Gov. John Connally Grips His White Stetson Hat at Z-272

[Andrew Mason]

 

That means 4 of them figured it out and the other 3 didn't.

Or the other way around.

The Connallys always maintained 3 shots, 3 hits and they were in a very good position to know.

A lot has been learned since 1978. Most people hadn't even seen the Zapruder film by 1978. It was sometime in the latter 1980s that I first saw it.There is nothing in the WC conclusions that indicate they thought the shot was closer to Z210.

My comment was based on the scenario where the first shot struck JFK. The Commission noted the abundant evidence that the first shot did not miss (WR 112):



The WC suggested that if the first shot did not miss and the third was the last shot (for which they cited much evidence) then the shooter was shooting at very near the minimum allowable time between shots, which would put the first shot striking JFK "at about frame z213" (WR 115).

WRONG!!! JBC is most definitely reacting in Z226 when he starts flipping his right arm upward in perfect unison with JFK bringing his arms up. That up and down motion of his right arm lasted just a half second and was immediately followed by him doubling over and dipping to his right. In addition, JBC's right shoulder dips at Z225 and in Z224 his jacket bulges out noticeably. All these are indications he has just been shot.

The delay was based on the first shot striking JFK.  They were trying to understand why JBC did not feel it immediately (WR 112):



They noted that JFK seemed to be reacting to his neck wound by raising his hands to his throat and that he was blocked by the Stemmons sign (WR 98).  Although Shaneyfelt had suggested his reaction was "barely apparent" at z225, the Commission put that comment in quotes and did not adopt it as their conclusion.  After all, JFK's left forearm had moved from a vertical position on his right side to a horizontal position in front of his chest by z 224 and the right hand from a vertical wave to a horizontal curl.  The WC may have thought that was a bit more than a "barely apparent" reaction.

The reduction in the amount of white area of the shirt from z223-224 appears to be the reverse of the increase in white area from z222-223.  Besides, no one at the time had even suggested this was a bulge let alone a bulge from the bullet striking it.

In any event, both did react to the first shot so there is nothing "co-incidental" about their reactions being at roughly the same time.  One might expect JBC's to be slower since his was a deliberate reaction after realizing that it was a rifle shot and an assassination was underway.  Most observers, including members of the Commission, thought there was a material delay in JBC's reaction.

Where are you getting your information? The entry wound on JBC's back was elongated almost the length of a Carcano bullet. The bullet had to be tumbling to make that kind of wound and the father/son Haas ballistics showed they a Carcano bullet will tumble after passing through ballistic gel as well as ballistic soap.
The WC scenario with a single bullet striking two men is the only explanation of the shooting that has stood the test of time. Any objections to it are easily refuted.

I am not sure where you are getting your information but it is not correct.  The wound in the back was 1.5 cm by .8 cm. The bullet was exactly 3 cm long. Dr. Shaw said the bullet made a nice tunnelling wound along the fifth rib and "The fact that the muscle bundles on either side of the fifth rib were not damaged meant that the missile to strip away 10 centimeters of the rib had to follow this rib pretty much along its line of inclination." (4 H 112).  Difficult to imagine a sideways bullet doing that.

It is a much bigger challenge to explain how a shot with JBC turned forward could have entered at the back of the armpit and exited under and medial to his right nipple without penetrating the pleural cavity and without damaging any of the muscles around the rib. If the bullet had deflected to the right with him facing forward, it would not have exited where it did.  However, with him turned around sharply to the rear, the right nipple moves to the right of the scapula. So the fifth rib keeping the bullet to the right before passing through the rib (at mid-armpit) keeps the bullet from penetrating the chest wall.  Turn around like that from a sitting position and you can see how the right nipple moves a bit to the right of the scapula and you can see how the fifth rib makes an almost straight path between them.

I see you are having difficulty explaining how