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

You know that it is my contention that President Kennedy was shot with a nerve agent in the first shot that hit him. That was the back shot, which occurred in isolation when the limo was still high on the hill, before he entered the Kill Zone. It was a primer shot, and it took a tremendous amount of editing of the Zapruder film to hide that fact- far more than has ever been recognized before.  They cookie-cut that film to an incredible degree. 

But alas, all we have in regard to the capability of doing it is the 1975 Church Committee investigation of the CIA heart attack gun. Note that it was admitted that the "heart attack gun" was also capable of delivering nerve agents. CIA Director William Colby testified abundantly, and remember what ultimately happened to him. In 1996, he died under very suspicious circumstances in a boating incident that had all the earmarks of a hit. I put the chances of him having been assassinated at 100%. 

There was great concern in high places about Colby testifying to the Church Committee. President Gerald Ford personally prepped Colby before he testified. Stop and think about that. The President of the United States, with all he had to do, and with all the matters being brought to his attention and concern, took the time to advise Colby about his upcoming testimony to the Church Committee. What was Ford afraid of? And why did it matter so much to him when it involved a time period that preceded him? 

"On May 9, 1975, the Church Committee decided to call acting CIA director William Colby. That same day Ford's top advisers (Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Philip W. Buchen, and John Marsh) drafted a recommendation that Colby be authorized to brief only rather than testify, and that he would be told to discuss only the general subject, with details of specific covert actions to be avoided except for realistic hypotheticals. But the Church Committee had full authority to call a hearing and require Colby's testimony. Ford and his top advisers met with Colby to prepare him for the hearing.^[13] Colby testified, "These last two months have placed American intelligence in danger. The almost hysterical excitement surrounding any news story mentioning CIA or referring even to a perfectly legitimate activity of CIA has raised a question whether secret intelligence operations can be conducted by the United States."

But alas again, I don't think I am ever going to learn any more about this, and I'd like to tell you why. 

The development of a gun that could deliver drugs via frozen darts was something that only the CIA, or other such intelligence agency, could do. Private enterprise couldn't do it. Private enterprise can only afford to develop products that can be marketed, and there is no market for this. Even criminal enterprises such as the Mafia couldn't do it. The economics wouldn't work for them either. We're talking about a program which had a name: MK-Naomi, and it went on for 18 years, from 1950 to 1968. Only the government could do such a thing. And I suspect that it was done at Edgewood Arsenal, the clandestine research laboratory where the Nazi chemical weapons experts, who were spared the fate of Nuremberg and brought over here and given new lives, were engaged in their secret, nefarious work. 

No one except  a government intelligence agency or some secret wing of the Military could research the development of such a gun. But, even though William Colby spoke of it in the past tense in 1975, it was in 1979 that Billy Lovelady died suddenly of a "heart attack", and he's not the only one. David Sanchez Morales, the CIA assassin, also reportedly died of a heart attack in 1978. And there were others. John Armstrong says that 7 FBI agents who were around in 1963 died mysteriously during the HSCA, some from heart attacks, and were thus unable to testify for being dead. You would think that the HSCA would have investigated the deaths of any scheduled witnesses who died before they could testify, but they didn't. They shrugged them off.

It's very unlikely that I am going to learn any more about this. Yet, the conclusion that JFK was hit with a nerve agent is very solid, in my opinion, and here's why:

1. JFK was hit with a missile that barely pierced him, and it is untenable that regular ammunition could do that. A regular bullet could not stop that fast. Some of said that it was a sabotted round, but that just means that a smaller bullet was adapted for us with a higher caliber gun where it was fitted with extra housing that would fall off in flight. But, it wouldn't affect what the bullet did on contact. The shallowness of penetration defies that it could have been a regular solid bullet. And if you don't accept that, then start citing other cases of victims who were shot from a substantial distance with a bullet that was stopped by their soft tissue within an inch.   

Note that, officially, the story is that the bullet traversed Kennedy and then Connally- the opposite extreme of far-fetched ballistic nonsense. But once you realize that that bullet effectively just scratched Kennedy, then you know that it was not a regular bullet. 

2. The whole idea of shooting Kennedy at that location on his body makes no sense if you presume that they were trying to kill him with the shot. Why shoot him there when he had this big thing called a head sitting like a melon on top if his shoulders? That's what you shoot. You don't shoot him in the back, not if you're trying to kill him. And the idea that it was a miss, that the shooter aimed for his head but hit his back isn't tenable either.  

So, the question becomes: why would they just want to wound Kennedy?

3. Moving on, there is the undeniable fact that JFK seems drugged after he was shot. I am talking about his behavior, his countenance, and his whole presentation in the Zapruder film. He was a completely different man and obviously highly incapacitated mentally, unable to grasp what was going on, and unable to respond to it in any way. He seems very childlike in the Zapruder film. He was unable to think or act. He was mentally dazed and incapacitated, but shallow wounds to his back and throat could not have done that to him. They could not have done anything to his mind. 

4. But, it wasn't just his bizarre child-like behavior and complete mental helplessness, there was also his bizarre muscular activity, raising his arms like a marionette, and then being completely unable to let them go, to release the contractions. Nerve agents like strychnine work by inactivating an enzyme called cholinesterase which breaks down acetylcholine, which is the neurotransmitter that works at the junction between nerves and muscles. Acetylcholine tells the muscle to contract, and it will keep contracting until the acetylcholine is deactivated. If it's not, you can't turn off your muscles. And that's what we see on Kennedy: continuous muscle spasm. 


Now, if you disagree with me, fine. But, if so, you have to provide an alternate explanation for all we see. And it can't be the Single Bullet Theory because if you believe in that, then I don't want to talk to you at all. Just go away. But, if you realize that that's lunacy, that Kennedy received a shallow shot to his back, and a shallow shot to his throat, and that's all the trauma he received prior to the fatal head shot which killed him instantly (although it took him about 30 minutes to completely shut down) then I do want us to reason about this. 

What else besides something chemical could have caused the bizarre changes we see in Kennedy? The trauma alone can't explain it. It doesn't account for it. Kennedy was a changed man from before the sign to after the sign. And forget the timing of that because they used that freeway sign like a magician's curtain. But, the before and after is so bizarre that something has to account for it. If not a chemical, then what? This is the Before and After I am talking about.