Explaining the Shooting of Governor John Connally

It’s fall, the temperature is falling, the leaves are turning and with November here, we have some repeats to watch on the cable networks.

The History Channel will show one of their favorites, ABC’s documentary “Beyond Conspiracy” featuring Peter Jennings and a computer animation which shows a bullet that hit President Kennedy’s back four inches below his collar but then the bullet allegedly exited his neck after nicking the upper part of the knot of his tie, and then it goes down at approximately a 25 degree down angle to hit Governor Connally in his back. It’s amazing what computers can show.

We’ll also most likely see the Discovery Channel’s explanation of the assassination in “Beyond the Magic Bullet.” This show also features Dale Meyers’ computer animation, the same one used in “Beyond Conspiracy.” The show goes beyond the previous documentary as the producers go to Australia to get an expert shooter to attempt to duplicate the magic bullet, the shot that hit both JFK and Governor Connally. The shots they fire are aimed at figures composed of material which act like human muscle and bone when a bullet is fired into them.

For over 40 years we’ve heard and seen documentaries which talk about strange details in the JFK assassination investigation and reports. We first had the Warren Commission appointed by President Johnson with the main purpose to show that a lone gunman fired three shots at the limousine and wounded JFK, Governor Connally and a bystander too. We then had the House Subcommittee on Assassinations investigation in 1978 which investigated additional evidence in part because the Zapruder film was first shown to the American public on night TV in 1975. One of the newer pieces of evidence was the finding that the Dallas Police radio channel recorded a stuck open microphone during the time of the assassination and may have actually recorded the actual gunshots.

In 1991 the movie “JFK” again ignited the public’s curiosity about the assassination with “back and to the right” along with witnesses saying they saw another gunman. The government again responded and gave us the Records Review Act which released even more information about the murder. In 1997, the Zapruder film was digitized and now we can see even more details in the film. And in 2001, a statistical analysis was published concerning the Dallas Police recording with the finding there were five shots captured by the recording. A gunshot and it’s reflections off objects is like a fingerprint in that it’s fairly unique and dependent on where the shooter is and where the microphone is that captured the sounds, and the objects such as buildings that the sounds reflect off of.

Although we’ve heard about “discrepancies” for years in documentaries such as the “Men Who Killed Kennedy,” we’ve also had some documentaries disappear from the airways as the History Channel found them not to be accurate such as the “Guilty Men”, a documentary that fingered Vice-President Johnson and other cronies in a Texas murder ring.

The story in my opinion will not die as so many of the “facts” don’t seem to fit reality. We need to see something that makes sense.

Last year I met with one of the best known critics of the Warren Commission. I showed Dr. Cyril Wecht that one assumption made in the killing had led virtually everyone to make incorrect conclusions in the case. That assumption is that all of Governor Connally’s wounds were caused by one bullet when in fact Governor Connally was wounded by two separate shots which were both fired from the Texas School Book Depository. Dr. Wecht’s questions and observations led me to do more research which I’m still working on.

But what I want to show you today is when Governor Connally was wounded, something that has never been shown correctly on any of the documentaries or in any of the books that I’ve reviewed. You see, experts such as Dr. Wecht have been arguing about what did not happen. Instead, let’s show you what actually did happen.

To briefly familiarize you with the Zapruder Film frame numbers, Z frame number 313 will be called Z313. The following are a few major frame numbers for familiarization.

Z=160 Some theorize the first shot from the Texas School Book Depository, we see Gov. Connally’s head movement to the right shortly afterwards

Z=220 We first see President Kennedy emerge from behind the sign, clutching his throat and obviously wounded

Z=220 to Z=324 Governor Connally turns to look over his shoulder toward what he thinks are gunshots

With the film speed of 18.3 frames/second, things happened quickly, too quick for 1960’s technology and the lack of accurate information they had to extract the truth. What we can see now in individual frames captured and edited was not possible even a few years ago when everything was analogue. And of course, nobody looked at Governor Connally closely after JFK's head shot at Z=313. Most everyone was sure all the serious action was over.

To those of you who remember the basic scenarios of the Warren Commission and the other numerous theories, the descriptions shown above concerning Connally’s wounds are new. And as I’ll show you, it isn’t a theory, it’s the only times Governor Connally could have been wounded in the eight seconds from the first shot until the last was fired.

