The ambulance entered the Garage from the Main Street entrance. Here is Huffaker looking towards Main Street at the approaching ambulance.

Then, everyone scurries out of the way as the ambulance approaches from Main.

So, without having to turn around, driver stops adjacent to the jail office right where the shooting occurred. They hasten in with a stretcher to get Oswald. Soon after they came out with Oswald strewn out and Bookhout in toe. 

After loading Oswald, they had to wait for the armored truck to be removed from the Commerce street entrance, which they were going to use to exit. But, why didn't they go back out the same way they came in, via Main? For one thing, it was the general direction they wanted to go, north, rather than south. For two, they had the cubby hole, that recess within the building, to use to back up and turn around. It would not have been hard at all. Alternatively, they could have just put the ambulance in reverse and backed out. Someone could have helped by stopping traffic as they emerged onto Main. They had cops there, right? So, it should have been out to Main, left on Main to Harwood, which was just yards away, then a right turn to go north on Harwood which went right into Harry Hines which would have taken them right to the Hospital. Parkland Hospital is on Harry Hines: 5200 Harry Hines. I dare say that was the most direct, straight as an arrow way to get to Parkland. So why instead did they wait for the armored truck to be moved and then exit Commerce, and turn left and go all the way down to the Expressway? It makes no sense now, and it made no sense then. And the thing is: they used the Main entrance coming in. So, why didn't they use it going out?  

Joseph Backes: "This is a modern map. This is the route one could take now in 2016.  This map does not show the normal traffic routes of 1963. There are more roads and different traffic patterns now compared to back then." 

Ralph Cinque: Actually, Mapquest offered several routes to get to Parkland Hospital from the old City Hall Building in Dallas. And one of them was to to through Dealey Plaza and take the Stemmons Freeway, which was the route that JFK was taken. But, they listed this surface street route as the first one, and that's why I went with it. And the streets are all still there. Backes helped himself to the assumption that today's route would be different. However, the route seen there above is essentially the same as what Oswald's ambulance driver took, except that instead of doing the sensible thing of exiting out the Main Street ramp and turning left to Harwood to go north, he exited the Commerce Street ramp and turned left, going out of his way, making a ridiculous circular loop, that just wasted time. 

I guess the driver never heard the old adage that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. And when you don't have a straight line, then you look for the closest thing to a straight line. But, it is just plain freaky that he went the way that he did. It would be freaky to go that way at any time, let alone during an emergency when a human life is hanging by a thread. There is no excuse for it. Absolutely none. 

How the shills will try to pound square pegs into round holes in order to deny the obvious fact that Oswald was innocent and that he gave a solid alibi for his whereabouts during the shooting.

Robin Unger quotes, of all people, James Bookhout, who was Oswald's Garage Shooter, hardly a reliable witness, but, what Bookhout said doesn't even make sense. Bookhout claimed that Oswald claimed to have eaten lunch AFTER the assassination, which is ridiculous. 

  
It is ridiculous for several reasons. First, Oswald said he ate lunch in the employee's lunch room at a time that James Jarman and Harold Norman had come in to get their lunches, which was early in the lunch break. And why wouldn't it be? What do people do when they break for lunch? They go have lunch. Why would Oswald have waited? He hadn't eaten all day. We know that from Ruth Paine, who said he left her house without eating. Marina said the same thing about Oswald: no breakfast, just coffee, but he took a lunch. Plus, he knew that the motorcade was coming- expected at 12:25. So, why wouldn't he eat before it? He knew he had to go back to work after it. So, if he was going to eat lunch, it was going to be before. Plus, who would even feel like eating right after a man got his brain blown out on the street? But, there is an even bigger problem: no time. The shooting was at 12:30. Oswald reached his room on Beckley by 1:00. That means that all the things he did after the shots: going to the 2nd floor lunch room, milling around, walking down Elm to where he got the bus, being on the stalled bus, getting off the bus and waiting to get the transfer ticket, walking to the depot where he got the cab, dealing with the cab driver and the woman who competed with him for the cab, taking the cab ride, driving past his room and then walking back 5 blocks, all that had to happen in that 30 minutes, and there is just no time to squeeze eating a lunch into that. It doesn't even work as far as getting him on Cecil McWatters' bus at 12:42. There was no time for him to eat lunch and do that at that time. 

