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

In Altgens, there is a dark smudge around the mouth of lead agent Emory Roberts, and it looks man-made, like it was imposed, and when we flood it with light, we get what you see on the right:

He is holding something in his hand which he is bringing to his mouth, and obviously, it is a communication device. He was talking on the phone during the slaughter of President Kennedy. 

And as he's talking there, he had already heard at least 3 shots: the first shot that missed, the second shot which hit Kennedy in the back, and the third shot which hit him in the throat. There may have been more than three, but there definitely weren't less. 

And do you know how close the "Halfback" was to the Presidential limo? There were only 5 feet separating them. Roberts later said it was 20 to 25 feet, but it was actually only 5.

He also claimed that they were travelling at 20 to 25 miles per hour, which was also a lie. By that point, they were going less than 10 miles per hour. 

Here it is again. Is there any other interpretation than this?

And how could the driver Sam Kinney not be aware that the man next to him in the front seat was talking on the car phone? And if you look at the larger picture, it looks like Presidential aide David Powers, who is sitting behind Roberts, is listening in, and Agent Clint Hill, who is standing on the left floorboard, also seems to be looking and paying attention. Meanwhile, the President is being shot to death. 

This means two things: It means that after hearing at least three shots, Agent Roberts was talking on the phone instead of taking swift action and activating the men to save Kennedy. And, it means that the Altgens photo was altered to hide the fact that Roberts was doing that. 

That is an obvious obfuscation. There is no natural, spontaneous, innocent way that that dark splotch got there. It certainly isn't an object of any kind. Most likely, a dab of a product called Kodak Opaque was applied. They were deliberately trying to cover-up the fact that Roberts was talking on the phone during the slaughter. 

And that means, of course, that the Altgens photo was definitely altered, and all the talk about it having been wired to the world at 1:03 PM is utter nonsense. This is just one of a great many alterations that were done to the Altgens photo. The Altgens photo has to be one of the most altered political photographs of all time, and it may be the most altered. 

And, the fact is, that Emory admitted it:

"Just after the third shot was fired, I picked up the car radio and said "Halfback (code name for SS. Follow-up car) to Lawson (the SS agent in the lead car), 'the President has been hit; escort us to the nearest hospital, fast but at a safe speed.' I repeated the message, requesting to be cautious, meaning the speed. I had in mind Vice President Johnson's safety, as well as the President's, if he was not already dead."

So, Roberts admitted he was on the phone at the time, but it's surreal. The President is being gunned down, shot like a dog in the street, and in the midst of it all, Roberts is telling a guy in the lead car not to drive too fast? Why the hell didn't he try to tell JFK's driver Will Greer to step on it? Wouldn't that have been more useful? 

This was right during the slaughter, when Roberts could see that JFK was hit. But, he wasn't dead yet. He was still sitting upright. The fact is that he was savable. I wouldn't say that if he had had a hole blown through his neck, a tunnel from back to front, as the official story has it. That would have been extremely grave. But, in reality, he had been shot shallowly in the back, with no serious damage, and shallowly in the front with serious damage but not necessarily life-threatening. So, at that moment, he could have made it; he could have pulled through. But, at that moment, both vehicles were undergoing severe slowing. Greer was braking, which meant that Kinney had to brake, just as they entered the heart of the kill zone.  Some witnesses said they came to a complete stop. If it wasn't that, it was nearly that. 

So, both drivers, Will Greer and Sam Kinney, both trained Secret Service agents, hit their brakes just as JFK was entering the center of the cauldron. And Emory Roberts was on the phone telling someone not to drive too fast.  But, they wouldn't let us see it in the Altgens photo. They covered it up.