With literally thousands of books and hour after hour of documentaries on what must surely be the most investigated murder in history, at this time let’s concentrate on Governor Connally’s wounds. Once you understand the only way possible that Governor Connally could have been wounded based on the facts we have, then not only can we understand how both men were wounded, it will once and for all reveal how the Guilty Men pulled this off.

The first question concerns the last shot shown above at Z=325. The Warren Commission concluded the last shot was the fatal head shot at Z=313 but was faced with testimony such as one of the best witnesses, Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman who sat in the Limo directly in front of Governor Connally. During his Warren Commission testimony, Kellerman spoke of the ending of the shooting as a “flurry” of shots. When pressed for how many, he said two. He described the spacing of the last two shots as bang-bang. When Arlen Specter pressed him again, he said it was like an airplane breaking the sound barrier (the front of the plane breaks the sound barrier before the rear of the plane, hence you hear bang-bang also).

When Arlen Specter asked the spacing between the first shot and the flurry of shots, Kellerman said three to five seconds.

When we look at the Zapruder film, we see at Z=325 the collapse forward and downward movement of Connally’s head. Looking at the sequence in real time, we see Connally driven quickly forward with his head snapping forward when he is shot. Further confirmation is given when you look at the analysis of the Dallas Police Recording. The difference between the Z=313 shot and the last shot is 0.7 seconds or approximately 12 frames.

We now have a credible witness, a recording, and the best motion picture of the assassination showing agreement that a shot was fired at Z=325.

But listen to a recent explanation of the Zapruder film factoring in the Dallas Police Recording. The reasons for Dr. Thomas' confusion and his trying to cling to the Warren Commission's are easily explained, but I'll leave that for later. Listen to the description of the last shot, "fired almost simultaneously" but they didn't even look to see what it might have done.

A Warren Commission supporter will tell you that Governor Connally could not have been shot after Kennedy was shot because his leg wound does not line up with the shot trajectory through his body and through his right wrist. And, of course, there were only three bullets fired from the TSBD.

The hole in their argument is that Connally was indeed wounded earlier by a bullet fragment which entered Governor Connally’s leg. And note the importance of the fact to this investigation that it was a bullet fragment, not an intact bullet. That Connally was hit by a bullet fragment to his left leg is well documented but many of today’s documentaries incorrectly describe that the left leg wound was caused by an intact bullet which then fell out of his leg later at the hospital.

Three bullet fragments were found under Nellie Connally’s seat (CE840), who sat directly to the left of Governor Connally. It’s therefore credible that the bullet fragment that John Connally’s left leg is from the CE840 shot.

To test this “theory” against the Warren Commission’s, I took some of the better known observations in the JFK assassination list and compared the Z=325 scenario against the Warren Commission scenario. This is a quick way to see how facts fit against both theories.

(1) If seriously wounded at approximately Z=220, this turn would be incredible for a man wounded so seriously.

(2) Connally’s right wrist is allegedly broken by the shot at Z=220, it’s not reasonable to believe he could hold his hat for over 5 seconds

(3) Both Nellie and John Connally were actually very sure he was not wounded by the same bullet that first struck JFK. At a showing of the Zapruder film, John Connally guessed that he was wounded closer to Z=238. If the Dallas Police recording is valid, there is no shot fired at that time. Roy Kellerman’s testimony also stated that it was 3-5 seconds before the last two shots after the first.

(4) The Single Bullet supporters such as Dr. Latimer use this as support that the bullet which hit Gov. Connally in the back struck something else first. Experimental shots show that a bullet passing through tissue like JFK’s upper body tends to roll over; hence the wider scar that was left in Gov. Connally’s back. This is not proof, however, that the bullet struck something else before it entered John Connally’s back.

(5) FBI agent O’Neal described the autopsy discovery of the bullet wound to Kennedy’s back and then said no point of exit was discovered by probing with both the doctor’s finger and instruments.

The above table indicates based on some of the information commonly discussed concerning the assassination that the Z=325 scenario has merit. When you look at the location of the shot to JFK’s back (four inches below the collar) and the fact that after exiting his neck, the bullet next has to be traveling at a 25 degree down angle; this is probably the major reason the single bullet theory has been so disbelieved.

