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

This is Detective Montgomery parading around the bag that Oswald supposedly made from brown wrapping paper that he stole from the TSBD.

But, Oswald could not have made that bag. A bag is a manufactured item. It involves machining. No one could make that bag by hand, and Oswald wouldn't begin to know how to make it. He was 24 and he couldn't even drive a car. How ws he going to make that bag? And if he tried to make it, how's it going to come out that good? Nobody could do that.

But, why would he even try to make a bag? Most people, if they had brown wrapping paper, they would just put it down flat, place the objects on it, and then somehow wrap them. They wouldn't first make a bag, and they would never think to do that. 

Who knows how to make a bag? Could you? A bag isn't just folded paper. The bottom of the bag is stiffer and thicker than the rest of it.  What if I gave you some wrapping paper. Could you make a bag like the one Montgomery paraded around? Of course not. Nobody could. 

But, let's look at the whole story. The story went that Oswald stole the paper, and then he hid it on himself, because Frasier never claimed to see any paper when they drove to Irving on Thursday evening. I don't know why Oswald would have hidden it if he knew he was going to display it to Frasier the next morning. But, the story says that's what he did. And, he must have kept the paper hidden because Ruth Paine and Marina never reported seeing it either. 

So, they got to the Paine house in Irving, and Oswald went in, paper hidden. The first thing he did was play with the kids. He was great at playing with kids. What did he do with the paper? Who knows. Next they ate dinner. Then, they watched some show on television, a favorite of Marina's. Then, he put June to bed. And then, they went to bed. Now, I must point out that he was a young man, and he had a beautiful petite wife, with whom he was sharing a bed. So, I will take the liberty of assuming that he desired sex with her. So, that happens, and then, at some point, he got up and went to the garage to do his nefarious work. It could not have been immediate. It's not as though they had sex, and he said: 

"That was great, Honey. You were terrific. But now, I have to get up and do something in the garage. So, good night." 

It could not have been that because then she would have reported it in her testimony. So, the story has to be be that he waited until she was sound asleep. Then, without disturbing her-or anyone else in the small house- he got up and went to the garage, and started working. 

But, it's hard to do that at night  because, at night, it's very easy to disturb people. I learned that the hard way. I like to play the piano. And in the past, I would sometimes get up at night and go to the living room and play the piano when I had guests in the house.  It's an electronic piano, and I would use headphones. But, I found out that just my fingers pressing the keys disturbed people. It would wake them up from a deep sleep. So, when I have guests in the house, which is often, I can't play the piano at night, no matter how quiet I try to be.   

So, Oswald sneaks out of bed without disturbing Marina or anyone else. He goes to the garage. He finds the rifle, which was wrapped in a blanket, and he disassembles it. Why would he do that? Why not just bring the intact rifle? Was it for the sake of shortening it? First, it didn't shorten it that much, but second, what difference did it make? According to Frasier, Oswald carried it by tucking the butt end in his arm-pit, and then cupping the other end in his hand.  So, why not just leave the rifle intact, and the let the muzzle run down as far as it had to go? I don't see any advantage to disassembling it. But, that's what they said he did. 

But, back to the story, he's in the garage; he found the rifle; he disassembled it. Then, he built a bag. He didn't just wrap the rifle parts, he built a bag. How long did that take? I say eternity. I don't think he could have done it in any amount of time. But, it's their story. So, he made the bag. Then, he put the loose rifle parts in the bag. And then he secured the bag. And then he put the stuffed bag somewhere so that he could leave with it the next morning. And then he returned to Marina in bed. And she never was the wiser that he had been gone. And nobody else in the house heard anything either, even though it was a small 2-bedroom house. 

One more thing: I'm going to assume that he took a shower before he went to bed with his wife. Because: he worked all day, and then he was running around playing with the kids. He sweat, right? And he got dirty, right? So, I presume he cleaned up before he got into bed with her. But, if he went out to that garage...have you seen pictures of it?  It looked like a junk yard...and he was working with the parts of that rifle, which are oily and dirty. Every time I go to the range, I clean my gun when I get home. and from handling the parts of it, I've got to hit the soap and water diligently afterwards because it stinks. It's hard for me to believe that after doing that, that he got back into bed with her, and she couldn't tell right away that he was in a dirty garage  handling rifle parts. And if you're going to say he washed up thoroughly, wouldn't she have heard that? But, I digress. 

So, he gets back into bed. He couldn't have slept long because he had to get up early, right? And with the thought of killing the Leader of the Free World and destroying his own life forever, I can't imagine he slept too well, especially since he had no motive, whatsoever, to do it. But, he got up; he got dressed. He left the cash behind for her. I think it was $168. That was a fortune back then, worth well over a thousand today. How was he able to save up so much money when he made $1.11/hr, and he only started working there the month before. Prior to that, he was out of work for a long while.  But again, I digress. 

So, he walks over to Frasier's sister's house and gets in the car, putting the bag on the back seat. Frasier joins him and sees the bag. Frasier described it as "a bag that you might get at the grocery store." Again, how could Oswald have made such a bag out of wrapping paper? It is not credible. Frasier insisted that the bag was no longer than 2 feet, which was not long enough to contain the disassembled rifle. Far from it. It had to be about 3 feet long.  Frasier asked Oswald what it was, and Oswald said it was the curtain rods he had mentioned. But, Oswald denied ever saying anything about curtain rods. Oswald told police that the only thing he brought to work was his lunch in a small brown bag containing a cheese sandwich and an apple.

But, they get to work. They didn't park in the parking lot next to the Depository. They parked in another lot that was about 2 blocks away. Oswald left with his bag, but Frasier stayed in the car to let the engine run to charge the battery. But wait: they just drove there from Irving. So, why would a little more idling do anything? But, that's what Frasier said. Then, he follows Lee, who is far ahead of him, and he sees him carrying the bag as I described. 

