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

It's very heartening that many people cite the TSBD doorway as Oswald's location during the assassination. The only other place that is commonly cited is the 2nd floor lunch room, but that is impossible. It's based on the reported interview of Carolyn Arnold by Earl Golz in 1978 in which she claimed to see Oswald eating in the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:25. But, Oswald always ate in the 1st floor lunch room, which he claimed to do that day. Why would he lie about where he ate lunch? He wouldn't. He couldn't. He didn't. 

So, either you think he ate two lunches that day, in rapid succession, or you reject Carolyn Arnold's 1978 revision of her story, as I do. 

19 year old Carolyn Arnold was interviewed by the FBI on November 26, 1963, and she said that she believed she saw Oswald at the doorway shortly before the assassination. The time stated was 12:15, but it wasn't written by her. It was written by FBI Agent Richard Emberley. And he went on to have a career as a public speaker on the JFK assassination in which he argued why the official story is true and should be believed. He did that for years.

So, I'm saying that Richard Emberley is the one who came up with the time of 12:15, thinking that it left Oswald enough time to get up to the 6th floor. But, wiser minds above him at the FBI  realized that that was way too close for comfort, so they got Carolyn Arnold to retract it and say that she never saw Oswald at all. That was in March 1964. 

Besides, Carolyn Arnold was in a group of three secretaries, and they came down together, and the other two said they never saw Oswald in the 2nd floor lunch room.

That is Carolyn Arnold in the middle. I forget the names of the other two ladies. 

And we have an image of Carolyn Arnold turning around looking at Oswald. This is from the Wiegman film.

That is most certainly Oswald at the top-center of the steps. And Carolyn Arnold, in black and white, is turned around looking up at him. This was during the shooting but before the fatal head shot.

But just think: if not for Carolyn Arnold coming forward 5000+ days after the assassination to change her story, there would be no place else but the doorway to place Oswald. And I mean, of course, other than the 6th floor, and he certainly wasn't there.

So, the 1978 revision by Carolyn Arnold was terribly convenient because the HSCA was going on, and they were examining the Doorman question. This story acted like a decoy and diverter.  I don't know who conjured it up, but somebody did. How they got Carolyn Arnold to say it I do not know, but it is preposterous to think that she lied to the FBI on November 26, 1963.