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

Let's take a close look at the Zapruder film, starting with Part 1, which I define as prior to JFK's emergence from behind the freeway sign at Z225. It starts with the lead motorcyclists. 

So, it shows their names: Grey, Lumpkin, and Ellis. Note that we see the "Croft Ladies" on the left, most notably, the short woman in the blue dress. Here is the comparison to Croft:

So, there she is, well below the Obelisk, the same woman. I am not going to try to explain how they moved her, but they did. It was part of the compression of the Zapruder film, in which they removed the part in which JFK rode down the hill having been shot in the back.  

But, the next important thing to realize is that the Zapruder film jumps from the lead motorcycists to JFK suddenly being on Elm. So, here's Z132, which is blurry.

And here's 133:

So, the lead motorcyclists are gone, and the Presidential limo has completed the 120 degree turn from Houston to Elm. Did Zapruder turn off his camera? No. That isn't possible. They cut out a large swathe, which obviously must have shown something that they didn't want us to see. What was it? I could only speculate about that, which I will not do at this time. 

Note that in 162, LBJ's vehicle is just starting to turn. 

JFK has got his arm down, but he's looking at the spectators, and I don't assume anything has happened yet. 

At 175, he's waving, and Jackie is turned to her side of the street.

In 183, it's more of the same, but note how large the spectators on the north side of Elm look compared to the occupants of the limo.

They are much larger and sharper. They appear to be much closer to Zapruder's camera than JFK. So, is this evidence of the disassociation that others have talked about? 

Here is 186, which is more looking and waving by JFK.

Now, we get to 189, in which his head is turned far to the right, and his hand is held straight up.

As I proved in Dealey Plaza, the freeway sign in the Zapruder film is fake, and if you haven't watched my video about it, you should. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiJMrM_QKyc&t=3s

So, you have to cleanse your mind of the distorting influence of that sign. In 189, Kennedy was still high on the hill, barely out of the intersection. He's right across from the wall around the pool, which is along Houston Street. He hasn't been shot yet, but he's about to be shot, and I mean in the very next frame.

In 189, JFK was looking at the spectators and waving, but in 190, he has put his hand over his face. Nobody claimed to see him do that, and there is no reason to think that he did it. What happened is that he was shot in the back, and his face must have shown a shocked reaction to that. And to make sure we didn't see it, they painted his hand over his face. 

Look at this transition from 187 to 190. In 187: looking and waving.

In 189, he's looking and waving, but there is more blur. 

Then, in 190, it's blurrier yet, and his hand is over his face.  

 

That coverage continues in the ensuing frames into a solid barrier obscuring his face. 

Why is it that no one has observed this face covering and discussed it? If you do a Google search for, "In the Zapruder film, JFK covers his face with his hand" you don't find anything. 

I regret that Kennedy covering his face with his hand in the Zapruder film has been universally ignored.  

Jackie was sitting next to him, and she turned and looked at him, and she said that he had a "quizzical look" on his face. She did not say that he covered his face with his hand. 

Let's proceed. In 198, he unequivocally has his hand over his face.

Same for 201; it appears that his hand is slapped over his face. 

Will all agree that he has stopped waving? That something is wrong? If you look closely, you'll see that Jackie has also stopped waving. She is turned and looking at him. She's not working her side of the street. Both of them are ignoring the spectators. They are not working the crowd any longer. But supposedly, nothing has happened yet. 

204 is more of the same; he's covering his face, and she's looking at him. But remember, I'm not saying he did that. I think his face was uncovered displaying that "quizzical look" that Jackie talked about. 

It's small, but in 207, his hand is right over his face, and it's almost a perfect circle. His hand looks as round as the moon.  

Then, it jumps to 212.

What happened to 208, 209, 210, and 211? Go to this Youtube vid and adjust the speed to the lowest setting, which is .25 speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZc99iD7ho

Then, start playing it starting at frame 200. You'll see it going from frame to frame, one at a time, and you'll see the numbers, but then, it will jump from 207 to 212.

So, did they cut those frames out? Maybe, but not necessarily. It may be that they shortened the duration of those frames so much that even at one-quarter speed they don't register. Maybe if it was slowed to .05 speed, we'd see them. 

After that, we don't see Kennedy again until he emerges at 225.

So now, they're letting us see his face. Why? Because he's been shot, and it doesn't matter if he looks distressed. Prior to this, he was not supposed to be shot, so his distressed face would have conflicted with the story they were telling. And that's why they had to cover up his distressed face with his hand. 

