Nellie Connally Disputes Warren Commission

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/25/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

For all the coverage generated by the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination this past weekend, the media managed to miss the only genuine news to emerge from the commemoration.

Nellie Connally, wife of former Texas Gov. John Connally and the only person still alive who rode in the presidential death limousine, publicly disputed for the first time the Warren Commission's "magic bullet" theory, a scenario absolutely essential to its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was Kennedy's lone assassin.

A year after the assassination the Commission concluded that Kennedy and Gov. Connally were both wounded by the first shot fired by Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository. A second shot missed completely. A third shot slammed into Kennedy's head and splattered his brains throughout the car.

But Mrs. Connally told CNN's Larry King that Kennedy and her husband couldn't have been struck by the same bullet, because she watched her husband react over a period of two seconds after the first shot struck the president.

"John [Connally] sitting right in front of him knew it was a shot," the former Texas first lady said. "He's a hunter and a shooter, you know. . . ."

Mrs. Connally continued:

"So he turned quick to his right and he couldn't see [Kennedy] because he was directly in front of him. And he said, 'No, no, no' and turned to his left. . . . Now this is a second or two. Then, as he whirled back, the second shot hit John . . ."

When pressed about the single bullet theory adopted by the Warren Commission, Mrs. Connally told King, "Do you think a bullet that went through the president's neck can hang there in air between the two seats while John turned to the right, turned to the left and came back?

"That's what I asked the Warren Commission," she explained. "I said, 'I don't believe a bullet could do that. That bullet -- the same bullet did not hit both of them.'"

[ggekko]

The book "The Texas Connection" demolishes all the rival assination theries (the Mob, the CIA, the Cubans, the Viet Namese, the Pentagon) and directly and overwhelmingly indicts Lyndon Johnson as the mastermind behind a Texas-centered assination conspiracy.

In a murder investigation the key question is always "Who benefits?" Figuring out the motive almost always identifies the killer or killers. In late 1962 and 1963 Lyndon Johnson was facing political oblivion and almost certainly prison time for his central role in the burgeoning Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals. The Kennedy brothers were giving Senate investigators damaging information about the Bobby Baker scandal as part of a none too subtle effort to remove Johnson from the 1964 Presidential ticket.

After Kennedy's death and Johnson's accession to the Presidency he gained control of the Justice and Agricultural departments and the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes investigations were summarily shut down. Lyndon Johnson alone benefitted uniquely from Kennedy's death.

"The Texas Connection" exhaustively chronicles this aspect of the assination and Lyndon Johnson's amazing career of vote fraud, influence peddling, corruption by which the Johnson family had amassed a substantial fortune.

LBJ was one one the most corrupt and dissolute men in the history of American public life. His career is the key to understanding what happened in Dallas in 1964.

[_Jim]

Thanks for being honest ...

[eddie willers]

Oswald spoke to her by telephone the day before Kennedy was shot. He told her his assignment was to shoot the sniper before the sniper got the chance to shoot Kennedy. He also gave her names of three men, and told her not to forget their names. These three men were Texas businessmen with connections to the mafia and LBJ.

Well....THAT'S a new one.

[Tares]

The film in question evidences three hits within the car. That's all. There was a bullet that missed and hit the curb near the overpass. That makes four shots ... unless you believe a supersonic projectile can change directions while in the air to such a degree that it can turn from level or slightly upward in direction, to downward, with enough force to still make the wounds on Connolly.

Have you considered The Single Bullet Strikes John Connally and The Single Bullet Theory? If so, what critiques do you have?

[veronica]

Another view of the bullet - the view the conspiracy nuts never show you. This bullet DID hit bone in fact.

[HitmanLV]

Well, her eyes certainly didn't see a bullet. She is remarking on her interpretation of reactions, nothing more.

[veronica]

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sbt.htm

Site where that view is posted.

[Shooter 2.5]

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/history/zapruder.html

[aristeides]

Blood, Money & Power: How L. B. J. Killed J. F. K.. New book by Barr McClellan, who was one of LBJ's lawyers in the last years of his life, and who is the father of the current White House Press Secretary and the head of the National Institutes of Health.

[Leatherneck_MT]

No.. it didn't

[_Jim]

The book "The Texas Connection" demolishes all the rival assination theries (the Mob, the CIA, the Cubans, the Viet Namese, the Pentagon) and directly and overwhelmingly indicts Lyndon Johnson

Awright ... assuming this is true: why the half-*ssed attempt with a bolt-action slow-to-reload rifle? As it was, the first shot seems to have missed; shouldn't a more effective rapid-fire firearm have been used if this was a *professional* hit?

[justshutupandtakeit]

False. Many people, including police, charged up the hill soon after the shots were fired. It was not some ex-post facto deal.

False. Secret Service personnel were NOT assigned to the area where witnesses encountered a man showing "Secret Service" credentials. Call the SS liars if you want.

You didn't correctly set up the Robert Oswald quote. He was looking into LHO's eyes to try and detect him lying and LHO knew what he was trying to do. Since LHO steadfastly stuck to his story and knew he WASN'T lying he said "Brother you won't find anything there." Meaning you won't find evidence that I am lying in my eyes.

Nothing like clumsy and gratuitous duplicity to help your case.

[_Jim]

SAME question to you - why the half-*assed attempt using a bolt-action 'manual-reload' rifle?

[Tares]

The thread LBJ was behind JFK's assassination, upcoming book contends is about the book, and in addition has alot of assassination info. The thread is long, but considers many aspects of the assassination that most people have not considered in much depth.

[justshutupandtakeit]

And I am supposed to believe that this bullet tumbled through Connelly's body rather than stop in the body? If it entered sideways it would not have gone through the body as claimed. It cannot be both either it would have stopped if tumbling or it could have gone through if it hit straight on. Not both.

[Tares]

Forgot, thanks for the ping.

[veronica]

Robert Oswald, who has studied the evidence, is convinced his brother did it and acted alone.

What Lee meant was you won't find the answer to the why - in the eyes of a man with a dead soul.

[not-an-ostrich]

This isn't new. She's always disputed the "same bullet hit both" theory. Journalist try to conjure up a new twist. Not very ethical.

[swarthyguy]

Charles Crenshaw's book details what happened at Parkland; one of the doctors when Kennedy's body was brought in.

[Tares]

Free Republic threads on the Kennedy Assassination:

Warren (Commission) Was Right - The JFK case should be closed
Kennedy assassination solved!
Peter Jennings "JFK" Report: Oswald acted alone, go back to sleep...
Some Relevant Facts About the JFK Assassination
Who Killed JFK?
New Evidence in Kennedy Killing (Dallas not Mass)
Nellie Connally Disputes Warren Commission
JFK's fatal head wound: The truth for those who want to know (very graphic)
The Mystery of Marina Oswald
LBJ was behind JFK's assassination, upcoming book contends (I like this one best)
Thirty-nine years after JFK's assassination...
***New study of JFK assassination backs theory of "grassy knoll" Thread 2***
New study of JFK assassination backs....... Thread 3
New study of JFK assassination backs....... Thread 4
New study of JFK assassination ---- Thread 5
New study of JFK assassination ---- Thread 6
Echo correlation analysis and acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination

Let me know of any others not on the list.