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.'"

[#3Fan]

You guys have to insult because the truth is not on your side.

[Allan]

I strongly recommend anyone who has been following this thread
to read this single short web page by Jim Fetzer:

THE LONE-NUTTER CHALLENGE!

I would like to see a line by line refutation of it by one of our prominent 'lone-nutters'.
because then I could feel peace of mind on this issue
and go back to thinking about other mysteries.

But:

Though I have absolutely no theories to offer for a possible conspiracy
after 40+ years of brooding about this case
I strongly feel
that amongst the partisans of various shades and denominations of theory
it is the supporters of the Warren Commission
who are the biggest kooks in this discussion.

[Peace will be here soon]

I ask you to read post 319. Now go away.

[Shooter 2.5]

The doctors who did the autopsy reported a bullet wound 5 and a half inches from his Mastoid Process and an inch to the right of his spine.

This issue is not whether or not some assassin killed off a suit jacket.

[Ditter]

The supporters of the "lone bullet theory" are so rabid in their support of the Warren Report that I have come to think there is some personal reason. Like perhaps their father/uncles/g.fathers were involved in that decision. How can you doubt Nellie Connelly, who was in the car, when she says that John Connelly & Kennedy were not hit by the same bullet? How can you doubt the doctors at Parkland Hospital when they say the wounds they saw were not the same as the photos from the Warren Commission?

[texasbluebell]

So you believe the top left photo in #307 is JFK...

[texasbluebell]

From your link, re: the other wound on the back:

The third thoracic verteba, however, is too low to have been the entry location for a bullet fired from above and behind that could possibly have exited from the President's throat at the level of the knot of his tie.

Funny how that has been overlooked, isn't it?

Thanks for posting that.

[texasbluebell]

The doctors who did the autopsy reported a bullet wound 5 and a half inches from his Mastoid Process and an inch to the right of his spine.

While govt/military officials hovered over them, telling them what to find and where...

[tpaine]

Case closed. -- It is the supporters of the Warren Commission
who are the biggest kooks in this discussion.

[DustyMoment]

This is great info, Phil. Thanks for posting it; it supports all of my beliefs about the Kennedy assassination.

[DustyMoment]

More great info. It eliminates the back brace as a culprit with respect to any of the wounds but, ironically, may have allowed additional damage to be done by preventing him from laying flat.

[Shooter 2.5]

So do you believe he was shot with a type of weapon that doesn't leave a bullet and leaves a inch deep wound?

Twice?

Wounds Connelly in numerous places and you have no idea where the bullet went?


Figure out all of that and then get back to me.

[#3Fan]

This issue is not whether or not some assassin killed off a suit jacket.

They do autopsies on suit jackets?

[texasbluebell]

Wounds Connelly in numerous places and you have no idea where the bullet went? Figure out all of that and then get back to me.

Ah, but there's the flaw in your argument, Shooter.

The same bullet did not hit Connelly.

[Tall_Texan]

How can you doubt Nellie Connelly, who was in the car, when she says that John Connelly & Kennedy were not hit by the same bullet?

FWIW, Nellie was probably the only person in Dealey Plaza that afternoon whose initial concern would be the health of John Connally. I'd expect her to have a different perspective than the others in the motorcade or the immediate witnesses because her priorities were different at that moment. Everyone else was watching JFK.

[Shooter 2.5]

Figure out to yourself. Wound by wounds, bullet by bullet, trajectory by trajectory.

Explain it to yourself first and then get back to me.

[DustyMoment]

Interesting post, Allan, thanks.

The trajectory of the "Magic" bullet has also troubled me. I have never understand how, given all of the angles involved, the bullet could have traveled upward from its presumed entry point in Kennedy's back to exit through his neck.

That just never made any sense to me.

Given the information that you and PhilDragoo have posted, I have to agree that the neck would must be an entry wound that has no relationship to the back wound.

[#3Fan]

Good link. Yeah, if the back bullet would've transited, it would've exited at around the stomach.

[#3Fan]

On the other thread you wanted photographic evidence of a conspiracy. Tell me why the Bethesda corpse had earlobes when JFK had none.

[Shooter 2.5]

the bullet could have traveled upward from its presumed entry point in Kennedy's back to exit through his neck.

Put on a tie if you own one. Stand sideways to a mirror. Put your finger on the knot of the tie and then look at your back. Have someone put their finger on your back 5 and a half inches below your Mastoid Process. Now where do you get this idea the bullet had to travel upwards?