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

 It is very important to realize that JFK never spoke and never communicated in any way from the time he was shot in the back with the nerve agent high on the hill.  And Jackie said he didn’t. She said that when she first turned and looked at him that he had a “quizzical” look on his face. By frame 189 in the Z-film, we can see that she was turned and looking at him, and she never took her eyes off of him after that. She said he never spoke, and if he had communicated in any way non-verbally, she surely would have said so.

Rober Scott Cathey is currently spreading the falsehood that JFK pointed to his throat in the Z-film. In 62 years, no one has ever claimed that. He most certainly did not. In frame 255, his index finger is angled to where you could try to claim that he was pointing at his throat. He was not, and I’ll explain why.

In a personal exchange, Dr. David Mantik told me that the thing that was blocking JFK’s airway and putting him into panic in 225 was probably just a bolus of blood. And JFK quickly cleared it. Instinctively, he put his right hand over his mouth and coughed, and that cleared it. It was like a reflex.  After that, he was able to breathe fine. He was no longer concerned about his throat. That wasn’t his problem any more. So, what was his problem?  It was his spasmodic muscles. He was in pain! You should learn about the murder of Jane Stanford in Hawaii in 1905, where she was poisoned with strychnine, which is a nerve agent. As she was dying with a doctor by her side, she said that this was the worst pain she ever felt, and that it had to be the worst way to die.

I don’t know which nerve agent they used on Kennedy, but they all work by destroying the enzyme cholinesterase in the neuromuscular junction, which causes acetylcholine to persist and keep the muscle in perpetual contraction. Perpetual, that is, until you die, usually of asphyxiation from your respiratory muscles seizing up.

So, there’s no reason to think Kennedy was pointing at his throat in 255. It’s just the way his spasms manifested. He wasn’t even thinking about his throat any more.

And why should he have been? He was breathing OK. And he was being shot at. If he was capable of rational thought at all, he would have made that his concern: to survive the attack by getting down low and getting the driver to floor it.

And his spasms just got worse, and they spread. By the time he took the fatal head shot at 313, he was completely seized up.  

So no, JFK did not point to his throat, and he did not say or do anything that was intelligible. Mentally, he was gone before the fatal head shot.