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

 Oswald told investigators that he brought a lunch from Mrs. Paine’s house in a paper bag (cheese sandwiches and an apple) which he ate in the 1st floor lunch room at the start of the lunch break. Did they believe him? I can’t say, but they reported it matter-of-factly like they believed him.

And if they didn’t believe him, they could have easily gone there looking for the remnants of the lunch he claimed: the bag, the wax paper, the apple core. It was something they could have easily confirmed, so did they? I don’t know if the Dallas Police asked Marina about it, but she did tell the WC that Oswald brought a small bag with his lunch. But, how did he carry it? Did he carry two bags, one with the rifle and other with lunch? Or did he put the bag of lunch inside the bag with the dirty rifle parts? I doubt that investigators pondered that question.

But, you ponder this one: Who prepares a lunch for himself on his way to killing the President of the United States/Leader of the Free World? Fixing and eating lunch is something you do on an ordinary day; not on a day on which you are going to kill someone and destroy your own life. Apparently, Oswald wasn’t much of a foodie, as skinny as he was, but to think that he would be fixated on eating on a day like that is ridiculous. However, the whole story of him wanting to kill Kennedy is ridiculous. He would have had to be insane. And we know, directly, that he wasn’t insane because we can hear him speak at the Midnight Press Conferences and in the hallways, and he didn’t sound insane. At the MPC, he sounded like the most lucid person in the room. Those goofy sound effects they put to it- that sounded insane, but not him.

Oswald was very focused at that time. His primary goal was to get his family back under his roof. He also wanted to find a better job, and he thought that getting a driver’s license would be help. So, he was working on that- with the help of Ruth Paine. Why did he go to Irving on Thursday evening? It certainly wasn’t to get a rifle that he didn’t own. If you haven’t read John Armstrong’s analysis of that, you should. [https://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html](https://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html) So, why did he go there? The money! He had $160 which was equivalent to $1578 today. That’s a lot of cash. There aren’t many people who have $1578 in cash lying around. I bet there are billionaires who don’t. So, how did Oswald get that money? He didn’t save it. He was out of work all of August and September, and he didn’t start working at the TSBD until October. He made $1.11/hour, and he had to support himself and give money to Marina. So, do the Math. How much could he have saved? Obviously, somebody gave him that money. And whoever gave it to him probably said, “Now, don’t leave that money in your boarding room. It won’t be safe there. Take it out to your wife in Irving.” I can’t tell you who gave him the money, but somebody did, unless he stole it, and there’s no reason to think that.

And he was probably excited to show it to Marina. “Look, Honey, I’ve got the money now. I can get us an apartment.” She turned him down, but not forever. She said she wasn’t ready. And they still spent the night together in the same bed. Supposedly, Oswald got up during the night and went out to the garage to find the rifle and disassemble it and put it in the paper bag he built.

And I’ll say again how ridiculous the making of the paper bag was as an element in the story. Nobody would do that. They would just put the rifle parts on the paper and wrap the paper around them, as you would wrap a present. There was no need to make a bag, nor did he have the know-how. What if I gave you some brown paper and said, “Make a bag.” What would you do? Since he surely never did it before, why assume that Oswald would know what do to?

But, the whole story of how the rifle wound up in Ruth Paine’s garage is ridiculous. Ruth Paine drove Oswald to the bus station when he moved to New Orleans, and she didn’t see a rifle with him. Don’t you think she would have noticed and said so? And when she came to get Marina in early September, Oswald wasn’t going with them, yet, he snuck the rifle that he never brought down into her station wagon? And then what? Did he expect Marina to sneak it into Ruth Paine’s garage? Why would Marina do that? Marina was grateful to Ruth for taking her in. You think she was going to start by sneaking a rifle into her garage, knowing how opposed she was to guns? She would have told Oswald the Russian equivalent of “Go fuck yourself” if he asked her to do that. And why would Oswald want to do that? He wasn’t going back to Dallas, not for a while, and he didn’t know when. He had friends in New Orleans, such as Guy Bannister’s groupies. Wouldn’t it make more sense to leave it with one of them? This was bad storytelling by an incompetent screenwriter.

So, how did the rifle get moved into Ruth’s garage? And how is it that Michael Paine handled it several times, always wondering what it was, thinking perhaps that it was tent poles for camping or a military shovel. The guy had been in the Military, yet, it never occurred to him that it was a rifle? Only in the JFK assassination. Then, there’s the story of the curtain rods. Oswald denied telling Frasier that he was going to get curtain rods. But wait: they weren’t even his curtain rods. Was it that he was going to steal Ruth Paine’s curtain rods? So, this woman is putting up his wife and kids, and he was going to steal her curtain rods? Why would he do that when he had $160 dollars? In those days, curtain rods probably cost fifty cents. But wait: curtain rods are useless without the hardware by which you hang them from the wall. And they never suggested that she had that. So, he would have had to buy the hardware anyway, so why not just buy the set? And how can you compare curtain rods to a rifle? The mass, the geometry, the weight…

How they got Frasier to say that Oswald said he was going there to get curtain rods I don’t know.

Now, look at this collage.

On the left, it’s Doorman; center Oswald; and right Lovelady, posing in his plaid shirt. Notice that the fold and crease in Lovelady’s shirt look ironed. It was deliberate, whereas on Doorman and Oswald, it’s a natural furl. Then, look at the complex, geometrical pattern of Lovelady’s shirt compared to the stark plainness of both Doorman’s and Oswald’s. Look at the visible button on Lovelady’s shirt. Oswald’s shirt had no buttons except for the bottom two, which is why it was unbuttoned, and that’s what we’re seeing on Doorman. If Doorman were Lovelady, don’t you think he would have buttoned his shirt? Why would he be standing there in an unbuttoned shirt to watch the President ride by if his shirt had buttons? Anyone who believes the official story of the JFK assassination is either extremely corrupt, extremely stupid, or both.