How the story of LBJ and Rufus Youngblood came about \

I'm sure you've heard it; how Rufus Youngblood reached back and grabbed LBJ and pushed him down into the well of the car and then got on top of him. We are supposed to believe that as Ladybird and Senator Yarborough are sitting there, smiling and relaxed, enjoying the festivities, that two large men were lying over their feet and legs. 

If you look close, you'll see that they really were smiling and looking happy. Look at their expressions; then ask yourself if two men could be sprawled on the floor beneath them. 

So, how did this tall tale come about? It started when the photo-alterers who saw the original Altgens photo with LBJ crouching down, as low as he could, and looking pensive, nervous, and perhaps even guilty and in stark contrast to Ladybird and Yarborough. It probably looked like Ladybird and Yarborough were the married couple, and LBJ was the odd man out. They couldn't leave it, so they blackened LBJ out. It was a judgment call, and that's what they did. They must have thought that the way LBJ looked was incriminating. 

But then, how do you explain his absence? I don't know if they failed to consider it, or if they did consider it but proceeded anyway because it was a less bad choice than leaving him in. 

But, I know why the story became that LBJ was there sprawled on the floor. It placed him there and provided a reason why he isn't seen. But then, since it would seem cowardly if he did it for himself while ignoring his wife's safety, the story became that his SS agent Rufus Youngblood, acting in an official capacity as LBJ's bodyguard, did it without asking him. 

You see that story places LBJ in the car even though he isn't seen, and it removes the self-protecting coward angle.  What about the fact that it was physically impossible for them to do it, for two big men to fit in that space? Well, fortunately for them, few Americans think about what's possible. The story was declared, and it was celebrated with pomp and circumstance at the White House, where LBJ gave an award to Rufus Youngblood for acting boldly and decisively to protect the Vice President of the United States, who in mere seconds would be the President. The date was December 4, 1963. 

All this happened just because of the Altgens photo, but I can prove to you that it isn't true. That is, if you won't accept that Senator Yarborough said it never happened.  But, my argument is that you only have to look at the Altgens photo, and you can see that the VP car was still rounding the corner from Houston. The first shot, which struck JFK in the back, had just been fired, and probably less than a second before. 

Ladybird and Senator Yarborough are all smiles, oblivious to anything being wrong. So, how could Rufus Youngblood resort to such a drastic measure that fast? If the sound of the shot had just reverberated, his mind would still be asking, "What was that?" He couldn't possibly react that fast. None of the other Secret Service agents in the Queen Mary reacted that way. None of them reacted at all until after the fatal head shot when Clint Hill finally did what he did. But, the idea that Rufus Youngblood had just heard a noise and reacted to it by throwing LBJ down to the floor of the car and got on top of him, and that is a picture of 4 people?

You see how small the car was. Do you really think that there was enough room for two large men to be sprawled on the floor in front of them and behind the front seat? It's preposterous because it is physically impossible. And if it were possible, the people who were being affected by it (Ladybird and Yarborough) would react accordingly. The chance that there were two large men lying at their feet at that very moment is zero.  
 

In the Altgens photo, the left rear door of the LBJ follow-up car is open, and a man seems to be getting out. He was Special Agent Warren W. Taylor. It looks like he has both feet planted on the ground. He could not have done that unless the car had stopped or nearly stopped. 

Taylor said that after they made the turn from Houston, he heard an explosion, which he thought was a firecracker, and that it sounded like it came from his right rear. That is exactly where it came from, the Dal-Tex building. This was the shot that hit Kennedy in the back, delivering the nerve agent. Taylor said that in response to that, he opened the door and started to get out, as we see below. He said that the motorcade had just turned the corner when he did this. So, without a doubt, he was describing what we see in the Altgens photo.

So, this is more evidence that the limo was still high on the hill and only a little past the intersection when the Altgens photo was taken. 

But then, Taylor said that no sooner did his foot hit the ground, that he heard two more shots that were unmistakably gun shots. Then he said the car "paused slightly," but what was it doing before that? Was he exiting the car before it paused? Then he said he heard on the radio that "something or someone had been shot." But, how could it be if they were still at the top of the hill? What this amounts to is more story compacting; shoving everything together to support the Single Bullet Theory and hide the fact that JFK was hit in the back high on the hill, long before he entered the Kiss Zone.

