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

I know it's hard to accept that they could have had a nerve agent that could pierce the skin in a frozen dart and then start affecting JFK toxically in a matter of seconds. But, until 1975, we didn't know they had a gun that could deliver such a drug-contained dart. But, they definitely had such a gun, and it's pretty fantastic in itself. 

You know that the former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England. The man who found them said, "the man went stiff."

He was stiff, was he? I'll show you a guy who was stiff.

He's stiffening his neck, hunching his shoulders, flexing his arms, and he can't release it. He couldn't release any of it. It just progressed. It got worse and worse. He was curling up into a contracted state. Now: that was not due to his trauma. He had no damage to his nervous system at that point. It was not until the fatal head shot, which followed this, that his central nervous system was involved. The trauma to this point could not have caused this. This was caused by a drug; a nerve agent.

Can nerve agents act through the skin? The Health Department of New York State says so.

Nerve agents are highly toxic, and even small amounts can cause health effects if they are inhaled, ingested or if they contact skin or eyes. Health effects occur more rapidly (within seconds to minutes) from inhalation and ingestion exposure than from skin or eye exposure.

Now remember: we're not talking about on the skin, but through the skin. They state that health effects can manifest within seconds from inhalation or ingestion, and by ingestion, it means by mouth. But, when that frozen dart pierced the skin, it drew blood. Even a mosquito bite can draw blood. And obviously, something introduced into the blood is going to start working quickly. 

Nerve agents work by deactivating an enzyme called cholinesterase. Cholinesterase breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. And acetylcholine is what tells muscles to contract. So, cholinesterase, by breaking down acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction, gets muscles to let go. No cholinesterse, and your muscles can't let go; and you can't make them let go.   

In JFK's case, he suffered the toxic effect of a nerve agent, and that is why his muscles stiffened up so much. However, he also suffered mental effects. He was obviously impaired mentally. He was really very incapacitated mentally. And I don't know if that was the effect of the same drug, or if it was another drug they also included. Obviously, there are a lot of drugs that can have mind-numbing effects. 

But, why did they do this? They did it because they knew he was a smart guy, and he had been through war, and he knew what it was like to come under attack. So, if they didn't kill him with the very first shot, he could have and probably would have taken evasive action. He could have lowered himself in the car and told his wife to do likewise. He could have ordered the driver to floor it. They couldn't risk it. They had to "paralyze" him physically and mentally before he entered the Kill Zone so that he would be a sitting duck. The plan all along was to kill him in Lower Dealey Plaza because there were few people there, and probably half or more of the people there were their people. So, before he got to the Kill Zone, they had to prep him so that he would be a cooperative victim. 

JFK's strange behavior, both physically and mentally, in the Zapruder film, should have alerted people, particularly doctors, that he was drugged. There is no excuse for ignoring this. And there is nothing but a drug or drugs that could have done it to him. It was not the result of trauma.