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

When you cast aside the Single Bullet theory (and if you don't, just scram) you're left with a speeding bullet striking Kennedy in the back but for some reason only penetrating an inch or so. That's practically a dead stop. When you think about that rate of deceleration, it's daunting. It's daunting to think that anything going that fast could stop that fast. If a car hits a wall, it stops without penetrating the wall, but it may damage the wall, and the car is certainly going to crumple, and the damage to to the wall and the car is where the energy of the speeding car went. It had to go somewhere. 

But, where did the energy go in JFK's case? The damage to his back was minimal. And let's remember there was no bullet there. So, what happened to the bullet?

Some have claimed that it fell out, but if it did, surely it would have stayed trapped in his clothes. It went through three layers of clothes to reach his skin, and you can't tell me it went out the same way it came in. So, the bullet would have been there. 

There's the idea that it was dug out at the pre-autopsy. 

But, let's go back to Jackie saying that the first thing she noticed about JFK when she turned her head to the right was that he had a quizzical look on his face. If a man gets shot in the back with a regular bullet, he's not going to look quizzical. Quizzical is the word she chose to use, but what did she mean? I presume she meant that he looked like he knew that something had happened to him, but he didn't know exactly what. If he got shot in the back with a regular bullet, he's going to know it, right? But, we were told that the CIA's heart attack gun resulted in something that felt like no more than a mosquito bite. 

This from the Illinois Department of Health regarding nerve agents. 

NERVE AGENTS

What are nerve agents?

Nerve agents are man-made chemical substances that could be used in wars. Many of these chemicals affect the nervous system and are therefore called nerve agents. Nerve agents are similar to certain insect killers (pesticides) in how they work and the kinds of harmful things they do to the body. In fact, these chemicals were first developed in Europe as pesticides; however, the chemicals were so strong that they were able to kill humans as well as insects.

Nerve agents are among the most poisonous of the known chemical agents. They also act the fastest. Some of the most common nerve agents are sarin, soman, tabun and VX.

How can someone come into contact with nerve agents?

Nerve agent poisoning does not spread from person to person. Accidental contact with nerve agents is not likely; it would take a planned act to make a nerve agent and use it to poison people.

Nerve agents as weapons: Poisoning from nerve agents can happen through —

• ingestion, eating or drinking something that has a nerve agent in it;
• inhalation, breathing in air that has a nerve agent in it; or
• dermal (skin) contact, having a nerve agent touch your skin or open wound.

How likely is someone to die from nerve agents?

Nerve agents are very toxic, even if very small amounts are breathed in, swallowed or come in contact with skin or eyes. A person who comes into contact with a nerve agent may not be able to move his/her muscles. Death can result within a few minutes to several hours, depending on the kind of agent, the amount of agent and the length of time the person is in contact with the agent. If a person can walk and talk after coming into contact with a nerve agent, it is unlikely that the effects will be severe. 

Note that there is no evidence that JFK spoke after he was shot. In the Zapruder film, what we see is his spasmodic condition, which can't be accounted for by the shots, and he very much seems to be in a confused and dysfunctional mental state. He does not have his wits about him. And why is he doing this?

Why is JFK raising his arm and elbow so high? That is abnormal, and it can't be accounted for by tiny damage to his back. Something is wrong with him, physiologically. You don't have to lift your elbow at all to do what he's doing. And then when he's finished, he can't let it go. Jackie starts using two hands to get him to put his arm down. She is pressing on his arm there to get him to lower it, but there is a lot of resistance. 

He's not relaxing at all. Look how he's flexing his hand at the metacarapo-phalangeal joint. 

Why is his hand cramped like that? It's a spasm, but why does he have it? What explanation is there but that he was affected by a nerve agent?