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

 Now I have an image of Kellerman with the tie, where you can see the tie in his hands. It's from another rendering of the Love Field footage that I found that's a little clearer.

So, on the left, it shows Kellerman reaching into the front seat for the tie. And on the right, he is looking down at the tie and stretching it between his two hands. THAT OBJECT IN HIS HANDS IS THE TIE. You see his two hands. You see there is a linear object between his two hands. It is the tie.

Nobody has ever found this or shown it before, and it is just 11 days from the 63rd anniversary of JFK's killing. WHAT POSSIBLE REASON DID KELLERMAN HAVE TO WANT JFK TO CHANGE HIS TIE? Let's face it: the ONLY reason that you can think of, in your wildest imagination, is a sanitary problem. It could not have been its style, pattern, or color. And there's nothing you can think of relating to safety.

Why is it that in the few references to JFK changing his tie shortly before the motorcade left, not one of them says a word about why a tie change was necessary or indicated?

And I categorically reject as nonsense the notion that it was a stain on the tie. It's not as though he could have gotten a stain on the tie between deboarding the plane and boarding the limo. If he had spilled coffee on his tie at the breakfast in Ft. Worth, surely it would have been noticed before he left the plane, and I'm sure he had plenty of spare ties there. Why should the correction of a sanitary problem wait until he's at the limo?

I don't know what Kellerman told Kennedy about why he needed to change his tie, but I do know that Kennedy was extremely submissive to his Secret Service agents. He didn't question anything they told him to do.

No innocent reason for the tie change is even conceivable. It must have been related to the coming throat shot and the fear that the tie knot, being so close to the target area, which was the bottom of his throat, would interfere with the passage of the flechette.