So, there is NO CHANCE that Bookhout was telling the truth about that. What Bookhout was doing was lying. And it conflicted with another liar, Will Fritz, who said that Oswald claimed to be eating with other unnamed employees during the motorcade, which was also a lie. Oswald was a loner, and he didn't eat with anybody- not even on a good day. He just said that he saw Jarman and Norman while he was eating, and it was early in the lunch break.

So, Fritz and Bookhout were both liars, but as often happens with liars, they told different lies.

Then, the other problem with Bookhout's lie is that Bill Shelley wasn't out front when Oswald left for home. You see, Shelley left with Lovelady right away for the railway yard. They were part of the throng of people who did that, and you can see them doing it in the Malcolm Couch film.

  So, that is Shelley on the left and Lovelady on the right. That was just seconds after the shooting. And when they finished looking around, they returned to the building via the back door. And when they went inside, they were immediately assigned to guard the freight elevator by Roy Truly. So, there is no NO CHANCE that Shelley was milling around in front when Oswald departed for home. 

So, Bookhout definitely lied when he said all that. When Oswald said he was "Out with Bill Shelley in front" he was DEFINITELY talking about during the shooting. After all: what mattered? What mattered was his alibi for the shooting. He didn't need an alibi for when he left the building for the day to go home. Nobody doubts that he did that. No crime was committed in conjunction with that. He didn't need an alibi witness to prove that he did it. This was his first interrogation, and the most crucial thing for him to say, in pleading innocent, was where he was and what he was doing during the time the crime went down. So, undoubtedly, he was asked where he was during the motorcade, but even if he wasn't asked, he would have said it. "Me? Kill Kennedy? Are you out of your mind? I couldn't have done it. I was out with Bill Shelley in front. We were standing right there in the doorway. Feel free to ask him." 

That may be how it went down. But, the most important thing for him to say, and the most important thing for Fritz to write down was his alibi. And we all know what that was since we can see him there standing in the doorway during the shooting.

James Bookhout was the Garage Shooter of Lee Harvey Oswald, and that means he can't be relied upon for anything factual. Every word out of his mouth is suspect. It doesn't mean that he didn't say some things that were true- when he could. But, this definitely was not one of his true statements. "Out with Bill Shelley in front" was Oswald's alibi for the shooting of President John F. Kennedy. About that, there is no doubt. 

The Wizard sent me this colorized version of the cropped Jackson photo.

He has got those two guys circled because they're not even looking in the direction of the action. And remember: the shot has already gone off. They heard it. Did it not shock the hell out of them? Apparently not. They don't seem the least bit startled. And the same is true of the white-capped cop, whom we know was Police Inspector J H Sawyer. He's heard the shot too. But, not only is he not reacting to it, he isn't even looking at Oswald. He seems to be looking through him at the camera. 

So, supposedly, he has heard a gun blast, and he's heard Oswald scream, and there is commotion from it all going on right in front of him, and he's not even looking at it. He is not looking at Oswald. He is not looking at any of them. He seems to be posing for the camera, which was some distance away. So, he appears to be looking, through those guys and all the action, at the camera. His focus is BEYOND them. Can't you see that? 

Robin Unger put up this gif from the Muchmore film, and it is very revealing.

You can see when the fatal head shot hits, and you can see where it hit him. That's because there is an explosive mist from the impact of the frangible bullet. I did a screen-save of it. 

So, you see that whitish mist on the right side of Kennedy's head. It's not at the back of his head. It's not on the left side of his head. It's right side of his head. That's where he was hit. Now, if that corresponds to Z-313, then the Moorman photo has to take place 2 frames later at Z-315. But, that's impossible because it's already too late for the Moorman photo. The Moorman photo has already occurred. 

The way we know that is the relative position of the two motorcycle cops viz-a-viz the limo. What happened is that the driver, Will Greer, braked. But, the motorcycle cops didn't know he was going to brake, and they didn't expect him to brake. So, they didn't start braking until after he braked. And that meant that for a short a while, they gained on the limo. And that's what you're seeing there. Notice how far they are compared to the rear wheel of the limo. Now look at the Moorman photo.

