If you reject the Single Bullet Theory; if you realize that JFK was shot separately in the back and in the throat, then you have to accept what I am saying about the throat shot. That's because JFK was shot in the throat, and just a few minutes later, Dr. Malcolm Perry was in his throat, and he found no bullet there (which was later confirmed by x-ray), and there was also no exit wound.

If a bullet entered his throat, then there are only two possibilities: either the bullet stayed in him, or it exited him. Since neither of those happened, it means that something other than a bullet must have struck him in the throat; something that dissolved and vanished.

And before anyone says that the bullet was dug out of him at the "pre-autopsy," this was before the pre-autopsy. So that argument, even as a hypothetical, doesn't work.

So, the throat shot had to be something unusual and not a metal bullet. There is just no getting around it. It may be an unpleasant reality to some people, but life is full of unpleasant realities. And we need to be mature about it when they happen.

And the same goes for the back shot. If you rejet the Single Bullet Theory, then you are left with accepting that JFK was struck in the back with something that stopped very short in his back. It could not have been a metal bullet because, first, a metal bullet traveling 2000 feet per second couldn't stop that short, and second, even if it could, it would have to be there. The "bullet fell out" theory makes no sense. Once stopped, the bullet would have been inert. It couldn't do anything. The body couldn't push it out. And neither could gravity. So, what could make it fall out? The answer is: nothing.

Since the Parkland doctors didn't discover the back wound, one could suggest that that bullet was extracted at the "pre-autopsy." But, just because it's there as a hypothetical doesn't make it likely or compelling. Extracting a bullet with forceps would affect the appearance of the wound. Bullet extraction is a surgical procedure. No one at the autopsy said that the wound looked tampered with.

I have friends who think that the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler PA was faked. They think it wasn't real blood. They joke about "ketchup ear." But, I point out to them that Trump was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was examined and treated by doctors who were not under his control. And there is no reason to think those doctors were up to anything corrupt. And they confirmed that he was shot and suffered a minor injury. Apparently, it was very minor, just a graze. But, the fact is: they did establish that he was shot. And for me, that closes the door on any chance that Trump was faking it. It slams it shut.

Well, the situation with JFK was exactly the same. He was taken to a local hospital and seen by local doctors. And the plotters knew ahead of time that that was going to happen. As it turned out, the local doctors missed finding the back wound, but the plotters could not have expected that and counted on it.

And since "the bullet in the back" falls apart anyway when you consider that it couldn't stop that short in his back, I don't have any enthusiasm for the pre-autopsy extraction of the bullet.

So, the bottom line is that you have a choice: Either you accept the Single Bullet Theory or you accept that both the back shot and the throat shot were weird shots that did not involve a metal bullet.

  There is solid evidence for a very shallow wound in JFK”s back that did not traverse him.  

But first, let’s name the autopsy doctors who said that the wound in JFK’s back was located at the level of T3. There was JFK’s own personal doctor, Dr. George Burkley. There was Dr. Boswell. There was Dr. Robert Canada. And then, there was Dr. Robert Karnei, who said that it was at the level of T4. I think there were more, but those come to mind.

Now, the spinous processes are the most logical landmark to use to locate the wound.  That’s because they were the nearest landmark to it, and they were also the most helpful and practical landmark. The vertical row of spinous processes is like a ruler in your back. And in the upper thoracic spine, ironically, the spinous processes are an inch apart. So, it’s truly like you have a ruler in your back. So, why would you use anything else?

But, Dr. Humes, in his autopsy report, did NOT locate the wound as per the spine. Instead, he said that the wound was located 14 centimeters from the mastoid process and also 14 centimeters from the acromion process of the scapula. But, to cite those references and ignore the spine? That's ridiculous. So, why did he do it?

I believe he did it because he must have known about all those doctors saying it was at the level of T3, and he didn’t want to openly contradict them.

Humes said that the back wound was slightly above the superior border of the scapula. The superior border of the scapula is usually in line with T2.  So, it appears that he was claiming that the back wound was at a level between T1 and T2.

But, he didn’t want to say that and openly contradict the others, so he said it in that other roundabout way.  

You should know that they spent a long time trying to probe the back wound. Dr. Karnei said, “we worked all night with the probes.” And they put JFK’s body in different positions trying to probe it. They even sat him upright trying to get a probe into that wound. But, it didn’t work. They always hit a wall.

As a result, Dr. Robert Canada said frankly in 1968 that “the bullet did not exit.”  Of course, there was no bullet in the wound or in JFK’s body, as proven by x-ray. And claiming that it fell out is stupid. How could it get through his clothes?  

It states in the autopsy that the only damage to JFK’s lungs was the mild contusion in the apex of his right lung. But, that was from the throat shot, not the back shot. 