Is that enough of an introduction? I’ll tell you later the rest of the story as for this to be credible, there had to be at least six shots with three different shooters according to one of the doctors involved in the Warren Commission investigation. But as I’ve shown so far, Governor Connally’s left leg wound was caused by a bullet which fragmented and hit both JFK and Governor Connally.

That reduces to five shots and three different shooters, three shots from the TSBD and two shots from the front of the limo, fired by two different shooters. And funny thing is, there were witnesses who saw them!

To give you a hint about the rest of the story, in Tip O’Neal’s book, “The Man of the House” he discusses a conversation with JFK aid Kenny O’Donnell who said he was quite sure there were two shot fired from the front. O’Donnell also tells why he did not tell the Warren Commission what he saw and heard when he testified.

The cover-up and the misinformation supplied by the government is as interesting as the shooting analysis itself. You see, for the government to get the investigation this wrong with testimony so clear, there had to be some interesting arm twisting going on. Arlen Specter, do you even today have a clue what you did? And Gerald Ford, the lone surviving member of the Warren Commission, you have to know something, don’t you? Or did both of you keep your heads buried in the sand as you were manipulated by the Guilty Men? The truth is buried in a Conspiracy of Silence, just like Dr. Crenshaw said in the first book I read on the subject.

And how could the major news media keep getting this so wrong? "We" will deal with you later.

If you check Tip O’Neal’s book, “The Man of the House”, you’ll see that he talks about Kenny O’Donnell’s description in the book of two shots that were fired from the front. Since O’Donnell was in one of the cars behind JFK’s, he had a unique position and describes later to Tip O’Neal why he did not tell what he saw correctly to the Warren Commission.

Now let’s look at the individual frames and see Connelly’s head snap downward immediately after the bullet hits him in the back. I drew a white line through the back of his head in each frame to make the rapid movement of his head clearer. This is the first time to my knowledge that this head movement has been documented. With 18.2 frames per second, it would be virtually impossible for Connally’s head to collapse without an external force.

Now that you see in just a couple of frames how Governor Connally's head rolled down as he was ducking forward from the Z=313 shot that hit JFK in the head, listen to his description of how he was thrown forward as he was shot in the back.

As you listen to Connally's description, the part about how he was hit in the back and thrown forward by the force of the bullet agrees with the Z=325 shot to Connally's back scenario very well, but then Govenor Connally goes on to describe how he then hears the fatal shot to JFK's head.

One of the reasons that this issue has been so confusing for so long is that many of the witnesses only got parts of what they said correct. Governor Connally, for example, did not see the head shot to President Kennedy as he was looking forward as he was turning to look over his left shoulder but he clearly says in his interview clip that JFK was shot after his back wound was received. Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman says he heard one shot followed by 3-5 seconds then two shots, bang-bang. Kellerman argues with Specter later trying to reason there had to be more shots than three but Kellerman never says he heard more than three. The shots Kellerman identifies are number 3, 4 and 5. Shot 3 fragments and hits both JFK and wounds Connally in the left leg with a bullet fragment, shot 4 is the fatal head shot at Z=313, and shot 5 is the shot to Connally's back at Z=325.

And later when other details are explained, the actual killers will be exposed. No investigation could get this so wrong without some serious arm twisting.

First, I said jam, not misfire, and second, consider this, from a refutation of Posner:

"Indeed, as Summers, Conspiracy, pp. 46-47, observes, "The original Mannlicher-Carcano [alleged to be Oswald's rifle] was an uncooperative piece of evidence, as army experts discovered after the assassination. As a spokesman put it, one of them 'had difficulty in opening the bolt in his first firing exercise. . . ' He added that, as newcomers to the weapon, 'The pressure to open the bolt was so great that we tended to move the rifle off the target . . .' An assassin using the Mannlicher-Carcano in Dealey Plaza may, of course, have known the quirks of his weapon, but this account suggests the gun was hardly ideal for feats of marksmanship." O'Toole reports the commission "also heard rifle experts testify that the telescopic sight could be easily knocked out of adjustment and that this would make accurate shooting with the gun unlikely, that shims had to be inserted to elevate and move the sight before the commission's three marksmen could fire the rifle accurately, and that, even using stationary targets, expert marksmen were unable to equal Oswald's alleged accuracy" (Assassination Tapes, p. 27). No doubt Posner has not read them either. He thus commits a nice example of the fallacy of equivocation: the tests were not done with Oswald's rifle in its original condition, because it was a terrible weapon. When he says "the FBI ran Oswald's gun through a series of rigorous tests", it was a reconstructed weapon that was not available to Oswald, so it is difficult to see how they concluded it was accurate."

