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

To: John Costella, 

The two biggest issues concerning the freeway sign in the Zapruder film are: 1) its location, the fact that it pops up so early, so high on the hill, and 2) it's angle to the road. 

Now, the angle which would make for the least visual obstruction was 90 degrees. Anything more or less than 90 degrees would make the sign more obstructive. But, the angle that it was was 90 degrees, but in the Zapruder film, it is less than 90 degrees. In other words, it is facing the road more than it should.

Now, I did read your article, and I watched some of your video series but not all of it. But, you should be able to see above that that sign is at most 60 degrees to the road, rather than 90, and it makes a big difference. It means that Kennedy is out of view for much longer.

It should be obvious in the image below that Zapruder standing on his pedestal and pointing his camera at the intersection at the top of the hill would not be intruded by the sign for a long time.

You can see the direction of the road, and if you follow it up in your mind's eye, you'll realize that the sign couldn't possibly get in the way for quite a while.

Look how unobtrusive that sign was to Zapruder.

 This next one is from an FBI reenactment in 1964.

Again, you can see Zapruder's pedestal, and what I ask you to consider is that NOTHING about the sign in the Zapruder film is real. It is a complete fabrication, in which the real sign got completely obliviated by the fake one. 

This next collage is interesting because it's supposedly the work of a skeptic, but, either deliberately or unwittingly, he corrected the angular error. 

On the left, with the splicing that he did, the angle of the sign looks about right: 90 degrees. But again, on the right, it is clearly turned towards the road, facing it at an angle that is significantly less than 90 degrees. 

The Stemmons freeway sign in the Zapruder film is the magician's curtain. It is the Before and After. It shows Kennedy smiling and waving "before" and then stricken "after," but, if you look at the Zapruder film closely, you'll see that he stops waving, and it starts getting weird before he disappears behind the sign. For example, here is frame 200, in which Kennedy appears to have his hand over his face. Now, he didn't do that. Officially, he hasn't even been shot yet. He has been, but officially, he hasn't. And I believe that they put that hand over his face to hide the startled, distressed look that was on his face from being hit in the back with the drug-laced ice flechette. They couldn't let us see his face, so they covered it. 

But, they needed that sign to obstruct the view long enough to claim that that's when the Magic Bullet happened, that it all happened behind that sign. 

So really, that sign is the cornerstone of the Zapruder film that supports its phony story. 

And I'll leave you with this: In the late 70s when Zapruder's son informed the National Archives that he wanted the film back, that's when he found out that it wasn't his; that the government was not letting go of it. So, an arbitration was set up, and I think they settled on a price of $16 million for it. But, the government was not going to give that film back to him under any circumstances. Because: if he got it back, he could have had it analyzed, and the massive alterations that were done to it would have been revealed. And the irony is that he wasn't even inclined that way. Still, they couldn't risk it.