So, let’s talk about the contusion. Dr. Perry saw it, and it’s why he asked for a suction tube.  He presumed it was associated with the throat shot. He never said he thought it was from something else. The trachea is located right in-between the two lung apices. So, the tracheal damage and the apical contusion- that was all one thing.   

I tell you that JFK was not hit in the throat with a bullet.  He couldn’t have been because if he had, the bullet would either have gone through him or been found. Dr. Perry did not find a bullet in him, and the Bethesda doctors x-rayed him and said there was no bullet.

JFK was hit with a flechette or dart, and the shot was taken from his right side and by Umbrella Man, just as Cutler and Sprague proposed.  It damaged some tracheal coils and caused the apical contusion. It’s ridiculous to think they had separate causes.   

The missile that entered his back did not enter the lungs; it only went through skin, fascia, and muscle. So, the apical contusion was definitely caused by the throat shot; not the back shot.

Dr. David Mantik told me in an email exchange that he did a detailed analysis and determined that if a bullet had traversed JFK, as per the official story, it definitely would have impacted the spinal cord. The effect of that would have been catastrophic. He would have been instantly paralyzed, but he wasn’t paralyzed at all.

But, even if it didn’t hit the spinal cord, it surely would have been close enough to it to affect the nerve roots, and that alone would have caused paralysis, at least temporarily. Here is the case of a 16 year old boy in Ukraine who was shot in the back of the neck. The bullet hit his cervical spine but not his spinal cord. It affected the nerve roots from C4 to C7 and then the bullet lodged in his skull behind the cheek bone. He suffered pain, shock, and paralysis. But, they got him in surgery right away and were able to remove the bullet, and he has been regaining some function, fortunately. Here is the abstract about it:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36928329/

So, in that case, there was no spinal cord damage, but there was paralysis from the nerve root damage. However, JFK incurred no paralysis at all. So, there is no way a bullet traversed his neck from back to front that close to the cord. 

And I’ll leave you with this: if the back shot didn’t even penetrate deep enough to enter JFK’s lung, how shallow was it? The lungs are, on average, 5.5 cm deep to the skin in the region of T1 to T3, which is about 2 inches. Since JFK’s lungs were not violated from that shot, it means that the depth of penetration had to be less than that. Surely a FMJ bullet that reached his skin travelling 2000 feet per second did not, and could not, stop in 2 inches. That means that it had to be something else that hit him. Ice is hard, but it is also unstable. It bursts easily, and it can be formulated to burst easily. Ice made from hard water is much more unstable than frozen distilled water. That’s because the minerals in the hard water interfere with the hydrogen bonding.

The bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in ice are different from the bonds in liquid water.  Liquid water has polar covalent bonds, in which hydrogen and oxygen share electrons. In ice, there are intermolecular bonds connecting separate molecules of H2O in an open crystal lattice. But, the presence of minerals interferes with those bonds, putting the whole lattice at risk.

The ice dart that hit JFK was designed to burst as soon as it pierced his skin. CIA Director William Colby said that, to the victim, it felt like nothing more than a mosquito bite. But, the bursting process would also act like an injection, to get the nerve agent into his system fast.

Until he was shot in the head, JFK’s physical trauma was relatively minor. He had a shallow wound in his back that was rather harmless.  And he had a puncture wound in his throat that damaged his trachea a little and caused a little contusion in the adjacent lung apex. That is not what caused his bizarre manifestations in the Zapruder film. Those bizarre effects- his dyskinesia, spasticity, and mental aberrations- were due to poisoning; not trauma.

 To all the people who think it's so comical to suggest that JFK was shot in the back with an ice dart that contained a nerve agent, there is the indisputable and undeniable fact that the CIA contracted to have a gun that could do that produced. And stockpiles of two nerve agents were found: shellfish nerve toxin and cobra venom nerve toxin.

So, the CIA weapon to do it definitely existed, and so did the stockpiles of nerve agents. This is Senator Church holding up the gun. It was all confirmed by then CIA Director William Colby.

And that is why this claim cannot be brushed off, and it is no laughing matter.

Dr. John Lattimer’s claim that JFK displayed a “Thorburn position” is totally wrong, and it showed flagrant ignorance for a medical doctor.  

I found the case that Lattimer based his claim on. It was in a British medical journal from 1898 in which a Dr. Thorburn wrote about a patient he had, a painter who fell off a ladder, slamming his neck into on a metal beam which crushed his spinal cord at the level of C6. All his bodily muscles were instantly and permanently paralyzed, except for the few that were innervated from above that level. There was nothing Dr. Thorburn could do for him. He just lay in his hospital bed for 18 days until he died. He couldn’t eat, but they brought a wet sponge to his mouth regularly to hydrate him. He was unconscious most of the time, and when he did come to, he was delirious.  But, as he lied there, the few muscles he had that still worked slowly shortened until they reached their shortest possible length.

