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

How are these two guys different? Let me count the ways:

Notice that the first guy is unconscious, as you would expect him to be having experienced "complete transverse destruction" of the spinal cord. But, JFK remained conscious until the fatal head shot, some seconds later. 

And being unconscious, the first guy is recumbent, as you would expect him to be, which means that none of his axial weight-bearing mechanisms were working. Kennedy, on the other hand, was sitting upright, and all his postural and weight-bearing mechanisms were working AND WORKING WELL. That is amazing for a guy who SUPPOSEDLY had a fat bullet that carved a tunnel through his neck from back to front. 

The first guy has got his forearm flexed on his arm, and he's got his arm abducted, but not to the point that his humerus is perpendicular to his spine. But, Kennedy has got his arms raised beyond the point of perpendicular, and he's got his elbows internally rotated to where his hands are at his bodily center. And he has a severe degree of posterior hunching going on, totally missing in the first guy. The difference between them in the scope and magnitude of their muscular tension and contractile response is enormous. It's like night and day. No comparison.  

Furthermore, Thorburn's patient was static, whereas Kennedy was in constant motion and never held any fixed position. He was moving, not spasming. If he was in a reflex spasm, how come by frame 267, his arm was significantly lowered?

Look at them side by side:

Look at the extent to which Kennedy's arm had come down. That was over 36 frames, which was exactly 2 seconds. Thousand one thousand two!  Just two measly seconds, Brennan, and his arm was coming down! How could that be if it was a reflex muscle spasm from trauma to the spinal cord? 

The idea that JFK is exhibiting a reaction anything similar to Thorburn's patient is absolutely insane. Kennedy had NO injury to his spinal cord at all. Kennedy had a superficial wound in his upper back that was completely inconsequential, and he had a small caliber bullet wound to his throat which entered from the front. What happened to both bullets remains a mystery, although they both may have been dug out and removed at the "pre-autopsy" as per David Lifton and others. The Thorburn hypotheisis of John Lattimer is utter bull shit.