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

Oswald underwent 13 hours of interrogation- which is a long time. Let's consider the things they haven't told us about what he said. 

First, note that they did not use a tape recorder, and they did exist at the time. I remember when my family got our first tape recorder. It was 1959.  My father came home with it, and we all sat around the table excitedly. I can see it in my mind like it was yesterday. And I remember the first thing we recorded: my sister singing "Once Upon A Dream" from Swan Lake. 

So, if they had tape recorders in 1959, they had them in 1963. So, why didn't they record Oswald? 

So, let's look at the gaps. They told us nothing about what Oswald said about the Tippit murder except that he denied doing it. But, you've watched Law and Order, right? You know how these police interrogations go. They must have asked Oswald for his alibi for the Tippit murder. 

They never told us anything. And remember that he was charged with the Tippit shooting before he was charged with the JFK shooting. They reportedly brought him in for shooting Tippit- not JFK. But, we don't know anything about what Oswald said about that whole piece of the timeline. 

We know they asked him to say what he did upon leaving Dealey Plaza. And he said that he walked down Elm a few blocks. Then he he got on the bus and rode it a few blocks- in the direction from which he came. Then, he got off it because of a traffic snarl. Then, he walked a couple blocks to the bus terminal. And there, he got a cab to his boarding room on Beckley Street in Oak Cliff.

Now, that's where it ends. We don't know anything after that. We don't know what he told investigators about why he went to the Texas Theater, how he got to the Texas Theater, or when he got there. We have been told nothing. 

The presumption is that Oswald traveled by foot. But, it had to be at least 1:00 or a few minutes after 1:00 that he got to his room. And that is pretty widely accepted. A big discovery occurred in the researching of JFK and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass. He interviewed Butch Burroughs, the popcorn man at the Texas Theater, who told him that he saw Oswald in the theater at 1:07. 

If that's true, it means two things: It means that Oswald could not have shot Tippit because Tippit was shot at 1:15 or 1:16. And, it means that Oswald must have been driven to the theater because it was a mile, and he couldn't have walked a mile in a few minutes. 

Here is a map of the situation. It was a simple course from his boarding room to the theater. He would have walked down Beckley to Jefferson, then right and walked several blocks to the theater. He would have had no reason to walk anywhere near 10th and Patton, which was out of the way.

So, you see the red x on the far right. That's 10th and Patton. And you see that the route to the theater was a straight shot down Beckley- the street on which Oswald lived. So, if you are going to say that he shot Tippit at 10th and Patton, you have to explain how he could have been at two places at once, and you're going to have to explain what he was doing at 10th and Patton at all. David Belin, one of the top attorneys for the Warren Commission said that where Oswald was heading at 10th and Patton was "Mexico." Now, how on Earth could he possibly claim to know that? And when he was asked how Oswald expected to make it to Mexico with just $14 in his pocket, Belin said "with his gun." They didn't have ATMs then, but the idea is that his gun was his ATM. But again, how could Belin claim to know any of that? He couldn't. He just pulled it out of his ass. 

I refer now to John Armstrong, with whom I have discussed this. He thinks Oswald was driven to the theater and was never anywhere near 10th and Patton. He thinks most likely a policeman drove him. And he thinks that most likely it was Tippit. He points out that the Tippit's squad car was unaccountable at the time. He said that Tippit's squad car was the only Dallas cop car that was unaccountable at the time. He thinks that Tippit dropped Oswald off in an alley behind the theater- an alley that is no longer there. There is a picture of it that appears on his website, harveyandlee.net.  This is it, and I made it for him.

Where you see that red arrow on the right, there used to be a walking lane there. So, there was an alley behind and a walking lane between, and that's how Oswald went from Tippit's car to the entrance of the Texas Theater. I think it's plausible. I don't think it's ironclad, but I think it's very plausible. And John points that if Oswald had walked then surely somebody would have seen him.   

But, what I want to emphasize is that they never told us anything about what Oswald said about this. They surely must have asked him. They asked him about his trek, so why wouldn't they continue, as in: "OK, so you went to your room; you changed your pants; then what?" 

I have to conclude that they haven't told us because whatever he told them must have been very exonerating. Obviously, if he told them that a cop drove him to the theater, that would be very exonerating.

Did Oswald know Tippit? I doubt it, and that's because of what Oswald said at the Midnight Press Conference: "I only know that I am accused of murdering a policeman. I know nothing more than that." 

If he knew Tippit, I think he would have said, "I only know that I am accused of murdering Officer Tippit. I know nothing more than that." 