So, Oswald enters the building and Jack Dougherty sees him, but Jack sees no bag. He said his hands were empty. Joseph Ball grilled him hard about that, but Jack stuck to his guns. The place is already crawling with workers, but nobody reports seeing Oswald with a bag. Even if you think he had such a bag, he apparently brought some lunch because he reported eating lunch, and he did what he always did, which was put his lunch in the Domino Room, which was on the first floor. There was a shelf in there where everybody put their lunch.  But, where did he stash the rifle? That has never been explained. 

There were already workers up on the 6th floor laying new flooring. Actually, it was just plywood sheets that they were nailing down. But, that's stupid. Are you aware of how quickly plywood warps? The story went that the floors were wet from the previous tenant which was a meat packer. That left meat juice on the floor that was ruining the books. So, they got the bright idea of nailing unfinished plywood down over it. How long would it take the moisture to seep through the plywood? And why not just clean up the mess, rather than cover it with plywood? 

We saw pictures of the project, but we never saw any hammers, saws, fasteners, sawhorses, etc. But somehow, they were nailing plywood down over a wet floor? And they were cutting the plywood, as needed, without proper table saws? Do you know how plywood is cut? You have a big stationary table saw, big enough to accomodate the whole sheet of plywood, where you push it through the blade, with a guide on the side, so you can make perfectly straight cuts. You don't cut plywood by hand. Most of the sheets could be nailed down intact, but you get to the walls and corners, and then you've got to start cutting, right? So, how did they do it?

But, the whole idea that this was a solution to the problem of floors saturated with meat juice is ridicuous. They said that Bill Shelly was the foreman of it. But wait: he was book distributor. He served in WW2; then worked for some defense companies; and then he joined this company that distributed school books. So, when did he learn construction? Doesn't it seem like they would have brought in a construction crew to do that?

But, the point is that they were working up there on the 6th floor, so how could Oswald go up there and hide his rifle? Wouldn't they have seen him doing that? So, did he hide it on another floor? Who knows. 

So, he works that morning filling orders. They must have been small orders because the order-fillers weren't givenc carts. They were given a clipboard, but no cart or wagon. Do you know how heavy boxes of books are? And there are numerous images of the stacks of books in which you see a lot of boxes open. And they just left them that way, wide open. Even though it was a dank warehouse, probably ridden with vermin and cockroaches, they just left the boxes open. 

So, apparently, they were taking books out of the boxes to fill the orders. But wait. This was not a retail operation. They weren't selling books to the public. They were supplying schools with books for classes. So, wouldn't it have been whole boxes of books? They questioned the guy who was the mailer. I forget his name. That's what he called himself: the mailer. And he said that everything got wrapped in paper and tied with the Pitney-Bowes tying machine that they had. They showed a picture of it, but it couldn't accomodate a big box. It was strictly for small parcels. So, why were they shipping small parcels of books to schools? It doesn't make sense. And how come we never saw any finished parcels that were ready to go out the door?  And how did the parcels get labeled and addressed? And how did they get stamped? He said he was the mailer, so I presume they used the U.S. Post Office. So, shouldn't there have been a stack of wrapped, labeled, stamped parcels that were ready to be taken to the post office? That we never saw. They worked all morning, but there was nothing to show for it.  

So, Oswald works until 11:45. They blew the whistle, indicating an early lunch, since the motorcade was expected at 12:25. Oswald had been up on the 6th floor working, and he asked the guys to hold the elevator for him, but they didn't. You see, they were having a race. There were two work elevators, and they were racing these other guys down.  But, Oswald did get downstairs, and he claimed to go to the domino room and eat his cheese sandwich and apple. He said that while he was there, he happened to see a black guy called Junior (which was James Jarmon) and "another short negro" which was a reference to Harold Norman.  And those guys were there at the time. They admitted it.  And I was told by Professor Gerald McKnight that, originally, the police record showed that James Jarmon admitted seeing Oswald in the domino room eating but that it got expunged. 

So then, according to the story, Oswald prepared to commit his crime. He went and retrieved the bag with the rifle, wherever he had stashed it. He assembled the rifle, using a dime as a screwdriver. They presumbed that because no screwdriver was found. Then, he had to assemble the Sniper's Nest, moving heavy boxes of books. But wait: Bonnie Ray Williams said he ate his lunch up there on the 6th floor: some fried chicken and a Dr. Pepper. So, how could Oswald do all that he had to do without being seen and heard by Bonnie Ray? 

But, that aside, when Oswald got back to the bag, when it was time to assemble the rilfe,  are we supposed to believe that instead of ripping the bag open, tearing the paper, that he carefully poured everything out? It was just some rolled brown paper that he stole, so why did he have to preserve the bag? Why would he be so careful with it? Wouldn't it have been faster to just tear it open? Look at Montgomery with the bag again. It was perfectly intact after being filled and emptied of jagged rifle parts and being carried under Oswald's arm? It never tore? Think of what a rifle case is made of. It's not made of paper. In the childhood game "rock, paper, scissors" paper wins when it covers the rock, but that's just a convenience. You cover a rock with paper, the rock is going to win. And you put rifle parts into a paper bag, the rifle parts will win. 

The point is that you would have to be a complete idiot to believe that Oswald made that bag and used it in the manner described.  You would have to be a complete idiot just to believe that he made the bag at all, since it is obviously not just brown paper that was folded and taped or glued- not that any tape or glue were ever found. 

The whole story of the bag is so preposterous that it really is incredible that anyone believes it or espouses it.  But, this image of Detective Montgomery waltzing around with the bag on a stick, as if it was Oswald's, is pathonomonic for all of the insanity of the official story of the JFK assassination- and that's a lot of insanity.