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

The question of how Clint Hill was able to jump off the Queen Mary and then catch up to the Presidential limo has been in dispute. I maintain that the limo must have stopped or very nearly stopped. And of course, we don't see that in any film. 

The Secret Service admitted to slowing to 15 mph, but they never admitted going slower than that. But, if Clint Hill had jumped off a vehicle going 15 mph, he would have had to roll. That's because his direction in deboarding would not have been the same as the direction that his body was going from being on the moving car. So, as soon as he landed, his body would have kept going in the direction that it was going. And that would have caused him to tumble. 

And remember he was a Secret Service agent; not a circus stunt performer. 

And I'm not saying that he did tumble. Of course, he didn't. I'm saying that the cars had stopped or very nearly stopped. 

But, Stephen Smith claimed, in a comment to me, that both the Zapruder film and the Nix film show Hill jumping off the Queen Mary. 

They do not. The Zapruder film just shows him reaching the limo and climbing up it. And I should think that everyone should know that by now after all the times we've watched it. Here he is in frame 333 reaching it. By the time it gets to this, the Queen Mary is long out of view. 

We see him a couple frames before that, but that's it. We certainly don't see him jumping off the Queen Mary.

So, that statement of Stephen Smith was false. What about the Nix film? We don't see Hill jump off the Queen Mary there either. and what they did to introduce him was very tricky and sneaky. I'll go through it frame by frame.

So, that's frame 22, and I put MM to indicate Mary Moorman. Notice how non-photographic she looks. She looks like very crude art. And it gets worse from there.

So, this is frame 25, and now Mary looks practically headless. Maybe she is completely headless. Regardless, it is not a photographic image, even for the 1960s. 

In frame 27, for the first time, the head of Clint Hill peeks out. So, his head is at the same height as Mary's, but he is deep to her, and slightly in front of her. I put an arrow above the head of Clint Hill. Now, why would his head be as low as that? He was a very tall man, and she was a very short woman. Here is Clint Hill in the Willis image.

So, he was tall, and he was standing tall. So why again, would his head be at the same level as Mary Moorman's?

But continuing, he starts his trek. 

Now, he's putting some space between him and Mary, whom we can still see. But, he is still no higher than she is. And she was a very, very short woman. 

Now, in frame 37, I don't see Mary at all. I think she's gone for good. And I have circled him, as he makes his way towards the limo, apparently moving faster than the motorcycles as well.

This is frame 44, and he has reached the back of the limo.

In 52, he seems to be up on the limo. 

But then, in 58, he's back down on the ground. 

Then, jumping to 79, his right foot is still on the ground.

Finally, in 91, he's up for keeps. Notice that the limo has left the motorcycles behind. So, it sped up much more than they did. 

But, the point is that we certainly don't see Clint Hill deboarding the Queen Mary, as Stephen Smith claimed. And the weird blending of Clint Hill and Mary Moorman looks like chicanery to me. And if you watch it all at speed, then it really looks like the two of them are one, and he just grew out of her. To capture these frames, I had to slow the film down to 25% speed. It's a good thing we can do that on Youtube. 

But, watch it yourself, and be sure to watch the part on Houston Street first because the film looks photographic there. It's not until it gets to the Kill Zone that it looks like crappy art. There is a big qualitative difference between the two. And it was the same camera and the same film! There is no excuse for it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toU8GSRnOQk

I tell you that at the speed that the limo appears to be going, there is no way that Clint Hill could have caught up with it. Maybe Usain Bolt in his prime could have caught up with it, but I doubt that Clint Hill could have. 

And at that speed, there is no way he could have deboarded the Queen Mary, and just instantly started running. I think it's very unlikely he could have even stayed on his feet. As soon as he planted his foot on the ground, his forward momentum would have caused him to fall.  He had no break. I and the Laws of Physics say he would have rolled.