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

 It doesn't make sense, and it never made sense for us to believe Roy Kellerman that Kennedy yelled, "My God, I am hit!" That's because either one has the ability to speak, or one doesn't. And if Kennedy had the ability to say, "My God, I am hit" he would have said more than that. He would have kept speaking. But, from the Zapruder film, we know that he didn't speak or try to speak.  

And remember, that the official story is that Kennedy was hit with one shot in the back that went through his neck and exited his throat. And we know that the immediate effect of that shot, that is, the throat part of it, was to cut off his breathing. Of course, I don't believe it was one shot, and I don't think the two shots were close temporally. I think the back shot came first, high on the hill, and the throat shot much later. 

When we first see Kennedy, post-sign, he is in a panic, and it's from that shot or shots, depending on what you believe. Something is obstructing his airway. Was it the missile? it may have been just a bolus of blood. But, whatever it was, he did clear it by putting his right hand over his mouth and coughing. 

Then after that, his breathing was OK. It was the only thing that was OK, but that was fine. But, he didn't speak. We can see that with our own eyes. Nor did he try to speak. And he didn't have the look, the focus, and the countenance of someone who could speak. He seems detached and distant, like he's in his own world. 

And why didn't Jackie speak to him? Why didn't she say, "Jack, what happened? What's wrong? Are you hurt? Why are you so stiff? Why are you holding your arms like that?" But, in her testimony, she said that she didn't say anything until after the fatal head shot, when she said:

"Oh, no, no, no," I mean, "Oh, my God, they have shot my husband." And "I love you, Jack."

Her testimony is bizarre because she said she was turned to her left, working her side of the street, when she heard the "terrible noises." She said her husband didn't make a sound, so she turned to look at him, and he had a "quizzical" look on his face. But then, she spoke of seeing a piece of his skull. But wait: we have the Zapruder film which shows that she turned and looked at her husband early- before they disappeared behind the sign. Here is frame 206, in which you can see she's turned and looking at him already. 

His face is obscured by his hand, but I think that was done to it to hide his distraught look. But, how could she go from that to talking about the piece of skull when there was a lot in-between? 

So, I'm wondering if they excluded some of her statements. But regardless, she didn't speak to him until after the fatal head shot. And she made it clear that he never spoke. 

But, the point is that if he had the ability to speak, he wouldn't have said, "My God! I am hit!" and then shut up. He would have acted on his knowledge that he was hit, which would have included communicating with the others to get down and communicating with the driver to get going. 

But, it is obvious in the Zapruder film that he did not have the mental wherewithal to do any of that. The film shows us that he just sat there in a dazed and confused state. He definitely had a disorder of consciousness going on. His awareness of himself, his environment, and his situation was impaired. in fact, he seems totally vacant mentally. So, how could such a person speak? 

And when could he have spoken? We can see that he doesn't speak before disappearing behind the sign, nor after emerging from behind the sign. We can see JFK up to 209, and then we don't see him again until 225. That is 16 frames, which is less than the 18 frames to cover one second. Since it is the only time that JFK could possibly have spoken, could he have said "My God! I am hit!" in less than a second? But, speech doesn't occur in a vacuum. Since he isn't geared to speak before his disappearance or after it, you can't plop those words in his mouth, even if you think he could get them off. In other words, it would have to have continuity, and there is no continuity. 

I hope I've convinced you that there is zero chance that JFK said, "My God, I am hit!" because an intelligent analysis of everything we know and everything we can see in the Zapruder film tells us that he didn't say it, and he couldn't say it, that he didn't have the mental aptitude to say it. 

So, what I am saying is that the people who put stock in what Kellerman said were being very stupid and obtuse. And it's time for them to admit that it was very gullible of them to believe him. They were conned. It's time for everyone to admit that the last thing JFK said was in response to Nellie Connally about Texans turning out for him. JFK was mentally gone. He was out of it. And we can see it with our naked eyes in the Zapruder film.