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

What do you make of this picture? They're sitting at a phone bank. What are they doing? That's Jim Leavelle in the center. 

I recognize the guy with the cigar. He was in the garage during the spectacle, and he was one of the ones cordoning the area. 

He seems to be wearing the same clothes. There's the same pin on his jacket. Of course, Leavelle is wearing his Easter suit. So, I figure that picture had to be taken on Sunday morning. 

The guy on the right I think is Detective Hall who was part of the trio of Boyd, Sims, and Hall who were Oswald's escorts, and then they became Ruby's escorts, but first they were Bookhout's escorts. 

Notice that Boyd and Hall have clear, open eyes. But "Ruby" (who was really Bookhout) has black slits for eyes. Now, why should that be? It should not be. They just did that to obscure the fact that he was James Bookhout and not Jack Ruby. And then, they blurred Sims behind him just for good measure, just to make it look like there was a photographic reason for it. But really that ghost-like quality of Sims in back makes no sense. But notice that Hall is wearing the exact same clothes as in the other picture. 

So, all three are wearing the exact same clothes they wore on Sunday, and therefore I assume it was Sunday. 

But, what are those three doing there manning the phones? The only thing I can think of is that we were told that there was a slew of threatening phone calls threatening to kill Oswald. And it's very strange because I can't imagine why anyone who was serious about that would alert the police. Why? For what purpose? It seems like a very stupid thing to do. Now, everything about this image looks staged, does it not? I have to believe that they set those phones up on the table for the purpose of capturing this picture. And there is nothing realistic about it. Anyone who calls the police department, apart from emergency 911 calls, is probably going to get an operator at a switchboard. It's not going to be a detective picking up the phone. They've got them sitting there posing, and I suspect that that's the idea, that they were handling threatening phone calls. What else could it be? And you can't tell me that that was a permanent setup. It's just something that they rigged up. But, I don't even believe the story about the torrent of threatening phone calls. And even if you believe it happened, you can't tell me that they anticipated it and set up a phone bank. It's not like a fundraiser on Public Television.  I think it was just bad scriptwriting, which is something they really should leave to professionals, like me. 

So, I think it's just a staged photo. Pure propaganda. And I think it was done on Sunday morning.