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

We have been saying for years that in the Altgens photo, none of the spectators, NOT ONE, shows any awareness that Kennedy has been shot or is in trouble. How likely is that if he was already hit in the back and in the throat, and that there were also other shots, that they wouldn't be aware of something? That's a hell of a lot of shooting to have occurred for people not to be aware of. 

So, in the Altgens photo, the spectators seem to be out of time and tune with the Kennedys. There is still all the gaiety going on, while there he is, in an open limo, in a panic, struggling to breathe, his wife incapable of helping him but trying to attend to him, yet no one has the slightest awareness? 

The Altgens photo was early. Look how close the limo is to the Dal-Tex building, and that building was on the other side of wide Houston Street. 

How could so much have happened by this point? It's impossible. The Kill Zone was lower Dealey Plaza, not upper Dealey Plaza. It was lower Dealey Plaza that they cleared out so that there would be few up-close spectators. It was their plan all along to kill him the grassy area. 

Altgens was sitting on a big secret. The secret was that he lied for them. He said that he zoomed-in get the camera field of the Altgens6 photo, but he didn't. They cropped it. It was zoomed-in by cropping, not by anything he did. And it explains why the resolution is so poor because after cropping it, they made a new negative, but they had to stretch what remained, and that means stretching pixels. 

Altgens said that his assignment was to capture, not the limo and not the President, but the "caravan" against the "skyline" of Dallas, which means the tops of buildings. He explicitly said that that was his purpose in shooting the Altgens6 photo. He said he had intended to take the shot from the Triple Overpass. What does that tell you? It should tell you that he wasn't looking for a close-up. He was looking for a panoramic kind of shot; a "big picture" kind of shot. And by that, I mean the big picture of what was going on. 

He had to go out into the street to take that picture, and I guarantee you that he didn't do it when the motorcade of the President of United States was bearing down on him. We're talking about a limo and four motorcycles. How far do you think BJ Martin was from the curb? It wasn't that far. Even stepping 1 or 2 feet out into the street, as Altgens had to do to capture the angle that he caught, would have caused Martin to have to brake. Altgens wasn't going to do that. He went out into the street as soon as the two lead cars passed. The limo was still high on the hill. It was far enough away that he felt sure that he wasn't interfering or posing a hazard. Yet, time was of the essence. He wasn't going to dally. He wasn't going to fool with his f-stop in the street. He didn't have that kind of time. And again, it wasn't that kind of shot. 

But, the point is that what we see inside the limo is not real. Kennedy wasn't hit in the throat yet. That happened lower on the hill. He may have just received the shot in the back. But, he definitely was not shot in the throat yet; not up there. How could he be? I ask because in the Zapruder film, we can see everything that happened after he was shot in the throat, and we can see where the limo was during that time. And it was down low in the grassy area. There is no way Kennedy was shot in the throat high up on the hill, and in the Altgens6 photo, the limo is definitely high up on the hill. 

Then, there is there is the fact that Emory Roberts is on the phone in the Altgens photo. 

It looks bad, doesn't it, for him to be on the phone during the shooting of the President? But, he wasn't an idiot. He had to know that it would look bad. So, we need to take this as evidence that the photo was taken before the real turkey shoot began. 

Altgens said, repeatedly, that he pressed the shutter at the same time that the very first shot was heard. But remember that he knew what the photo showed. To support the photo's content, he had to say that a shot got off in time for the result to be captured in the photo.  

It's widely accepted that the first shot was the shot that missed JFK and hit James Tague, indirectly. But, that's not what Tague thought. 

  

Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any idea which bullet might have made that mark?
Mr. TAGUE. I would guess it was either the second or third. I wouldn't say definitely on which one.

But regardless, was the Altgens photo taken at Z-255?

No. That was taken down in the grassy area. And notice that it is far from a perfect match to what we see in Altgens6. In the Z-255, Jackie has her hands together. Her two thumbs are practically touching. There may have been a little bit of distance between them, but not much. In the Altgens photo, we see her left thumb prominently (and note that she had large hands for a woman) but we don't see her right thumb at all. You can't grab something without using your thumb. Where is her right thumb? And why does JFK's forearm go on forever? It's like a vacuum wand. The image below is not a legitimate image, and it certainly does not correspond to Z-255, unless you are going to be extremely obtuse about it. 

 Look at Connally. 

Look at his hair, swept back, Fonzerelli style. It's like he had long hair even at his sideburn. Well, he did have longish hair that he swept back, but not at his sideburn. His sideburn still looked tapered and short. 

That looks more like strokes of paint. 

And I dare say they got carried away with the paint.

That hair definitely got doctored. So, if they were messing with Connally's hair, what else were they messing with inside the limo in the Altgens photo?

They messed with everything. JFK may have been shot in the back already, but that's it. He was definitely not shot in the throat. The limo was way too high on the hill for that to have happened. 

So, let's take Altgens at his word that he pressed the shutter as he heard the first shot, and let's assume it was the shot that hit Kennedy in the back. 

Notice that the rear view mirror is covering JFK's eyes. That's convenient. Notice that the angle captured none of Connally's facial features, such as his eyes and nose. That's convenient. JFK's fist is way too big. Stand in front of a mirror and hold your fist in front of your throat. See how big it is compared to your head. It's not as big as this. And then, his forearm just goes on forever. However, JFK does seem to be hunching. He's raising his shoulders, which is a startle reaction. He seems tensed up. So, perhaps he was hit in the back here. That's very possible. But nothing more than that. He definitely, absolutely and positively was not yet shot in the throat at the time this photo was taken.