now you have 4.5 - 5.5 plus seconds where the SS agents fail to react, after Connally and JFK are wounded.
are you ok with this?
Fail to react how? By spraying everyone in Dealy Plaza with machine gun fire? What exactly would you have had them do within the limitations of the human mind and body?
The agents looked but saw nothing as confirmed by Altgens' photo. (I
really recommend that you get a copy larger than a postage stamp.) That's hardly surprising since Oswald had the full element of surprise and plenty of time to hide himself in one of many identical-looking windows in a plaza with many masonry walls forming an echo chamber.
Are you even bothering to read what anyone else says here? I could have
sworn that just yesterday I pointed out the people in the Altgens photo who are all turned away from JFK, looking back at the corner of the TSBD? And yes, even up.
Oh god. Connally reacted because he got
shot. His wife reacted because she was right next to him and realized what was happening. I suppose for completeness you should say that JFK reacted too. So did Jackie, though her reaction wasn't especially helpful. She was a 34-year-old first lady, not a professional personal protection agent.
You keep citing the Zapruder film. Now if you were to actually bother to watch it yourself you just
might notice an agent, Clint Hill, leaping off the left front running board of the followup car and running for the presidential limousine. He stumbles and nearly trips as the limousine accelerates, but he climbs onto the trunk and pushes Jackie (who had climbed onto the trunk) back in her seat. He saves her from quite likely being run over at a considerable risk of the same happening to him. Then he shields both her and JFK with his own body until they reached Parkland Hospital. Other witnesses and pictures confirm him clinging to the trunk of the car all the way to the hospital at extremely high speed.
Do you consider that "basically watching"?
The simple fact is that Secret Service agents are human beings with all the usual human limitations. JFK specifically asked that they not hide him from the public. They protested, but he was the boss and they had to comply. This made it difficult for them to do their jobs, especially by getting quickly from the followup car to the limousine, but JFK was fatalistic about it. Eventually his luck ran out. He died, and they got blamed for it.
I'm too tired of your nonsense to rebut the rest of your comment here, but that doesn't mean I haven't taken notice of it. There are plenty of entirely logical explanations for what you call "stand downs" (i.e., that the only actual "stand downs" were those JFK requested himself so as to not block his view of the public). So I won't repeat them here, at least not yet.
Say what? Are you trying so hard to pin this on anyone
but Oswald that the overwhelming evidence of his guilt -- of
two murders, not just one -- is meaningless?
In the same way that Nixon controlled the information about the Watergate break-in, or Clinton controlled the information about his private consensual sexual affairs with Monica Lewinsky? Dear god, do you need a lesson in common sense to figure this out or what?
Like it or not, there are some pretty sick people in this country who do some extremely (self) destructive things that don't make sense to rational people. Fortunately they're a small minority, and most of them remain safely anonymous through a simple lack of opportunity.
But when the most powerful man in the world, arguably possessing the largest ego in the world, repeatedly exposes himself (!) in an open convertible to vast numbers of people all around the world, sooner or later his luck will run out. He will, by pure chance, encounter one of those sick souls with both the means and the opportunity to make his permanent mark on the world.
Besides the one Lee Harvey Oswald that we know about, there were probably hundreds of other Oswalds who never happened to get a job in a building along a street that would later be chosen for a JFK motorcade. And that's the only reason we know Lee Harvey Oswald's name, not one of those hundreds of other Oswalds.