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

John Hankey has made another JFK video, and it is excellent. This time, he delves into the question of who the shooters were. It is not an aspect of the assassination that I have tried to explore definitively, but I am intrigued with what he has come up with. I shall give you the link, and I encourage you to watch it. But first, this is what I wrote to John about it:

It's brilliant, John. I had never considered that Hunt was a shooter, but you make a well-reasoned case for it. I had already concluded that James Files is a fake and a phony. But, I want to make a point about Shackley. It's clear now why he didn't want to be photographed. You showed us why, since, like Bush and Hunt, he was one of the men who was briefly arrested in Dealey Plaza after the shooting.  

Well, you know who else didn't like having his picture taken? FBI Agent James Bookhout. He followed Oswald around like his shadow that whole weekend, yet we have no pictures of him from the JFK assassination. The only pictures we have of him are his yearbook photos. 

After I started bellyaching about it, a couple of phony images of him were drummed up. In one of them, they used an image of famed Texas Ranger Bob Crowder and claimed he was Bookhout. But, Crowder was tall and lanky, while Bookhout was short and portly. They couldn't be more opposite in builds. Bookhout didn't even have an image in his obituary. So, if Shackley didn't like being photographed, Bookhout didn't like it in spades. And why? Because Bookhout was the Garage Shooter of Lee Harvey Oswald in the televised spectacle.  Oswald wasn't really shot then, but Bookhout was the one pretending to be Jack Ruby. 

John, it's true that the bullet in Oswald never exited. It lodged right beneath his skin at the level of the 11th rib. They just had to slit the skin, and it fell out. 

And yes, Oswald was essentially exsanguinated, meaning that he had lost all his blood. They transfused 5 and half quarts of blood into him. That's a total body supply. Believe me, Oswald was D.O.A. They had as much chance of saving him as they did Kennedy. He had zero blood pressure. He had just a tiny, very slight and feeble heartbeat, which is the only reason they didn't declare him dead on arrival. But, the damage was done. He was gone. That bullet was placed to do maximum damage; to cause maximum bleeding. 

Ruby was being held on the 5th floor at the time of the televised spectacle. He sent his wire at 10:15, and he said so himself. He got to the garage much earlier than reported. I don't even know if the real Oswald was there when Ruby got there. But, he went there; he was pounced upon by police; and then he was hustled upstairs. The reason Ruby couldn't remember anything else is because there wasn't anything else to remember. That's all that happened.  

Here is the only picture we have of the face of the Garage Shooter. He isn't Jack Ruby, and he is a spot-on match to James Bookhout from 24 years before. It's the same man before and after 24 years of aging. 

Here now is the link to John Hankey's new JFK video. I watched it twice. 

https://vimeo.com/687315070/9b838e4d11