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.'"

[churchillbuff]

She claims Oswald was there, by his own ommission to her the day before, to shot the killer. Her story was compelling, but who knows?

Please clarify: Oswald's role was to kill another sniper?

[Shooter 2.5]

Yes, I can.

The rear hole was 5 1/2 inches below his Mastoid Process and an inch to the right of spine. Measure downward from the bony thing behind your ear lobe.

A 161 grain bullet going 2000 feet a second doesn't stop in a finger's length of flesh.

Only three shots fired and Connelly's thigh was injured. Think about it.

[aristeides]

If four bullets were fired, but two of them were fired simultaneously or virtually simultaneously, how would Nellie Connally or any other witness know that there were more than three shots?

[Deuce]

Nellie Connolly herself states that only three shots were fired. 'Splain that.

She was mistaken. Taking all of the eye witnesses, accoustic evidence, photographic evidence, injuries observed by Parkland doctors, etc. Leads me to multiple shooters firing more than three shoots

[veronica]

The HSCA went on to determine that there was probably a conspiracy, though they could not say who the conspirators were. (They based it not solely on the audio evidence, which some say is debunked.)

It has been debunked.

[veronica]

Didn't the Parkland docs all say the hole in JFK's throat was an entrance wound and not an exit wound? Am I remembering that correctly? Yep, that's what the ER pros said, but who are they to know.

Initially they thought that UNTIL they turned him over.

The wound in front was altered when they did the tracheostomy, hence it resembled an entrance wound.

[Shooter 2.5]

How would someone using a 20 dollar rifle know when to shoot at the same time as someone shooting in another location?

[veronica]

She was mistaken. Taking all of the eye witnesses, accoustic evidence, photographic evidence, injuries observed by Parkland doctors, etc. Leads me to multiple shooters firing more than three shoots.

There is ZERO evidence of multiple shooters.

And again, Oswald's own brother, who of all people on earth has a reason to try and find evidence to exonerate his brother, has found none.

[Shooter 2.5]

The three guys on the fifth floor said they heard only three shots.

Zapruder even filmed part of the fence as he panned right.

[Protagoras]

Huh?

[brownie]

In this interview with Larry King, Nellie Connolly says that there were only three shots - that the second one hit her husband - and that the third shot hit the President's head. She also says that there were no shots from the front.

'Splain that.

I don't really have a dog in this fight, as I don't really care who shot kennedy, but, maybe she only heard three shots b/c there was a silencer involved on another weapon? Just a thought.

[brownie]

How would someone using a 20 dollar rifle know when to shoot at the same time as someone shooting in another location?

could be the opposite. Oswald as the patsy, and someone with a weapon w/ silencer fired when he heard the Oswald shots, to make sure the job was done.

[Shooter 2.5]

Then you would still hear four shots.

And where could that other sniper hide? It wasn't behind the fence because more than one person would have been able to give the SAME description. It wasn't on the railroad bridge because that's where the small crowd of people were, plus two officers.
Remember that crowd of people that were rushing to find the killer on the knoll? They were going to watch the limo go north on the freeway as it went to the hospital. And that crowd didn't find anyone either. Neither did the motorcycle cop or the bum he walked into behind the fence.

[Deuce]

There is ZERO evidence of multiple shooters.

Evidence (and direction) of more than three shots is given by eyewitness testimony, the Zapruder film, accoustical evidence, and Parkland doctors. Did you mean to say, "zero evidence after ignoring or discounting or explaining away all evidence that does point in the direction of more than three shots."

[Deuce]

The three guys on the fifth floor said they heard only three shots.

Why do these eye witnesses, among all eyewitnesses, represent the best evidence to you?

An investigation that accepts all evidence that fits the preconceived "Lone nut acting alone" theory and rejects, dismisses, or debunks all evidence that does not fit that theory, said theory having been announced within hours of the event, makes me very suspicious. It doesn't make you suspicious?

[veronica]

The conspiracy theories have been debunked over and over.

[Tares]

Evidence (and direction) of more than three shots is given by eyewitness testimony, the Zapruder film, accoustical evidence, and Parkland doctors.

Please indicate where in the Zapruder film there is evidence of more than three shots.

[Shooter 2.5]

All three people described the exact same thing. They also described conditions that wouldn't have happened had the shots not come from there such as the dust falling on their heads or the sound of the three cases hitting the ground.[A fourth round was chambered.]

No separate people at any other location described the exact same thing.

Also, there was a railroad tower behind the fence. The guy in the tower noticed two men standing next to the fence and they weren't doing anything like shooting. IIRC.

[Deuce]

I went to your link and could not identify the sequence I have seen many times on TV. Let me just describe it:

1. Kennedy hit in neck with evidence Connolly not hit for several frames;
2. Kennedy hit in head after Conolly alreadyt hit. The above two points combined with the missed shot = 4 (minimum) shots. Furthermore, the head shot, particularly in slow motion indicates a shot to the right temple, producing a "back and to the left" motion. Such injuries are consistent with Parkland doctor testimony that shots to Kennedy were BOTH frontal, numerous eyewitnesses, etc.

[Shooter 2.5]

The forward motion AT THE MOMENT OF IMPACT.