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

There is a story about someone named "Lee" who contacted the FBI about the upcoming attack on JFK.  I don't know if there is any truth to the story at all, but I know for sure that it wasn't the Oswald of fame. So, how do I know it?

Well, let's look at the facts. We know that about two weeks before the assassination that the Oswald of fame went to the Dallas office of the FBI and made a scene. He was angry. And we know what he was angry about. He was angry that Agent James Hosty went to Irving and conducted a long interview of Marina. Oswald was mad that Hosty did that without his knowledge or consent. 

Hosty reportedly wasn't there when Oswald did it. But who knows: maybe he was hiding in back. But, Oswald left a note for him with the secretary. 

Many people have jumped to the conclusion that the note contained a warning about the assassination. There is no chance of that. Some things you don't put into a note. This is one of them:

Remember: it was a note that he handed to the secretary. He wouldn't have handed her that. He might have said: "I have some important information for you about a grave danger." But, if he had left a note like that, Hosty would have followed up on it, and he didn't. He destroyed it. So, most likely, the note said something like, "Don't you ever visit my wife again." The story went on to say that he ended it with a threat to blow up the FBI office. But, who knows.  There is no reason to put any stock in any of it. Hosty said he destroyed the note because his superior, Gordon Shaklin, ordered him to. But, Shanklin denied everything. "Note? What note?"

Oswald definitely went there, and he definitely was in a foul mood. There's a 99.9% that it was about Hosty's visit with Marina, and that's all.

So, who was the "Lee" who did warn the FBI about the assassination? Probably nobody. It's probably just a lie. But regardless, it definitely was not the Oswald of fame. Nobody told him anything about what was coming. There was no reason to tell him anything and plenty of reasons not to. For one thing, if they did tell him, maybe he would have gone to the police. For two, maybe he would have not gone to work that day. And maybe he would  have suspected that he was going to be framed. But then, even though they hoped very much that he was going to die in a gun fight with police before he could say a word, they knew that that wasn't guaranteed, and as you know, it didn't happen. So, if you endow him with damning information against you, and then you try to frame him, it's certain that he would use it against you. "You think I killed Kennedy? I didn't kill him. But, so-and-so told me that the CIA was going to kill him today." Why would they give that to Oswald? They couldn't. They wouldn't. They didn't. Oswald wasn't told anything. And I mean not a damn thing. He wasn't part of it. He had no role in it other than patsy.   

I've discussed several times lately Oswald's claim that he brought a lunch to work in a brown bag: cheese sandwiches and an apple. And he said that he ate the lunch prior to the motorcade. Now, I like to eat as much as the next guy. But, would I feel like eating if I knew that in 30 minutes, the President of the United States,Leader of the Free World, is going to get his brain blown out in the street? I don't eat cheese, but I do eat apples, and that would have put me right off my apple. The very fact that Oswald calmly ate his lunch whle brosing through the newspaper 30 minutes before the assassination should tell you that he knew nothing about it

So, the next time you hear someone tries to claim that the Oswald of fame tried to warn the FBI about the assassination, the proper response is: "You're full of shit."