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Online Andrew Mason

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Re: The First Shot
« Reply #1848 on: Yesterday at 07:25:56 PM »
Bennett said he heard a noise that "reminded me [him] of a fire cracker", looked at "the Boss", saw a shot hit JFK,  then heard a third shot. Three shots. Do you think the fire cracker noise wasn't a shot?

From his notes:

"At this point I heard a noise that immediately reminded me of a firecracker [SHOT ONE]. I immediately, upon hearing the supposed fire cracker, looked at the Boss's Car. At this exact time I saw a shot that hit the Boss about 4 inches down from the right shoulder [SHOT TWO]; a second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the Boss's head [SHOT THREE].


He says he heard a noise and immediately looked and at that exact time “saw a shot that hit”. He does not describe any time between the noise and seeing the shot. And he mentions a second shot striking the head. At best it is ambiguous. The real problem is that the WC did not examine him to clarify what he meant. Most described the last two being close, not the first two.


Online Jack Nessan

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Re: The First Shot
« Reply #1849 on: Yesterday at 08:18:13 PM »
Bennett said he heard a noise that "reminded me [him] of a fire cracker", looked at "the Boss", saw a shot hit JFK,  then heard a third shot. Three shots. Do you think the fire cracker noise wasn't a shot?

From his notes:

"At this point I heard a noise that immediately reminded me of a firecracker [SHOT ONE]. I immediately, upon hearing the supposed fire cracker, looked at the Boss's Car. At this exact time I saw a shot that hit the Boss about 4 inches down from the right shoulder [SHOT TWO]; a second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the Boss's head [SHOT THREE].



Bennett did not see two shots hit JFK. He saw where the first shot had hit JFK and then heard and saw the shot that hit JFK in the head. Two shots total. He does not mention in his notes a third shot, just a second shot.

Bennett's statement is the same as Hill's, Kinney's, Landis, Roberts, Hickey's. There is a very large group of eyewitnesses who either stated there were two shots or a shot after the headshot which Altgen's assured the WC that there was not a shot after the headshot.


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Re: The First Shot
« Reply #1850 on: Yesterday at 08:56:44 PM »
Lots of witnesses said JFK reacted to the first shot. (paraphrased)

News Flash:

JFK DID react to Oswald's first, missing-everything, shot.

He stopped waving and quickly turned his head to his left starting in Z-143.

https://assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z143.jpg
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Online John Corbett

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Re: The First Shot
« Reply #1851 on: Yesterday at 11:53:24 PM »
He says he heard a noise and immediately looked and at that exact time “saw a shot that hit”. He does not describe any time between the noise and seeing the shot. And he mentions a second shot striking the head. At best it is ambiguous. The real problem is that the WC did not examine him to clarify what he meant. Most described the last two being close, not the first two.

Why do you have so much trouble comprehending the simplest things. Bennett was not looking at JFK when he heard the first shot. I don't care how quickly he turned his head, it is not possible he could have turned quickly enough to see that shot hit JFK's right shoulder. He clearly is describing seeing the SECOND shot hit JFK's shoulder. If you can't figure that out, why do you waste your time and ours with your silly theories?

Have you ever asked yourself one simple question? With the millions of people who have studied the evidence from the JFKA the last six decades, do you really think you are the only one who has been able to figure out the right answer? I have never come across anyone who has reached anything close the scenario you have dreamed up.

You and Ben Cole should get together. You both think you have come up with the solution to the JFKA that has eluded everybody else and both are nuttier than a fruitcake.

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Re: The First Shot
« Reply #1852 on: Today at 06:43:02 PM »
News Flash:

JFK DID react to Oswald's first, missing-everything, shot.

He stopped waving and quickly turned his head to his left starting in Z-143.

https://assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z143.jpg

Read the evidence.  Here is a list of the witnesses who observed JFK's reaction to the first shot:
  •     Nellie Connally - JFK hands to neck
  •     David Powers - moved far left
  •     Ken O’Donnell - threw him to the left
  •     Clint Hill - hunch forward and slump left
  •     George Hickey - slumped left
  •     Sam Kinney - slumped to his left
  •     Emory Roberts - leaned toward Mrs. Kennedy
  •     Paul Landis - saw him moving
  •     Gayle Newman - jumped like he was startled/hands to head
  •     William Newman - jumped up in his seat
  •     John Chism - sit back and leaned left
  •     Faye Chism - fell to his left
  •     James Altgens - said his z255 photo was after first and before any other shot
  •     Abraham Zapruder - “from the first sound, from him leaning over”
  •     T.E. Moore - JFK slumping over
  •     Linda Willis - stopped waving, grabbed his throat  and slumped forward
  •     Cecil Ault - rose up in seat
  •     Harold Norman -“slumped or something”
  •     Malcolm Summers - slumped down in the car
  •     Mary Moorman - kind of slumped over
  •     Jean Newman - jumped and ducked his head down
  •     Charles Brehm - just slumped
  •     Pierce Allman - looked like JFK was ducking
  •     James Templin - threw his shoulders up and lay his head back (14:30 of Sixth Floor oral history)
  •     Ernest Brandt - immediately saw his arm come up "like this" (bringing hand to face and elbow up.)  1994 and 2008 oral history - Sixth Floor museum