The Reactions

[Marjan Rynkiewicz]

Apart from emotional reactions, it is very interesting to see that very few people dunked or made any sudden move when heard gun shots in the very near distance. Gun shots are very loud, making people to dunk, ley down, search for cover, look at the sound direction... Very few reactions like this after three fun shots.

There were say instant reactions from say 2 public near Oswald at shot-1 & shot-2 (Brennan, Euins)(diving for cover), & say 8 instant reactions from say 10 public near Hickey at shots-3-4-5-6-7 (laying down, running away).
Why weren't there any instant reactions near Oswald at Oswald's supposed shot-3?  Koz there woz no Oswald shot-3.

[Zeon Mason]

It does  SEEM like most of the people were not reacting to 3loud rifle shots in the timely response that we as observers 60 years later,  are speculating they theoretically should have.

One would think the combat veteran Brehm at least would have recognized the very  FIRST loud noise as a rifle shot and have reacted quicker in some way like diving to the ground.

It could be that the 1st loud shot everyone heard was not that different from some previous motorcycle backfires so they may have already been slightly desensitized to a loud noise by that.

However if there were  2 more shots that were equally spaced apart about 3 secs each and the total time was 8-9 secs, then is it not more probable that the Newmans and the 3 men on the GK steps and those women right near the JFK limo should be more animated than they appear to be?

So this suggests the 2/3rd ear witness descriptions of 2 shots very close together was an accurate evaluation and that  3 shots were fired more likely in about just 4.8 secs of time. 

If so, then this might  explain why the reactions which seem delayed are because of the ”shock effect” of an extremely horrifying stimulus being completed in such a short span of time.

This is why imo, 3 shots over 4.8 secs (substantiated by  closest earwitness Harold Normans spacing demonstration)  with the last 2 shots only about 1 sec apart leads to a higher  probability that a semi auto rifle was the murder weapon rather than a bolt action MC rifle which with rate if fire at best only   2.5 secs per shot on average.

Note: there was ONE old guy on the CBS time trial shooting experiment that they CLAIM shot 3 shots with the MC rifle in only 5.1 secs and scored 3 hits on the moving target body ( but missed the head entirely)