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

 

People have asked me what I think about Tucker Carlson having said on the air that the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination. What I think is that anyone who realizes that should derive from it that Oswald could not have been a shooter. That's because the CIA would never have put Oswald up to shooting Kennedy. Oswald was neither a marksman nor an assassin. The only shooting he did since leaving the Marines was to go rabbit-hunting with a shotgun in Russia. And actually, it was in Belorussia, since he was in Minsk.

Other than that, he worked at a radio factory for 3 years, which does not prepare you to be a sniper. He lacked the skill, the temperament, the experience- everything. The CIA didn't need Oswald to kill Kennedy. They just needed him to take the blame for killing Kennedy.

But, you have to remember that this was Fox News. They are willing to go out on a limb, if it will help ratings. But, they'll only go so far. Several times before this, they did specials on Oswald going to Mexico City, and who did he meet there, and what did they conspire about? That's where the plot was hatched, don't you know? In reality, Oswald didn't even go to Mexico CIty, and Mark Lane figured that out before December 7, 1963. That was when he issued his "Lawyer's Brief" in defense of Oswald, and in it, he stated that Oswald never went to Mexico City. And lucky me, I had the privilege of discussing that with Mark Lane on the phone.

So you see, Fox News' problem is that they like going out on limbs, but they also want to seem patriotic. And that's why they could never allow it to be said on air that Oswald was innocent, that he didn't shoot Kennedy at all, that the "national security state" killed Kennedy, as expressed by the late great Vincent Salandria, whom I also had the privilege of knowing.

So, I advise you not to get your hopes up about Tucker Carlson's pronouncement. I'm sorry, but it's going nowhere.