Then Taylor said the car picked up speed, and he pulled himself back in. Then, he said he saw Agent Youngblood climb into the back seat of the Veep car and push LBJ down and lie on top of him. That is something that Senator Yarborough denied ever happened. And I doubt it was even physically possible, as big as those men were. Remember, Mrs. Johnson and Senator Yarborough both had legs and feet. So how could big tall Johnson and Yarborough both be sprawled on the floor of that small convertible in front of them? We are supposed to believe that LBJ and Youngblood are both lying at the feet of Ladybird and Yarborough. 

But, let's discuss how fast the car was going when Taylor planted his two feet on the ground, and that does look like two feet. 

So, how could he plant two feet on the ground, as he appears to be doing? If the car was going 15 mph, his body would keep moving, but his planted feet wouldn't. So, to get out of a car moving at that speed, you would have to put one foot down, and in the direction that the car is going, so that you could then place your other foot down accordingly, so as to keep your feet under you, as you keep moving in the same direction as the car. In other words, you wouldn't get out to stand; you would get to run, or at least jog. You would know that you had to keep moving as soon as you hit the ground. But, if you look at him, you can see that he is planting both feet down in a way that made it impossible for him to keep moving with the car. It's not just that the car was moving away from him; it's that he, himself, was still moving. So, from the way he is getting out of the car, I say that either the car was stopped or was going no more than 5 mph. That slow a speed, he could probably shrug it off and find his balance, but not going 15 mph. At 15 mph, he would have to run. 15 mph is a fast running speed.  You've got to be in good shape to do that. Average jogging speed is 5 or 6 mph. 

So, seeing Taylor getting out of the car in the manner in which he is doing it tells me that the car had either stopped or very nearly stopped. 

Here is the complete photo. 

Taylor admitted that the motorcade sped up after that, which means that it sped up to 15 mph. It was still going very slow by motoring standards, but apparently, it came to a complete stop or nearly so right past the intersection.  Why? It was to get the ice flechette into Kennedy. A still object is easier to hit than a moving target. The Altgens photo was taken very soon after he was shot in the back, probably within a second.   

This was high on the hill. Look to the right. You see the curve in the road.  That curve was the curve of the turn from Houston St. It was a 120 degree horseshoe turn. It was not down the hill across from the pergola where Kennedy was shot in the throat. I know the Altgens photo shows Kennedy reacting to being shot in the throat, but that is fake imagery. It was long before that. But, why was the limo traveling so slowly?  

And after this, the limo continued to move slowly, but it did pick up speed.  Reportedly, it went 15 mph, and it was then that Jackie turned and saw her husband with a quizzical look on his face. And she complained about how slow the limo went. It was to give the chemicals time to seep in and exert their effects. We can debate what the chemicals were, but one of them had to be a nerve agent because that's what causes muscles to spasm like we see on Kennedy.

Agent Taylor's words, and what we see him doing in the Altgens photo, tell us that the motorcade came to a complete stop, or nearly so, high on the hill, for the sake of the first shot. Then, after the first shot was delivered to Kennedy's back, the speed picked up a little, but to no more than 15 mph. There was sudden braking in the Kill Zone (you can see the limo's brake light come on in the Muchmore film) and then after the fatal head shot was delivered, the limo sped off. 

Now, consider that Altgens said that he took his famous photo a split-second after the very first shot. That was the shot that hit Kennedy in the back. So, his photo should have showed Kennedy reacting to being shot in the back. And I'm sure it did- originally. But, they changed it, putting in that phony imagery of JFK reacting to the throat shot.  

 

  
 

JFK researchers have a responsibility, and it is to account for all the known evidence in the case. 

But, Kennedy's clinical status, his medical condition, as seen in the Zapruder film, has been ignored by just about everybody. He is functionally impaired. Though we know he has suffered physical trauma, there is none that we can see until the fatal head shot. But, we can see that he is not normal. He is stricken. It's obvious that there is something terribly wrong with him. His muscles are not working properly. He doesn't use them in a normal, coordinated way, and he is unable to release them. And it was progressive. He got progressively more seized-up as he sat there.  

