Chris Crichton gave me the idea to do this, and I thank him. Start by looking at the Willis crop in the upper left. That picture was taken no more than a second before the throat shot, according to Congressman Phil Willis, who took it. Look closely and you'll see Abraham Zapruder standing on his pedestal. He's facing Kennedy, and he has been tracking Kennedy the whole time. So, he has been swinging himself, and his camera, around to his right to keep Kennedy in view and center-frame as he came down the hill. I want you to notice where the Stemmons freeway sign is in relation to him, Zapruder. Notice the size of it, the shape of it, and the angle that it has, which is 45 degrees to the road, like all road signs.

Now, with your mind's eye, imagine Zapruder turned and facing the top of Elm when JFK's limo was turning from Houston. I added a white line to help you. So, imagine Zapruder tracking that white line. when he was aiming his camera in that direction.

Would the Stemmons Freeway sign even enter his camera field? No! In fact, all you have to do is back JFK up a little ways, in your mind, say to the right edge of the Willis photo, and the sign would not have intruded on Zapruder's camera field.

The truth is that the sign wasn't that big, and at 45 degrees angle to the road, it did not intrude all that much on the view.

But now, look at the Zapruder film, frame 99, which is upper right. You see how much the sign intrudes on the view. And the bottom frame is my attempt to depulicate the Zapruder film with the Stemmons freeway sign restored (someone was holding a light-weight version of it) in which you can see that the sign did not intrude on the image at all in my frame 99.

This proves that the sign that we see in the Zapruder film is fake. Again, I thank Chris Crichton.

This collage plainly shows the contrast between JFK waving and not waving. The vertical column on the left shows him waving. He's turned towards the spectators, looking at them, and waving at them. 

The vertical column on the right shows him not waving, and that's  because he has been shot. He's facing straight ahead. He is not turned towards the spectators. He is paying no attention to them. He is completely absorbed in what is happening to him, internally. And it appears that he has his hand over his face, covering it up, though actually, that is something that they did to hide the distressed look he must have had on his face. It was before Photoshop. They did it with paint. 

 

If we dismiss the claim that the back shot and the throat shot were continuous, and we should for multiple reasons: including that the bullet path would have impacted the spinal cord, as per Dr. David Mantik, and the fact that Dr. Humes said the back wound was 7 mm wide and Dr. Perry said the throat wound was 5 mm wide. How could an exit wound be smaller than an entrance wound when a bullet, cutting through the body, pushes along a head of tissue? 

And remember: they could have dissected Kennedy and found out for sure, but they didn't. 

So, if we dismiss the single bullet traversing Kennedy as mere fiat, a State decree, what are we left with? 

We are left with a shallow wound in his back with no missile found and a shallow wound in his throat with no missile found.

But, how could a bullet traveling at 2000 feet per second be stopped, and I mean reach zero velocity over the course of one inch of travel just by passing through skin, fascia, and muscle? How can those tissues put up enough resistance to stop such a bullet in an inch? 

The theory arose that it was a "short shot"; that there wasn't enough gunpowder, or defective gunpowder, resulting in a weak bullet that could be stopped easily. 

But, that is nonsense, and I want you to read this by Robert Prudhomme, who is Canadian: 

A bullet entering the back at the level of T3 and 1.5-2 inches to the right of the spine would have nowhere to go but into the Right Upper Lung (RUL). 

As I have pointed out many times, it has long been held as fact that the bullet that hit JFK's back only penetrated the flesh of his back a mere inch; not far enough to enter JFK's right pleural cavity. This shallow penetration, supposedly probed by Commander Humes' finger, is credited to a phenomenon known as a "short shot", in which a rifle cartridge is either loaded with an insufficent gunpowder charge or the entirety of the gunpowder charge in the cartridge does not ignite, drastically reducing the muzzle velocity of the bullet.

In order to reduce the penetrating power of a 6.5mm Carcano bullet, at a 50 yard range, to the point where this bullet will not penetrate more than an inch in soft tissue, its normal muzzle velocity of 2200 feet per second would have to be reduced to less than about 400 feet per second (fps). This presents all kinds of problems in a) accurately hitting within 20 feet of your target and  actually getting the bullet to its target.

If you have a rifle that is properly sighted in at a range of, for argument sake, 100 yards, and you chamber a good round into the breech, hitting a target at 50-100 yards is a simple matter of aiming and squeezing the trigger. However, bullets begin to drop as soon as they leave the barrel, and if that bullet leaves the barrel travelling at 1/5th the expected velocity, and the shooter is aiming in a normal fashion and expecting his bullet to be travelling 2200 fps, that bullet will end up impacting the ground (or pavement) far short of the aim point. In the case of JFK, I would not even expect it to hit the back of the limo. This is why it is called a "short shot", as the bullet impacts far "short" of the point of aim.

