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

"Anyone who knows me and my posting history on this forum over the years, knows that I believe that there may have been a second shooter on the knoll who missed." Duncan MacRae

That sounds very close to bpete's position on the assassination. In fact, I don't know of any difference between that and bpete's position.

But, it is an insane position. You can't think that Oswald had some buddy who was his accomplice because that surely would have been uncovered. Law enforcement would have had no trouble tracking that guy down. How long did it take them to find Terry Nichols? It's insane to think that this accomplice was so shrewd, so cunning, so brilliant, that he escaped from the Grassy Knoll all by himself and remained vanished, that none of the investigations led to him. 


But, that's not how it's usually conceived anyway. Usually, and perhaps always, the idea is that there was a big conspiracy that involved LBJ, the CIA, the Mafia, etc. and that they assigned Oswald plus one or more other shooters to do it. Well, that is just as crazy because if there was a big conspiracy, they never would have chosen Oswald as a shooter; they'd have gotten real professional killers, which Oswald was not.   

How many times do I have to point out that Oswald never, ever, in his life did that kind of shooting before? This would have been his very first time. 

If I can make an analogy, imagine if you're just a guy who's gone skiing a few times, you know, a weekend on the slopes now and then; that's all- and someone asked you to go down this:

It's a perfect analogy. Oswald had absolutely no experience at the kind of shooting that was involved, and I mean from the technical aspect of shooting at a small moving and variable target from a cramped position from a window with limited visibility, awkward balance, and under severe rapid-fire demand and with a broken, junky weapon. Oswald wasn't a marksman. He was just a guy who did the minimal amount of shooting in the Marines. And just as important, he wasn't a killer. He was an espionage agent but not the kind who went around killing. He was no David Sanchez Morales or Mac Wallace. That wasn't his thing. His inherent resistance to killing people had to be just as great as yours or mine. The idea that he would have done it just because Jack Ruby asked him to is preposterous. 

But, they, the conspirators, knew that about Oswald. They knew Oswald wasn't the right man for the job. They didn't want Jackie dead. They wanted her alive and well and standing next to LBJ at the swearing-in ceremony. So, they weren't going to put a rifle in Oswald's hands and have him start shooting at the limo and just hope for the best. They could afford to get honed professional killers, and they did. 

So, the whole idea that LBJ got Nixon to get Ruby to get Oswald to kill Kennedy, as per Roger Stone, is ridiculous. It is patently absurd. Oswald was the patsy. That's all. And he was standing in the doorway at the time. 

Let's be clear: either Oswald was the lone-nut assassin exactly as claimed OR he didn't handle a gun that day. There is absolutely nothing in-between. And any time someone says, "Oswald did it, but I believe there may have been a second shooter on the knoll who missed," I say: get out of my face because I don't want the blood that is splattered all over you getting on me. 

By the way, here's a picture of Mike Williams. Get this: he actually maintains that there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, it's just that Oswald beat them to it. So then they had to scramble to cover up their plot while they were ostensibly investigating his. Wow! If Mike believes that, I bet you he believes Oswald's fibers got left on the gun from a previous handling of it on another day. Ops of a feather hop together.