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

I received another note from the esteemed researcher, John Armstrong:

Ralph,

It was Jim Marrs who first interviewed Butch Burroughs and learned that LHO arrived at the theater shortly after 1:00 PM. This was 10 years before Douglas interviewed Burroughs. Jim took a video of Burroughs, which is on my web site.

I'm glad to know that because I first learned of it from reading JFK and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass. And, I think it makes Butch Burroughs a very important witness in this case. His testimony gives Oswald an alibi for the Tippit shooting. And I have to wonder how life went for Butch Burroughs because I know what's been done to me over the years, with threatening phone calls, home invasions and vandalism and the hacking of my bank account and credit cards. 

Butch Burroughs is a very credible witness, and the authorities are not credible about the Tippit shooting. Why haven't they told us what Oswald said about how he got to the theater? About when he got to the theater? About why he went to the theater? How dare they withhold that information? There's no national security at stake. It isn't classified. Surely, they had to discuss it. Obviously, they asked him what he did when he left the TSBD, and he told them, in detail. So, why would it stop when he left his room? Obviously, they would have said: "Alright, so you got to your room; you changed your pants; then what?" And surely he told them. He had no reason not to tell them. He had done nothing wrong. It was in his best interest to tell them the exact truth, and he was smart enough to know that. 

So, why didn't they tell us what he said? It must be because it was very exonerating to him. And, it must have been very incriminating to them, the authorities. 

At the very least, it had to involve someone else, which destroys the lone nut hypothesis. But, we know that Earlene Roberts said that a cop car pulled up and tapped its horn twice.  She even said there were two officers in it. And that provides very strong support for John Armstrong's Westbrook and Croy hypothesis. 

But, let's go back further. Let's go back to the TSBD and ponder what Oswald was told to do and by whom. Who told him to go to the theater? But wait! Who told him to go to the lunch room?

People try to say that Oswald left the scene in front of the building because he had a hankering for a Coke. That is not true. If Oswald had gone to the lunch room explicitly to get a Coke, he would have been seen going to the Coke machine, holding a dime or fiddling for one in his pocket. When Baker first saw Oswald, he was walking through the vestibule into the lunch room. So, he followed him, and when he caught sight of Oswald again, Oswald was just walking through the room, without a Coke and not in the process of getting one. 

So, it is my strong opinion that Oswald was told to go to the lunch room, and the person who told him to go there was Bill Shelley. It is also likely that Shelley is the one who told him to go to the theater. 

But, what exactly did he tell Oswald? I don't know. I can only speculate. I think he may have told him that he's going to be a suspect because of the years he spent in the USSR. And note that that's what Oswald told the press, "They're taking me in because I lived in the Soviet Union." So, Oswald said that, and Shelley may have said it to him. So, what reason did he give him to go to the theater? Obviously, it was to meet somebody since Oswald seemed to be searching for someone. But, what was that person going to do for Oswald?  Again, I don't know. Maybe the person was supposed to be a lawyer. We know that Oswald wasn't averse to talking to lawyers because he pleaded for one 13 times that I know of. Most people assume it was someone who was going to help Oswald escape, but Oswald hadn't done anything, so why would he run? And what would be the point? His family was in Irving; he wasn't going to leave them. So, I don't like the flight idea. 

What about the pistol? Did Oswald even own it? John Armstrong has showed us that the paper trail for the pistol is just as bogus as the paper trail for the rifle.  So, did somebody give Oswald the pistol? It's very possible. But, why would he take it? Did he really expect to get in a shootout?

I'll point out that this was a quasi-military situation. When you're told to do something by a military superior, you do it. 

I know what they were trying to do. They were trying to get him armed so that he could get in a shootout with police at the theater and die, which would have silenced him forever. Oswald was supposed to die at the theater. Have no doubt about that. So, from that point on, they were already into Plan B. 

The next attempt to shoot him was probably intended for the Midnight Press Conference. Obviously, it  didn't happen. But, it made no sense that they would give him a press conference. Name one other criminal who has ever gotten one. You can't. And then when it happened, they let him speak for just 1 minute. What's the point of that? The point is that once they realized that the execution was not going to take place, they aborted the press conference because he was doing himself a heck of a lot of good. He was making a hell of a good impression with reporters- and the world.

Oswald did not kill Tippit. He was never at 10th and Patton. And when you realize that he didn't kill JFK, what possible reason could he have to kill Tippit? It's insane.

The complete, abject silence from authorities about what Oswald said concerning the Tippit murder, his alibi, is an obstruction of justice, and it has been going on for 57 years. Please join me in protesting it.