Who is sitting up in Zapruder @Z456?

[Dillon Rankine]

Her sole focus is on the damage to the top of her husband's shattered head.

Looking at this wound, she may have witnessed (as she claimed to) wound debris detaching and flying off in a direction she felt sufficiently justified to be the rear that she attempted to retrieve it.

[Steve Barber]

Looking at this wound, she may have witnessed (as she claimed to) wound debris detaching and flying off in a direction she felt sufficiently justified to be the rear that she attempted to retrieve it.

  I respectfully disagree.   She's getting out of there in shock. Watch how she shoves his head forward, then pushes it away from her as she rises from the seat. 

[Bill Chapman]

Nonsense. She's getting out of there in shock. Watch how she shoves his head forward, then pushes it away from her as she rises from the seat.

Sounds like shock to me.

"You know, then, there were pictures later on of me climbing out the back. But I don't remember that at all." ---Jackie Kennedy testimony.

[Dillon Rankine]

  I respectfully disagree.   She's getting out of there in shock. Watch how she shoves his head forward, then pushes it away from her as she rises from the seat.

That was one of the early theories but it hasn?t stood the test of time. I?m not one for subjective photographic interpretation, so I?ll keep my hat out of the ring as for specifics as I don?t see the issue as being especially relevant. If the debris flew backwards but only so far as the trunk, that?s no smoking gun for conspiracy.

[Steve Barber]

That was one of the early theories but it hasn?t stood the test of time. I?m not one for subjective photographic interpretation, so I?ll keep my hat out of the ring as for specifics as I don?t see the issue as being especially relevant. If the debris flew backwards but only so far as the trunk, that?s no smoking gun for conspiracy.

 Unfortunately, at one time, even I thought she went "reaching" for or "grabbed" a piece of head matter.  It wasn't until I saw a stabilized, crystal clear print of the film that I realized what happened with her right hand as soon as it met the surface of the trunk lid, then saw her land on her left elbow/forearm hard enough to move her entire upper body.  Conspiracy theorists constantly use the actions of Mrs. Kennedy to claim conspiracy.

[John Iacoletti]

I don't see how her reaching for head matter would tell you anything about conspiracy one way or the other.

[Steve Barber]

I don't see how her reaching for head matter would tell you anything about conspiracy one way or the other.

Well, I think that what conspiracy theorists think ( at least what I thought) was that if a piece of head matter landed on the trunk, it was because the shot from the front(that I once believed in) drove the skull backwards onto the trunk, following the  bullet trajectory.