Andrew, I have to disagree with you regarding Gov. Connally's being wounded after frame 255.
In the Zapruder film, at frame 235, Connally is screaming "Oh no, no, no". after being struck. His mouth is in speaking motion from that time on in the film until we lose sight of him following the fatal shot. He stated in his WC testimony:
" I immediately, when I was hit, I said, "Oh, no, no, no." And then I said, "My God, they are going to kill us all." Nellie, when she pulled me over into her lap ".
The bullet has already passed through his back, chest, wrist and into his leg.
Hello Steve. I agree that he is saying "oh, no, no" around there. We can see his mouth open at z244 but it may have been open a bit sooner.
You have correctly stated his WC testimony. But JBC told Life Magazine something different (Life, 25Nov66, p. 48):
And in 1978 he started to tell the HSCA that he said "oh, no, no" before he was hit and then changed his mind and said he guessed it was after. But, perhaps most significant, he recalled saying it because he thought the President was being assassinated, not because he was hit by it (1 HSCA 43):
So, while one has to respect the Governor's testimony on that point, my question is: which of the three statements is accurate? Nellie has always maintained that he said it before the second shot. She also said that she looked back at JFK before the second shot and did not look back afterward. She is looking back at him up to about z268. Altgens said that his z255 photo was taken after the first and before any other shot. Hickey said he was looking at the President when the last two shots sounded. He is turned to the rear in Altgens and has yet to turn forward. Gayle Newman said that JBC was turned to his right side when the second shot sounded and he just lay back (see her WFAA interview within half an hour of the events). She said the car was passing right in front of them when the second shot sounded. According to Dr. Shires, Nellie told him that JBC was turned to his right when hit by the second shot. Greer said he turned around "almost simultaneously" with the second shot and saw JBC in the process of laying back onto Nellie. We can see the final part of that first turn just before z283.
The other aspect that makes me think JBC's WC testimony is incorrect and Nellie's is correct is the lack of any other attempt to even turn his head to face the rear before the turn that begins about z230. I know that both JBC and Nellie placed the second shot around z234 and that is worthy of consideration. But it is only an opinion of what they think he would have looked like, not what they saw, and it does not fit with the rest of Nellie's testimony.
The problem with JBC being hit earlier than z270 is not the zfilm. It is the rest of the evidence. The zfilm by itself is, at best, equivocal in placing the time of the second shot.
