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

We know very little about what Oswald told interrogators, and the holes in their reports are massive. For example, the only thing we know about their questioning him about the killing of JFK is that he denied doing it and that he was out with Bill Shelley in front during it. Did they ask him why he left the doorway and went to the 2nd floor lunch room? Because plenty of people since then have asked that question. And often they like to mock it, saying things like, "Nothing tops off an assassination better than a Coke." 

I don't think for one second that Oswald left the doorway to go to the lunch room to get a Coke. He did get one when he was there, and no, he did not get change from anyone. But, he got it after his encounter with Baker and Truly, not before. 

I can cite two pieces of evidence that there was some kind of commotion in the doorway. The first is the fact that Dave Wiegman, while riding in the press car, after passing the doorway, he swung around and shot it again. He did a second pan of the doorway. Why did he do that?  Something must have caught his attention. He either heard some commotion or saw some movement in his peripheral vision. The second thing is that Roy Schaefer, who did newspaper photo work for 35 years, said that there are signs of masking in the Altgens doorway that indicate severe alteration. 

So, what was the commotion? I suspect it was Bill Shelley telling Oswald to go inside. 

We know that Shelley was one of the first ones out there on the steps. He was out there before Lovelady. Shelley was there to make sure Oswald didn't wander into Dealey Plaza. Shelley was the sentry. And again, I will refer you to William Weston, The Sniper'sNest, so that you understand that the TSBD was a CIA operation.

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The 2nd floor lunch room was the first sighting of Oswald after the assassination, and inside the doorway was the last sighting of Oswald before the assassination, by Carolyn Arnold. And that is exactly what happened. He went to the doorway before the assassination and was there during the assassination, but he left early for the lunch room, and probably by order of Bill Shelley. 

What about the Tippit murder? What was said about it between Oswald and his interrogators? We don't know anything except that Oswald denied killing him. We don't know what Oswald said concerning why he went to the theater. We don't know what he said about how he got to the theater. We don't know if he said that he he knew Tippit, or knew of him, or had ever met him, ever. I presume that Oswald did not know Tippit, and that's because he referred to him as a policeman, and it isn't normal to refer to someone you know in such a generic way. Plus, Oswald's whole mannerism at the time exuded that he didn't know the officer.  

It is getting increasingly harder to find the entire Midnight Press Conference even though it was barely one minute long. Here it is in its entirety.

https://dvp-potpourri.blogspot.com/2010/01/lee-harvey-oswald.html

The reason stated for holding the Midnight  Press Conference was to give the press a chance to question Oswald, but I don't buy it. Since when, on the night of a murder, does law enforcement care about doing that? Name one other time that law enforcement has done it? You can't. There has been no other time. And it was extremely risky. Oswald did help himself at the MPP. He certainly came across as mature, intelligent, and civilized. In a word, he came across as innocent. And that's probably why they aborted it so fast. 

But, let's get back to the Tippit murder. It appears that they didn't ask Oswald why he went to the theater, how he got to the theater, whether he was at 10th and Patton, whether he saw Tippit that day or had ever seen or known Tippit, why he had a gun on him, and where he intended to go after leaving the theater. 

Those are all questions that police interrogators would ask, and if you've ever watched Law and Order, you would know that. My favorite L&O detective, by the way, was Lenny Briscoe, played by Jerry Orbach.   

So, why didn't Captain Fritz ask Oswald those questions? I suspect it was because the FBI was there, and they were the ones who were really calling the shots. And when I say, "they" I mean James W. Bookhout. He was the top FBI liaison to the Dallas Police, and he attended every Oswald interrogation. He is the only one besides Fritz who attended every one of them.  

But, is it that they asked him, but they just didn't write it down or report it? I don't think so because at the MPP, Oswald said, "Nobody has said that to me yet." He said that only reporters in the hall asked him if he shot Kennedy. And when reporters told him that he had been charged with JFK's murder, he was truly surprised. 

So, how did they question Oswald without revealing to him that they suspected he shot JFK, and why did they question him that way?

It sounds like they asked him where he was during the motorcade, and he said he was out with Bill Shelley in front, and then they asked him about what he did afterwards, without even hinting that he was the one and only suspect. Why did they do that? They asked him if he owned a rifle, and he said no, but why didn't they pressure him with their so-called evidence to see if they could break him? 

Remember why Oswald came under suspicion. It's because he left work. Truly falsely reported that Oswald was the only worker unaccounted for. That wasn't true. For example, Charles Givens wasn't accounted for, and there were probably others. But, why would Oswald's mere absence on an afternoon in which work did  NOT resume trigger suspicion that he killed Kennedy? And if Truly could arose suspicion just from knowing that Oswald had left, why didn't Oswald's being on the 2nd floor arose suspicion in him? Why did he so quickly ease Baker's mind about Oswald? "I know this man; he works for me" and then, a little later, report to police that Oswald was missing? In other words, Truly must have had one attitude with Baker, and the exact opposite attitude with whomever he informed about Oswald leaving. It wasn't just the words but the attitude behind the words.   

The answer is that Truly was in on it. The TSBD was a CIA front company, and Truly was a lot more than the "superintendent" of the building. Truly did not want Oswald to be arrested by Baker because the plan was that Oswald would be sent to the theater, armed, where he would, hopefully, be shot by police. And that almost happened. Shooting Oswald in the basement was Plan B; and actually Plan  C, because I believe they planned to kill Oswald at the MPP. That was the real purpose of it. But, they just couldn't get their ducks in a row. We don't have any proven images of the real Jack Ruby at the MPP, while we do have fake ones. Ruby was definitely at the DPD that night, and there is this image of him in the hallway. But, we don't have an image of him in the room in which the MPP was held. 

They, reportedly, interviewed Oswald for 13 hours- over half a day. For most people, including me, if police were interviewing me about my whole life, I'd run out of things to say in less than half a day.