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

I have been reviewing the testimony of James Altgens. He said he stepped into the street to take his famous photo, the Altgens6 photo, and it was at the time of the first shot. "The shot was just a fraction of a second ahead of my picture." That's a quote. That's what he said.

Again, he was referring to the very first shot, which he said sounded like a firecracker. 

So, what was the first shot? 

I don't claim to be an expert on the shots, but I can tell you what the first shot was. It was the shot that hit Kennedy in the back, delivering the nerve agent. It was taken high on the hill, right before the Croft photo was taken.  

I realize it is widely accepted that the first shot was the shot that missed, and that it went on to strike the curb and then to graze James Tague.  But, if you read his testimony, he said that he thought it was either the 2nd or the 3rd shot that affected him, and definitely not the first. 

You see in this diagram, the 3 shots that hit JFK. #1 was the back shot which was a split-second before the Croft photo. #2 was the throat shot across from the pergola. And #3, the fatal head shot, which was about even with Zapruder. The area in red indicates the part of the Z-film that was disappeared. It was the part when JFK was riding down the hill having been only struck in the back. As you know, the story of the Zapruder film is that Kennedy was smiling and waving until he disappeared behind the freeway sign, and then he was shot, for the first time, behind the sign. So, the story became that the back shot and the throat shot were the same shot, which occurred behind the sign and out of view to us. It is a lie.

The plat places Altgens on the grass or curb, but he definitely stepped out into the street. So, Officialdom has it that he took his famous photo when JFK was at point 2 in the diagram. Look for the number 2. But remember: he has the limo coming down the center of the street, and then Hargis and Martin were on their motorcycles on Altgens' side. How much space could there have been between Martin and the curb? Not much. 

So, look at that #2 again in the diagram. Do you really think that Altgens would have stepped out into the street to take his picture with the limo and Hargis and Martin that close to him? I say no way. I say that the limo and the motorcycle escorts had to be much higher on the hill for Altgens to have the nerve to go into the street. You think Altgens would risk obstructing the motorcade of the President of the United States? He wasn't that kind of guy. It's very believable that he would get into the street when the limo was at point #1 but not point #2. 

Point #1 was when the first shot occurred, and he said he took the famous Altgens6 photo right after the first shot, meaning a tiny fraction of a second after it.  

Therefore, the Altgens6 photo should show Kennedy reacting to being shot in the back. Instead, it shows him reacting to being shot in the throat. 

My analysis is correct; it's the imagery that is bogus. What we are seeing there of JFK and Jackie is bogus. And probably Connally too. Notice that we don't see Nellie at all. Why is that? There is no excuse for it. As we look at JFK, we see that his fist is too big. We see that his knuckles are too small. It looks more like a horse's hoof than a hand. We see that his right hand is shriveled. And we see that Jackie's hands are straddling his long arm that goes on interminably. It never ends. Look where his left shoulder is. You can see it. So, how can that be his arm that she is holding?  It is bogus imagery. They replaced what was there with that crude art. But, why did they do it? 

They did it because the back shot, which got captured, was the shot that didn't count. Officially, it never happened. So, they had to get rid of it. So, they made it that the limo was much farther down the hill. The back shot and the throat shot were merged into one, and that was the plan all along. 

Here is the whole Altgens photo, which you rarely see.

The guy clapping his hands on the right is supposed to be Charles Brehm, but he was much farther down the hill. He wasn't way up there. 

You see the white VP Secret Service car with the door open. It's not far from the Dal Tex building. In front of it is Johnson's car. Then, there's a space because Johnson wanted to keep his distance, knowing what was coming. But, you couldn't get more than one car in there. And then the Queen Mary, and then the limo. So, figure 5 car lengths plus the normal space in-between. And that's how far the limo had progressed down Elm. It certainly hadn't reached the freeway sign. And therefore, the throat shot, which is depicted in the photo, did not happen yet.

Look at the back seat of the limo again.

 They say that corresponds to Z-255. If that were true, then it would be about 3 seconds before the fatal head shot. But that's impossible when the limo is still next to the TSBD.

Look at the upper left. That is the TSBD. They're still up by it. So, how could this be 3 seconds before the fatal head shot? It couldn't.

This photo below was taken on November 27, but a man was standing on Zapruder's pedestal. Let's assume that the throat shot occurred when JFK was behind the freeway sign in relation to Zapruder.

So, if JFK was shot in the throat there, it took time for his and Jackie's responses to ensue. So, how could they be reacting to it here?

The Altgens photo surely came before the other image, extrapolating to November 22. And that's why I say that he was not yet shot in the throat in the Altgens photo. So, this imagery of them is fake. 

 They left out Nellie and the driver because they wanted you to have an unobstructed view of Jackie's signature white gloves. 

 Why is Connally's head so big? Did he have a big head compared to JFK? See for yourself. 

Why is the face of Kellerman completely in shadow?

I suspect that Kellerman's expression didn't match what was going on since it hadn't happened yet. 

It shows how arrogant the plotters were. They had a photo in which Oswald was standing the doorway, and JFK was reacting to a shot that had to forever be kept secret. So, what should they have done? They should have destroyed the photo. Nobody would have complained. The only one who knew about it was Altgens, and they just had to tell him that, for national security reasons, the photo had to be destroyed. He would have bought it. He was a team player, and it wasn't going to affect his pay. 

But no, they saw the Secret Service agents turned and facing the TSBD, and they thought it was gold. 

So, you've got all these agents looking at the doorway, and probably at Oswald. The Fedora Man on the left was probably James Bookhout. The man in the back of the Secret Service car with the round head was Glen Bennett. But, he was sitting on the other side of the car; in back but not on the driver's side. Hickey was sitting on that side. So, that's another tampering they did. I suspect it was because Hickey's expression didn't fit the contrived scene either.   

But, they were thinking about the caption for the photo, which was going to be that the President was struck, and Secret Service agents were looking for the source of the shots. If that were true, wouldn't they be looking up? The shots didn't come from the doorway, did they? 

The point is that they could use this photo to claim that the TSBD was the source of the shots, and that's why they didn't destroy it. But, I have to think that, had they known what was going to happen, that in 2024, people would still be talking about Oswald in the doorway, they surely would have destroyed it.