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

I've been away from it for over a week, and sometimes it's good to step back from something to refresh your perspective. I'm referring to JFK's condition as seen in the Zapruder film and what it tells us about what happened to him. And what it tells me is that he was hit with a nerve agent. I can't think of any other way to account for his bizarre neuromuscular reaction after being shot and his obvious mental impairment, where he seems muddled, confused, and incoherent. And again, it's based entirely on what I see in the Zapruder film. 

So, what could account for those effects? I asked Dr. David Mantik, who is a board-certified radiation oncologist with a PhD in Physics, and he said he thinks the damage from the back shot was "trivial." That's his word. I'm quoting him.  So obviously, the trauma from the back shot could not have caused the weird behavioral effects we see in JFK.    

What about the trauma from the throat shot? Well, that was very superficial too. As he emerges from behind the freeway sign, JFK coughs urgently one time, and then, he seems to be entirely done with that. With just one cough, he cleared whatever the obstruction was in his airway. I asked Dr. Mantik about that too, and he suggested the possibility that it was just blood. That makes sense to me because it seems unlikely that one cough alone would be sufficient to clear a bullet if it was obstructing his airway. 

If you look at JFK after he coughs, he looks settled, like the panic he was in has passed.

Let's look at some images. We'll start with Z180 to establish a baseline. Here, he seems entirely OK physically and mentally.

Then he puts his hand over his face, which I think is fake. I think it was done to hide the "quizzical" look on his face that Jackie observed as the first sign that something was wrong. And notice that she is looking at him. I do NOT believe he did that. 

Then when he emerges from behind the sign, he is in a panic, and he does his urgent cough.

And this is the first sign that his neuromuscular system has been affected because there is exaggerated and excessive muscular contractions going on here, where he is jutting his elbows out and hunching his shoulders severely. But very quickly, that crisis passes, and he is no longer struggling to breathe.  And this is where his neuromuscular aberration is undeniable. 

He is done coughing there. Now, he's just a guy who is sitting there with his arms raised and flexed and his elbows jutting out FOR NO REASON AT ALL. He is stuck and frozen in that position. The first thing Jackie does is try to get him to put down his arm. Notice that at this point, Connally is in worse shape than JFK. Connally is wincing. 

Then, she resorts to using two hands to get him to lower his arm, but his reaction is not to do that but rather to just lean towards her. 

She apparently has got his left elbow a little lower, but she's not affecting him much. She's not affecting him at all on his right side. He's just sitting there all bound up. These are spasms. Even his left hand is jack-knifed involuntarily. After that, he seems to lean in towards her, but it's very much like a child leaning in to its mother. 

JFK is totally out of it; he is not responding mentally to this crisis.  He is docile, helpless, and afraid. He is not the resourceful man who responded to the attack on PT 109. He does not grasp what is going on. He has been shot twice, and if he had his wits about him, he would know that he was under attack, and that he needed to be taking evasive action. But, he isn't taking any action at all. And that was the whole idea: to immobilize him and disable him- mentally, as well as physically- so that he would do what he is doing there: nothing; just waiting like a sitting duck to be shot again. He is muddled, confused, and unable to think coherently. He is mentally incapacitated. 

JFK moves very little after that. Jackie moves further in towards him, to where they really look huddled. But, there is more action in the jump seats, where Nellie is pulling Connally down on top of her, presumably to lower him and take him out of the line of fire. JFK seems fixed and frozen and non-responsive. He isn't talking. He isn't looking. He's just suspended. 

And you know that just a few frames later, he is shot in the right temple, and it's all over. He's gone. He's dead. It takes half an hour for his vital activity to cease completely, but he is effectively dead the instant that shot exploded inside his head and blew out the back of his brain. But, my point has been to show that before that, his neuromuscular junctions were poisoned such that he was getting involuntary and uncontrollable muscle spasms and that he was mentally incapacitated to where he lost his effectiveness, where he was unable to perceive what was happening to him or respond in any kind of cogent and coherent way. 

And you can't account for all that by a trivial back wound and a superficial throat wound. There had to be an agent involved, a chemical agent. And it may have been more than one.