The next problem you would have with such a slow moving bullet is stability in flight. While the rifling grooves in the rifle's barrel that impart a gyroscopic spin to the bullet in flight account for most of the bullet's stability, the velocity that bullet is travelling at also plays a big part in whether the bullet remains stable in flight, or whether it begins to yaw and tumble on its way to its target. I have seen this problem when handloading rifle cartridges and experimenting with different types of gunpowder, different loads of gunpowder and different weights and styles of bullets. Just by changing the velocity of the bullet slightly, by adding more or less gunpowder, it is possible to over- or under-stabilize a bullet, with the resulting "keyhole" effect on a paper target. A "keyhole" is when a tumbling bullet goes through a paper target side on, leaving the inevitable "keyhole" in the target instead of a round hole. If a bullet still travelling in excess of 2000 fps can be under-stabilized by a reduction in velocity, imagine the lack of stability in the typical 2200 fps bullet reduced in velocity to only 400 fps.

Quite frankly, I don't believe such a slow bullet could have ever made it to JFK's back, making the shallow back wound a myth; at least in my eyes anyways.

Now, I want to point out that Dr. Humes said that the back bullet came in at a downward inclination of 45 to 60 degrees, and that is complete, total nonsense. The angle of inclination from the 6th floor window was 18 degrees. One would have to shoot from a helicopter to get an inclination of 45 to 60 degrees. 

But, the point is that the short shot theory is total nonsense. A short shot would not have reached Kennedy at all. It would have fallen to the ground before it got to him. 

And let's harp on the fact that no back bullet was found, not at the autopsy nor in the x-rays. I know that many people have helped themselves to the "it fell out" theory, but that's nonsense too. JFK was wearing a shirt and jacket, and I presume a t-shirt, which remained on him. So, for a bullet to "work itself out", it would have had to backtrack through the same holes in his clothes that were created when it entered. How could it possibly do that? It couldn't. The people who claim it are idiots. And then, the idiots claim either that the bullet, after coming out, got caught in the seat (how?) or that it fell to the floor of the limo (again, how?) It's all mindless blather, and that includes Paul Landis, who recently claimed that he's the one who found the bullet "stuck to the seat" and decided, on the spur of the moment, to alter history and plant it on a stretcher in the hospital. Such nonsense. It's noise. Disinfo noise. 

The back shot definitely was shallow; extremely shallow. The wound contained no bullet, and that's because the missile dissolved. Now, I will admit that that is not what Robert Prudhomme concluded. He concluded that it must have been a frangible or explosive bullet. But, that isn't reasonable either because JFK was shot in the head with a frangible or explosive bullet, and the result was that numerous tiny bullet fragments were seen in his brain. Nothing comparable to that was found in JFK's lung or elsewhere. 

And it's easy to understand why they used a frangible bullet in shooting him in the head from the north side of Elm: BECAUSE JACKIE WAS SITTING ON THE OTHER SIDE. They couldn't risk an FMJ bullet traversing his head and striking her. They needed her to be standing next to LBJ when he was sworn in, LIKE SHE WAS A SURROGATE FOR JFK, BESTOWING HIS BLESSING ON THE WHOLE EVIL PROCEEDING. 

So, they didn't want to hurt or kill her, and hence, they used a frangible bullet for the fatal head shot. But, they had no reason to use a frangible bullet to shoot him in the back. 

And why shoot him in the back if they were trying to kill him? Why didn't they shoot him in the head? And, the right side of the back is not the side that the heart is on. So, they weren't going to kill him with that shot. So, what was the point of wounding him? 

It's what I've been saying: that shot was a frozen projectile with a toxic payload. The weapon for it definitely existed. It's neither a pipe dream nor a fantasy. If you'd like to read the discussion about the back shot on Education Forum, here is the link. And you'll notice that Ron Ecker tries to straighten Robert Prudhomme out about what really happened. Good-on-ya, Ron. You the Man. 

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/22956-jfks-shallow-back-wound-revisited-for-the-umpteenth-time/

Thank you, Tim Cruise I just sent this link you posted to some very prominent JFK researchers, and this is what I told them.

