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

 Rick Bucciarelli

I agree this is a crazy photo. And what makes it more crazy…is that James Altgens was in the street not on the curb when he took it.

And a question I never hear mentioned:

He was in the street- pointing an object (camera) at the President. He was within 100 feet of the car. How is it that not one Secret Service agent noticed or even approached him as the threat he was??

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  And there is a corollary question: how did Altgens have the nerve to do that, to get into the street when the motorcade was approaching so close? The answer is that it wasn't that close. The conventional wisdom is that the Altgens photo was taken a Z255. It was not. It was taken much earlier than that. It was taken before JFK was hit in the throat. It was taken when the limo was still high on the hill and hadn't completely passed the Book Depository. They tried to make it that all the shots except the fatal head shot had already been fired. Not true. The throat shot wasn't fired, and even the shot to his back that delivered the nerve agent may not have hit yet. That one is too close to call because that shot occurred about the same time as the Altgens photo. So, JFK may have been reacting to that shot. But, he definitely wasn't raising his hands to his throat because he wasn't shot there yet. And the imagery of that in the Altgens photo is fake. If you look closely at this image, you'll see how ridiculous it is. Jackie is holding this arm that juts out like the wand of a vacuum cleaner. It's not connected to him and goes way past him. His fist is greatly oversized. This is art. All that hadn't happened yet.