Your source doesn't indicate "thousands of rounds" as you assert, but rather less than a thousand. Further, the tests measure the ammunition, not the specific condition of the rifle.

It is possible, I guess, that Oswald shot Kennedy with another rifle, or perhaps with the Mauser reported found "first" in the TSBD. That doesn't explain the head shot, but that's another issue. The MC was a piece of junk, and Oswald could have gotten a lot better rifle here in Texas a lot easier than ordering one from Chicago.

As cited in linky #3 of post #209 regarding the operational capabilities of the rifle reputedly used by Oswald, i.e., Mannlicher Carcano bolt-action:

[the author alleges being an]...owner of one of these weapons, [and] can personally confirm that it is not as bad as some critics have made it out to be. It is reasonably accurate, and easy to fire. In the hands of even a mediocre shooter, and with a little practice, it could certainly be a deadly weapon, entirely capable of delivering a fatal bullet from the 90 yards that separated the alleged sniper's nest from the President, at the instant of the explosive head shot.
Originally designed in the 19th century, it has a very stiff bolt action. Even when well lubricated, the act of ejecting a spent cartridge and reloading is awkward and slow. Extensive testing, carried out by FBI firearms experts as well as by the HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations), thirteen years later, confirmed that even expert riflemen generally required three or more seconds to reload, aim, and fire the weapon.
By the way, this issue should not be confused with the ancient argument that Oswald couldn't have fired all the shots in the roughly, five and one half seconds, the Warren Commission originally suggested. In more recent times, compelling arguments have been advanced, suggesting that the shots were spread out over a longer time span, more in the range of eight seconds. My own research suggests that this is probably correct, and that undoubtedly, this weapon was capable of producing three shots in such a time span. But the issue here is, whether shots were fired too closely together to have both come from this weapon. To answer that question, we must first determine what its limitations are. Fortunately, a great deal of testing has been done, to precisely resolve that question.

According to Warren Commission reports Vol. III, P. 404, Robert Frazier, an FBI firearms expert, testified concerning the firing rate of the MC bolt-action rifle. When one examines his testimony, keep in mind that the first shot doesn't take any time - the weapon is already loaded and aimed when the first shot was fired. Therefore, only the last two shots fired are actually of any consequence.

In his essay, Harris says:

But this became a moot question, when after repeated test firings, eight police sharpshooters and two committee staffers, aiming with both the telescopic scope and without it, were never able to hit their targets twice within that brief time span. There was just not enough time to operate the bolt action and acquire the target.⁴

The reference to footnote #4 is:

4. Despite the failure of every shooter in every test, the HSCA still concluded that Oswald could have carried out the feat, since there were a couple of near-misses.

This strikes me as author-opionion; I would've been been seriously shot down by my English composition instructor for such transgression.

That notwithstanding, and nevertheless, there is no citation supporting that statement. An inference needs to be made with respect to the previous two paragraphs, wherein in the latter of the two it was stated HCSA testing was done (and the former it was testing done by the author).

It all sounds pretty scientific to the technically undiscerning and uninitiated concerning the author's plea to set aside objections, and to examine the rifle's limitations. However, sloppy writing at best, and murky facts in the worst case, suggest to me that the writer's emotions are most leading the gunsight.

Are you suggesting that Gov. Connally was shot in the wrist 5 seconds after Pres. Kennnedy was shot in the back?

How do you know how long Gov. Connally held his hat after the back shot to Kennedy?

REPLY:

That's EXACTLY what happened. At 18.3 frames/second, you have the shot to JFK's back at approximately frame 220 (where we see JFK emerging from behind the sign with his hands to neck with the back shot and the neck shot complete) then we have for over 5 seconds John Connally TURNING around in his seat as NO MAN could do IF he had a back wound/chest wound as he did.