So, the truth is that Kennedy was shot in the back at frame 189 in the Zapruder film, and they had to start covering up his face at 190. 

Now, what do we know about the impact of the shot that struck him in the back? We know where it struck him: to the right of his spinal column at the level of T3. That's on the death certificate, but one doctor, Dr. John Ebersole, said it was at T4, so even lower. And we know it was a very shallow wound that just seemed to abruptly end. Several of the Bethesda doctors probed it with their pinkie fingers and said that the bullet track ended in what felt like a wall. Navy medical technicians James Jenkins and Paul O'Conner said that it was probed by several of the autopsy doctors, and it was agreed that it had no point of exit. 

At the time, the autopsy doctors did not associate the back wound with the throat wound. They assumed that the throat wound was nothing more than the tracheotomy that Dr. Perry performed. Afterwards, the story became that there was a single bullet that traversed JFK, entering his back and exiting his throat. But, that was not the doctors' finding, nor their conclusion, at the time. It was just a fiat statement that was issued afterwards. 

So, let's stick with what was found on examination: a shallow wound in his back.  If JFK was struck in the back with a bullet, is there any chance that the resistance of his tissues could have stopped the bullet in 1 to 1 1/2 inches of penetration? No. We know the mass and hardness of a bullet, and we know the minimum velocity that it had to have in order to reach him at all.  So, could JFK's soft tissues, meaning his skin, fascia, and muscle, have provided enough resistance to cause a bullet traveling at approximately 1800 feet per second to come to zero velocity over a span of no more than 1 1/2 inches of travel? No. Of course not. That degree of deceleration is not possible. 

But, had it been possible, and had it been a FMJ bullet, then the bullet would have been there. It would have come to rest inside of him. It wasn't superficial enough to "fall out." And if it had been dug out, then the wound would not have been so clean. If it had been dug out at, say, the pre-autopsy, they would have had to get forceps around it and pulled it out, and that would have disrupted the tissue, which was not seen in this very clean wound. 

So, it didn't fall out, and it wasn't dug out, and yet, it wasn't there. 

JFK had on three layers of clothing: a tee shirt, an outer shirt, and a jacket. For the bullet to have come out spontaneously, it would have had to go back out the same holes that it came in.  That's impossible. 

So, if he had been hit with a FMJ bullet, it would have been there, inside him. The fact that it wasn't tells you that he wasn't hit with a FMJ bullet. 

Now, let's consider that if he was hit with a FMJ bullet that only penetrated an inch and a half through soft tissue, i.e. skin, fascia, and muscle, the significance of the trauma would have been zero. In other words, it would have been a harmless scratch. But still, he would have felt it. And there would have been no confusion in his mind as to what happened. He would have known that he was shot, that he was under attack. 

So, what would he have done? Remember: his mind would not have been impaired. He would have reacted, in pursuit of self-preservation, as well as protecting his wife and the others. He would have gotten down as low as possible in the car, and he would have directed his wife to do the same- and the others. And he would have ordered the driver to floor it and get them out of there. He didn't do either of those things. He did absolutely nothing. 

And let's consider the time involved. The Secret Service admitted that the limo slowed to 15 mph, but there is good reason to believe that it slowed much more than that. By the time it was approaching Jane Hill and Mary Moorman, Jane said to him, "Mr. President, look this way. We want to take your picture." You wouldn't have time to say that to someone who was traveling past you at 15 mph. 15 mph is the speed of a fast-moving bicycle. So, imagine that a fast bicyclist was passing you on the road. You wouldn't have time to say all that to him. 

But, if Kennedy was shot in the back high on the hill at Z189, and he wasn't struck again in the throat until, say, Z222 across from the pergola, how much time really passed? I could only guess, but surely. it was enough seconds for him to mobilize a defensive response to being shot in the back. However, he never mobilized any defensive response. Why not? It must be that he was incapacitated- not physically, because the scratch was nothing- but mentally. Apparently, that shot to his back did insignificant physical damage but a lot of mental damage.  It must have been a "blood soluble round" as Jack White described it that contained a chemical agent (or more than one) that acted very quickly to derange him mentally. 

Now, I realize that many people will close their minds instantly to this upon hearing it. But, if it was an ice bullet laced with a drug, or more than one, it accounts for the known facts in this case better than any other theory.  It deserves serious consideration by all mature and intelligent researchers.