Secret Service Agent Glen Bennett, who was sitting on the passenger-side rear seat of the follow-up car and who can be seen in Z-145 starting to lean to his right to see around Dave Powers, came the closest to correctly describing Oswald's three shots.
Unfortunately, Bennett's favorite words seem to have been words like "immediately" and "exact." This is part of what he wrote by hand on 11/22/63 in CE 2112, WC 24 H 542. My comments are in brackets.
“At this point I heard a noise that immediately reminded me of a firecracker. I immediately, upon hearing the supposed firecracker, [started leaning to my right to see around Dave Powers and] looked at the Boss's car. At this exact [actually, about five seconds later] time I saw a shot that hit the Boss about 4 inches down from the right shoulder; a second shoot [sic] followed immediately [actually, about five seconds later] and hit the right rear high of [?] the boss's head.”
The important thing is that Bennett confirms that the "firecracker sound" was before he started "looking at the Boss' car," and that while doing so he saw a bullet (CE-399) hit JFK in the lower neck/upper back around Z-222.
I contend that the "firecracker" sound was Oswald's first, missing-everything, shot at "Z-124," half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133.
Secret Service Agent Glen Bennet starts leaning to his right to see around Dave Powers in Z-145:
https://assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z145.jpg
Oh, boy, another version of the whacky theory that the sixth-floor gunman fired before Z133 and somehow, someway missed the entire gigantic limousine.
Of course, you cite Bennett's testimony but then reject what he says about the timing of the shots. According to you, when he said "followed immediately" he really meant "about five seconds later." Right. . . . Makes perfect sense. . . .
The most crucial, valuable info from Bennett's testimony is his statement that he saw a "shot" that hit JFK "about 4 inches down from the right shoulder." This is very close to the location of the hole in the back of JFK's shirt and the hole in the back of his coat. It is also very close to the location for the back wound given in JFK's death certificate (signed by Dr. Burkley), drawn in Boswell's autopsy face sheet (marked "verified," BTW), described by Clint Hill in his WC testimony, described by autopsy radiologist Dr. John Ebersole in his HSCA testimony, and described by Sibert and O'Neill in their 12/9/63 report on the autopsy.
BTW, HSCA FPP chairman Dr. Michael Baden acknowledged that the FPP placed the back wound "
a few inches lower" than the location depicted in CE 386, the diagram drawn by Harold Rydberg at Humes and Boswell's direction for the WC:
The panel also places the entrance perforation on the lower, in the back area, a few inches lower than illustrated in this drawing. (1 HSCA 256)CE 386 shows the back wound as being a neck wound and located at the base of the neck, right around C7.
Anyone who understands basic geometry knows that moving the wound downward by even 1 inch, not to mention "a few inches," substantially changes the trajectory of the projectile that made the wound. This is undoubtedly why SBT defenders from Lattimer to Myers have refused to acknowledge the HSCA FPP's location for the back wound but have instead used the WC's location for the wound, i.e., placing it above the throat wound, in their SBT trajectory illustrations.
Finally, it should be noted that the released transcript of the 1/27/64 WC executive session reveals that chief counsel J. Lee Rankin referred to an autopsy picture that he said showed that "the bullet entered
below the shoulder blade." This agrees with Bennett's account, with the death certificate, with Hill's account, with Ebersole's account, with the rear JFK clothing holes, with Sibert and O'Neill's 12/9/63 report on the autopsy, and with Boswell's autopsy face sheet (which, again, was marked "verified").
For more information on the back wound's location, see
"Where Was President Kennedy's Back Wound?"
