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

 I shall continue with what happened after Oswald got to the doorway. Of course, he went from the doorway to the 2nd floor lunch room, and I want to discuss how and why that happened. But first, it's unfortunate that many people deny that it happened. They think it's a fabrication, a lie, and that is ridiculous because Baker said it, Truly said it, and Oswald said it. It's in the Fritz Notes that Oswald said it. So, how could they all say it if it wasn't true? It's not like Baker, Truly, and Oswald had the opportunity to conspire together to tell a lie. In fact, even just Baker and Truly could not have conspired together to lie. They didn't know each other. They didn't refer to each other by name. It was the superintendent and the officer.

It takes a lot of trust to conspire to lie with someone. Strangers don't do that. And they were strangers.

And if Oswald didn't go to the lunchroom and back, where was he for about 3 minutes? We know he was in the doorway, and I am going to discuss exactly when he left the doorway for the lunch room. But, guess what he did after going to the lunch room? He returned to the doorway,. And we have a second image of Oswald in the doorway. It's in one of the Three Tramps photos. This is Oswald, back in the doorway, 3 minutes after the first time he was captured in the doorway.

So, we know what happened. Oswald went to the lunchroom, where he had his encounter with Baker and Truly. Then he walked back down to the doorway, taking the same route he took to reach it; he walked through the office area on the 2nd floor and then down the elegant stairs in the southeast corner of the building.

And when he got back to the 1st floor, he had an encounter with Robert MacNeil, the Candian journalist who eventually became an anchor on PBS News. MacNeil asked Oswald where the pay phone was, and Oswald told him. After that, Oswald exited the building, and that is when he was captured in the Three Tramps photo.

So, it's Oswald in the upper right corner. They distorted his image. You can see how pixelated it looks, and there's no valid reason for that. Another way they cope with is to mostly crop Oswald out of it. But, it is definitely Oswald. And that means that that photo had to have been taken in the 12:33 to 12:34 window.

I know that, officially, all the Backyard photos were taken after 2 pm, but no, this photo was taken betwen 12:33 and 12:34. And the Dallas Police were manning the freight cars looking for suspicious charact ers even before the motorcade.

And let's consider the story of that photo. You see Oswald talking to a Dallas cop. But, who started the conversation? Oswald did. How do I know? It's because the officer is mostly facing straight at the doorway, while Oswald is facing the officer squarely. So, Oswald walked up to the officer, not vice versa.

What was Oswald saying to him? I can only speculate. Perhaps he was explaining why he was leaving; that it didn't look like they were going to resume working that day, so he was going to go home. I'm not even going to try to conjure up a response for the officer. The officer may have been Dallas Police Inspector J. Herbert Sawyer. Of course, he never admitted to talking to Oswald, but by the time he testified, he certainly knew what was expected of him.

And it was right after that that Oswald left Dealey Plaza on his trek back to his boarding house. Some people deny that he went there too, although he certainly did.

So, for years, I have shown you images of Oswald in the doorway during the assassination (Altgens and Wiegman) and now I have shown you an image of Oswald in the doorway a few minutes after that. Next time, I'll tell you what happened in the time between the two images.