The screenplay focuses on the framing of Oswald over that weekend. The frame was being developed using the usual methods noted in cases taken up by the Innocence Project.
This thread will go through those methods as they applied to Oswald. There will be other examples, but these are the ones used in the script.
MANUFACTURE OF EVIDENCE
The Hidell Selective Service Card
The official story was that Oswald had this card on his person when arrested for disturbing the peace in New Orleans. The card would be easily recognizable as fake due to the card having a photo of Oswald attached to it. Real selective service cards had no such photo.
We then skip forward to the hours immediately following the assassination, and Robert Jones of the 112th MIG phones the San Antonio office of the FBI to give them what they have on Oswald. An FBI memo was made regarding this call which states that Jones advised of the NO arrest, that he had the Hidell card at the time and had been using the AJ Hidell as an alias.
Then we go to the Dallas Police who would claim before te Warren Commission that Oswald had this card on him when arrested in Oak Cliff.
All of this served to link Oswald to the purchase of the rifle via mail order in the name of AJ Hidell.
The issues:
Jones was interviewed by the HSCA. In that interview, he denied remembering telling the FBI anything about Oswald carrying the Hidell selective service and underlined that by saying he would have had no way of knowing that.
The FBI memo mentions a "Anna (or Ana) Hidell. When questioned about this Jones suggests they misread their own notes from the phone call and it should read "AKA Hidell" - "Also known as". The questioner then suggests another possibility - that the misreads notes had actually said "An A Hidell", suggesting a separate person and not an Oswald alias. Jones had to agree that this was also possible, but that it was all too long ago fr him to recall and the file had since been culled.
If Oswald had truly had this card on him in NO when arrested, there would be no doubt it was an Oswald alias and therefore no need for anyone to search for "AJ Hidell" as allegedly happened both at that time and most certainly later, post-assassination.
The idea that the NO police would find fake ID on Oswald and return it to him to continue using it - as the official story proclaims must have happened for it to be in Oswald's wallet in Dallas, is antithetical to common sense and even to normal police conduct and actions.
None of the 5 officers who took Oswald into custody including anything about finding Hidell ID on him, despite claiming his wallet was searched to find ID. The story changed some time after those initial reports were submitted.
So if Oswald did not make it and did not have it, where did it come from?
The script provides the only logical answer and it is an answer suggested through the testimony of NO Police Officer Francis Martello. On Saturday at 3:00 pm, Adrian Vial of the Secret Service, picked up the Oswald file (including evidence) held by the NO police from Martello. It consisted mainly of the FPCC leaflets that Oswald had been distributing. But as the two men were going through the material, a passport photo of Oswald was discovered. Martello confirmed that this must have been accidentally caught up in the evidence when it was taken.
The fake card was not discussed or produced by Dallas police until during the interrogation session which commenced at 6:00 pm on Saturday. Three hours is sufficient time to fly the passport photo to Dallas, make a fake card in the name of AJ Hidell, attach Oswald's passport photo and produce it during that interrogation session at the same time as the fake Back Yard Photos make their debut appearance.
The goal of the fake card and photos was the same as for the paraffin test - scaring Oswald into a confession.
Each unsuccessful attempt to scare Oswald into confessing was a step closer to his pre-trial murder.