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

"Your insights regarding the origins, the management, and the prisoner situations with respect to World War II are only exceeded on the rubbish meter by your age old, time worn, and foolish nonsense about Oswald in the doorway.  Really?  Boost a guy's Pearl Harbor book so you can flog a long-discarded JFK book?  Perhaps you should read Frozen Hell; World War II on the Russian Front.  I wrote it after I finished the 32,000 page work on JFK.  Maybe you could have someone read it to you.    And please, please, please, do not waste your time or mine with a response.  You've gotten all the laughs out of me that Oswald in the doorway deserve."

I received the above rant from some azzhole who was part of a group mailing in which I was involved. I have been trying to figure out who he is. There is a book called Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40. by William R. Trotter. 

However, Trotter died in 2018. Then, he referred to his 32,000 page work on JFK? Do you think maybe he meant 32,000 words? Because 32,000 pages is a hell of a lot of pages. 

But then again, maybe he's just a liar because it seems very unlikely that two so similar titles would exist. So, I think he was trying to pass himself off as Trotter, which is a very "Op" thing to do. 

But, no matter who he is, he is dead wrong about Oswald in the doorway. That matter has been settled beyond the slightest doubt. The Man in the Doorway was Oswald. That's where he was during the shooting of JFK. And I am going to explain now why it's no longer tenable to even dispute it. The fact is: it is impossible to dispute it intelligently, or even honestly. Every "argument" against Oswald in the doorway is based on chicanery of some kind. For example, there is the argument that none of the witnesses cited Oswald in the doorway. First, that isn't true. Carolyn Arnold said she saw Oswald at the doorway right before the motorcade arrived. Remember that the door and the wall of the TSBD entrance was clear glass, and she saw him through the glass. He hadn't stepped outside yet, but he was on the threshold of doing so. 

This is an image of Carolyn Arnold looking back at the doorway in the Wiegman film. 

So, that is her standing out in black and white. And right in the center of the doorway on the top level is Lee Harvey Oswald. He is wearing his long-sleeved Russian shirt that is sprawled open over his white t-shirt, which is the same clothes he had on when he was arrested. However, in-between, he did go to his room and change his pants. He wore grey trousers to work that morning, and he changed into black trousers at 1 pm. 

But, it is often asked: why didn't other employees who were there cite seeing Oswald? The answer is: they couldn't. It wasn't allowed. If they tried to say it, they were shut down immediately and told that it was impossible because Oswald was on the 6th floor at the time. 

You see, there was NEVER anything honest about the JFK investigation. From the start, the whole investigation was all about railroading Oswald. And, you should always remember that IF OSWALD DIDN'T KILL KENNEDY, THEN THE STATE KILLED HIM. There is no other option. The idea that that Mafia killed Kennedy was always a red herring. 

So, no one standing in the doorway was allowed to say that he or she saw Oswald there. That wasn't allowed. And remember also that all the Warren Commission witnesses were pre-screened by the FBI. Carolyn Arnold wasn't allowed to testify.  So, the fact that the handful of witnesses they brought out all vouched for Doorman being Lovelady means nothing. It was a show trial; a Stalin-esque show trial. 

There are multiple and overlapping proofs that Oswald was Doorman.  It starts with the photographic evidence, in which we can identify not only Oswald himself but his clothing. You can see his tattered long-sleeved shirt (which he brought back with him from Russia) and his tattered, stretched, sunken t-shirt. I am attaching some collages so that you can compare yourself. It is preposterous to think that Oswald and Lovelady dressed this much alike, and that's because there is a hell of a big world of clothes out there. 

Can you, or can you not see that these are the same clothes?

The forehead, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the shape of the face, the length of the neck, the t-shirt, the outer shirt....Jesus H. Christ! It's the same guy!

This much likeness of the man and the clothing cinches it. There is no way Billy Lovelady looked that much like Oswald- or dressed that much like him. The claim that they were doppelgangers was a  ridiculous lie to begin with. But, even doppelgangers don't dress alike, do they? 

This was done by Larry Rivera, who is the chairman of the Oswald Innocence Campaign using advanced software to demonstrate the identicality of Oswald and Doorman. You see the perfect matching overlay between Oswald and Doorman. He has laid one image over another there. 

But, as I said, there are other streams of proof besides the photographic. There is the fact that Oswald told Dallas Police that he was "out with Bill Shelley in front" during the motorcade. It is powerful evidence because Shelley WAS out front during the motorcade (in the doorway) and the only way Oswald could have known that is if he was there himself. 

