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

In the Altgens photo, the left rear door of the LBJ follow-up car is open, and a man seems to be getting out. He was Special Agent Warren W. Taylor. It looks like he has both feet planted on the ground. He could not have done that unless the car had stopped or nearly stopped. 

Taylor said that after they made the turn from Houston, he heard an explosion, which he thought was a firecracker, and that it sounded like it came from his right rear. That is exactly where it came from, the Dal-Tex building. This was the shot that hit Kennedy in the back, delivering the nerve agent. Taylor said that in response to that, he opened the door and started to get out, as we see below. He said that the motorcade had just turned the corner when he did this. So, without a doubt, he was describing what we see in the Altgens photo.

So, this is more evidence that the limo was still high on the hill and only a little past the intersection when the Altgens photo was taken. 

But then, Taylor said that no sooner did his foot hit the ground, that he heard two more shots that were unmistakably gun shots. Then he said the car "paused slightly," but what was it doing before that? Was he exiting the car before it paused? Then he said he heard on the radio that "something or someone had been shot." But, how could it be if they were still at the top of the hill? What this amounts to is more story compacting; shoving everything together to support the Single Bullet Theory and hide the fact that JFK was hit in the back high on the hill, long before he entered the Kiss Zone.

Then Taylor said the car picked up speed, and he pulled himself back in. Then, he said he saw Agent Youngblood climb into the back seat of the Veep car and push LBJ down and lie on top of him. That is something that Senator Yarborough denied ever happened. And I doubt it was even physically possible, as big as those men were. Remember, Mrs. Johnson and Senator Yarborough both had legs and feet. So how could big tall Johnson and Yarborough both be sprawled on the floor of that small convertible in front of them? We are supposed to believe that LBJ and Youngblood are both lying at the feet of Ladybird and Yarborough. 

But, let's discuss how fast the car was going when Taylor planted his two feet on the ground, and that does look like two feet. 

So, how could he plant two feet on the ground, as he appears to be doing? If the car was going 15 mph, his body would keep moving, but his planted feet wouldn't. So, to get out of a car moving at that speed, you would have to put one foot down, and in the direction that the car is going, so that you could then place your other foot down accordingly, so as to keep your feet under you, as you keep moving in the same direction as the car. In other words, you wouldn't get out to stand; you would get to run, or at least jog. You would know that you had to keep moving as soon as you hit the ground. But, if you look at him, you can see that he is planting both feet down in a way that made it impossible for him to keep moving with the car. It's not just that the car was moving away from him; it's that he, himself, was still moving. So, from the way he is getting out of the car, I say that either the car was stopped or was going no more than 5 mph. That slow a speed, he could probably shrug it off and find his balance, but not going 15 mph. At 15 mph, he would have to run. 15 mph is a fast running speed.  You've got to be in good shape to do that. Average jogging speed is 5 or 6 mph. 

So, seeing Taylor getting out of the car in the manner in which he is doing it tells me that the car had either stopped or very nearly stopped. 

Here is the complete photo. 

Taylor admitted that the motorcade sped up after that, which means that it sped up to 15 mph. It was still going very slow by motoring standards, but apparently, it came to a complete stop or nearly so right past the intersection.  Why? It was to get the ice flechette into Kennedy. A still object is easier to hit than a moving target. The Altgens photo was taken very soon after he was shot in the back, probably within a second.   

This was high on the hill. Look to the right. You see the curve in the road.  That curve was the curve of the turn from Houston St. It was a 120 degree horseshoe turn. It was not down the hill across from the pergola where Kennedy was shot in the throat. I know the Altgens photo shows Kennedy reacting to being shot in the throat, but that is fake imagery. It was long before that. But, why was the limo traveling so slowly?  

And after this, the limo continued to move slowly, but it did pick up speed.  Reportedly, it went 15 mph, and it was then that Jackie turned and saw her husband with a quizzical look on his face. And she complained about how slow the limo went. It was to give the chemicals time to seep in and exert their effects. We can debate what the chemicals were, but one of them had to be a nerve agent because that's what causes muscles to spasm like we see on Kennedy.

Agent Taylor's words, and what we see him doing in the Altgens photo, tell us that the motorcade came to a complete stop, or nearly so, high on the hill, for the sake of the first shot. Then, after the first shot was delivered to Kennedy's back, the speed picked up a little, but to no more than 15 mph. There was sudden braking in the Kill Zone (you can see the limo's brake light come on in the Muchmore film) and then after the fatal head shot was delivered, the limo sped off. 

Now, consider that Altgens said that he took his famous photo a split-second after the very first shot. That was the shot that hit Kennedy in the back. So, his photo should have showed Kennedy reacting to being shot in the back. And I'm sure it did- originally. But, they changed it, putting in that phony imagery of JFK reacting to the throat shot.