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

Take a close look at the Croft ladies.

 The location was well past the monument. In the background, you can see the white restraining wall that was part of the pergola. And if you look in the farthest distance, you see the service road with cars and trucks, and then you see the end of the TSBD. But, it's a long way from the intersection. Note the short African-American lady in the blue dress, and next to her, taller African-American women in darker clothes. 

You can see the short lady in the blue dress and the taller women in frame 39 of the Z-film. 

Compare the whole lineup to Croft, and see that they are the same.

Note that down from the man in the white shirt is a woman in red. It's the same group of people. 

But, what are they doing up at the intersection in the Zapruder film?

I don't know exactly how they did this, but I know what they were trying to do. They were trying to compact the space between the intersection and the freeway sign. 

You can see that LBJ's convertible is still on Houston. It hasn't even begun to turn yet. And the Presidential limo has just finished the turn, while the Queen Mary is still rounding the corner. So, that is the very top of Dealey Plaza. So, how could the freeway sign, which was down by the pergola, be this high? 

That's the freeway sign, and you can see it was a long way from the intersection. Now, I am going to rifle these back and forth.

 

So, what was going on here that they needed to make Kennedy reach the freeway sign much sooner than he did? What was going on was that he was shot in the back high on hill, and he rode down the hill to the sign reacting to having been shot in the back. All that had to be cut out of the Zapruder film. They had to make it that he was smiling and waving until he reached the freeway sign, and then everything (except the fatal head shot) happened behind the sign. That was their story, and they were sticking to it. And it is in keeping with what Dan Rather said on November 25, that just 35 yards from the intersection, JFK was hit in the back, and he lurched forward. 

From the time he was hit in the back, he was a changed man. He stopped smiling and waving and engaging with spectators. Rapid changes were happening in his body. He didn't understand what they were, and his mind- his cognitive ability- was rapidly deteriorating. It was then that Jackie turned and looked at him and saw the quizzical look on his face. And from that point on, she forgot about working the crowd on her side of the street, and she kept her eyes on him. She was concerned. She knew he wasn't himself. She knew something had happened.  

"I was looking this way, to the left, and I heard these terrible noises. You know. And my husband never made any sound. So I turned to the right. And all I remember is seeing my husband, he had this sort of quizzical look on his face."

All that got cut out of the Zapruder film. And there is something I didn't realize until yesterday: They didn't decide ahead of time to claim that a single bullet traversed Kennedy and Connally, but they did decide ahead of time to claim that a bullet traversed Kennedy. 

I used to wonder why they shot him in the throat if they planned to claim that all the shots came from the rear. They shot him in the throat to create what they would call an exit wound for the shot to his back. And you know that the Secret Service agents did not allow Dr. Humes to dissect the back wound or the neck wound. That was decided in advance too. They knew that the shallowness of the back wound be a problem, that a bullet could never stop that short. An ice flechette could but not a bullet. It could never decelerate that fast. The wound was too shallow and superficial to have been a bullet wound, especially from a high-powered military rifle. If you think about the speed the bullet had to be going when it hit him (about 2000 ft/sec) how could it reach zero velocity in the space of one inch? So, they knew ahead of time that they could not let the shallowness of that wound become known. Now, you can understand why Secret Service agents demanded to take possession of JFK's body and not allow the Dallas coroner to conduct the autopsy, in accordance with Texas law. You can be sure that those SS agents would have resorted to force, if necessary. They would have drawn guns or used physical force to get that body.  

Kennedy was hit high on the hill with a drug-laced ice flechette, and he started reacting to it immediately. All that got cut out of the Zapruder film. 

Here again is Z-198. JFK is about to be hit. He's still waving there. 

You can see his head is turned, right? He is working the crowd. So, he hasn't been shot. 

Now, he's looking straight ahead. His hand is over his face, but note how indistinct it is. It's lost all detail. And Jackie is looking at him there. And don't assume it was just 1/9 second later because they removed a lot of frames. But, we have no other reference point but the Zapruder film, and frame 200 is as good as any to designate his first reaction to being hit. But, this was long before the freeway sign. The freeway sign in the Zapruder film is fake.