Then also, mentally, he was not himself. He did not grasp what was going on, and he did not respond to it. He took no evasive action. He made no attempt to protect himself, his wife, or anyone else. He was unable to speak, and he made no attempt to speak.  And his facial expression had a look of confusion, bewilderment, and helplessness. 

Dr. John Lattimer attempted to tie JFK's condition to that of a patient of Dr. Thorburn from 1898, but even a cursory look at the facts in that case torpedoes that conclusion. But, few people delve into that. Most just talk about Kennedy in the Zapruder film as if his behavior is normal for the circumstances. They have watched the Zapruder film so many times, they just accept Kennedy's weird behavior in it as normal for JFK-land. But, there is no JFK-land. There is only the real world. And in the real world, a shallow shot to the back, and a shallow shot to the throat, could not possibly produce the changes in Kennedy that we see in the Zapruder film. 

So, on the left he is looking and waving at the spectators; he is engaged in the situation at hand. It is normal. But, on the right, his arms are in spasm; his hand is jack-knifed; and his face is vacant, showing no sign of any pending action or intention. He is not looking at his wife. He is not looking at anything. He is looking down but not at anything. He is mentally and visually unfocused. There is emptiness in his face.

So, in a matter of seconds, he has gone from being aware, active, and engaged to having lost control of his muscles and becoming dazed, incapable of understanding the situation he is in, and incapable of responding to it. He is, in a word, helpless. 

How could such a physical and mental breakdown happen to him so fast? He certainly didn't suffer any brain damage. Physical trauma can't explain it. Therefore, he must have suffered a chemical attack. It is a matter of default. 

It's like in chess, where you have to make a certain move or else be checkmated. In this case, you have to make the mental move of accepting that he was poisoned. You have no choice. There is nothing else that could possibly explain the phenomena that we see. 

To engage in totally unwarranted speculations (such as: a bullet fragment jumped up to his brain) is a complete cop-out. There is no evidence for it, and if that had happened, he wouldn't even be sitting there. He would have lost consciousness. Kennedy is conscious. I am sure he could feel things. But, he does not have the consciousness of a human being. He was incapable of perceiving what was going on. He was incapable of "getting it," of grasping what was going on; let alone doing anything about it.

It is not much of a stretch to say that his mental state is comparable to that of a person who is severely drunk. And that comparison really fits because when a person is drunk, his incapacity is due to one thing: a chemical, namely, alcohol. In this case, the chemical definitely wasn't alcohol, but it was something else, and it may have been more than one thing. 

These conclusions are obligatory to any rational person. 

 

 

Conventional idiocy has it that Altgens6 corresponds to Z-255. So, let's compare them.

 So, in Altgens6, Kennedy has got this gigantic left fist, larger than life. But, on the right in Z-255, he isn't making a fist. His hand is actually arched; you might say tented. He is unable to put his arms down (due to, most likely, strychnine poisoning) and Jackie is trying to get him to relax. With her left hand, she is grasping his forearm, not far from the wrist. With her right hand, she is grasping his upper arm. And she is gently trying to coax them down. But, in the Altgens photo, his forearm is extending forever. It looks like a long vacuum wand. And she has both hands around it. You can see the point of his shoulder, and his upper arm was descending from it. So, how can that long wand be his arm? How could it possibly go out that far? Where does it connect to him? His elbows were flexed, so there was an acute angle between his forearm and his arm. So, how could that possibly be his arm jutting out that far? How could that possibly be his forearm extending out to where her right hand is? We are looking at an anatomical impossibility here. He did not have his hand in front of his face at that point. Here he is in Z-232.  With his left hand, he grabbed his tie and pulled on it. With his right hand, he covered his mouth and coughed. 

So, is that the frame that corresponds to the Altgens photo? But, it doesn't. The hand in Altgens is way too big. It's too high. His right hand is all shriveled up. 

And here's a biggie: JACKIE HAD NOT YET TAKEN HIS ARM. 

So, that is not a match either. Nothing is a match. It's just a crude paint job that they did in the Altgens photo, and in a rush. 