I put a couple of video links on the thread. The first two are of the Zapruder Film. Don't watch JFK as they come out from behind the sign, watch Connally. AS JFK is reacting to his wounds, watch Connally react to what is a minor wound, a bullet fragment ONLY to his left leg. You see him raise his hat and look toward his left.

Then Connally starts the turn to look over his RIGHT shoulder, he doesn't see anything, so he turns back to look over his LEFT shoulder but he never makes it.

As Connally is turning (and facing forward) the shot to JFK's head at Z=313 occurs, and the men in the front seats start to duck forward at Z=319. At Z=325, something different happens to Connally. His had SNAPS over as he is struck in the back with the bullet that was aimed at JFK's head. It misses because JFK is knocked violently to the rear and his left.

Then Connally is knocked forward by the force of the bullet.

The Warren Commission said that Nellie Connally pulled John over at that point and you can even hear one of the doctors say Nellie saved John's Life by pulling him over. Hardly possible as she could NOT have made him move like that.

So here we have a simple solution to HOW Gov. Connally was wounded. Now I only showed explained TWO shots to Connally.

THIS works and can the other shots can be explained.

Somebody would have talked is an argument frequently made, but they did. IF YOU WANT to get away with a huge lie like this, then simply IGNORE THE WITNESSES. It's a playbook you can NOT allow a goverment to have.

So, how come this is the FIRST time you've ever seen this talked about? That's now the interesting part to me!

Regards

And they're both wrong. The Zapruder film shows that Connally's suit lapel is moved by the same bullet that had passed through JFK and Connally.

REPLY:

Actually the SUIT LAPEL argument is wrong too. IF you'll look a few frames past that event you'll see his lapel bounces out BECAUSE Connally is raising his arms in response to the bullet fragment wound to his left leg, it is NOT the bullet and could NOT be the bullet that hit Kennedy. You'll see JFK is already raising his arms to his throat when the lapel bounces out, too late for a bullet to cause that movement. Failure Analysis and Dale Meyers both said this is a new discovery in the 2003 40th anniversary shows. They are both wrong.

ALso, look at Connally's shirt, do you see it covered in blood? Do you see Connally knocked forward by the force of the bullet that he talks about in the video clip I attached?

The answer is no, and it's because the lapel was simply MOVED by John Connally raising his arms as he did. That's the reaction to JFK's back shot, a bullet fragment from that hit him in the left leg. That is believable because there were THREE bullet fragments found under Nellie Connally's seat just to the left of John Connally's left leg.

Who cares what you think of Dr. Wecht. I found him helpful and inquisitive. I did find it interesting that HE NEVER considered a shot AFTER JFK's head shot even though witnesses said they heard TWO SHOTS at the end of the shooting, AND the Dallas Police Recording sad the SAME THING!

Dr. Wecht and I would disagree on many things, but I found Dr. Wecht and his son Ben were very helpful in my research. He also respected my request for confidentiality, you haven't heard of this, have you?

Me too, but the conspiracy kooks keep pushing it anyway. I have had coorespondence with Dale Meyers, the computer animator mentioned in the two shows I started out with. His animation is WRONG, but he would NOT meet with me to discuss it. I offered to go to Detroit at my expense to discuss it.

I'm sure he has had more than enough TrueBeliever(tm) conspiracy folks show up to scream at him already, he doesn't need more.

I appreciate the reply, but I don't expect you to believe me in just a couple of page presentation. I picked JUST the two shots that wounded John Connally as a topic, as the whole event is probably one of the most written about events in history, with more THEORIES, wild guesses and simple stupidity than probably any other event in history.

But IF you'll look at my pictures, think about this scenario vs. the Warren Commission explanation, it'll start to be at least PLAUSIBLE to you. You see, for over 40 years, people have been arguing whether something like a bullet going UP through JFK and then DOWN through Governor Connally is possble. THEY have NEVER shown you this scenario as an ALTERNATIVE. SO, if you rule it out and don't consider it, you'll understand WHY Lincoln said:

"You Can fool all of the people some of the time..... but NOT all the people all the time.

