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

 Some guy just had the nerve to put up what he called a "transcript" of what Oswald said. There isn't anything like that in existence. The only actual verbatim statements that Oswald made, that we know of, are the ones that we can hear him say. That's it. Nothing else. Everything else requires great discretion and evaluation because it's all hearsay.

And you shouldn't doubt that the investigators lied. Some of what they attributed to Oswald, they absolutely concocted, and I'm going to give you a good example.

It pertains to the final interrogation, which was, supposedly, the longest one, going from 9:30 to 11:15 on Sunday morning, almost 2 hours.

First, I don't think there was an interrogation that morning. I think that time was spent taking the phony pictures of the shooting that was to come: Jackson, Beers, Johnston, and grabbing Jack Ruby when he reached the garage about 10:15. That was a lot to do,.

In support of that, there is the fact the Fritz Notes for that interrogation have no content whatsoever. Fritz just wrote down who was in attendance, and that's it. So, presumably, in almost 2 hours of questioning, Oswald said nothing that was noteworthy.

Then, there is what James Bookhout said about it. He was specifically asked what was learned at that long, final interrogation, and he said that he arrived a little late, and not wanting to distrub anybody, he didn't go in. Fritz' office was glass, so he looked in, but he couldn't hear anything, so he didn't know a thing about what was said.

Does that sound legit to you? It doesn't sound legit to me. This wasn't a wedding. It wasn't a speech. It wasn't an award ceremony. Would it have mattered if Bookhout came in? I think he just said that because he knew very well that there was no interrogation. After all, he was part of the photo-shoot, playing the role of Jack Ruby. So, he did not want ot go on record of saying what was said. But, he added that afterwards, he asked Fritz if anything important came out, and Fritz said nah, nothing. How could that be true if they were talking to Lee Harvey Oswald?

But then, the plot thickened. The Postal Inspector of Dallas, Harry Holmes, supposedly attended that final session. And in his Warren Commission testimony, Holmes said that Oswald sang like a canary about his trip to Mexico City, including what he did there and how he accomplished the trip on the cheap, which he was very proud of.

Keep in mind that Oswald was asked if he went to Mexico City at the first interrogation, and he said no. He said the only time he ever went to Mexico in his life was that once he went to Tijuana when he was stationed in California. Hey, I know about that because when I went to UCLA, it was a popular thing for guys to do, to go down to Tijuana for the weekend, which from L.A. was twice as far as it was from Oceanside where Oswald was. But, the male students would go down there to raise hell: to drink; go to strip clubs, etc. They would pile into someone's car and do that. So yeah, I could see those Marines in Oceanside doing that too. And that was it; his only time ever going to Mexico. And his denial of going to Mexico City was reported by Fritz, Hosty, Bookhout, and others.

But, according to Harry Holmes, Oswald reversed himself at the "last interrogation" and he waxed and on about it. But, it's interesting that Fritz, although he was a team player and was willing to do a lot, including kill Oswald and frame Ruby, he just wasn't comfortable lying about Oswald going to Mexico City. He was asked about it, and he refused to confirm Hines' story. He said something like, "I don't know anything about that."

And there were others present at that last interrogation, and none of them knew anything about it either. Only Harry Holmes claimed that Oswald reversed himself about Mexico City.

The chance that Oswald did that is zero. First, he didn't go to Mexico City. I had the privilege of discussing the JFK assassination with Mark Lane on the phone, at length. And he was absolutely certain that Oswald never went to Mexico City. And at the risk of being redundant, I'll recount that he told me that he gave a speech at Royce Hall at UCLA in which he denied that Oswald ever went to Mexico City, and David Atlee Phillips came up to him afterwards and confirmed that the CIA knew very well that Oswald never went to Mexico City. That went from Mark Lane's lips to my ears. And he told me that he figured that out by December 7, 1963. It's in his Lawyer's Brief that was released on that day.

Oswald was innocent. He did not shoot President Kennedy. He did not order or own a rifle with whch to shoot President Kennedy. He did not shoot JD Tippit. He was never at 10th and Patton. So, bering completely, totally innocent, why would Oswald have lied about whether he went to Mexico City? It wasn't a crime to go to Mexico City. Oswald was smart. He had to know that if they caught him in any lie, it would make him look guilty. And if he had gone to Mexico City, he would have known that lying about it was futile because they certainly would have been able to confim hotel reservations and visits he supposedly made to embassies- if he had done those things. So, if he had gone to Mexico City, he would certainly have said so. So, the reports we have of him denying going there, we can believe. But, what Harry Holmes spewed about him recanting his denial at the final interrogation is a glaring bold-faced lie that we should categorically reject.

And it's not the only lie Holmes told. He was also asked about Oswald's P.O. Box. That is something that I have discussed with John Armstrong, and John agrees with me that Oswald never had a P.O. box. It's significant that they never asked Oswald if he had a P.O. box. Why not? I'll tell you why: They didn't have to ask him; they knew he didn't have one. And they knew he would deny having one.

But, what made me realize that Oswald didn't have a P.O. Box is the fail-safe letter he SUPPOSEDLY left for Marina, written in Russian, when he SUPPOSEDLY went out to kill Walker.

So, he writes this letter for her in case he were to get killed or arrested, and the very first thing on the list was for her to be sure to go to the P.O. Box, which is next to the drug store that she used to go to. Why? His paychecks weren't mailed there. According to Harry Holmes, the ONLY things that ever got sent to that P.O. Box (besides the rifle) were "Russian and Socialist newspapers." So why, in the event of a catatrophe, would checking the P.O. Box be important and urgent?

Look: Oswald never ordered or owned a rifle. He never went out to shoot Walker, and not having a rifle, there was no way he could do so. Ipso facto, the letter to Marina in Russian is just another piece of phony evidence in a case that is riddled with it. Do you understand now why they had to kill Oswald BEFORE he spoke to a lawyer?

So, they came up with that goofy P.O Box provision just to fraudulently show Oswald admitting to having one.

And remember: Oswald was poor; dirt poor. Much of the time, he and Marina had to rely on the largess of others. And ultimately, they had to rely on Ruth Paine, didn't they? So, what are the chances that he would have spent money to subscribe to Socialist and Russian newspapers? It was just a stupid thing that Harry Holmes invented. What an evil man he was.

Hear me loud and clear: The ONLY things we can be sure Oswald said are the things we can hear him say with our own ears. Everything else is hearsay and needs to be evaluated with great discretion.