You see, when one muscle contracts, it stretches its opposing muscle. So, if I contract my bicep, my tricep gets stretched, and vice versa. But, if only your bicep works, then it never gets stretched. So, if it shortens a little, say, because I twitch, it’s going to stay shortened.  That’s what happened to Thorburn’s patient. When you don’t have the opposing muscle, you can’t reverse whatever shortening takes place. That’s all it was, and it has no correlation to JFK, who had no spinal cord damage and no paralysis.

 On the left is a drawing of Thorburn’s patient from the journal. So, the muscle tone in his few remaining working muscles gradually shortened them to where he wound up in that position.

It wasn’t a reflex; it was just unopposed muscle tone run amuck.  It wasn’t a reflex for JFK either; it was a panic reaction. He raised his arms in a panic because he had a respiratory obstruction from the throat shot, and he was trying to deal with it.  His actions were voluntary and purposeful. With his left hand, he pulled on his tie to loosen it. With his right hand, he put it over his mouth and coughed- to dislodge the obstruction. And it worked. As soon as he did that, he could breathe OK.

But, his actions were more instinctual and visceral than cerebral. So, it wasn’t a reflex, but it was an instinctual survival response.  There's a difference.

So, what was the obstruction? I asked Dr. David Mantik, and he told me it may have been just a bolus of blood. It wasn’t a bullet because he didn’t cough up a bullet, and there was no bullet in his body.

But, the way Kennedy raised his hands was abnormal. Normally, you raise your hands by supinating your forearm, which is a counter-clockwise rotation which gets the palm of your hand facing you. You only need to lift your hand. You don’t lift your upper arm. So, you do that by turning your forearm and lifting your hand. But, Kennedy contracted his deltoids and thrust his elbows out like wings and lifted everything. So, why did he do it that way? He did it that way because of overexcitement of his nervous system due to the nerve agent. And then when he was finished, he couldn’t put his arms down because they were in spasm due to the nerve agent.  

 So, he just sat there, unable to put his arms down. Jackie tried to press on his arm to coax it down, and it came down a little, but not much. She mostly just tipped him. And his spasticity only spread. It kept getting worse and worse until the fatal head shot put an end to him. That shot essentially killed him instantly. At that point, he was like a chicken with its head cut off; still showing some signs of life but only because his body hadn’t completely shut down but was definitely going to.

JFK exhibited very aberrant behavior in the Zapruder film, both physically and mentally, and it can’t be explained by a shallow wound in his back, affecting no vital tissue, and a puncture wound in his throat that only damaged his trachea some, but did no damage to his brain or spinal cord. JFK’s weird showings in the Zapruder film were all due to poisoning; not to physical trauma. And there is no correlation between JFK and Thorburn’s patient; none whatsoever.

 Eric A. Meece falsely claimed that the imagery of JFK and Jackie in the Altgens photo corresponds to Z-250. It does not, and not even close, as I demonstrate in this collage.

And if there are any other takers, they are going to go down too because that phony imagery of JFK and Jackie in Altgens does not match any Zapruder frames. JFK was not shot in the throat yet at the time the Altgens photo was taken. The limo was still high on the hill. And Altgens himself told us that he took that picture just as he heard the very first shot, which was not the throat shot. The very first shot was the back shot, in which an ice dart struck him in the back with a toxic payload. And physically, it felt like no more than a prick. As CIA Director William Colby said, it felt more like a mosquito bite. And JFK rode down the hill that way, as the effects of that shot spread throughout his body, before he was shot in the throat.

And I know it sounds more like the storyline from a Mission Impossible movie, but, just get over that, would you? They were counting on nobody's mind going to this place because it seems too farfetched. But, it is what happened, and I would stake my life on it.

And here's another confirmation: If you watch Dan Rather's description of the Zapruder film on November 25, 1963, he said it shows JFK being shot in the back 30 yards from the intersection. And that was exactly right. "The first shot had hit!" That's what Rather said, and he was describing what I have been telling you.

 This collage clinches it that the imagery of JFK and Jackie in Altgens is bogus. First, look above at the photo from Main Street. It was taken very close to Houston, at the entrance to Dealey Plaza. Look at JFK in that top photo. Notice that he has a very square shoulder, and you can see the point of his shoulder. But, in Altgens he has no square shoulder. It's all one continuous slope, and it isn't real. You can't tell where his shoulder ends and where his arm going down begins.

Notice also that even in the Main Street photo, JFK's hands are raised some. They are not down by his side or in his lap. And you can practically see his elbow. You know exactly where it is, even though the view of it is obstructed by Connally's shoulder. And it would have to be in the same location in Altgens. So, what is Jackie grabbing in Altgens? It can't be his arm because his arm didn't extend out that far.

This proves that what we are seeing of them in Altgens is crappy art. They removed the imagery that was there and replaced it with that crappy art. JFK was NOT yet shot in the throat when the Altgens photo was taken.