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

Lee Harvey Oswald had no interest in killing Kennedy. A case for it cannot be made. And we know he had interests. His family was his greatest interest. The very night before the assassination, he implored his wife Marina to let him find an apartment in Dallas for the four of them. She turned him down. She said she wasn't ready- yet. There was never any talk of divorce between them, and even their separation was half-hearted. Are you separated if you are spending weekends with your wife and sleeping with her? 

I'm sure some people would be tempted to say that her turning him down is what pushed him over the edge to kill Kennedy the next day, but according to the official story, he had already decided to kill Kennedy, that his purpose in going to Irving that Thursday night was to get the rifle to do it.  

But, let's return to Oswald's interests in life. We know he wanted to find a better job. And we know he thought that getting a driver's license would help him do that. I don't know if he was thinking that he would get a job as a driver, or if he just thought that it would look better if he had a driver's license. Because: over 99% of men had a driver's license, and he may have thought that his inability to drive was a general sign of incompetence, and it was an embarrassment.  

Now, what does killing Kennedy have to do with any of that? Nothing. Why would he have any desire to kill Kennedy to get to those goals? He wouldn't. He definitely didn't hate Kennedy. His own wife said that he liked Kennedy and defended him. So, why would he want to kill someone he liked, where it would not only not further his goals, but destroy them?  He wouldn't. He would have to be crazy to do it. I mean: stark, raving mad. 

So, was Oswald crazy? Was he insane? Was he out of his mind?

Now obviously, they tried to make a case for that, chiefly by proferring the Walker shooting incident. But, linking Oswald to that never had any credibility since the bullet dug out of Walker's wall was not compatible with the Carcano rifle (that Oswald didn't even own) and witnesses at the scene said that there were two culprits (and Oswald's only friends were the White Russians in Dallas, particularly George DeMohrenschildt) and both culprits drove off in separate cars, and Oswald had no car and no ability to drive. Do you see how ridiculous the "Oswald shot at Walker" story is?

Then, they tried to dress it up with other things, like Oswald was going to go shoot Nixon in April until Marina locked him in the bathroom with her brute strength, except that Nixon was not in Dallas in April 1963. The Warren Commission tried to get her to change it to Johnson, since LBJ did make a trip to Dallas that April. But, she stuck to her guns that it was Nixon.  

The whole "Oswald was crazy" narrative was not only as riddled with holes as swiss cheese, but it stunk of malfeasance by the ones telling it. Just think: WC lawyer David Belin claimed to know that Oswald's intention after killing Kennedy was to flee to Mexico, and when asked how he was going to finance it, Belin said with his gun, that he was going to rob people, as needed, for money. That evil Belin actually claimed that that's what Oswald was doing when he ran into Tippit at 10th and Patton, that Oswald, at the time, was on his way to Mexico. How does walking down Patton Street get you to Mexico? Where specifically was he headed on foot that was going to get him to Mexico? Have you ever heard anything more preposterous in your whole life? And the thing is: Belin just made it up; he brazenly and unabashedly made it up. 

But now, let's look at the evidence that Oswald was not insane, and he could not have been the person that they, the Warren Commission, painted him to be. 

First, many of the TSBD employees described Oswald as being a recluse, but no one ever said that he was belligerent, short-tempered, uncivil, unstable, etc. He kept to himself. He was not interested in making friends there. And it's in sharp contrast to what people in Russia said about him.  There, apparently, he was very social and engaging and outgoing. So, why the difference? I suspect it's because he was very uncomfortable at the TSBD. I think he must have realized that the place wasn't what it was cracked up to be. They were supposed to be distributing books to schools, but schools order books by the boxful, not the handful. So, those "order-fillers" should have been given, not clipboards, but carts or wagons. There is no evidence that any school-size orders were being filled. I could go on about this, as to why the TSBD was a CIA front company for espionage that was being done under the guise or facade of book distributing. 

But, the point is that nobody described Oswald as crazy. And if you listen to Buell Frazier, even to this day, he describes Oswald as a nice guy, who was very devoted to his kids, and who liked kids in general, who enjoyed playing with kids, and was good at it. And not everybody is. 

But, let's return to Oswald's weekend sojurns at the Paine house. You realize that if one has the capacity to commit the violent act of killing Kennedy, that that violent side of your nature would surely manifest elsewhere. You wouldn't be able to keep it bottled up to just that. The Paine household was a household of just women and children. If Ruth Paine had had any sense that LHO was violent, that he was dangerous and maniacal, she would not have let him stay there. She would not have let him come there. And it's obvious that that Michael Paine, if he had picked up any violent side to Oswald, that he would not have allowed it, as he was the one paying the bills, and they were his kids too. 

And what about Marina? After Oswald supposedly shot at Walker, he soon afterwards moved to New Orleans. Supposedly, Marina knew about it. Remember that Oswald supposedly wrote her a failsafe note in case it all went south, her "to do list." The first thing he put on the list was to check that P.O. box in Dallas. Why would he have cared about that when, according to Postal Inspector Harry Holmes, the only thing that came to the box were Russian and Socialist newspapers? You know that was a lie because if it was true, then Oswald's room would have been strewn with Russian and Socialist newspapers, which it wasn't. They just put that in the phony letter to establish that Oswald had a P.O. Box, and it's a red flag that he didn't! Remember that there is no record of Oswald ever saying that he had a P.O. Box. 

But, after he went to New Orleans, he got a job at Reily, and then he found an apartment for the family. And Ruth Paine was present when he called Marina to tell her that she and June could come down. Ruth described Marina's reaction as ecstatic. She exclaimed to June in Russian, "Popa loves us." How could she feel that way if she knew he was a homicidal maniac who almost killed a man? 

And what about George DeMohrenschildt, Oswald's closest friend in Dallas? He described Oswald profusely, but never once did he describe him as explosive, heated, antagonistic, deranged, etc. It was just the opposite. He was amazed that he could speak Russian so well, that he could read the classics in Russian, that he could carry on intelligent conversations about a variety of subjects, etc. 

When you look past the claims and the rhetoric, you realize that there isn't a stitch of evidence that Oswald was insane. Yet, you can't make sense of him shooting Kennedy without him being insane. He would have had to be insane to do it. And I mean stark raving mad because we're talking about sitting eating lunch at work and seeing the motorcade route in the newspaper and deciding instantly to kill Kennedy. It doesn't get any more insane than that.

The official story of the JFK assassination is a disgusting and appalling atrocity against Lee Harvey Oswald that reeks of the evil of the evil men who concocted it. It was plainly true at the time and even more plainly true today, with all that we know. 

But today, it is certainly true that anyone who accepts the official story of the JFK assassination, that Oswald killed Kennedy, is nothing but a minion of the Leviathan State, in which they are motivated by self-interest, for either being paid directly for doing it, or indirectly for having a government or corporate job that demands loyalty to the State. Saying that Oswald killed Kennedy is a litmus test for loyalty to the State.  

But admittedly, there are also Americans who accept the official story of the JFK assassination for free, where it's the result of the mind-numbing effect of public education and the inability to think that comes from it. 

But, whether you live in a ratty trailer park or you are John Kerry hopscotching the world in private jets leading the charge against global warming, if you accept the official story of the JFK assassination, you are essentially brain-dead with no ability to be alert and aware of anything.