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

You know that I advocate that JFK was shot in the back first, and it was when he was high on the hill. It corresponds to the Croft photo when the limo was only a little past the obelisk.

And they did a hell of a lot to the Croft photo to hide the fact that he was hit there, including putting an oblong screen over his back right at the level that he was hit. Some have tried to say that it's his jacket bunching up, but that is bull. It's a screen that was added.

But then, I thought: if JFK was hit just in the back high on the hill, then he should have been reacting to that, and somebody should have noticed it, and reported it, that something suddenly changed about him, that he wasn't himself.

So, I started looking at the witness statements to see what the spectators said, but nobody said anything about JFK suddenly looking weird, looking different. In Croft, we can see that he stopped waving, and he's not turned and looking at the spectators. He is also tightening his necks muscles in back. So, something is wrong. We are told that it corresponds to Z161. He wasn't hit in the throat until a split-second before the limo emerges from behind the freeway sign at Z225. That's only a few seconds in the film, but it was surely longer than that because a lot was cut out of the Zapruder film. But, however long it was, somebody should have noticed a sudden change in him.

I didn't find any such comment in any witness statements, but they may have cut it out. Doesn't it seem odd that nobody said anything about how Kennedy looked, the look on his face? I think it's odd.

And that's what made me think about Jackie. SHE WAS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO HIM, PLUS SHE WAS HIS WIFE. If anyone was going to notice a change in him, his look, his countenance, it was her.

So, that led me to examine Jackie Kennedy's Warren Commission testimony, and as FBI Agent Frank Calderone said in My Stretch of Texas Ground, as he hunted Abdul Latif Hassan the way Inspector Javert hunted Jean Valjean in Les Meserable, "Sometimes the Gods smile upon us, or maybe we just got lucky." And that's exactly how I feel because I found exactly what I was looking for in Jackie's testimony. Bingo.

So, she said that they were coming down Elm slowly, and that he was covering the right side of the street with the waving and smiling as she covered the left side. So, she was mostly looking left and not at her husband. But, when she did look at him, she noticed "HE HAD A QUIZZICAL LOOK ON HIS FACE." That was her first sign that something was wrong.

Now, she could not have been talking about what we see in the Zapruder film, where he disappears behind the sign smiling and waving and then emerges in a desperate panic trying to clear his airway from having been shot in the throat. That was not a quizzical look. That was a frantic, scared, desperate look and also a frantic desperate action of raising his hands so that he could cough into one and yank on his tie with the other.

So, the quizzical look had to come before. And in advance, I thought about the word- the word someone might have used to describe his look. The words I considered were: "frozen" "paralyzed" and "stiff." But, "quizzical" works.

So, here's what I think happened: It was never their intention to kill Kennedy until he got to the Kill Zone. And the Kill Zone was lower Dealey Plaza. Not upper, but lower. They did not want to kill him in upper Dealey Plaza because there were too many people there. They wanted to wait until he got to the sparsely populated grassy area, and I'm sure it was sparsely populated by their doing.

Therefore, what was this shot in the back high on the hill about if they didn't want to kill him there? I believe it contained a nerve agent, also called a neurotoxin, that made him stiff and spasmodic, to immobilize him for the coming kill shots. I have been researching it, and I have narrowed down the possible candidates. I've already got my short list of drugs that it could have been. If he was shot with a dissolving bullet, then tissue was macerated, exposing tiny blood vessels, and the poison could have entered his bloodstream very quickly. Kennedy got extremely stiff and spasmodic. His deltoid, his bicep, his trapezius- they are all in spasm. It was from a nerve agent.

I am not the first to propose this. Here is a discussion of it on the Education Forum. Steve Kober refers to it as a "paralyzing agent."

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/15516-jfk-hit-with-paralysising-ice-bullet/

It may have been an ice bullet, or it may have been some other kind of dissolving bullet. That shot prepped JFK for the slaughter that was to come.

But, the big find is the statement of Jackie's that JFK had a sudden quizzical look on his face. That is what I was looking for, and it is gold. It confirms that there was a period in which JFK was reacting to just the back shot, the paralyzing back shot, and it was visible. And it was well before the shot that hit his throat.