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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: If you'll look, you'll see what I'm talking about.
« Last post by John Corbett on Today at 03:37:59 PM »George Hickey heard more than "a sound" early on.
ME: Did George Hickey say he heard a firecracker?
Perplexity AI: Yes. Hickey’s statement says, “I heard a loud report which sounded like a firecracker,” and also that it “appeared to come from the right and rear.” He goes on to say that he later heard “two reports” that he thought were shots, so in his own account the “firecracker” description refers to the first sound, not the later pair.
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Regarding whether he looked "over his right shoulder" or down at the pavement after hearing the early-on firecracker-like "sound," what does the Zapruder film show?
Hickey describes the second two reports as "completely different in sound than the first report and were in such rapid succession that there seemed to be practically no time element between them." That doesn't sound to me like he was describing the second and third shots since those two came almost 5 seconds apart. "No time element between them" sounds like a description of a double sound produced by a single shot. If that is so, what Hickey described as the first shot would have actually been the second. He estimated that the total elapsed time was about 5 seconds from the first shot he heard until the last. If that is accurate, that's further indication he only heard the second and third shots and not the first. The sequence of events as he described them ar as follows:
1. Hickey first hears a shot.
2. Hickey looks to the right rear.
3. 2-3 seconds later, Hickey looks to JFK and sees his reaction to being shot.
4. Hickey hears a double sound and sees JFK was shot in the back of the head.
I can reconcile this account only if I believe he did not hear the first shot. The other way to reconcile it is that he got the sequence and timing of the events wrong.
Either is possible, but Hickey not hearing the first shot seems to be the more probable answer.
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