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

 The whole issue of the paper bag is fraud screaming out loud. Dallas Police Detective Montgomery actually pranced in front of the building with the bag on a stick, as he showcased it. Think about how strange it is for a police officer to do that- to put on a show for onlookers.

And look at the bag! That wasn't some brown paper that was taped together; it is a real bag; a manufactured bag. Nobody but nobody could have made that, by hand, out of brown paper and tape in a garage in the middle of the night. Can't you see that it's way too good?

And could paper have carried jagged rifle parts without getting torn? That manufactured bag looks pristine. And the Shooter, were the story true, would have accessed the contents, not by pouring them out, but by ripping the bag open. He would have had no incentive to preserve the bag. The easiest way to get to the stuff would be to just tear the bag open. And very likely, it would have already been torn just from carrying the stuff. Paper tears easily.

And the authorities replaced that bag. They must have realized that it was too good. Notice that that bag is pyramidal. It makes it look classy, I admit, but would Oswald have crafted such a bag out of paper and tape? Of course not. The simple bag they replaced it with was just oblong.

So, this classy manufactured bag is a story element that they quickly got rid of. "Pay no attention to the bag we showed you earlier That turned out to be somebody's lunch bag, and not Oswald's."