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

So, we had Landis, Ready, and Hickey all looking for the source of the shots. That's what the Altgens6 caption from the AP said.  

Hmmm. As I see it, Ready and Landis look like they're looking at Oswald in the doorway, and Hickey is just looking at the wall. He said that he thought the sound came from directly behind, so why isn't he looking directly behind? And, if they thought it could be a shot, why would they think there was "a" source? Were they already going down the lone gunman road? If the President is under attack, why not assume there are multiple shooters? Aren't multiple shooters more likely to succeed than one?

And how come these agents never talked to each other? Why didn't they coordinate and work together. I mean during the attack. I mean immediately, from the sound of the first shot. I should think that upon hearing the first shot, someone would shout, "Gunfire!" 

It's an emergency, so you act fast and alert others. You get everyone aware of what you're aware of. No matter what you think you should immediately do, you move your lips at the same time and communicate.

Here's Clint Scissorhand Hill:

Mr. SPECTER. Now, what is your best estimate on the timespan between the first firecracker-type noise you heard and the second shot which you have described?
Mr. HILL. Approximately 5 seconds. 

5 seconds??? 5 SECONDS? And he didn't act or say anything for 5 seconds? 

Here's George Hickey:

The motorcade then left the airport and proceeded along the parade route. Just prior to the shooting the Presidential car turned left at the intersection and started down an incline toward an underpass followed by 679X. After a very short distance I heard a loud report which sounded like a firecracker. It appeared to come from the right and rear and seemed to me to be at ground level. I stood up and looked to my right and rear in an attempt to identify it. Nothing caught my attention except people shouting and cheering. A disturbance in 679X caused me to look forward toward the President's car. Perhaps 2 or 3 seconds elapsed from the time I looked to the rear and then looked at the President. He was slumped forward and to his left, and was straightening up to an almost erect sitting position as I turned and looked. At the moment he was almost sitting erect I heard two reports which I thought were shots and that appeared to me completely different in sound than the first report and were in such rapid succession that there seemed to be practically no time element between them. It looked to me as if the President was struck in the right upper rear of his head. The first shot of the second two seemed as if it missed because the hair on the right side of his head flew forward and there didn't seem to be any impact against his head. The last shot seemed to hit his head and cause a noise at the point of impact which made him fall forward and to his left again. Possibly four or five seconds elapsed from the time of the first report and the last.
At the end of the last report I reached to the bottom of the car and picked up the AR 15 rifle, cocked and loaded it, and turned to the rear. At this point the cars were passing under the over-pass and as a result we had left the scene of the shooting. I kept the AR 15 rifle ready as we proceeded at a high rate of speed to the hospital.

I thought no man was a island. Hickey said nothing about coordinating with other agents in the vehicle. It's like he was there by himself. 

This was the Secret Service. Even a basketball team practices their fast breaks. This was a fast break out of Dealey Plaza. Why weren't they prepared? They should have all gone into a well-practiced, well-rehearsed, synchronized, coordinated response. 

Looking for the source of the shots was utterly useless because they couldn't stop the shooter. And even if they located a shooter and started shooting at him, there could easily be others. No. The only sensible thing to do was to flee. To get the hell out of there. To get the President out of harm's way.

And I am sick to death of hearing about firecrackers. If there were going to be firecrackers, don't you think the Secret Service would have been told? And if it was just something that some spectators did- why assume that? Had it ever happened before? On a Presidential motorcade? And Kennedy did lots of motorcades- both here and abroad.   

Let's be crystal clear: it WAS, in fact, a gunshot, and there is every reason to believe it sounded like a gunshot. And for a Secret Service agent to think otherwise in that circumstance is utter incompetence. They can shove their God-damn firecrackers up their asses. 

And I know what Kinney the driver should have done: He should have hit his horn, hit the gas, and if necessary, hit the limo. That's right. I don't mean hard, but hard enough to get their attention. Greer wasn't deaf. He should have responded immediately- on his own accord- and stepped on the gas. If he didn't do it, Kinney should have rammed the dopey moron- whatever it takes to get through to him, to turn the light on.   

And the occupants would have turned around, right? And if they saw a carload of Secret Service agents gesturing to them to get down, to get low, what were they going to do? They were going to get down and get low. How long does it take to yell the word, "Sniper!" ?

I know that some of you reading this respect Max Holland. Well, Max says the Warren Commission was completely full of crap about the length of the shooting spree. Max says that the first shot occurred VERY early, while the car was still rounding the curve. He says that the duration of the shooting wasn't 5.6 seconds but about twice that long, over 11 seconds. That's what he says. And that means that from the time the Secret Service agents heard the first shot, they had at least 11 seconds to save Kennedy's life. Because: it was only the last shot that was fatal, right? That's why we call it the "fatal" head shot to distinguish it from the others.

So, if Max is right, then those Secret Service agents had a ton of time to save Kennedy. Go ahead and count it out: 

One thousand one; one thousand two; one thousand three; one thousand four; one thousand five; one thousand six; one thousand seven; one thousand eight; one thousand nine; one thousand ten; one thousand eleven. 

But, you see, they were too busy looking for the source of the shots to take action to save Kennedy's life.