell may not sound like much, but a barbell is designed to be picked up- easily and efficiently. Furthermore, when you pick up a barbell, you don't walk anywhere with it. You just pick it up and put it back down. And look at the guys who worked there: Oswald? Bonnie Ray Williams? Not exactly muscle men. So, they definitely would have needed a cart, a wagon, or a dolly to transport the boxes. But, they didn't have any. And they weren't moving boxes. It was all small orders. Hand-held. But, it doesn't make sense for a school ordering textbooks. 

And then, they put forward this guy who described himself as the "mailer" Troy West. He wrapped the orders that were brought to him in brown paper and sealed them with tape that you had to wet. Then, he had a Bowes string machine which slapped string around it. When it was done, it must have looked the way Aunt Clara mailed a fruitcake at Christmas. Would a book wholesaler do that?

And the enigma doesn't end there. Let's say that, for some explained reason, it was all small orders coming from schools, orders so small that it's hard to believe that a company with 75 employees could be sustained by the margin from such small orders, but still, you'd expect it to be done efficiently, right? But, there was no organization to it. There was no system. It was just stacks and stacks and floors and floors of nondescript boxes of books. We can barely make out the writing on the boxes. So, if you were looking for Dick and Jane Go to the Zoo, how would you begin to know where to look for it in the maze-like stacks of nondescript boxes?

I have chosen this image here because the writing on it is barely legible. To my eyes, it says "Business Mathematics". Our understanding has always been that the TSBD catered to the lower grades. Business Mathematics? That doesn't even sound like a high school course. And notice the felt writing in the lower right corner, which says: Chicago order. But, the TSBD did not have Chicago orders. They distributed school books in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  They did not ship books to schools in Illinois. And what would be the point of writing that on the box anyway? I suggest that someone wrote that there just to dress up this picture. 

William Weston claimed in the Spiders Web, which was based on his interviews with journalist Elzie Glaze who researched the TSBD, that it was an espionage operation that also involved drugs and guns smuggling. And it wasn't for the Mafia; it was a Deep State thing. And it was done under the guise of book distributing.  And some of the boxes were totally wrong for books. Look at the one pasted in the top left corner: long and narrow. Was that firearms? It says Yearbooks, but yearbooks aren't distributed by wholesalers. Yearbooks don't even come into play until high school, and then it's printed locally. It's not subject to mass distribution. Who but that high school would be interested? You wouldn't have a multi-state distributor distributing high school yearbooks. 

But, my question is: what were those order-fillers doing? Were they really scrounging those stacks for titles? And if they were, how come we don't see any finished output? I mean a bin of parcels that were wrapped and tied and labeled and stamped- ready to go out the door. They worked all morning filling orders. So, where are the completed ones? Troy West was wrapping and sealing and tying. And we have never heard a word about how packages got labeled and stamped, but presumably that got done. So, where are they? How come there is not a single image of a finished parcel?

What the hell was going on there????