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

JFK researchers have a responsibility, and it is to account for all the known evidence in the case. 

But, Kennedy's clinical status, his medical condition, as seen in the Zapruder film, has been ignored by just about everybody. He is functionally impaired. Though we know he has suffered physical trauma, there is none that we can see until the fatal head shot. But, we can see that he is not normal. He is stricken. It's obvious that there is something terribly wrong with him. His muscles are not working properly. He doesn't use them in a normal, coordinated way, and he is unable to release them. And it was progressive. He got progressively more seized-up as he sat there.  

Then also, mentally, he was not himself. He did not grasp what was going on, and he did not respond to it. He took no evasive action. He made no attempt to protect himself, his wife, or anyone else. He was unable to speak, and he made no attempt to speak.  And his facial expression had a look of confusion, bewilderment, and helplessness. 

Dr. John Lattimer attempted to tie JFK's condition to that of a patient of Dr. Thorburn from 1898, but even a cursory look at the facts in that case torpedoes that conclusion. But, few people delve into that. Most just talk about Kennedy in the Zapruder film as if his behavior is normal for the circumstances. They have watched the Zapruder film so many times, they just accept Kennedy's weird behavior in it as normal for JFK-land. But, there is no JFK-land. There is only the real world. And in the real world, a shallow shot to the back, and a shallow shot to the throat, could not possibly produce the changes in Kennedy that we see in the Zapruder film. 

So, on the left he is looking and waving at the spectators; he is engaged in the situation at hand. It is normal. But, on the right, his arms are in spasm; his hand is jack-knifed; and his face is vacant, showing no sign of any pending action or intention. He is not looking at his wife. He is not looking at anything. He is looking down but not at anything. He is mentally and visually unfocused. There is emptiness in his face.

So, in a matter of seconds, he has gone from being aware, active, and engaged to having lost control of his muscles and becoming dazed, incapable of understanding the situation he is in, and incapable of responding to it. He is, in a word, helpless. 

How could such a physical and mental breakdown happen to him so fast? He certainly didn't suffer any brain damage. Physical trauma can't explain it. Therefore, he must have suffered a chemical attack. It is a matter of default. 

It's like in chess, where you have to make a certain move or else be checkmated. In this case, you have to make the mental move of accepting that he was poisoned. You have no choice. There is nothing else that could possibly explain the phenomena that we see. 

To engage in totally unwarranted speculations (such as: a bullet fragment jumped up to his brain) is a complete cop-out. There is no evidence for it, and if that had happened, he wouldn't even be sitting there. He would have lost consciousness. Kennedy is conscious. I am sure he could feel things. But, he does not have the consciousness of a human being. He was incapable of perceiving what was going on. He was incapable of "getting it," of grasping what was going on; let alone doing anything about it.

It is not much of a stretch to say that his mental state is comparable to that of a person who is severely drunk. And that comparison really fits because when a person is drunk, his incapacity is due to one thing: a chemical, namely, alcohol. In this case, the chemical definitely wasn't alcohol, but it was something else, and it may have been more than one thing. 

These conclusions are obligatory to any rational person.