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.
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.
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.
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.Technically, it is just an idea, like yours. A theory requires some testing, peer reviews, etc like the SBT has had over the past 60-plus years. We have been explaining the time distortion phenomenon. You just don’t appear to be listening. If I had not experienced it for myself during the snake strike encounter I might not be so adamant about this. I will try to explain what I experienced again and relate some of it to JBC’s recollections.
My instinctive reaction of jumping backwards (amygdala controlled) happened so fast and so automatic that is was already over with before I even “knew” what was going on. I was hiking alone and was not scanning the trail ahead of me like I should have been. Apparently the snake was camouflaged and blended into the terrain (looked like other tree roots in the area). The amygdala portion of my brain must have seen some movement of the snake (out of the corner of my eye) preparing to strike. But I do not have a memory of actually seeing this movement, only a vague sense of it. It was only after I had instinctively jumped backwards that I realized what was happening. This delay between the instinctive reaction and being cognizant of what was happening is the time it normally takes our brains to form thoughts. Thus it was shown to me that the amygdala can react much faster than the rest of our brains in life threatening situations. Research and read up on this if you want to know more.
Once I actually saw the snake and realized what was happening, everything was magnified and slowed way down. The reason I know that time was distorted in my memory is that gravity does not allow for objects such as striking snakes to just hang in mid air and fall very slowly (what seemed like 2 to 3 seconds) to the ground. I know from experience and schooling that it happens much faster than my memory tells me it happened. My senses (including my hearing) were “supercharged” by the amygdala portion of my brain. The thud that sounded when the snake finally did hit the ground seemed much louder than it possibly could have actually been.
JBC did not have a reference (like I did with gravity and the rate of acceleration of falling objects) to tell him that time in his memory had been distorted. JBC does say that he instinctively turned toward where he sensed the shot came from. I relate JBC’s instinctive turn to my instinctive jump backwards. Since JBC was already turned partially to his right, I think this instinctive reaction could have been simply a very quick head turn (much like Rosemary’s instinctive reaction that we can see on the Z-film). JBC said he realized that he didn’t see JFK out of the corner of his eye as he would have expected, so THEN he decided to turn to his left. It was during his turn that he felt the hit. My idea is that time was distorted for JBC during this (much like the snake strike was in my experience). It does take time for our brains to form thoughts and thus for us realize what is happening (my experience is a good example). If time was distorted for JBC during this thought forming period (similar to my experience with the slow motion snake strike), he could have a distorted memory (that there was more time between when he reacted to the sound and when he felt the impact than there actually was). However, in JBC’s case, he had no way of know about the time distortion (like I did with the snake encounter and gravity reference). I hope that some of this makes sense. It is not an easy thing to try to describe.