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

There is no doubt that the feds took custody of Marina on Saturday, November 23, when Oswald was still living, and it demonstrates their awareness that his death was imminent. 

Note that it is absolutely certain that Marina did not spend the night of November 23 at the home of Ruth Paine. The night of November 22 was the last night Marina ever slept there. 

But, I have come to realize that the government is aware of the impropriety of grabbing Marina on Saturday when Lee was still living. And that's why it's hard to find explicit details about it. 

But, hard doesn't mean impossible, and I have found them. It's an article from the Dallas Morning News about Secret Service Agent Mike Howard. It's dated November 22, 2013, so the 50th anniversary. It states:

"But on Nov. 23, 1963, his attention and care shifted from the first families to the family of Lee Harvey Oswald. Howard and another agent picked up Robert Oswald and took him to the Executive Inn, near Love Field, where Marguerite, Marina and the girls had been taken. Next, they drove to the Irving home of Marina’s friend Ruth Paine to pick up supplies for the babies. Marina had been living at Paine’s house at the time of the assassination. It was there, over the police radio in Howard’s car, that Marguerite heard her son had been shot. She shouted for her daughter-in-law: 'Marina, Lee has been shot.'"

RC: That's murkily written because it starts on November 23 but then progresses to November 24, the day Oswald died. But, the division between the two days is obscured, the way it's written. But fortunately, there is an FBI statement that clears it up. It's from January 1, 1964:

"On the night of November 23, 1963, Marina and her children and Marguerite spent the night at a hotel in Dallas. Then, on Sunday, November 24, she was moved to the Inn of the Six Flags, halfway between Dallas and Ft. Worth."

So, the FBI statement makes clear that Marina was in custody on the night of Saturday, November 23, but without naming the Executive Inn as the location. And then she was moved to the Inn of the Six Flags the next day, November 24, which was the day Oswald died.

But, which hotel she was kept at on Saturday night doesn't matter. What matters is that she was kept. So, they definitely took custody of her on Saturday, November 23, when Oswald was still living, which they never would have done if they didn't know full-well that he was going to be dead on Sunday.