[texasbluebell]

This is exactly what I was just about to post!

Here's what I had written, but hadn't yet posted when I got to your comment:

Pinging a lot of you for this, because I can't figure it out.

I don't understand something. It's been bothering me.

And since you posted the AZ photos from the film, Tares, I'll just throw it out it here now.

There were 3 bullets, right?

The first one missed, according to most accounts I read.

The 2nd one shown somewhere in the 280s on your link, shows JFK clutching his throat. But Connelly appears unhit, though turned around to look behind at the Pres. If that one was the magic bullet, then has Connelly just not reacted yet?

Because the 3rd one is the head shot, and that one didn't hit Connelly, so was he just not in pain yet?

Does anyone know? I'm not getting this.

[Peace will be here soon]

But Connelly appears unhit, though turned around to look behind at the Pres. If that one was the magic bullet, then has Connelly just not reacted yet?

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People react in strange ways when they are shot. Some never even know they are shot until much, much later. Connally`s reaction is not unordinary. Sometimes it takes a few seconds before your body will react to the trama cause by a gunshot, sometimes you react immediately. You cannot look at the film and tell exactly when Connally was shot. That is a fact some will never accept.

[_Jim]

Because the 3rd one is the head shot, and that one didn't hit Connelly, so was he just not in pain yet?

I think Peace will be here soon nailed the answer pretty effectively; I've had a couple bicycle acciednts and one motorcycle accident in my life so far plus sliced my thumb open once or twice - the *real* pain doesn't seem to hit for awhile (I walked for 1/2 a mile after one bicycle accident, and after the ardrenalin wore I off, about 15 mins, I couldn't walk any more) ...

[Shooter 2.5]

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

[#3Fan]

All I can say is let's not forget that the film was held for 12 years before the public saw it, and it's been spliced (some witnesses say to eliminate a bullet striking the Stemmon's Freeway sign, the sign was removed a few days after the assassination). It'd be pretty easy to blacken in a triangle to show a lapel flip. I could believe some wouldn't feel a bullet strike, but not a bullet that goes through the body and stikes bone in 2 or 3 places. That hurts like hell.