You don't know me but I deal in facts, reason and especially I understand simple physics. Anybody who buys the Warren Commission fantasy doesn't. I don't usually BOTHER in presentation saying much about it because EVENTUALLY it will be laughable that so many people bought that line. I told Dale Meyers that his animation is WRONG and he refused to discuss it. How's going to believe me? I understand that, but I also understand YOU've NEVER BEEN shown what actually happened. IT's a lot simpler than trying to explain how a bullet goes down (from the TSBD), then UP throught JFK (and Horizontal is the best you can get close to) then down through Gov. Connally. That trajectory is WHY Dr. Wecht was the lone dissenter in the HSCA hearings in 1978. I explained WHAT did happen to him. It's the FIRST TIME he had ever heard the explanation too. Regards

In post 178, you said: Explain how Connally held his hat even after the back shot to Kennedy (Connally's wrist was supposedly broken then yet he held his hat for another 5 seconds).

In post 197 I asked two questions:

1)Are you suggesting that Gov. Connally was shot in the wrist 5 seconds after Pres. Kennnedy was shot in the back?

2)How do you know how long Gov. Connally held his hat after the back shot to Kennedy?

You answered question 1 in post 225: That's EXACTLY what happened.

You didn't answer the second question: How do you know how long Gov. Connally held his hat after the back shot to Kennedy?

Would you be so kind as to answer my second question:

How do you know how long Gov. Connally held his hat after the back shot to Kennedy?

You didn't answer the second question: How do you know how long Gov. Connally held his hat after the back shot to Kennedy? Would you be so kind as to answer my second question: How do you know how long Gov. Connally held his hat after the back shot to Kennedy?

Sorry for being dense, let's look. I don't have access to some video clips so I can just describe them. IF you look at my post and the first couple of links, you can see the Zapruder film. IF you have each frame separate like I do on my other computers you can see that Connally's arm is directly in front of his chest when he is hit in the back.

IF you look at Dale Meyer's "BEYOND CONSPIRACY" animation, he clearly shows Connally has the hat in his hand at Z=324. Now I'm on record (for whatever that's worth) as saying that Meyer's animation is wrong and I'll show you how he's wrong when I get the information available later this evening. BUT for now, Meyer CLEARLY shows the hat in Connally's hand when he falls over into Nellies lap, a motion which is a product of him ducking forward (Z=319), getting hit in the back (Z=325) then him collapsing and Nellie then pulling him over AFTER he is shot in the back.

Another person on this thread said that's NOT a correct argument about Connally dropping his hat when he was shot in the wrist, that the bullet hitting him in the wrist caused him to freeze the grip on his hat. That's hard for me to believe but it's necessary for someone to believe IF you accept the single bullet theory.

TO answer clearly how Connally was shot:

The first wound was caused by a bullet fragment to John Connally's leg and you can see John Connally's reaction to that MINOR wound to his left leg by him raising his arms as he is startled by this, his lapel pops out at Z=223 as he raises his arms, he looks to his LEFT (he's only wounded in his left leg by a bullet fragment from the shot to JFK), then Connally makes his turn to look over his left shoulder.

Now at Z313 we have the shot to JFK's head. The reaction by the three men ahead is ducking down forward starting at about Z=319. At Z=325, we have the bullet fired at JFK's head from the TSBD missing JFK, (he has been knocked back and to the left out of the way of the shot).

The bullet misses JFK's head and hits Connally in the right upper back, knocking him forward VIOLENTLY (watch it in real time on one of the MANY Zapruder flicks on the internet). It passes through his body, destroys about 10 cm of one rib, then hits his right wrist. Whether he is still holding his hat is not all that important, we can clearly see he did hold his hat after his leg wound for some period of time.

Why should I address an issue I never raised when you ignore the ones I did raise. Though I have read that the ammo was not particularly good that is a secondary problem to the main one -the pitiful excuse for a sniper rifle.

All I said about ammo is that there is ZERO evidence of Oswald buying any or practicing anytime withing months with the rifle. In order to shot a rifle with a misattached and dysfunctional sight one must practice a lot. Oswald didn't.

Where/when did he buy any ammo? Why were there NO other bullets found among his possessions.

Let me see if I understand this. Oswald decides (for unknown reasons) to shoot the president (a man he admired), has had no practice with the difficult to operate rifle which was poor on its best day, has four bullets left and decides to go for it. Transports rifle parts dissassembled in a makeshift paper "bag" then reassembles the gun without being able to sight it in and does the deed.