You could argue that Oswald was  pretending not to know him, but why? Oswald was innocent. He didn't do anything wrong. He committed no act of violence. So, he had nothing to pretend about or lie about.

So, I assume that Oswald did not know Tippit. But, it's still possible that Tippit picked him up and transported him to the theater. 

The absence of any discussion of this tells me that Oswald must have said something that completely exonerated him. And John Armstrong's paradigm of Tippit driving him- I don't know of anything with a higher probability of being true.

And it makes sense that they wouldn't say a word about any of this if Tippit drove him.

There is no basis to think that Oswald shot Tippit. There is no basis to place Oswald at 10th and Patton. And knowing, as we do, that Oswald did not shoot Kennedy, that he was standing in the doorway at the time, there is no way to give Oswald a motive to shoot Tippit.

But, what else have they not told us about what Oswald said? They haven't told us what he said about why he went to Irving on Thursday night. Now, the story needed him to go there to "get the rifle." But surely, he didn't go for that reason. And there was no rifle to get anyway. So, why did he go to Irving that night? What did he say his purpose was?

Well, we know what he did there. He left a large sum of money with Marina: $187. Do you know how much that is equivalent to today? I looked it up.

That's almost $1600! When was the last time you walked around with $1600 in your pocket? I bet you that Jeff Bezos doesn't walk around with $1600 in his pocket. 

And where did Oswald get that money? He made $1.11 an hour. And he was out of work for quite a while before he got that job at the TSBD.  So, how could he possibly accumulate so much money?

He couldn't. It's mathematically impossible. So, someone must have given him that money. And whoever gave it to him probably urged him to take it to Marina- for safe keeping. So, it may not even have been Oswald's idea to go there on Thursday night. They may have manipulated him. 

They have never told us what Oswald said. We know he didn't tell them that he went there to get curtain rods. The room in which he was living had blinds. 

So, I don't know where Frazier got the curtain rods idea. He certainly didn't get it from Oswald. But, reportedly, they posed it to Oswald, and he denied it. And he had to do more than deny it. "I did not go there to get curtain rods. I went there because...." 

Then, we know that Oswald said that the only thing he brought to work on Friday was a paper bag containing his lunch: a cheese sandwich and an apple from Mrs. Paine's house.  

Now, why would he lie about that? He was a smart guy, wasn't he? He would have known that upon hearing that, that they could go to Mrs. Paine and ask her to confirm it. She could have denied it. She could have been out of cheese, or out of apples, or out of bread, or out of paper bags. She could deny that there was a policy that he could take food from her house to fix himself a lunch. And what about the remnants? He didn't eat the apple core, did he? He didn't eat the wax paper. He may have left some crusts of bread. And there would also be a crumpled  up paper bag, right? All of that should have been in the trash receptacle in the Domino Room where he ate, right? They could have announced to the world that none of that was found. But, they didn't. Did they look? We don't know, but it would have been foolish if they didn't. Did they find the remnants? Maybe they did. I guarantee you that if they looked they did because Oswald did not lie, and he had nothing to lie about. 

I'll do just one more. Did Oswald make a paper bag? You know, it's a pretty stupid idea, don't you think? Have you ever in your life made a bag? I bet the answer is that you've used bags your whole life, but the times you just had brown paper, you didn't make a bag; you just wrapped whatever it was in the paper and taped it up. Why go to the trouble of making a bag? Who does that? Nobody. And there wasn't even any time for Oswald to do it. He didn't make the bag at work, did he? Did he make it at Ruth Paine's house? This is the original bag they showed on the day.

That is Detective Montgomery, who is also featured in the Jackson photo, and he is waltzing around  in front of Dealey Plaza to show the bag they found- which Oswald supposedly made. Now, if you had nothing but brown paper and tape, do you think you could make a bag as good as that? Because I know I sure as hell couldn't. And anyone who tries to say that they could, I'm calling a liar. And look how long the bag is. And look how untorn the bag is. It was supposedly just brown paper taped together. So, if you had your rifle in brown paper taped together, and you were ready to access the rifle, would you really pour the parts out to preserve the "bag" you made? Wouldn't you just put it down and rip through the paper to get to the rifle, and open it as you do a present? Oswald wasn't planning to use the "bag" again, was he? 

The problem with this is that it was screenwriting, and whoever wrote it wasn't a screenwriter and didn't know how to craft a story. It was a very stupid element to put in the story that Oswald actually made a bag. 

And where was this bag on the drive to Irving on Thursday night? Frazier didn't say anything about seeing it. Did Oswald have it stuffed in his pants? 

The lunacy just goes on and on. Again, they can't write. Actually, anyone can write, but few can write well. And this was bad writing. Very bad writing.