On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 10:58:30 PM UTC-4, David Von Pein wrote:
> I received the following e-mail today (June 9, 2015) from James Norwood.
> It concerns Ralph Cinque and his "OIC". Looks like the OIC is crumbling
> all around poor Ralph.
>
> Of course, as all sensible people realize, the whole notion of an "OIC"
> campaign to promote the innocence of a man who so obviously committed two
> murders on November 22, 1963, is so laughable, so absurd, and so downright
> ridiculous, that I thought this latest round of OIC infighting would be of
> some interest to the aaj members (if only for the many chuckles it will
> invariably elicit when reading it)....
>
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> [E-MAIL QUOTE ON:]
>
> June 6, 2015
>
> An Open Letter to Fellow JFK Researchers Concerning the Oswald Innocence
> Campaign:
>
> My name is James Norwood, and I was a member of the Oswald Innocence
> Campaign (OIC) for several years. On March 11, 2015, I assumed the
> position of Chair of the group. At that time, I attempted to get to know
> the members on a personal basis and to understand the workings of the OIC
> organization. Recently, I have stepped down from my position due to
> differences in philosophy with the founder, Ralph Cinque. I am no longer
> a member of this group. At this time, I wish to share my views on the
> Oswald Innocence Campaign.
>
> During my tenure as Chair, the OIC's webpage listed 51 Senior Members
> along with their photos and biographical profiles. But Mr. Cinque could
> only locate e-mail addresses for 34 out of 51 members. This means that 17
> members (33 1/3%) are not only non-active, but impossible to contact.
> Additionally, in the group's e-mail forum, only a handful of the Senior
> Members ever participated in the discussions. Without a critical mass of
> active members, the OIC is comprised primarily of a gallery of names and
> photos. I understand that several of the members are in failing health
> and are physically unable to participate. And, to be fair, I have
> experienced several stimulating e-mail conversations, but, in each
> instance, there were only three or four members sharing their views. If
> it is impossible even to contact by e-mail up to one-third of the
> membership and only several members regularly engage in discussions, then
> this organization is functionally non-existent.
>
> Mr. Cinque has dictated the content of the OIC home page with his
> single-minded purpose of presenting amateur photo analyses. The seemingly
> endless diagrams of photo and film frame images are based on the premise
> that the photos are fake. But there is no evidence presented that even
> remotely suggests where the films and photos were altered, who altered
> them, and a what time the alterations occurred. Based on my scrutiny of
> the OIC's home page, the theory of Altgens6 photo alteration is not
> persuasive, and, after years of debate on the internet, it has never been
> taken seriously by even a fraction of the JFK research community.
>
> Mr. Cinque also maintains a personal blog and a facebook page. He posts
> daily internet commentaries that have recently expanded well beyond the
> purview of the JFK assassination into such conspiracy theories as the
> death of Osama bin Laden. As apparent in the two website titles, Mr.
> Cinque gives the impression that his personal opinions reflect the OIC
> organization as a whole. The OIC blog site is entitled "Oswald in the
> Doorway: The Blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign." The OIC facebook
> page is entitled, "Oswald Innocence Campaign: Community." I am troubled
> that the subjective views of Mr. Cinque are being presented in the guise
> of the OIC community, when in fact, the opinions belong to Mr. Cinque
> alone with no group consensus whatsoever. Many of the postings of Mr.
> Cinque are part of his ongoing personal quarrels on the internet. There is
> no disclaimer indicating that his views do not represent those of the
> organization as a whole. I have ethical concerns about a solitary writer
> engaging in nonstop, profanity-laced verbal jousting that gives the
> impression that Mr. Cinque's views are representative of the OIC members
> in general.
>
> On May 26, I sent a proposal to Mr. Cinque for a new direction of the OIC
> away from Altgens6 photo alteration and into the more general area of
> studies of the JFK assassination and Oswald. My proposal, which included
> the draft of a revised Mission Statement, was categorically rejected by
> Mr. Cinque, who invited me to step down as Chair and to exit the
> organization. Due to (a) the narrow focus and unpersuasive content of the
> present OIC homepage, (b) Mr. Cinque's misrepresentation of his personal
> postings on the blog/facebook pages, (c) the inability to contact a third
> of the Senior Members, and (d) a host of other issues, I am unable to
> recommend the Oswald Innocence Campaign to any serious researcher of the
> JFK assassination.
>
> If you would like clarification on any of the points I have raised above,
> please contact me at:
Lav...@comcast.net
>
> Respectfully submitted,
> James Norwood
>
> P.S. Starting on June 6, I sent four cordial e-mail requests to Mr.
> Cinque to post my letter above on the OIC blog and facebook pages. While
> these two blogs clearly imply that they are "community" websites, Mr.
> Cinque nonetheless refused to post my letter. I even revised the letter
> for him with the goal of eliminating any personal innuendo. I tried to
> make the letter both objective and useful as constructive criticism for
> the OIC. Yet, Mr. Cinque still refused to post the letter.
Contrary to the magical fairytale, Oswald never fired a gun on the day in
question, let alone even know what all the commotion and excitement was
about until *after a fellow coworker explained the president's expected
visit some time later that day. But I guess in a magical world, Oswald
then teleported himself all the way back to Ruth Paine's garage, fetched
his rifle and somehow made it so invisible that Bonnie Ray Williams
couldn't see it standing there as he polished off his lunch...pretty hard
to plan an ambush when you don't even know the intended target is even
coming anywhere near you...but, again, all things are possible with magic,
which this case seems to have lots of.