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

Despite multiple witnesses claiming to see a hole in the windshield, I reject the claim that JFK was shot in the throat through the glass, and for multiple reasons.

First, shooting through the curved, laminated glass of the windshield does deflect the bullet.

Second, the bottom of his throat WAS the target. It’s not as though they were trying to shoot him in the face but missed. Nor is it that they were trying to shoot him in the chest but missed. That tiny little area was the target, and if they took the shot through the windshield, then it had to be taken from far away, such as the bridge over the Triple Underpass. It is not reasonable to think that anyone would expect to hit such a small target from that distance, even without going through glass. And remember that they missed JFK completely in one shot and hit Connally.

Third, if they shot him through the windshield, it had to be a metal bullet, and something had to happen to it.  Either it traversed him or it stayed in him. But, Dr. Perry saw that it was an entrance wound in his throat, and he had the same thought: “What happened to the bullet?” He quickly determined that there was no exit wound for it. Therefore, it had to be in him, and he looked for it. He cut the strap muscle trying to find it. But, he didn’t find it. The Bethesda doctors did not open up JFK’s neck, but they did x-ray him, and they said there was no bullet in him. Now, you can’t say that the bullet was dug out at the “pre-autopsy” because Perry saw JFK before the pre-autopsy. And remember that there were two very different medical teams. One was government (Bethesda) and the other was independent (Parkland). The plotters had to know that the first doctors to see JFK were going to be independent.  We shouldn’t doubt what Dr. Perry first said: that it was an entrance wound, without an exit wound, and no missile was found. And since it wasn’t found by x-ray either, it means that there was no bullet in JFK’s body.

Fourth, all of the above means that JFK was not hit in the throat with a metal bullet. He must have been hit with a “blood soluble” missile that dissolved. I put that in quotes  because that is how the great JFK researcher Jack White put it.  It’s  the only plausible reason why no bullet was found.

Fifth, the plotters knew in advance that they were going to claim that all the shots came from the rear.  So, if they shot him from the front, which they did, they had to do it in a way that they could claim that it came from the rear. So, the plan to call the entrance wound in his throat an exit wound was made beforehand. The truth is that the shot in his back, taken high on the hill, was more like a prick. It was not a metal bullet, and no bullet was found. So, they had to prick his throat too, so that they could claim that it was all one shot that traversed him; hence, no bullet in his back, and no bullet in his throat. So, the Single Bullet Theory was conjured up in advance; it just didn’t include Connally.

Sixth, considering the need to take the throat shot from very close range, and to AVOID having to shoot through the windshield, and to avoid subjecting anyone else in the car to risk, I believe that the throat shot was taken by Umbrella Man using the weapon that Charles Senseny designed for the CIA: an umbrella gun.  Here is his testimony to the Church Committee.

https://aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/vol1/pdf/ChurchV1_6_Senseney.pdf

If you read his testimony, you’ll see that he was very impressive and convincing. There are no holes in his story.  But, the guy who claimed to be Umbrella Man to the HSCA, Steven Louis Witt, was a joke.  And do you know who agrees with me? It’s someone who is getting this letter, the great investigative reporter Russ Baker. He wrote this piece: JFK Umbrella Man, More Doubts:

https://whokilledjfk.net/steven_witt.htm

So, just consider that Witt actually told the HSCA that on November 22, 1963, he was not seeking to attend the JFK motorcade. He was just out for his usual lunchtime walk from the insurance company he worked for in downtown Dallas. He said he just ran into the motorcade. AND THEN HE JUST HAPPENED TO PLANT HIIMSELF IN THE TINY LITTLE KILL ZONE???? Of all the places he could stop, he stopped there???? What, did he have intuition? And, why did he have an umbrella with him? When he left his office at 12:15, or whatever, there was no sign of rain. It was sunny and warm. And then he got the idea to taunt JFK with his umbrella? He actually believed that by waving his umbrella, JFK would see him and get the thought, “He is mocking my father with that umbrella because my father tried to prevent World War II, and that umbrella represents Neville Chamberlain who appeased Hitler.” That is preposterous, but it also preposterous that a man who was only 13 years old when WW2 broke out would still be focused on Joseph Kennedy’s actions in the lead-up to the war. By 1963, the Nazis were long gone, and we had a new enemy: the Soviet Union. So how could this insurance salesman still be so mired in the past? It is ridiculous, and it is not credible.  

So, what do I make of the witnesses who claimed to see a bullet hole? I don’t know what to make of them, but I do know that what I’m telling you trumps them. And I have a sneaking suspicion that the plotters wanted the bullet hole story to surface and flourish. And that’s because they added the bullet hole to the windshield of the Altgens photo, to go along with their phony imagery of JFK and Jackie in the back seat, in order to sell the idea that the Altgens photo was taken after the throat shot. It wasn’t. It was taken before the throat shot when the limo was still high on the hill. What the Altgens photo really captured was the back shot, which was supposed to stay under the radar.

But, even if you are not yet ready to support the latter part of this missive, the first part, that the absence of a bullet in JFK’s throat and the absence of an exit wound for it mean that he was not hit with a metal bullet, which means that it was a dissolvable missile, which means that it could not possibly have gone through glass- that is unassailable. JFK was NOT shot in the throat through the windshield, period, and that’s final.