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

 Marina said that she and Oswald discussed the President's visit on Thursday evening. She said she told him that she wished that she could get to see the President and First Lady. So, Oswald's wife liked the Kennedys. Imagine him hearing that on Thursday evening. What kind of sick, twisted maniac would he have to be to hear his wife say that and then proceed to kill this man she admired so much?

It is VERY important to reckon with the fact that there is no plausible motive for Oswald to kill Kennedy. There was nothing in it for him except total and complete self-destruction. It would mean the destruction of everything he held dear, and frankly, at that point in time, his family was about all he held dear, and it would have meant losing them.

We have often heard it said that he wanted to be remembered for something; to become famous for something. But, if that were true, why did he "emphatically deny these charges," as he said to reporters?

There is NO reason for Oswald to have done it- not even a wild one. It is hard to ascertain how much stock he really put in the Fair Play for Cuba business. I listened to the radio debate he did in New Orleans shortly after his arrest, and to me, he sounded sincere. I did not get the impression he was putting on an act. Still, I don't claim to know how much it mattered to him. But, if it mattered to him at all, it made no sense for him to kill Kennedy. Remember, Kennedy is the one who was pressured to invade Cuba after the Bay of Pigs failed, but he refused to do it. And then, he paid Castro reparations, to the tune of about $53 million. It wasn't in cash. It was in food, medicine, and also baby supplies. But, think about what $53 million in 1962 dollars is equivalent to today in 2026 dollars. It's almost $600 million. So, over half a billion.

Kennedy was called a Castro-lover, and he was hated for it. But, nobody called LBJ that. LBJ was considered a conservative Democrat who was hawkish towards Cuba and the Soviet Union. So, why would Oswald want to kill Kennedy knowing that he would be replaced with Johnson?

I think it's fair to say that for Oswald to kill Kennedy would have been so destructive to Oswald's life, meaning the loss of everything, including his family, that his fate after that would have been worse than death. We have all heard of situations in which someone went on a killing spree and ended it by killing himself. I could cite numerous examples, but I don't need to because you know it as well as I do. And the reason for it is that they know that if they live, they are either going to be executed by the State or imprisoned for life. And not wanting either of those options, they just kill themselves.

WC Attorney David Belin said that Oswald, after killing Kennedy, sought to escape to Mexico. It was based on nothing. Absolute zero. And the very idea of it is absurd. What would Oswald have done in Mexico? What would he have gone there for? How could he have put up with living there, under the circumstances? I mean: even if he could have managed to escape and get there, and even if he could have remained undiscovered, and even if he could have found a way to secure his needs, meaning food, water, and shelter, how could he stand a second of that life? What I mean is that he would have been so tortured, that he probably would have killed himself.

Let's go back to the idea of Oswald getting an impulse to kill Kennedy. There is no basis to think that he could have gotten such an impulse. It is patently absurd. But, let's put that aside a second and talk about it hypothetically. So, let's say that he did get an impulse to kill Kennedy. What I just laid out to you, about how killing Kennedy would have wrought the complete destruction of his life and everything he held dear, all of that would have flashed across his mind after he got the impulse, and that would have extinguished the impulse.

And we are talking about more than an impulse. Because, let's say that he was reading the newspaper in the lunch room earlier that week, and he saw the motorcade route. So, he got the impulse to kill Kennedy. Impulses are very quick, but he would have had days to think it over. And there are 24 hours in every single day.

Remember that the mind is a calculator, and his mind would have been calculating what was going to happen to him after he killed Kennedy, and he would have realized that if he killed Kennedy, he might as well kill himself. And we are talking about enough time for him to come to his senses about this.

And then, of course, he went to Irving on Thursday night. He saw his wife. He saw his kids. He played with his daughter and Ruth Paine's children. Wouldn't that have jarred him back to reason and self-control?

And what was there driving him the other way? People will do bad things because of compelling, irresistible desires, such as for drugs, or even sexual compulsions. But, what was there compelling him to kill Kennedy? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The irony is that it was Kennedy's real killers who were acting on compulsion. They were Cold Warriors, and Kennedy was a threat to the nation, a danger to the republic, etc.

Oswald was not only innocent; he was completely outside the monstrous mindset that Kennedy's real killers had. The criminal derangement that they assigned to him was their own criminal derangement. But, I bet you that even they couldn't do it if they had to do it alone. They couldn't have done it as lone nuts either. It was being part of a group that gave them the gumption to do it. It was a cult in which they all sustained each other.

Oswald killing Kennedy is so utterly impossible on so many different levels that it is bizarre that anyone in the year 2026 actually believes he did it. We have a duty to tear down this lie, if only out of respect for our own rational minds. To the extent that this story of Oswald's guilt is still being heaped upon us, we are living in the Twilight Zone.