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

The alteration team got the Altgens photo, and they saw that Oswald was in the doorway. They also saw the exposure of the two open windows in the Dal-Tex building, one of which may have contained a shooter. And they saw that JFK was reacting to having been shot in the back from that window. 

So, why didn't they just destroy it? It would have been so easy.  No one knew about it except Altgens, and he was a team player. If they told him that they had to destroy it for "national security reasons" he wouldn't have balked. It wasn't going to affect his pay-check. 

I think what tantalized them about the Altgens photo was the Secret Service agents peering at the TSBD. Of course, they weren't looking up at the 6th floor. They were looking down at the doorway, and the shots definitely didn't come from there. But, that didn't stop them from writing a caption that said that Secret Service agents were looking at the source of the shots. 

But then, they got the idea to change the story of the photo; to make it that it wasn't taken until after JFK was shot in the throat. It was close to 1 PM on Friday when they got the photo. JFK may not have taken his last breath yet. Nothing was issued yet about the shots. But, they knew that the first shot, which delivered the nerve agent, was never going to be part of the story. And they knew that the throat shot, which was frontal, was going to serve as the exit wound for the back shot that never exited. 

If you look closely at the Altgens photo, you can see that it was taken high on the hill and not far from the intersection. 

Let's consider the car lengths. The limo was 21 feet long, but JFK was sitting in the back of it. So, for his distance from the intersection, you would only count the length of the trunk, which was about 5 feet. The Secret Service car was approximately 18. Then there was a gap of an average car length of 16 feet. And then both LBJ's car and his SS car were smaller cars; probably about 16 feet each. His SS car was still in the intersection. 

So, that's 16 x 3 = 48 + 18 + 5 = 71 feet. But, there was also space between the cars that I haven't accounted for yet. So, let's bump it up to 90 feet. So, that means that JFK, himself, was about 30 yards from the intersection. 

In his description of the Zapruder film, Dan Rather said that it showed that the first shot hit JFK about 35 yards from the intersection, and caused him to lurch forward. We don't see that in the Zapruder film. It must have been cut out. And I know why it was cut out. It's because that was the back shot, which was never going to be allowed into the story. It was going to be claimed that the back shot and the throat shot were one, and the throat shot came later. 

Here is Dan Rather acting out the lurching forward that he saw JFK do. It must have been from the back shot. JFK's response to the throat shot was not to lurch forward, but rather, to panic and raise both his hands to his throat. This other had to be from the back shot, which came first.  

The artists went to work anc came up with this as a replacement. Doesn't JFK look like he could be lurching there? The long vacuum wand arm with Jackie's gloved hands on it is fake.