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

 When W.C. Attorney David Belin was asked where Oswald was going when he was stopped by Tippit at 10th and Patton, Belin said that he was going to Mexico. How did he know that? He didn't know it He just made it up. It wasn't based on anything but his imagination.

And when people pointed out to Belin that Oswald had only $14 on him, so how was he going to get to Mexico on that, Belin said that Oswald had his pistol, and he was just going to use it to rob people. How did he know that? Again, he didn't. He just made it up.

And he never really answered the question because what does 10th and Patton have to do with going to Mexico? Was there a bus station nearby there? What was his exact walking destination, and how did it relate to Mexico?

And why Mexico? Oswald denied going to Mexico when they asked him if he ever went to Mexico City. So, if he didn't go to Mexico then, why assume he would go to Mexico now?

And what was he going to do when he got to Mexico? And how was he going to live there? Was he just going to rob people indefinitely?

We know what Oswald's top priority was at that time. It was to get his family back under his roof again. We know he asked Marina about it on Thursday night. He showed her the $168 he had, which, at the time, was enough to rent a nice apartment. Marina said she told him she wasn't ready. But, she didn't rule it out. And they did spend the night together.

What Belin said is so ridiculous, so completely unfounded, that it deserves no further analysis. Belin was just spewing evil, and it's ironic because he was trying to paint a picture of Oswald as evil, but he really just demonostrated his own evil.

Oswald denied shooting Tippit, and it is impossible that he was at 10th and Patton. Oswald was in the Texas Theater by 1:07 accordding to Butch Burroughs, the popcorn man. Tippit wasn't shot until 1:15. Oswald was definitely in the theater at that time. Ipso facto, he could not have shot Tippit.

But, how did Oswald get to the theater? Someone must have driven him. It was 1.1 miles from his boarding room to the theater. He didn't get to his boarding house until 1. He sspent several minutes there. So, if it was 1:03 when he left, how did he get to the theater by 1:07? He couldn't have done it. He couldn't even have gotten to the theater by 1:15 . A fifteen minute mile is a fast walking pace. But, when you're in the city, you've got streets to cross, red lights to wait for, traffic to wait for, and people in your way, And why assume he would walk at anything but an ordinary pace?

So, what did Oswald say about how he got to the theater? We don't know. There isn't a word about it in any of the notes or reports. Didn't the police ask him? They must have. It is inconceivable that they didn't. The question of how Oswald got to the theater is integral to the question of whether he shot Tippit. Their not saying what he said about how he got to the theater tells me that whatever he said must have been extremely exonerating. And in all probability , what he said was that somebody drove him there. And if anybody drove him there, it destroys the lone gunman hypothesis. And if a policeman drove him there, that is 10x worse. And it probably was a policeman. His landlady Earlene Roberts said that a police car pulled up, and its horn was tapped twice. The most likely thing is that Oswald was driven to the Texas Theater in a police car. Who was the policeman? It could have been Tippit. He could have driven Oswald to the theater and then gone on to his destiny of being shot at approximately 1:15 at 10th and Patton. John Armstrong is also open to the possibility that it was Captain Westbrook and Lt. Croy who drove Oswald to the theater.