Testimony from top snipers contradicts the very weak statement by the WC that Oswald could do the shooting which has NOT been replicated by any others.

You said (post 178): Explain how Connally held his hat even after the back shot to Kennedy (Connally's wrist was supposedly broken then yet he held his hat for another 5 seconds).

This implies you think that Connally could not hold his hat after he was shot in the wrist. You also state that he held the hat for 5 seconds after Kennedy was shot in the back, and then at that time (5 seconds after Kennedy was shot in the back), Gov. Connally was hit by a bullet that hit him in the back, passed through his torso, and hit him in the wrist. Since you previously stated that Connally holding his hat after Kennedy was shot in the back is proof that Connally was not yet hit in the wrist, you must believe that Connally dropped his hat when he was hit in the wrist 5 seconds after Kennedy was hit in the back. Why then do you say It passes through his body, destroys about 10 cm of one rib, then hits his right wrist. Whether he is still holding his hat is not all that important, we can clearly see he did hold his hat after his leg wound for some period of time.

Do you believe Gov. Connally could not hold his hat after being shot in the wrist?

If the answer is yes, Gov. Connally could not hold his hat after being shot in the wrist, then, hypothetically, if Gov. Connally was holding his hat 25 seconds after Kennnedy was shot in the back, would you consider that proof that Gov. Connally was not shot in the wrist until at least 25 seconds after Pres. Kennedy was shot in the back?

"... I have read that the ammo was not particularly good that is a secondary problem to the main one -the pitiful excuse for a sniper rifle."

You have been misinformed. Tests by the FBI and independent laboratories concluded that the ammunition was thoroughly reliable. It's also significantly powerful. FBI Firearms Lab director Robert Frazier testified to the Warren that Oswald's rifle was a good rifle for the assassination and that the ammunition performance in their lab tests was "Very accurate, very dependable".(Testimony of Robert Frazier, Warren Commission vol. III pp 400, 437, 449)

Oswald received ammuntion with the purchase of his rifle from Klein's Sporting Goods. Also, several other Dallas area merchants selling firearms related sporting goods also had surplus 6.5x57 Carcano in stock. All of them responded to FBI investigators that none of them sold to Oswald the assassination rifle. Only after investigators searched Oswald's home did they find the receipt to Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago and empty boxes of ammunition. Marina Oswald testified to the Warren Commission that she noticed the rifle and accompanying ammunition on the night that Oswald received it via mail order.

That's how the FBI determined that Oswald's rounds came from the Western Cartridge Company. Futher investigation with the executives of the company -- specifically Mr. R.W. Botts, District Manager, Winchester-Western Division, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, Braniff Building, Western Cartridge Company, a division of Olin Industries, East Alton, Illinois -- determined that the specific ammunition Oswald used came from sub-lots 6000, 6001, 6002, 6003. (Warren Commission Exhibit 2694)

As for the rest of your post, it's in error. I suggest you read up on the psychological profile of Oswald assembled through interviews with his family and acquaintances entered as testimony into the Warren Commission's report. The notion 'Admirer of President Kennedy' is another conspiracist-borne distraction that's been planted in the minds of the casually interested to serve their purpose of concealing the fact that Oswald was a committed left wing radical.

Really. Go read. Provide notes, not notions.

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Observation	Warren Commission Three Shots	Z=325 Shot to Connally’s back

Connally turns in his seat and looks back at JFK Z=230 to Z=324	No (1)	Yes
Connally holds hat in his hand until at least Z=325	No	Yes
Nellie and John Connally both said John Was shot after JFK’s first wound (3)	No	Yes
Connally falls forward as he describes in later Interviews when he is shot	No	Yes
Three shots were fired from the TSBD	Yes	Yes
Several Witnesses saw shooter(s) at the Grassy Knoll	No	Yes
Agrees with Dallas Police Recording	No	Yes
Kellerman Described “flurry of shots”	No	Yes
JFK and Connally both react to Z=222 shot	Yes	Yes
Connally bullet left wide scar to his back like the bullet was tumbling	Yes (4)	No
Bullet to JFK’s back did not have a point of exit (5).	No	Yes