But, let's return to Carolyn Arnold because they made life hell for her. After first saying on November 26 that she saw Oswald at the doorway shortly before the shooting, she changed her story for the FBI in March, claiming that she never saw Oswald at all. What did they threaten her with? You can be sure they came down on her like the Gestapo. 

But, 15 years later, the story became that she recanted and said something entirely different: again: that she did see Oswald after all, but rather then at the doorway, she saw him eating alone in the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:25.  But, that story is impossible because Oswald  NEVER ate in the 2nd floor lunch room. He was an "order-filler," and like the other order-fillers, he ate in the first floor lunch room, also called the Domino room because they played dominoes there. The domino room was where he stashed his lunch (as he did that day) and it is where he ate because there was usually a newspaper there which he liked to browse through as he ate. Oswald said himself that he ate there that day. Why would he lie about where he ate? So, there is no chance that the 1978 Carolyn Arnold revision was true (although, regrettably, it made it into Oliver Stone's movie, JFK). And I'm not even sure it was the real Carolyn Arnold in 1978 because she herself didn't call a press conference and announce it. A Dallas Morning News reporter named Earl Golz interviewed someone claiming to be Carolyn Arnold, and he wrote it up. And the Dallas Morning News published it. Now, if you know anything about the Dallas Morning News, you know that they were and are a bulwark of support for the official story. The only reason they aired this story is because it was false. 

The best analysis of the whole Carolyn Arnold affair was by Professor Gerald McKnight in Breach of Trust in which he concludes, through honed reasoning, that her first statement to the FBI given on November 26, 1963, about seeing Oswald at the doorway, is the ONLY one that can be trusted and believed.  

But, there's more because Officer Marrion Baker's testimony also confirms that Oswald reached the 2nd floor lunch room after the shooting by coming from the doorway. He had to have done that, and that's because Baker first saw Oswald through the glass window in the door to the vestibule.  

It was assumed that Oswald got to the 2nd floor lunch room by coming down the stairs in the Northwest corner of the building from the 6th floor. He did not. Take a look at this diagram. 

That vestibule or anteroom was a little passageway room that had 3 doors. One accessed the office area on the 2nd floor. One accessed the stairwell. And one was internal; the door to the lunch room itself. Oswald must have used the door on the office side. That's because if he had just gone through the door through which Baker was looking, it would still have been open and moving. It was a swinging door with a spring on it that slowly closed it, but it didn't work that fast. For Baker to have seen Oswald through the glass, that door had to be stationary, and Oswald had to have used the other door from the other side. It means that he came from the office side, not the stairwell side. There was a second staircase in the opposite corner, the southeast corner, that went just one flight.

That's the staircase that Oswald used. He went up those stairs, then he had to travel across the second floor to get to the northwest corner where the lunch room was. 

That's the route Oswald took- both going up and going down. Remember: after getting his Coke, which he got after Baker and Truly went on their way, he exited through the office side, which is where Mrs. Reid saw him with the Coke. She didn't see him in the lunch room; she saw him in the office. So, Oswald went down the same way he came up- through the office area on the 2nd floor. And that means he used the staircase in the southeast corner of the building, which was right next to the doorway. 

Oswald really was "out with Bill Shelley" in front, exactly as he said. And you can even see him doing the same stance, clasping his hands in front, which was Oswald's habitual stance. 

On the right, you see how he has his left hand overlapping his right wrist. He stood that way a lot. It wasn't something he thought about it. He just did it because it was a habit. And he's doing it on the left too. That's his left arm coming down, and it's grasping his right wrist the exact same way. It was so revealing that they monkeyed with that image like crazy, inserting the image of Carl Jones from the Phil Willis frame to cover up Oswald's right arm coming down, which made it look exactly like what we see on the right.

The image of Carl on the left is where they got that face to piece in to cover up Oswald's right hand and wrist, so that the "Oswald stance" wouldn't show. 

Carl was in the doorway at the time, but he was completely out of view to Altgens's camera because of the angle from which he shot the picture. Carl was hidden behind the west wall. The whole west side of the doorway was cut off from Altgens' camera. It's like there was a curtain in the doorway to Altgens' camera.  Carl was behind the curtain. 

If you've never considered this before, I realize that it's a lot to absorb. And there are a lot more examples I could give of manipulations that were done, to films and photos, to hide the fact the Lee Harvey Oswald was standing in the doorway during the shooting at JFK. I guarantee you that, at this point in time, after all the work that has been done by me and others, that anyone who disputes Oswald in the doorway is either extremely ignorant, extremely stupid, or they are a Kennedy-killer.  Oswald was standing in the doorway during the shooting, and that is the single most important fact there is about the JFK assassination.