They only had a few hours to work on the Altgens photo, and they had a lot to do. But, don't surrender your intelligence by thinking that laughable image of Jack and Jackie in the Altgens photo is real. It's a laughing stock. It's clownish. You're supposed to shake your head and laugh, not buy into it. If you're going to buy that, then I'll sell you the Kerch Bridge. And I'll give you a good deal because of all the damage.  

I no longer think it was shellfish toxin that JFK was poisoned with. I now believe it was strychnine. The reason I say that is because shellfish toxin causes flaccid paralysis, while strychnine causes intense muscle spasms, and that is what Kennedy had. This is from Calling All Angels, about Jane Stanford, who was poisoned with strychnine.

 "On January 14, 1905, in her mansion on Nob Hill, Jane Stanford becomes violently ill after drinking mineral water. She only swallowed a little because it tasted bitter, and she spit it out. Tests revealed the presence of strychnine. Spooked after surviving the attempt on her life, Mrs. Stanford sails for Japan by way of Hawaii. On February 28, 1905, after drinking a glass of bicarbonate of soda, she cries out to her secretary, Bertha Berner, to call the doctor. She complained of having no control of her body. Three doctors attend to her, but she is dead in 25 minutes. Her hands, legs, and feet, are noted to be distorted in the classical intense, rigid spasm of strychnine poisoning."

Observe the spasm in JFK's hands where the metacarpal flexors were activated.

As the seconds passed, the spasms just got worse. Here is the last frame before the fatal head shot.

That had to be very painful, and it could not be the result of trauma. 

This is how he was beforehand.

Trauma could not have caused that change. To that point, the only trauma JFK received was a shallow wound in his back and a shallow wound in his throat. He was definitely poisoned and with a nerve agent. 

 

Regarding Jackie's testimony, there is something very strange in it: 

I was looking to the left, and I heard these terrible noises. My husband never made any sound. So I turned to the right. And all I remember is seeing my husband, and he had this sort-of quizzical look on his face. And his hand was up; it must have been his left hand. And just as I turned and looked at him, I could see a piece of his skull and I remember it was flesh colored. I remember thinking he just looked as if he had a slight headache. And I just remember seeing that. No blood or anything.

How could she follow saying that she saw a piece of his skull with "he just looked as if he had a slight headache"? It makes much more sense if you take out the middle part. 

And all I remember is seeing my husband, and he had this sort-of quizzical look on his face. I remember thinking he just looked as if he had a slight headache. 

Doesn't that make more sense? So what was going on? What was going on was she was describing the interval, the rather long interval, between when he was shot in the back and when he was shot in the throat. His left hand (and his right hand) went up in response to being shot in the throat. But, they wanted it to be that there was no interval. So, they edited her statements and moved stuff around. 

So, she looked at him right after he was shot in the back, and she had no sense that he was shot with a bullet. She just thought that he was feeling bad, like he had a headache. If he had been shot in the back with a bullet, don't you think she would have known it? And don't you think he would have known it? If you were shot in the back with a bullet, don't you think you would know it? 

 

So, Jackie's testimony was very likely corrupted to conform to the official story and to hide the fact that JFK rode down the hill having been shot in the back only and not with a bullet. 

Allen Dulles was running the whole Warren Commission investigation, not Earl Warren, who was a reluctant participant. Dulles knew what really happened. He knew about the heart attack gun. It was developed during his tenure. He knew exactly what went down. They shot Kennedy in the throat, knowing that the story was going to be "no frontal shots" so, they must have planned beforehand to claim that the frontal entrance wound was an exit wound. I'm not saying they planned in advance to go with a single bullet for Kennedy and Connally. How could they, when they weren't even planning to shoot Connally?  But, they did plan to unite the two shallow wounds in Kennedy into one traversing wound. 

Remember that the night of the autopsy at Bethesda, they didn't know about Tague yet, but they did know that they could not allow Humes to dissect the back wound or the throat wound. Those wounds had to be one continuous wound, and the federal agents knew that. So, they prohibited Humes from dissecting those wounds.  

In the criminal trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans in 1969, one of the pathologists, Dr Pierre Finck, was cross–examined by an assistant district attorney, Alvin Oser. His testimony, part of which is reproduced below, is remarkable for two reasons:

• He states that senior military officers had taken an active part in proceedings, and he implies that they were in charge of the autopsy.
• He admits, after trying hard to avoid the question, that the pathologists were forbidden to dissect the president’s back and throat wounds and the connecting tissue.

