Does Connally's wrist wound disprove the SBT?

[Charles Collins]

John B. Connally was a handsome, smooth-talking charismatic politician who got ahead by projecting oodles and gobs of self-confidence.

I suspect that he wasn't nearly as sure about what had happened during the 10.2 seconds it took Oswald to fire all three shots as he pretended to be.

I think he made a lot of stuff up based on his foggy recollections and those of his wife.

To use AI terminology, he "hallucinated."

Kinda like GROK on steroids.

You hit the nail on the head. People have tried to rely too heavily on JBC’s account. It is understandable for the fellow politicians to give JBC the benefit of the doubt because that’s what politicians often do for each other. Here’s some snippets from JBC’s book “In History’s Shadow” beginning on page 12:

”The first shot struck the President in the neck. His hands flew to his throat, a reflex. I turned, and felt the blow against my back. My body was aligned in such a way that the bullet passed through my chest, shattered my right wrist, and lodged in my thigh.”
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”I was still conscious when the third shot blew off part of John Kennedy’d head. It is no longer possible to say with certitude how much of the race to Parkland Memorial Hospital I remember, and how much I have been told by Nellie, or picked up from watching the news films or reading the official reports.”
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”The federal agents, who had been assigned to their own car (called “the Queen Mary”), jumped out and headed for the front entrance even as some in the crowd were still waving to the President.
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”Twice during the race to the hospital, Nellie admitted, she had thought I was dead. I was in and out of consciousness. I came to just when the car jolted to a stop at the emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial. How strangely the mind works. I knew I was badly wounded and I thought fatally so. I knew the President was dead. Yet it made sense to me that the hospital orderlies would want to get him out of the car before they could think of treating me.
The back door was beside the jump seat I was in, and I realized I might be blocking the way. Arms snaked across Nellie to reach the President. Subconsciously, I suppose, I struggled to raise myself from Nellie’s lap to give them room. I half stood, then collapsed and passed out again.”
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”They wheeled me into Trauma Room 2, and Dr. Duke probed the hole in my chest. Another doctor examined my wrist. They spotted more blood on my trousers, and someone fumbled with the belt and tried to wriggle them down my legs. I cried out sharply, “Cut them off!” When I spoke, peopled jumped back as if a coffin lid had moved. I hadn’t been given a sedative because it hadn’t occurred to them I would be conscious - if I was alive.
I don’t know which, but fear or stubbornness kept waking me. I heard someone say, “Let’s turn him over and see if he was hit somewhere else.” With that, I spoke up again. I said, “no, I was only hit once.”
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”I knew many, many years ago that I would never be able to give people what they wanted or needed about that day. I have felt rage and grief and helplessness, as tens of millions of Americans did. What else I can share I have shared with Nellie because the lasting, bitter emotion of that day is numbness. Many of my memories are secondhand. I am missing the most historic minutes of my life. There are blank spaces in an unbearable scene; perhaps I could not have borne the scene otherwise. … This was what I missed, what I would put together from the accounts of those who survived that day in Dallas. … I had no sense of what was happening around me, or in Trauma Room 1, but I knew all I needed to know. Later, little by little, Nellie and others filled in the parts that were missing.”
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”Everything I saw, heard, and felt is consistent with what was visible in the frame-by frame analysis of the film taken by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas merchant who became an accidental historian:  The first shot passed through the neck of John F. Kennedy, I saw him clutch his throat. The second shot was the one that struck me; of this I have no doubt. Nellie had pulled me to her when the third bullet blew across the car a spray of the President’s brain.”


In the last snippet above I underlined an important distinction. JBC stated he had no doubt about only one aspect of that shooting sequence (the second shot struck him). JBC does not indicate that he has no doubt about the other aspects he outlined in that snippet. JBC has stated elsewhere that he could have been mistaken about the single bullet theory being wrong. If I find where I read that I will post it, I am still looking for it. With these things in mind, I think that the early missed shot is not disproved by JBC’s account.

[Royell Storing]

  You got it BACKWARD. An alleged "early missed shot" has to be PROVEN. This is why the SBT is a THEORY. Neither has been PROVEN.

[Tom Graves]

  You got it BACKWARD. An alleged "early missed shot" has to be PROVEN. This is why the SBT is a THEORY. Neither has been PROVEN.

Dear Sonderführer Storing,

Unless one believes that oodles and gobs of Deep State bad guys were involved in the planning, the "patsy-ing," the planting of evidence, the shooting, the GETTING AWAY, the altering of every single photo and film, and the all-important (and evidently ongoing!!!) cover up, an early missed shot and the SBT are the only logical explanations for what the witnesses heard, what the witnesses saw, what the photographers caught on film, what the police found on the 6th floor of the TSBD, the nature of the damage to the limousine, and the nature of the wounds that the doctors at Parkland and Bethesda dealt with.

D'oh

-- Tom

[Royell Storing]

Dear Sonderführer Storing,

Unless one believes that oodles and gobs of Deep State bad guys were involved in the planning, the "patsy-ing," the planting of evidence, the shooting, the GETTING AWAY, and the all-important (and evidently ongoing!!!) cover up, an early missed shot and the SBT are the only logical explanations for what the witnesses heard, what the witnesses saw, what the photographers caught on film, what the police found on the 6th floor of the TSBD, the nature of the damage to the limousine, and the nature of the wounds that the doctors at Parkland and Bethesda dealt with.

D'oh

-- Tom

   "Logical Explanations" don't feed the bulldog.  The sudden appearance of the "getaway" car outside of the TSBD Proves a Conspiracy.

[Tom Graves]

"Logical explanations" don't feed the bulldog.  The sudden appearance of the "getaway" car outside of the TSBD proves a conspiracy.

LOL!

Good one!