Now, I will tell you why the Secret Service wanted to replace JFK's tie. THAT his tie was replaced cannot be challenged because it is in the offical record of the White House Historical Association, as described below.
However, we can deduct those answers. JFK could not have instigated it himself because his mind was not on his tie. His image staff could not have instigated it because they weren't there. His valet George Thomas didn't even go to Texas. At the time and place the tie-change happened, the only ones attending JFK were his Secret Service agents. And therefore, the source of the new tie must have been them.
Then, there is what I showed you from the Love Field footage of Roy Kellerman following JFK around like his shadow and then going to the front seat of the car to get something. And then, as he was about to engage very closely with JFK, they turned him into someone else.
It was a very sudden change to Kellerman, where over a few seconds, his long neck was gone, and his hair got darker. These below are supposed to be the same him, but as you can see, on the right, he got a makeover. THEY DID NOT WANT KELLERMAN TO BE LINKED TO THE TIE-CHANGING, SO THEY BRIEFLY TURNED HIM INTO SOMEONE ELSE.
So, we have the WHHA saying that it happened right before the limo took off, and we have footage showing the ROY KELLERMAN WAS IN JFK'S FACE RIGHT BEFORE THE LIMO TOOK OFF.
Since Kellerman was in the center of that time and space, he must have been involved in the tie-changing.So, with that established, why then did the Secret Service want to replace JFK's tie?
I should first point out that I have previously made my case why I believe the Secret Service was involved in killing Kennedy. I have pointed to things like Greer slowing and stopping the limo when it was under attack and waiting until JFK took the fatal head shot before finally flooring it to get out of there. I have also pointed to Kellerman doing absolutely nothing even when he knew the President was under attack. He did call Agent Winston Lawson in the lead car, telling him "we've been hit" and to "lead the way to the hospital," but that made no sense because the only concern during the attack is to get out of harm's way. Going to the hospital is secondary. You don't do that until after you have successfully vacated the attack area.
There were quite a few other things I cited for believing that the Secret Service, like the CIA and the FBI, were in on killing Kennedy.
Two very unlikely and unusual things happened one after the other. The first was JFK changing into a second tie, which I have never done in my life, and I'm 75 years old. The second is that the new tie went on to get hit by a bullet, or at least, by a projectile. Maybe the juxtaposition of those two unlikely events wasn't an accident. Maybe there was a logical and intentional connection between the two.
So, how could the SS changing JFK's tie have supported their intention of killing him?
First, the WC said that the nicking of his tie occurred when the bullet was exiting his throat. I tell you that no bullet exited his throat. What happened to him was that he was struck in the back with a non-bullet, an ice dart, that burst upon entry and was gone. Then, knowing that a bullet-less, shallow entry wound was going to be found in his back, they sought to make a bullet-less, shallow wound in his throat, so that they could then claim that a bullet traversed him. That is what they did.
So, the SS, knowing that JFK was going to be shot in the throat, from the front, why would his tie make any difference? There are several possible reasons I can think of. The first is that there was something very different about the second tie, which was that the knot was very skinny. It was not the standard 4-in-hand tie knot, which is the classic way that ties are tied, which creates the firm, dense, neat, triangular tie knot. The tie knot on Kennedy during the motorcade was unusually skinny. Long and skinny. It did not look like a normal knot. It looked more like a worm.
So, the first tie had a neat, tight, dense, triangular tie knot, and the second tie had a long, unusual, tubular tie knot.
I am going to give you an image to show you this another way. But first, realize that even though the WHHA confirmed the tie change, the reality is that the tie change has been largely covered up. The WHHA thing is an outlier; it is something that fell through the cracks. You could say we got lucky. It is not part of the tsunami of story-telling that followed the assassination and continues to this day. Take a look at JFK when he deboarded the plane. He was still wearing his Ft. Worth tie, which had the proper triangular knot, but somebody put a black bar through the knot to make it look skinny and narrow. This is from the Love Field footage, and it is totally artificial. They did it because the second tie, which he would soon put on, would be narrow and skinny. Of course, it wasn't as narrow and skinny as this below, but it was in that direction.
They did that. It is not natural photography. It is an added bar.
I can see how a firm, tight, triangular tie knot might interfere with the trajectory of a bullet. Maybe it could deflect it a little. So, maybe they wanted a smaller, lighter, less dense tie knot, so that it would be less likely to interfere with the missile coming in at his throat.
Second, what if the second tie was a much lighter material? That might help too, to keep it from interfering.
Third, if you look at WC Exhibit 175, which is the tie, it does look short, narrow, and light, which meant less knot fabric to obstruct the missile.
