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

 

Everyone should ponder this diagram because, by itself, it destroys the official story of the JFK assassination, and it also destroys all the alternative stories except the correct one.

What this diagram does is lay out the mechanics of Oswald's encounter with Officer Marrion Baker which occurred approximately 90 seconds after the last shot. So, if we assume the last shot occurred at 12;30, the encounter occurred at 12:31.5.

It shows where Baker was when he first saw Oswald. He, Baker, was in the stairwell at the level of the 2nd floor. In front of him was the door to the anteroom of the lunch room.

The anteroom or vestibule was simply a passageway room that had 3 doors. It had a door to the office side of the second floor, which means most of the 2nd floor. It had a door to the stairwell where Baker was. And it had a door to the lunch room. So, it was a little room with 3 doors.

Baker's door had a glass panel in it, enabling him to see into the anteroom. And what he saw when he looked through it was Oswald, who had entered the anteroom from the office side and was in the process of moving through the anteroom to enter the lunch room. It was very quick. It was a tiny little room, so how long could it take? He just saw a body moving, probably for about a second.

But, he followed. He went through the door with the glass, and then he went into the lunch room, the door to which was propped open. and he saw Oswald with his back to him walking through the lunch room. Baker drew his gun and ordered Oswald to stop. Oswald did. He turned around, and he approached Baker, who kept his gun drawn. It was just then that Truly came in. Instead of talking to Oswald, Baker talked to Truly. He asked, "Do you know this man?" Truly said, "Yes, I do; he works for me."

That's all we know about the exchange, but I'll point out that Truly must have conveyed, in his manner and attitude, that Oswald was nobody to dwell on. So, Baker put his gun away, and he and Truly turned and left and proceded up the stairs.

But, here's where the diagram comes in. The official story has it that Oswald shot Kennedy, stashed the rifle, and then flew down the stairs to get as far away from that location as he could. But, that's impossible because Oswald was on the office side of the second floor, and there were no stairs there that went to the 6th floor. The only way Oswald could have done it was if he flew down the same stairs that Truly and Baker were on. But, that's impossible because Oswald wasn't that far ahead of Baker in arriving there. If Oswald had come down the same stairs that Baker was on, first, he would bumped into Truly for absolute certain. Truly was ahead of Baker, leading the way. Truly was already on his way to the 3rd floor when Baker stopped on the 2nd floor landing to pursue the figure that he saw. So, how could that figure have avoided colliding with Truly?

And, as soon as Truly and Baker entered the stairwell, if Oswald was flying down from the 6th floor, they would have heard him.

I can tell you the exact trek that Oswald took. He was standing in the doorway, He turned around and went through the glass doors. Then he turned right to enter the stairwell in the northeast corner. There was exactly one flight of stairs there, and they were fancy. They went from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor and no further. When he got to the second floor, he had to make his way from the northeast corner of the building to the southwest corner. There were two routes he could have taken. He could have made an "L" by walking down the east/west hall and then the north/south hall OR he could have walked through the open area of the 2nd floor. It was like a giant clerical room with desks for secretaries and other desk workers. Why a company that distributed textbooks to schools needed such a large clreical staff is anybody's guess. The TSBD had 78 employees! What the hell were those people doing?

So, I don't know if Oswald took the hallway route or just wandered through the open area, but one way or the other, he made his way to the southwest corner and entered the anteroom to the lunch room. But, there is no way he could have come down from the 6th floor.

Now, I know what my detractors are going to say. This is like a game of chess, and the only move they can make to avoid being checkmated is to insist that Oswald must have come down the same stairs that Truly and Baker were on. Well, he couldn't have. The door between the stairwell and the anteroom on that side was one of those spring-loaded swinging doors that closed automatically. But, it didn't close fast. It would be dangerous if it closed fast. So, they set those doors so that they slowly close, so that nobody gets hurt.

So, if Oswald had gone through that door through which Baker was looking- and remember: you've got to play that card if you're going to claim he came down from the 6th floor- then the door would still have been moving when Baker saw him. It was a tiny little room whose only purpose was to be a passageway from both sides. Oswald was still in that tiny little room when Baker first saw him. But, Baker's door wasn't moving. That means that Oswald must have used the other door; the door on the office side. And that means, it was physically impossible for Oswald to have come down from the 6th floor. All he could have done was gone up from the 1st floor. And that is exactly what he did.

Nobody has any recourse to refute this. It is indeed checkmate for the official story. However, it is also checkmate for the people who claim Oswald was in the 2nd floor lunch room at 12:30. If he was just getting there at 12:31..5, it means he wasn't there at 12:30, that he was somewhere else at 12:30; that he was standing in the doorway at 12:30. It means that what I have been telling you since 2009 is true, that Lee Harvey Oswald was the Doorway Man in the Altgens photo.