JFK Assassination Forum

Dear Sonderführer Storing,

Of course.

Afterall, most of the witnesses heard three shots, the three guys on the fifth floor heard three spent shells hit the floor above them as well as the working of the bolt three times on the short-rifle, Robert Hughes filmed a person in the Sniper's Nest window as the limo was turning onto Elm Street, several people saw a man in said window during the shooting, the trajectory of the entrance wound in the back of JFK's head and the trajectory of the wounds in JFK's lower neck / JBC's back, wrist, and thigh line up with the Sniper's Nest window. etc., etc., etc., and the spray pattern / skull fragments ejection pattern indicate a shot from behind.

Do you have a problem with that?

-- Tom

Number 1. The GAP shows shadow from the nearby Live Oak. It appears below the front starboard passenger window.

An interesting article. In the past I have used the terms reflexive and cognitive to describe reactions where your article speaks of voluntary and involuntary. Unless I am misunderstanding, I think we are talking about the same thing. Cognitive reactions take longer and are a less reliable way of determining the timing of events because they involve a thought process and that can vary. For example, we see cognitive reactions by JBC and Rosemary Willis to the sound of the first shot. JBC's reaction began at frame 164 whereas Rosemary Willis' reaction began at about 171. I believe it was during filming of hunting programs, perhaps the American Sportsman, it was shown that a cameraman will jiggle his camera in reaction to the sound of a high-powered rifle shot. It is an involuntary reaction and one that will occur even when the cameraman is expecting the gunshot. The problem with applying jiggle analysis to the Zapruder film is that while every gunshot will be followed by a jiggle, not every jiggle is caused by a gunshot. It is my belief that the camera jiggle at frame 158 is a reaction to the first shot but I cannot prove that to be a fact.