6. Mr. Oswald, like a number of others at the TSBD, played his part----------in his case, right up to and including signaling in the form of flag-waving as Pres. Kennedy was passing.
Which brings us to the famous exchange with the reporter:
REPORTER: Did you shoot the President?
Mr. OSWALD: I work in that building.
REPORTER: Were you in the building at the time?
Mr. OSWALD: Naturally, if I work in that building, yes sir.This is presented as the other great defeater of the 'LHO in the Doorway' claim.
LHO himself denied having gone outside, so it takes a special brand of crazy to claim he actually went outside!This defeater suffered a disastrous defeat back in 2019 when it was revealed from Agent Hosty's unearthed (by Mr. Bart Kamp) 11/22 draft interrogation report that Mr. Oswald actually told Captain Fritz that he "went outside to watch P. Parade".
Team Keep LHO Off Dem Steps has been playing defense ever since.
So why did Mr. Oswald say what he said to the reporter? Why did he not just repeat the claim we know he was making in interrogation: I was outside on the front steps?
Some have argued that he may have somehow misunderstood the question and its terms of reference. Others (like myself) that he reasonably took the enclosed entranceway to be part of the building, such that to be standing on the front steps was to be still technically 'in the building'.
My false-flag theory of Mr. Oswald's true loyal-footsoldier role in the events of 11/22/63, however, offers an alternative way of explaining why he said what he said to the reporter:
Mr. Oswald did not want to state
in public that he had gone out front, because he did not want his flag-waving (and what followed it [the paper sack disposal]) to become publicly known. He was doing everything he humanly could to disclaim ANY involvement in the disaster.
Not knowing that he was being presented to the world as a LONE NUT GUNMAN, he was trying desperately to keep his cover AND protect himself and others from a CONSPIRACY charge. Last thing he needed was TSBD witnesses coming forward and saying, 'Yeah, he was on the steps. But he did the darndest thing out there........' And so here, pressed by a reporter, he avoids
all specificity as to location, even to the point of
outright misdirection, in his response.
He is deflecting the unwelcome question.We see Mr. Oswald's having been on the front steps as a mark of his innocence (which of course it is).
Innocence of having shot Pres. Kennedy.For Mr. Oswald, by contrast, his having been on the front steps, and what he did there, was a giveaway as to his having played a role in what
he knew was meant to be a false-flag stunt but what had turned into something far more sinister.
Guilt of having been involved in the events of Dealey Plaza.GOING IN, Mr. Oswald was willing to incriminate himself as a member of the 'pro-Castro' provocation team; AFTERWARDS, with that provocation having eventuated in an actual assassination, that voluntary self-incrimination came back to haunt him. Least worst option? Bluff his way with an "I don't know what this is all about" schtick.
He didn't shoot Pres. Kennedy; he wasn't a conspirator in the shooting of Pres. Kennedy; but he was heavily involved in a
different---------non-lethal---------JFK-sanctioned----------conspiracy. All the things that had promised to make him the perfect named conspirator in the false-flag stunt (Soviet defection, pro-Castro pronouncements, behavior with the flag in the doorway, etc. etc.) now left him impossibly trapped.
The man who gave the reply to the reporter about his whereabouts at the time of the shooting was a man hopelessly, horribly compromised.
He tells Captain Fritz he simply went outside to watch the P. Parade, mentioning nothing about the flag.
When in public, and asked by a reporter, he avoids making reference to the fact that he was in the doorway.
He doesn't want 'Oswald in the doorway' becoming a public talking-point.This, I believe, offers a coherent solution to the riddle: Why did LHO say one thing to Fritz and another to the reporter?
