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

Why, if they were going to claim there was a lone gunman shooting from the rear, did they shoot JFK in the throat from the front?

It must be that they planned from the start to claim that the hole in his throat was the exit wound of the shot to his back. That is what they claimed that very night, or at least by the wee hours of Saturday morning. And, I'm saying that it was planned that way before anything happened. 

There is no alternative to that because it's the only way to convert a frontal shot into a shot from the rear. 

And why did they shoot him on the right side of his back? I could understand the left side because that's where the heart is. But, a shot on the right side wouldn't necessarily be fatal. With rapid medical and surgical attention, he could have survived that quite easily. Connally was shot through his right rib cage, and the bullet traversed him, and he survived handily. 

So, do you think the shot to his right back was a mistake? I don't. Not for one second do I consider that they were aiming for his head but hit him on the right side of his back instead. Kennedy was hit in the back high on the hill with a lot of people around. They did not want to kill him there in front of so many people. The Kill Zone was farther down, by the grass. So no, they weren't aiming for his head. They hit him exactly where they intended to hit him. The purpose of that shot was to deliver the nerve agent to immobilize him and incapacitate him, so that he  would be an easy mark once he entered the Kill Zone.