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

When did Clint Hill finally react and go to the aid of the Kennedys? By the Altgens photo, which corresponds to Z-255, he's like a lump on a log, not even looking at the Kennedys, paying no attention ot them, instead paying attention to Emory Roberts, who was on the phone.

But, prior to that, Hill WAS looking at the Kennedys, and he had to see JFK's arms going up in the peculiar manner that they did in reaction to the throat shot.

So, this is one second before the Altgens photo was taken, and as you can see, JFK's arms are going up, which Hill can see from behind. Hill appears to be looking right at Kennedy, does he not?

And how many shots has Clint heard? There was the the missed shot; the shot to Kennedy's back; the shot to his throat. It's possible that Connally has been hit with a separate shot at this point too. But, let's be conservative. At least 3 shots have been fired, and Hill has heard them, and he's seeing Kennedy react, yet, he does nothing.

This is Z-249, so we're talking exactly 1/3 second before the Altgens photo, although that number gets skewed by the removal of frames.

By now, Connally DEFINITELY has been hit. You can see he's in agony there. He's struggling; he's gnashing; he's reacting. That means there's been a minimum of 4 shots that have reached Hill's ears. And he's seeing all this. Yet, he's still not responding. We see no reaction in him at all. 

By Z-255, we can't see Hill anymore. But, we know from the Altgens photo, that he wasn't looking at the struggling Kennedys and Connallys any more. Now, he's looking at Emory Roberts.

Why'd he take his eyes off the Kennedys? A third of a second before, he was looking directly at the Kennedys, and that was after hearing 4 shots. But now, he's more interested in Emory Roberts. And he's still fixed on that floorboard with his legs crossed with no intention of going anywhere.

We don't get a definitive view of Hill again until Z-332.

That comes out to 4.27 seconds after the Altgens photo that he reached the limo. But, we know it was longer than that because we know that they removed frames- a lot of frames.

In the Image of an Assassination DVD which I have, considered the best rendering of the Zapruder film, they offer it in slow-motion. Now, why should they have to do that? The limo was going so slow that Jean Hill was able to speak a sentence to the President, and expect him to hear her and respond accordingly, and then for Mary Moorman to take his picture. All of that as his car was passing the two of them? Obviously, it had stopped or damn-near stopped. 

So, how much time really elapsed between the Altgens photo, when Hill wasn't the least bit prepared to move nor was he even looking at the President, and the point that we can see him again?

I'm going to estimate 7 seconds, but it may have been longer. Once he did start moving, how long did it take him to reach the back of the limo? I'll say no more than 2 seconds because, the Queen Mary was very close to it at that point, and the limo was either stopped or nearly stopped. So, that would make it about 5 seconds after the Altgens photo that Clint Hill began to react.  

That is outrageous. I don't think there is any chance that he was as still as a dormouse all that time and then suddenly got the inspiration to move, to bolt. If he was going to act on his own volition, he'd have acted sooner, much sooner than he did. What was he waiting for?

I say he was waiting for a signal from Emory Roberts: eye contact, a head nod, something. Remember that in his very brief statement, Roberts said that he restrained Ready from going. If he was telling Ready what to do that way, why not Hill? 

Let Clint Hill explain to us why after 2 shots (which is all the official story will allow) and the sight of Kennedy moving and acting bizarrely, that he wasn't ready to act. And why did he take his eyes off the Kennedys? Why was he looking at Emory Roberts?

  
How could you take your eyes off Kennedy to look at Roberts, Clint? What was so important for you to gaze at over there when Kennedy was struggling to breathe and about to be shot again? 

I'll close with this statement from Vince Palamara:

"It gets worse... Although Agent Roberts admitted recognizing "Oswald's" first shot as a rifle blast, and as the Altgens photo confirms, he made a mysterious transmission via radio microphone that is not accounted for in his reports or in the official record.  Instead of offering a shout of alarm, alert, or orders to his agents to do something that their own initiative lacked for some reason, ie., protective action, he did nothing to help the wounded President. Roberts' recall of Agent Ready is well documented.

The Altgens photo confirms? You know what he's talking about, don't you?

And I've been told by others, including OIC Chairman Larry Rivera, that I wasn't the first to see this, that others saw before I did that Emory was talking on the phone. And I'm glad that's the case. I'm delighted. I'm always pleased to find out that others have reached the same conclusions I have. Who saw it first is not that important, not to me. And it is an appalling thing to see: that bastard talking on the phone while President Kennedy was being slaughtered. No wonder they smudged it out.