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

So, here's the mindset of the people who put stock in Carolyn Arnold's revised story:

"Well, I guess she lied to the FBI in 1963 and 1964, but then 15 years later, she finally had a pang of conscience and decided to tell the truth to a reporter."

Remember that her second FBI statement in March 1964, she signed. Therefore, there could not have been any misunderstanding about the contents of it. She knew what she was signing. She read it before she signed it. 

Do you think perhaps she withheld the truth in fear for her life?

But, why would she have any less fear for her life in 1978? JFK people were dropping like flies at that time, including witnesses and even FBI agents. 

No, no, no. What happened was that she told the truth in 1963 because it was natural to do so, and she was naive. She didn't realize how dangerous it was- to her. But, by March 1964 she did, and so she revised her story to say that she didn't see Oswald at all. 

So then it's 1978, the HSCA is going strong, the JFK assassination is again in the limelight, witnesses are dropping like flies: George DeMohreschildt, Billy Lovelady, David Sanchez Morales, and more, including  seven (7) high level FBI officials who died within a six-month period in 1977 just before they were due to testify to the HSCA. 

So, you think, out of conscience, Carolyn Arnold decided at that moment to finally spring the truth? But, what she said defied what Oswald himself said and what others said. He did NOT eat his lunch in the 2nd floor lunch room. 

Why then did she say it? And I'll bet she didn't even know that Oswald said he ate his lunch in the 1st floor lunch room. 

One thing you can be absolutely sure of is that Carolyn Arnold was acting on behalf of Carolyn Arnold. If she had any desire to tell the truth, it would have happened long before 1978. The fact that she did it then, and the fact that it got published in the Dallas Morning News and perhaps other papers tells  you that "they" wanted that story out. Carolyn Arnold was doing what "they" wanted. Carolyn Arnold was protecting Carolyn Arnold. Carolyn Arnold was not defying authority; she was submitting to authority. 

And the authorities knew that the big danger was the story about Oswald being in the doorway- which was her first story. So, they needed her to renounce that and make some noise in another direction. So, they got her to say what she did.

There is NO CHANCE that Oswald ate lunch in the 2nd floor lunch room. He NEVER did. It was his daily practice, his habit, to eat in the 1st floor lunch room, which was where all the grunt workers, the "order-fillers" ate lunch. There was no exceptions to that. In the mornings, he would put his lunch on the counter by the window in the domino room, as many did. Then, he would go back there at noon, retrieve his lunch, sit down, and eat.  He would eat and then sometimes afterwards he would read the newspaper, and that was in the domino room. Again: there is NO CHANCE that what Carolyn Arnold claimed in 1978 was true. It was just noise. It was just static. It was just a diversion away from the truth, that Lee Harvey Oswald was standing in the doorway during the murder of JFK.