So above, you are seeing practically all of the rear wheel. There is very little obscuring, and that's because the bikes are farther back. But, look again at the Muchmore frame:

We hardly see the rear wheel of the limo at all. Compare again to the Moorman photo:

The two motorcycle cops are pretty much in the same position relative to each other. They put that big thumbprint there to hide B.J. Martin who was on the outside. If you look close, you can see his leg and torso. You don't see his dark uniform because they lightened it. But, the point is that the Moorman photo was taken a couple frames BEFORE the fatal head shot, not a couple frames after, as is commonly believed.  

Here's the Muchmore frame that corresponds to Moorman. Notice that the position of the motorcycle wheel viz-a-viz the limo wheel corresponds to what we see in the Moorman photo.

Now that's about right. 

Anyway, I still maintain, very adamantly, that the Moorman photo, being an angular photo shot on a diagonal had to be taken by Babushka Lady. She was the only one in a position to take it. Mary Moorman did NOT shoot an angular photo. She said many, many times that she shot the Kennedys when they were directly adjacent to her. She did not wait for them to pass her and shoot them from behind.

Furthermore, in none of the films do we ever see Mary turn to her left. She is turned to her right as the limo was approaching coming down the hill. But, we never see her turned to her left even after it passed her. 

Most people use Z-300 to represent when Mary took her picture. 

Without endorsing that outright, let's say she did take it then. She's certainly holding her camera like she's taking a picture. But, that's Z-300, so why, in another breath, do people say that she didn't take it until Z-315 or Z-316? Why wouldn't she take it then? Why would she wait only to shoot the back of their heads? In fact, it may have been a few frames before that, in the Z-290s. That's really when I think she took her picture. But, we have never seen her picture. And, I am sure they destroyed it. They haven't been guarding it night and day for 53 years. Who would do that?

But, what we need to wonder is; what did Mary's actual photo show such that they found it imperative to destroy it and replace it? I can only speculate about that, but I won't do it now.   

A ruptured aorta kills very quickly. I knew a couple who had a son rather late in life, and he was their pride and joy. And, he was a good kid- except when he went drinking. 

They had plenty of money, and they indulged him. They bought him one of those Plymouth Vipers- a fast car, borne for speed. 

Late one night, after a lot of heavy drinking, he was driving home to his parents' house, and they lived in the country. And he apparently was speeding some. So, a cop tried to pull him over. 

Now, this was a small town where everyone knew everyone. Trying to lose this cop by racing away was ridiculous and futile, but the alcohol on his brain said otherwise. So, the kid floored it.  And I mean he took it over 100 mph.

Now, what the cop should have done is just let the kid go. He knew where he lived. He knew his parents. He didn't have to turn it into a high-speed chase. But, he did.

And just as the kid was reaching his house, which was his parent's house, he crashed into a telephone pole. And the impact ruptured his aorta. It happened right in front of his parents' house. They heard the crash. They looked outside, and they saw his car. His father went running out. And he was a rather old guy. I bet he hadn't run in years. And when he got to the car, he saw that his son was dead. He was already stark white from the blood loss. And he was dead. He ruptured his aorta. The boy was dead by the time the father got to the car.

The parents never recovered. The mother had to go on heavy-duty sedatives. Eventually, the father sued the policeman and the department for which he worked for the wrongful death of his son.

The above is a true story. But, I'll confess that I included it in my e-novel, My Stretch of Texas Ground, which is about a small town sheriff who has to contend with Islamic terrorists. It wasn't central to the story, only peripheral. Still, it's in there. 

But, my point is that, in real life, this young guy died in less than a minute from a ruptured aorta. So, if Oswald was shot in that garage at 11:20, sustaining the trauma that was later described by Dr. Tom Shires, which included ruptured aorta and vena cava and superior mesenteric artery, and damage to spleen, pancreas, liver, and right kidney, how could he possibly have still been living, his heart beating, at 11:35? 

  

"The Jack Ruby who killed Oswald was just 5' 8-1/2" tall."

John Armstrong

That is from John Armstrong's bio page of Jack Ruby, and it is probably the most detailed bio of Jack Ruby that you are going to find on the web.

http://harveyandlee.net/Ruby/Ruby.html  

But, let's hone in on this fact that Ruby was 5'8 1/2". That was just a half inch shorter than Oswald, but it was a lot taller than the Garage Shooter.

That guy is short. He is no 5'8 1/2". We estimate his height to be 5'6". And the same applies to him here:

And here:

The Garage Shooter was 5'6". James Bookhout was 5'6". And Jack Ruby was 5'8 1/2". 

The Garage Shooter was short, I tell you.