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

 You can't go by anything Bill Shelley said. He was a bad guy; one of the plotters. He was specifically involved in framing Oswald.

I have mentioned the paper by William Weston, The Spider's Web: The Texas Schoolbook Depository and the Dallas Plot. This is the abstract to it:

Journalist Elzie Glaze compared the Texas School Book Depository to a spider that can leave its web and stalk its prey. This article posits the view that behind Glaze’s metaphor was a weapons and narcotics smuggling operation moving under the guise of schoolbooks. Controlled by ultraconservatives, the depository harbored spies, who infiltrated left-wing organizations. It also had law enforcement agents, who monitored and controlled the drug traffic within the city of Dallas. These operatives acted at the instigation of the national security establishment. When President Kennedy threatened to break up that establishment, a plot developed to assassinate him. The schoolbook workers became involved in the plot, when they relocated into the seven-story building that overlooked a 120-degree turn at Elm and Houston Streets. The turn made the President an easy target, because it slowed his limousine down to a crawl. After the assassination, the victors of the coup imposed extra security measures at the schoolbook depository in order to protect ongoing smuggling activities.

Let's look at the life of Bill Shelley. He worked in military intelligence during the war. He joined the CIA when it was formed in 1947. And shortly after that, Shelley began working for Hugh Perry at the TSBD. Why would a guy whose background was in military intelligence want to devote himself to distributing schoolbooks and mostly early grade readers? It was just a front. The TSBD did not sell books to the public; they sold only to schools. Wouldn't schools order books by the box? So, why were the "order-fillers" given clipboards but no carts or wagons? Boxes of books are heavy. But, take a look at conditions at the TSBD. Does this look to you like an efficient book distribution center? We have no evidence of any wholesale shipping of books from that place at all.

Are you aware that the TSBD moved into that building that very summer? Why? It was far bigger than they needed. And the previous tenant was a meat distributor who left the floor wet with meat juices. So, their solution was to tack plywood down over the wet floor. Why don't you ask a builder or contractor what he thinks of that solution?

Supposedly, Shelley led a crew that included Billy Lovelady, Bonnie Ray Williams and others in laying the plywood on the 6th floor that morning. Why is it that we don't see any tools up there? Why don't we see any saws? The plywood had to be cut in places, right? And do you know how plywood is cut? You can use a circular saw, but you have to have a lot of support underneath it- not just a couple sawhorses. And to get accurate cuts, you need a saw guide, an edge guide; you can't just draw a line and try to follow it.

My father was a very efficient builder, and he liked to do things right. The only way he cut plywood was with a big table saw where you push the sheet through the blade with a guide in place the whole way.

But, they didn't have anything like that up there. And what about fasteners? Did you see any fasteners?

And why was Bill Shelley the foreman on this project? He came to work in a suit every day. And how did those young warehouse workers suddenly become craftsmen?

Look at this picture. It's the 6th floor, and at the bottom, you can see a sheets of plywood that were put down.

But, what were they going to do next? Move the boxes onto the plywood to clear the space on the floor to continue? But, plywood has to be sealed. It's porous.

But, look at the picture again. Is that any way to run a book distribution company? You've got open boxes. Did they leave them that way at night? What about vermin? It was a warehouse. There's an open box on top of a high stack, but how did one get up there? I have yet to see a ladder in that place.

You should read the testimony of Troy Eugene West, the mailer. They had all these 'order-fillers" who brought their stock to him to prepare for mailing. He, puportedly, would wrap the orders in brown paper and then use a Pitney Bowes string tying machine to tie them.

So, without using a box, he just wrapped raw books in brown paper and tied them? What schools were making such small orders? I thought these were books for classes, where every student got a book. But, if Oswald and Frasier and Jarman and Norman and others were bringing stock to Troy by hand, and he was wrapping them, why is there no image of finished parcels ready to go out the door?

You should read Troy West's interview of David Belin because early-on, Troy tries to tell him that he worked in another building, but Belin just ignored it and spoke as though he worked in that building.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/m_j_russ/west.htm

Mr. BELIN - Well I have a first floor map here of the Texas School Book Depository. Here is Elm Street and here is the front entrance. Here is Mr. Truly's office, and Here is Mr. Shelley's office. There is the stairway down to the basement, and there are the elevators and the back stairway. There are the toilets there. About where would you wrap mail there? Here is the Domino room and the shower. You are looking here, that is north Elm Street runs this way and Houston Street runs that way. It is shown on the diagram. Mr. WEST - Well, my place was in the west side of the other building. Mr. BELIN - Was it near the stairway? Mr. WEST - No; it wasn't close to the stairway. Mr. BELIN - Was it closer to the Elm Street side of the building? Mr. WEST - No, sir. Mr. BELIN - What was it close to? The west side is the side near the railroad tracks and the triple underpass. Is that what you think is the west side? Mr. WEST - Yes, sir; that is what I would call the west side. Mr. BELIN - When did you quit for lunch that day? Mr. WEST - Well, we always quit at 12 o'clock in the day.

What part of "my place was in the west side of the other building" did Belin not understand?

And Troy went along with it because Belin was the 800 pound gorilla, and what the 800 pound gorilla wants, the 800 pound gorilla gets. And this pattern of ignoring crucial information was typical of the Warren Commission. For instance, when Bonnie Ray Williams told Joseph Ball that he spent the whole lunch break up on the 6th floor, not leaving until very close to the arrival of the motorcade, Ball never followed it with, "Well, did you see Oswald building the Sniper's Nest?" Of course, he didn't. Williams didn't and Oswald didn't.

The point is that the TSBD was a CIA front company, and the book distributing was just a facade. We have no evidence of any school size orders being processed that day or any other day.

I believe that Bill Shelley ordered Oswald to go to the 2nd floor, and here's why: If you watch the Dave Wiegman film, you'll see that WIegman panned the doorway as his press car was rounding the intersection. But then, after the car was on Elm Street, Wiegman spun around and did a second pan of the doorway. Why? There must have been a commotion there. And when his camera got there the second time, Oswald was gone. There was no Doorman. But, put they put one in. They implanted a still image of a heavy-set bald guy whom I refer to as the 2nd Wiegman Doorman. The 1st Wiegman Doorman was Oswald. They blurred the film so much that it's hard to recognize him.

But, the bottom line is that the TSBD was a CIA front company, and Bill Shelley was involved, not in distributing school books, but in the clandestine activities that they were really doing: gun and drug running, espionage, etc. And they were also involved in killing Kennedy and framing Oswald.

So, any snd all statements that Bill Shelley made were for the purpose of advancing the plot, not telling the truth. Shelley was aiding and abetting the killers. He was one of them. So was Roy Truly. So were the higher-ups. The company employed 75 people, and I don't say they were all invovled. But, Shelley and Truly certainly were, and they are not to be believed. I could write a separate piece on Truly, and perhaps I will.