Mr. Oser: How many military personnel were present?

Dr. Finck: The room was crowded with military and civilian personnel and federal agents, Secret Service agents, FBI agents, for part of the autopsy, but I cannot give you a precise breakdown as regards the attendance of the people in that autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Mr Oser :

Colonel, did you feel that you had to take orders from the Army General that was there directing the autopsy?

Col. Finck :

No, because there were others, there were Admirals.

Mr Oser :

There were Admirals?

Col. Finck :

Oh, yes, there were Admirals, and when you are a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army you just follow orders, and at the end of the autopsy we were specifically told — as I recall it, it was by Admiral Kenney, the Surgeon General of the Navy — this is subject to verification — we were told not to discuss the case.

Mr Oser :

You were told not to discuss the case?

Col. Finck :

— to discuss the case without coordination with the Attorney General.

(State of Louisiana vs. Clay L. Shaw, Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, 198–059 1426(30) section C, transcript, pp.51f)

Mr Oser :

Doctor, speaking of the wound to the throat area of the President as you described it, after this bullet passed through the President’s throat in the manner in which you described it, would the President have been able to talk?

Col. Finck :

I don’t know.

Mr Oser :

Do you have an opinion?

Col. Finck :

There are many factors influencing the ability to talk or not to talk after a shot.

Mr Oser :

Did you have an occasion to dissect the track of that particular bullet in the victim as it lay on the autopsy table?

Col. Finck :

I did not dissect the track in the neck.

Mr Oser :

Why?

Col. Finck :

This leads us into the disclosure of medical records.

Mr Oser :

Your Honor, I would like an answer from the Colonel and I would ask The Court so to direct.

Judge :

That is correct, you should answer, Doctor.

Col. Finck :

We didn’t remove the organs of the neck.

Mr Oser :

Why not, Doctor?

Col. Finck :

For the reason that we were told to examine the head wounds and that the —

Mr Oser :

Are you saying someone told you not to dissect the track?

Judge :

Let him finish his answer.

Col. Finck :

I was told that the family wanted an examination of the head, as I recall, the head and the chest, but the prosectors in this autopsy didn’t remove the organs of the neck, to my recollection.

Mr Oser :

You have said that they did not. I want to know why didn’t you as an autopsy pathologist attempt to ascertain the track through the body which you had on the autopsy table in trying to ascertain the cause or causes of death? Why?

Col. Finck :

I had the cause of death.

Mr Oser :

Why did you not trace the track of the wound?

Col. Finck :

As I recall I didn’t remove these organs from the neck.

Mr Oser :

I didn’t hear you.

Col. Finck :

I examined the wounds but I didn’t remove the organs of the neck.

Mr Oser :

You said you didn’t do this; I am asking you why didn’t [you] do this as a pathologist?

Col. Finck :

From what I recall I looked at the trachea, there was a tracheotomy wound the best I can remember, but I didn’t dissect or remove these organs.

Mr Oser :

Your Honor, I would ask Your Honor to direct the witness to answer my question. I will ask you the question one more time: Why did you not dissect the track of the bullet wound that you have described today and you saw at the time of the autopsy at the time you examined the body? Why? I ask you to answer that question.

Col. Finck :

As I recall I was told not to, but I don’t remember by whom.

Mr Oser :

You were told not to but you don’t remember by whom?

Col. Finck :

Right.

Mr Oser :

Could it have been one of the Admirals or one of the Generals in the room?

Col. Finck :

I don’t recall.

Mr Oser :

Do you have any particular reason why you cannot recall at this time?

Col. Finck :

Because we were told to examine the head and the chest cavity, and that doesn’t include the removal of the organs of the neck.

Mr Oser :

You are one of the three autopsy specialists and pathologists at the time, and you saw what you described as an entrance wound in the neck area of the President of the United States who had just been assassinated, and you were only interested in the other wound but not interested in the track through his neck, is that what you are telling me?

Col. Finck :

I was interested in the track and I had observed the conditions of bruising between the point of entry in the back of the neck and the point of exit at the front of the neck, which is entirely compatible with the bullet path.

Mr Oser :

But you were told not to go into the area of the neck, is that your testimony?