It's from two weeks ago, a tv station in Arizona. And it looks to be a regular station, that is: mainstream media. It's about new research by a forensic lab that proves that the bullet that hit Kennedy in the back could not possibly have gone on to hit Connally. In other words, the presumed bullet from the 6th floor window had its trajectory, and when they considered the exact locations of Kennedy and Connally in respect to that trajectory, Connally was not positioned correctly. He would have had to be much farther to his left to be aligned properly to take the bullet coming out of JFK. That's what they're claiming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8XOQD1hEE


As I watched it, I asked myself, why are they allowing this? And then I found out. It's because even though they were trashing the SBT, they were keeping Oswald as 6th floor gunman. And that is the most important thing to them. It always has been.
From the very beginning they did polls: "Do you think Oswald acted alone or was part of a conspiracy?" That's like: "Heads I win; Tails you lose."
So, they're basically repeating the HSCA mantra that there were multiple shooters, but Oswald was definitely one of them. It makes me wonder if they are preparing to change the official story to Oswald plus one or more others. They have never minded if people wanted to think that. Just don't say that Oswald was innocent.
I hope you realize that the HSCA was just as evil as the WC. So, shifting from WC to HSCA is no advance at all. However, their doing such a drastic switcharoo after 60 years would show the world how desperate they are, and eyes would start to open.
The official story of Oswald as lone gunman, as well as the official story of Oswald plus another shooter, they are both houses of cards and will collapse. But, I hope they go for the switch because it will expose how weak and helpless they are.
Ralph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8XOQD1hEE

 Matthev Hagar created this image to bring to life Dan Rather's description of the Z-film on November 25 ,1963. Rather said that 35 yards from the intersection, the President was hit for the first time, and it caused him to lunge forward. He didn't say where JFK was hit, but he certainly wasn't hit in the head, and the throat shot did not cause him to lunge forward. So, it must have been the back shot.

Matthev Hagar did the measuring, so to speak, and this is what he came up with. Well, that is exactly where I have been saying all along, as the location where JFK took the first shot. And he rode down the hill reacting to that shot, until he reached the sign and was hit in the throat. Then, right about when he was adjacent to Zapruder, he received the fatal head shot.

So, that is what happened to him. But again, if he was shot in the back with a bullet high on the hill, why didn't he go into survival mode? Why didn't he do what he did on the PT 109? Why did he just sit there waiting to be shot again?

It wasn't a regular shot. And it delivered a toxic payload that started shutting down his brain and freezing up his muscles to immobilize him. That's why he didn't react and that's why he didn't say anything. He was incapacitated.

Let's consider what Dan Rather said on November 25, 1963 after viewing the original Zapruder film. 

He said that you can see the limo making a left turn from Houston Street onto Elm. Well, you know very well that we don't see that in Zapruder film today So, they cut that out.

Then, he said that 35 yards from the intersection, you can see the President lurch forward from being hit with the first shot. He demonstrated. 

You know that we don't see that in the Zapruder film. 

Think about how short 35 yards is. So, imagine a football field and the distance from the 50 yard line to the end zone. It's about 2/3 of that distance. 

Well, he could not have been talking about the shot when JFK was behind the freeway sign because that freeway sign was a lot farther than 35 yards from the intersection. It had to be at least 60 yards.

So, forget about the Single Bullet Theory. JFK was first shot in the back about 35 yards from the intersection. Then, he was shot in the throat when he was behind the Stemmons freeway sign in relation to Zapruder. This diagram shows the sequence of the shots that struck him.

So now, the question is: if he was stuck shallowly in the back, at a harmless spot in his back, which did no significant physical damage, and no mental damage whatsoever, why didn't he respond? Why didn't he take action; evasive, defensive action? Why didn't he get down and get Jackie to get down? Why didn't he tell the driver to floor it? Why is it that he just sat there and did absolutely nothing? 

The answer is: he must have been incapacitated, and I mean mentally. He wasn't incapacitated physically. It was like nothing more than a scratch physically. But very rapidly, the toxic payload of that shot start circulating in his system, shutting down his cognitive ability, and turning him into a zombie; a spastic, immobile zombie.  

That really is what happened to him. So, stop fighting it. There is no other theory that explains the facts of the case and what we see of him in the Zapruder film than this. It has to be this. 

 

The Timing of the Back Shot and the Throat Shot 

Three shots struck the President. The third one is the one that killed him. That was the fatal head shot, which struck him as he was passing Zapruder at 313. But, don't assume the red cloud was real.

