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

Oswald was definitely not shot in the garage. There was no blood. And he did too much moving around, including going up on his toes, when he would have gone straight down because the trauma was instantly catastrophic. So, Oswald was not shot before our eyes. He was shot and killed that day, for sure, but not in the garage. So when and where was he killed? 

But first, was that Oswald in the garage? It was definitely him in the Jackson photo, which was done at a photo-shoot about 45 minutes before the televised spectacle, after Ruby was tucked away on the 5th floor.  But, what about during the televised spectacle?  I presume it was him during the televised spectacle as well. This is an image of him from the 2nd KRLD film. I doubt they could have found a double who looked that much like him. 

That is much more clear than any of the films, which were deliberately blurred. Here's a frame from NBC.

Notice that the definition is much poorer. But, I am still satisfied that that's  him. 

And that leaves just two choices: either they shot him in the PD or they left for the hospital with him unshot and shot him on the way. I am inclined to think they shot him in the PD. 

Others before me have suggested that he wasn't shot in the garage. They usually say that he was shot in the ambulance. That seems very unlikely to me. Leavelle and Dhority, the two detectives who rode in the ambulance, were definitely in on it, but the other three in the ambulance were not. They were Michael Hardin, the driver, Harold Wolf, his assistant, and Dr. Fred Bieberdorf. They would have had to kill them all. Both Hardin and Wolf did die untimely deaths in the 1970s when only in their 30s, Hardin by "heart attack" and Wolf by "suicide." So, that's suspicious. But, Bieberdorf lived until 2009 dying of prostate cancer after having a long practice as a gastroenterologist. 

So, imagine if Leavelle or Dhority had done that in the ambulance, and then what? They turn to the other three men and say, "You didn't see that"? I just can't see it. And the other thing is that the shot had to be very precise. So, I think it's likely that they shot Oswald in the PD. 

They needed to get a bullet in him pronto so that he could start bleeding. And the bullet was carefully placed; from left to right and downward in is trajectory, so that it would burst the aorta and vena cava and also go through the pancreas and right kidney, which are highly vascular organs to make him bleed, bleed, bleed. I'm sure it was done with great precision; a surgical shot. 

You have to remember that they knew that after he was shot, they would have to make it look like they were trying to save his life by getting him to the hospital. They also knew that at the hospital, doctors would really try to save him. So, they couldn't turn him over to doctors until it was hopeless for him. That meant that he needed time to bleed. It meant that the sooner they got the shot into him the better. 

I think the most likely thing is that they shot him in the PD. They probably had a room set up for it, and they used a silencer, and I presume they sedated him first. 

Oswald cooperated. They must have told him that they believed him, and they were going to get him out of it, but they had to fake his death first so that no one would go gunning for him. 

The story goes that Leavelle and Combest picked Oswald up and carried him into the PD. But, how could the cameras have missed that? No, I think Oswald scurried inside on his own power, but he kept low, and they had plenty of men doing the pandemonium thing and blocking the view.

So, Oswald gets shot.

Then you get to the Penguins, who are really covering up Bookhout. The bald guy puts something over Bookhout's head. 

And then, after that, it's just video noise; pandemonium. 

Supposedly, a fatally wounded man was lifted up by two men and carried inside, and another man was pounced upon by police and dragged inside WITHOUT HANDCUFFING HIM FIRST which is inexplicable. But, all we see is pandemonium. In other words, we don't see anything. It's like a magician's trick; a sleight of hand.  

This was all a spectacle; it was pure theater. Oswald was definitely not shot in the garage, but most likely he was shot very soon afterwards inside the PD.