JFK Assassination Forum

If he is looking straight ahead then his right ear flap moved over and is over his right eye.

DPD motorcycle cop Jim Chaney was riding escort to the right side of the limo. He was the closest cop to JFK. Jim said that he thought the first shot was a motorcycle backfire. Jim Chaney said in a TV interview on 11/22/63 that he looked over at JFK right after he heard the shot and that JFK was looking towards his left shoulder. Here is a clip showing Chaney starting at Z136 through Z153. It appears to me that Chaney is turning his head to his left to look at JFK:

Where exactly do you get there were three shots? DPD Chaney is very specific about shot one and then shot two hitting JFK in the head.

(11-22-63 interview with Bill Lord on WFAA television, apparently in the early evening) “I was riding on the right rear fender... We had proceeded west on Elm Street at approximately 15-20 miles an hour. We heard the first shot. I thought it was a motorcycle backfiring and uh I looked back over to my left and also President Kennedy looked back over his left shoulder. Then, the, uh, second shot came, well, then I looked back just in time to see the President struck in the face by the second bullet.

DPD motorcycle cop Jim Chaney was riding escort to the right side of the limo. He was the closest cop to JFK. Jim said that he thought the first shot was a motorcycle backfire. Jim Chaney said in a TV interview on 11/22/63 that he looked over at JFK right after he heard the shot and that JFK was looking towards his left shoulder. Here is a clip showing Chaney starting at Z136 through Z153. It appears to me that Chaney is turning his head to his left to look at JFK:





Meanwhile, JFK is shown in this clip during frames Z133 through Z154. JFK finishes fixing his hair and turns his head quickly towards his left shoulder. I would guess that he is checking on Jackie after hearing the first shot (which many folks thought to be a motorcycle backfire).

If Oswald made the dent then that would have to have been with his first shot (at about) Z105.
Oswald's second (ie final) shot at Z218 was the magic bullet & could not have made the dent.

I suppose that a pointed full metal jacket AR15 slug might have made a hole in the chrome & in the underlying steel frame.
A hollow point slug would be very hot at short range (say 22 ft). And a spinning hot slug would i think possibly emit a bit of lead before it even reached the chrome, due to centrifugal force, acting on the hot skin, depending on the thickness of any copper coating (just thinking out loud).