The first two shots were fairly minor. The back shot was little more than a scratch.  It was an ice bullet whose purpose was to deliver the nerve agent. The purpose of the throat shot was to create a hole in his neck. It was a flechette, but not a  frozen one, and I don't know that it contained any drug. However, the throat shot was more serious because of its location. He would have needed surgery for it, which he would not have needed for the back shot. But, he would have been back to work full-time in a few weeks, at the most, and he would have been working part-time much sooner than that.  

The back shot, which had the poison, came first, and that occurred at frame 189 in the Zapruder film. 

So, he was fine and waving in 189, and then in 190, it's more blurry and his hand is covering his face. So, the ice bullet hit him between the two. And that face-covering continued until he disappeared behind the freeway sign. 

Of course, JFK did NOT do that. He did not cover his face. His face must have looked stricken and alarmed, since he was shot, and since, officially, he wasn't shot yet, they had to cover that up. So, they put his hand over his face. It's art.

No witness reported that JFK covered his face with his hand. And Jackie turned and started looking at him shortly after that, and she never said he covered his face. On the contrary, she said he had a "quizzical" look on his face.  

So, Z-189 is when JFK was shot in the back with the ice bullet that was laced with a nerve toxin. The shot was taken from the Dal-Tex building. Then, he rode down the steepest part of the hill that way, as the poison seeped into him. 

Z-225 is when JFK emerges from behind the freeway sign reacting to having been shot in the throat. He was in a panic due to his airway being blocked. 

So, raised his right hand to his mouth and coughed, and with his left hand he yanked on his tie. But, he performed this motion in a very uncoordinated way. He lifted his elbows up, which was unnecessary. He also severely hunched his shoulders. This was dyskinesia, the result of the nerve agent, where he was losing control of his muscles and going into a spastic state. 

Kennedy was not "paralyzed," although many have used that term. Paralysis refers to the complete denervation of a muscle, where it can't get any signals from its nerve to contract. That was not going on with Kennedy. The fact is that muscles also depend on nerves to tell them to STOP contracting, and that's what the nerve agent interfered with: the cessation of contraction. In Z-232 (above) JFK was reacting to the obstruction in his breathing that was caused by the throat shot. And he was contracting his own muscles. He did lift his hands to his mouth and throat. If his muscles were paralyzed, he would not have been able to do that. It was not a Thorburn reaction; it was a voluntary reaction. But, it was executed in a dysfunctional and uncoordinated way. Normally, when you want to lift your hands to your mouth and throat, you do a rotary motion with your elbows, so that just your hands go up. He didn't need to lift his elbows up like that. You can also see the extreme contraction of his posterior muscles, where he is hunching his shoulders severely. That wasn't necessary or helpful either. It's all very excessive. It is dyskinesia. He wasn't paralyzed. He was the opposite of paralyzed; he was spastic. But, what he was trying to do was clear his airway, either of the projectile or a bolus of blood. And he apparently succeeded because after that, his breathing was no longer a problem. 

So, Kennedy was shot in the back high on the hill at Z-189. It was right before the Croft photo was taken. Kennedy had barely passed the Obelisk when he was shot in the back. 

Then, he rode down the hill that way, affected only by the back shot, but being overwhelmed by it, which is why he didn't wave in Croft, nor in Betzner, nor in Willis. And then, after that, he was shot in the throat. What was the Z frame that corresponded to the throat shot? We can only guess, but his reaction was underway in 225, so it could not have been more than a few frames before that. So, I'll say 222. 

Subtracting 189 from 222 would suggest around 2 seconds between the back shot, which came first, and the throat shot. However, a huge swath of the Z-film was cut out. If you ask yourself what frames of the Z-film correspond to Croft, Betzner, and Willis, don't bother. They were cut out. The red swath represents the part that was removed.

The story of the Z-film became that Kennedy rode down the hill untouched until he reached the freeway sign, and then one shot hit him which traversed him from back to front. They installed the phony freeway sign in the Zapruder film to tell that story. But, that is not what happened. He was hit in the back first and then he rode down the hill, disassociating from what was going on, and drawing attention from Jackie, who stopped working her side of the street, instead puzzling over him and his "quizzical" look. And then he was shot in the throat behind the sign at Z-222.

So, what was the real span of time between Shot 1 and Shot 2? I can only guess, but it could have been 10 seconds. You just can't go by what you see in the Zapruder film. It was severely altered and compressed, and more so than researchers have ever imagined. And they eliminated the slowing down and near-stopping of the limo, which also reduced the time between shots, profoundly. And that's why you can't go by the timing of anything in the Zapruder film.