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.'"

[Veritas_est]

I'm not sure yet what I think actually did happen, but I have NEVER believed the Warren Commission report.

[KellyAdmirer]

Paging Senator Specter, Senator Spector to the courtesy phone please....

[Peace will be here soon]

The "magic bullet" theory is very plausible, and the only one that has not been completely debunked.

[Allan]

The "magic bullet" theory is very plausible.

Of course it is. Who is Mrs. Connally going to believe, The Warren Commission or her lying eyes?

[Peace will be here soon]

Who is Mrs. Connally going to believe, The Warren Commission or her lying eyes?

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As far as Mrs. Connally goes, she witnessed a very tragic and historic event. I can`t say anything more than that.

[Allan]

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[Allan]

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[Gigantor]

Oswald acted alone.















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[raisincane]

I watched History Channel with documentary featuring Oswald's mistress. 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?

[leadpenny]

bump

[leadpenny]

And for good measure, another bump for Big Midget's wording.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

What????

[hotpotato]

She claims Oswald was there, by his own ommission to her the day before, to shot the killer.

uhm... could you try that again in a way that we could probably understand what you are saying?

[Brandon]

This is hardly news. Connelly himself, who was a foot soldier as a young man and frequently under enemy fire, insisted to his dying day that there were two gunmen, and that the Warren Commission's conclusions were impossible.

[raisincane]

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.

Sorry I wasn't clear in first post. I was half asleep.

[Nita Nupress]

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?

Of course, it was impossible to prove that later after the docs had used the hole to attempt a trach...

[Lloyd227]

"The "magic bullet" theory is very plausible, and the only one that has not been completely debunked"

I'm just curious really, but what color is the sky in your world?

[veronica]

Nellie Connolly is just wrong on this.

SHE AGREES there were only three shots.

One - missed and hit the pavement, (and fragments grazed a bystander on the cheek).

Two - hit the President in the head.

Three - ergo, this shot hit both Connelly and Kennedy.

To say she "saw" three bullets is nonsensical. She heard, not saw three shots, therefore she can't know that one bullet hit both, or disprove it.

Here is a picture of the bullet that hit both. It's not pristine by any means, as conspiracists claim. Here