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To: Tares

Perhaps you should read what you just posted. It clearly says Connally was shot after the first shot. Both Connally's say John was shot AFTER the first shot. John says he heard the first then a pause then he gets hit. He clearly states there was too much time between the first shot and when he got hit for it to be the same shot. Because he didn't hear the second shot doesn't mean it didn't happen.


398 posted on 11/20/2006 5:50:28 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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To: smoketree; Tares
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Governor CONNALLY. We had--we had gone, I guess, 150 feet, maybe 200 feet, I don't recall how far it was, heading down to get on the freeway, the Stemmons Freeway, to go out to the hall where we were going to have lunch and, as I say, the crowds had begun to thin, and we could--I was anticipating that we were going to be at the hall in approximately 5 minutes from the time we turned on Elm Street. We had just made the turn, well, when I heard what I thought was a shot. I heard this noise which I immediately took to be a rifle shot. I instinctively turned to my right because the sound appeared to come from over my right shoulder, so I turned to look back over my right shoulder, and I saw nothing unusual except just people in the crowd, but I did not catch the President in the corner of my eye, and I was interested, because once I heard the shot in my own mind I identified it as a rifle shot, and I immediately--the only thought that crossed my mind was that this is an assassination attempt. So I looked, failing to see him, I was turning to look back over my left shoulder into the back seat, but I never got that far in my turn. I got about in the position I am in now facing you, looking a little bit to the left of center, and then I felt like someone had hit me in the back.

Look at the clip from the History Channel, Men Who Killed Kennedy as John Connally describes the shot to his back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-lZNR_yAc

Connally does say he heard JFK shot AFTER the shot to his back, what he says is not consistent, true, but consider that the shots were 0.7 seconds apart and that he was trying to make what he remembered fit into a scenario where the interrogators were fixated on three shots and only three shots. BANG-BANG was NOT possible......

He clearly says that the force of the bullet bent him over.... You never see that until AFTER the fatal shot to JFK's head. You never see Connally covered in blood during his turn from Z=230 all the way to Z=324, Connally starts ducking forward at Z=319 which is his reaction to the shot at Z=313. Yes, he got the order wrong about the Z=313 shot and the Z=325 shot, but he did describe being driven forward. Look at the clip of Connally being driven forward just as he described, it starts at Z=325.

When I presented this to Dr. Wecht, I actually thought at that time that John Connally was shot in the back at Z=319 which is the time that Connally starts to move forward, and I couldn't explain the difference between a Z=319 shot and the Z=325 shot as shown by the Accoustical Analysis.

IT's simple now, Connally was ducking just as the two Secret Service men are seen ducking in the front seat of the limo. As Connally is ducking forward, he is hit in the back which is the exact time we see his head collapse downward. I showed a few frames of Connally before and after Z=325 in the original post which showed his head snap downward. This is the first time this head snap downward has ever been identified to my knowledge. Dr. Wecht, for instance, had never seen this either.

Virtually everyone had assumed the "action" was over by Z=313.

And this ducking forward by the three men in front is not due to the braking of the car, IF you look at Jackie Kennedy, she does not move forward during that brief interval.

400 posted on 11/20/2006 11:28:41 PM PST by BILL_C (Those who don't understand the lessons of history are bound to repeat them!)
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