Col. Finck :

From what I recall, yes, but I don’t remember by whom.

Take a close look at the Croft ladies.

 The location was well past the monument. In the background, you can see the white restraining wall that was part of the pergola. And if you look in the farthest distance, you see the service road with cars and trucks, and then you see the end of the TSBD. But, it's a long way from the intersection. Note the short African-American lady in the blue dress, and next to her, taller African-American women in darker clothes. 

You can see the short lady in the blue dress and the taller women in frame 39 of the Z-film. 

Compare the whole lineup to Croft, and see that they are the same.

Note that down from the man in the white shirt is a woman in red. It's the same group of people. 

But, what are they doing up at the intersection in the Zapruder film?

I don't know exactly how they did this, but I know what they were trying to do. They were trying to compact the space between the intersection and the freeway sign. 

You can see that LBJ's convertible is still on Houston. It hasn't even begun to turn yet. And the Presidential limo has just finished the turn, while the Queen Mary is still rounding the corner. So, that is the very top of Dealey Plaza. So, how could the freeway sign, which was down by the pergola, be this high? 

That's the freeway sign, and you can see it was a long way from the intersection. Now, I am going to rifle these back and forth.

 

So, what was going on here that they needed to make Kennedy reach the freeway sign much sooner than he did? What was going on was that he was shot in the back high on hill, and he rode down the hill to the sign reacting to having been shot in the back. All that had to be cut out of the Zapruder film. They had to make it that he was smiling and waving until he reached the freeway sign, and then everything (except the fatal head shot) happened behind the sign. That was their story, and they were sticking to it. And it is in keeping with what Dan Rather said on November 25, that just 35 yards from the intersection, JFK was hit in the back, and he lurched forward. 

From the time he was hit in the back, he was a changed man. He stopped smiling and waving and engaging with spectators. Rapid changes were happening in his body. He didn't understand what they were, and his mind- his cognitive ability- was rapidly deteriorating. It was then that Jackie turned and looked at him and saw the quizzical look on his face. And from that point on, she forgot about working the crowd on her side of the street, and she kept her eyes on him. She was concerned. She knew he wasn't himself. She knew something had happened.  

"I was looking this way, to the left, and I heard these terrible noises. You know. And my husband never made any sound. So I turned to the right. And all I remember is seeing my husband, he had this sort of quizzical look on his face."

All that got cut out of the Zapruder film. And there is something I didn't realize until yesterday: They didn't decide ahead of time to claim that a single bullet traversed Kennedy and Connally, but they did decide ahead of time to claim that a bullet traversed Kennedy. 

I used to wonder why they shot him in the throat if they planned to claim that all the shots came from the rear. They shot him in the throat to create what they would call an exit wound for the shot to his back. And you know that the Secret Service agents did not allow Dr. Humes to dissect the back wound or the neck wound. That was decided in advance too. They knew that the shallowness of the back wound be a problem, that a bullet could never stop that short. An ice flechette could but not a bullet. It could never decelerate that fast. The wound was too shallow and superficial to have been a bullet wound, especially from a high-powered military rifle. If you think about the speed the bullet had to be going when it hit him (about 2000 ft/sec) how could it reach zero velocity in the space of one inch? So, they knew ahead of time that they could not let the shallowness of that wound become known. Now, you can understand why Secret Service agents demanded to take possession of JFK's body and not allow the Dallas coroner to conduct the autopsy, in accordance with Texas law. You can be sure that those SS agents would have resorted to force, if necessary. They would have drawn guns or used physical force to get that body.  

Kennedy was hit high on the hill with a drug-laced ice flechette, and he started reacting to it immediately. All that got cut out of the Zapruder film. 

Here again is Z-198. JFK is about to be hit. He's still waving there. 

You can see his head is turned, right? He is working the crowd. So, he hasn't been shot. 

Now, he's looking straight ahead. His hand is over his face, but note how indistinct it is. It's lost all detail. And Jackie is looking at him there. And don't assume it was just 1/9 second later because they removed a lot of frames. But, we have no other reference point but the Zapruder film, and frame 200 is as good as any to designate his first reaction to being hit. But, this was long before the freeway sign. The freeway sign in the Zapruder film is fake.