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Your theory would also have to explain why he reversed the order of the two events that he distinctly recalled: hearing a rifle shot then feeling the hit. It would also help if there was evidence to support the theory.
At the distance involved, it takes less than 1/10 of one second difference in time for the bullet to reach the target vs the time for the sound of the muzzle blast to reach the target. A blink of an eye takes about three times that amount of time.
I am trying to describe the perceived amount of time between when he heard the shot (so what if it was less than 1/10 of a second after it actually hit him) and the time that he actually FELT the hit in his back. His perception of that amount of time might also have been distorted due to his instinctual reaction (the amygdala in his brain taking control) as Dan and myself have been describing earlier in this thread.
Isn’t it you that claims he wouldn’t (if your idea were true) have felt a shot to his leg for over 4-seconds? Why would less than 1/10 of a second make a difference in your way of thinking?I said that in many cases bullets are often not felt. In this case, we have JBC describing the moment of impact because he felt it. Not pain. He felt impact. I suggest that he felt it because it was a pristine 2000 fps 10 gram bullet hitting bone. But that doesn't matter. The evidence from JBC is that he felt it and the evidence from Nellie is that he recoiled from it and that it was the second shot. The thigh wound was an oblique wound caused by a tumbling lower speed bullet striking the thigh butt-first and not interfering with any bodily function and which JBC said he never felt. I am just suggesting that the trajectory from the SN through JFK's throat exit wound at around z190-195 goes to JBC's left side and the only wound on his left side was his left thigh AND the wound characteristics of the thigh wound fit being hit butt-first by a tumbling partially spent bullet.
The fact is that JBC himself later said it is possible that they were hit by the same bullet.Yes. The second bullet, although he said he would never believe that happened. He never said that it was possible he was hit in the back by the first bullet - the one he heard, which is what Dan is arguing.
My point is that it is not necessary to have Connally tell us how long it was between shots #1 and#2.
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This was not your point at all. The false point you were making was that Connally put the two events over four seconds apart. You were saying that he wasn't the only witness who spaced the shots that far apart. You were not telling the truth.
Actually, RFK Jr. does have a chance. Even though we're only in May and even though he's run only a fraction of the campaign ads that Trump and Biden have run, he's polling in the 15% range nationally and hovering around 20% in some states. So he most certainly has a chance.
The nearest transfer point in Oak Cliff on the Marsalis line (which is the line that the transfer was good for) was at Jefferson Blvd., roughly three blocks away from the site of the Tippit shooting scene. Oswald, if he were walking east on Tenth, was heading in that exact direction.
Markham saw Tippit's killer walking east and crossing Patton Ave. This means that he would have turned left onto 10th street from Crawford street, which makes no sense if he was walking to the Marsalis bus stop as it would be a long way around. A far better and shorter route would have been East Davis street and turn left on either South Patton ave or North Denver street.
But there isn't a shred of evidence that Oswald was walking to a Marsalis line bus stop on Jefferson. It's pure speculation on your part and Richard Smith never mentioned the Marsalis line bus stop at all.
So, just like Richard Smith, you've got nothing conclusive.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with a map of the area before telling Richard Smith that he looks stupid?
Perhaps you should be a bit less condescending and not misrepresent my actual response to Richard Smith in a vain attempt to score a pathetic point.
If, as Richard said, Oswald wanted to get out of Dallas quickly, then it doesn't make a bit of sense for him to end up on a go nowhere suburban street with no bus stops at all.
That was the point I made. But I'm not surprised you tried to twist it into something else.
But there isn't a shred of evidence that Oswald was walking to a Marsalis line bus stop on Jefferson. It's pure speculation on your part...
If, as Richard said, Oswald wanted to get out of Dallas quickly, then it doesn't make a bit of sense for him to end up on a go nowhere suburban street with no bus stops at all.
That was the point I made. But I'm not surprised you tried to twist it into something else.
If you want any solution to those issues, then vote for Trump. RFK has no chance. None. That's just a wasted proxy vote for Old Joe and more of the same. I do agree, however, that even a nutty RFK Jr is much better than our resident dementia patient.
Well, he put all 3 shots 10 to 12 seconds apart and estimated the time between the first two at 2 seconds and enough time for him to recognize it as a rifle shot, form the conclusion that an assassination was occurring and decide to turn around to check on the President.
My point is that it is not necessary to have Connally tell us how long it was between shots #1 and#2. We have many others who recalled a longer pause between the first two with the third coming in rapid succession after the second. Connally is only one witness and his recollection conflicts with those of dozens of others.
Yet you want to ignore his later statement that it was not less than a second and closer to two.