Interesting video of Dr Jenkins who was at the autopsy of JFK.

[John Mytton]

A good reason For Jackie wanting to get out of the limo is that one moment she is cruising along in the Dallas sunshine, then seconds later she is staring at her husband's exposed brain:

Watch Jackie, she's horrified as in the frame above then she put's her right hand on the back of Kennedy's neck/head and pushes him forward then her left hand comes down on what's left on the top of Kennedy's head as she vaults out the back.



JohnM

[Dan O'meara]

Watch Jackie, she's horrified as in the frame above then she put's her right hand on the back of Kennedy's neck/head and pushes him forward then her left hand comes down on what's left on the top of Kennedy's head as she vaults out the back.



JohnM

She can't get out of there quick enough. It's mad to think what might have happened if Clint Hill hadn't shown up to stop her.

[Tim Nickerson]

JohnM

 I don't see her grabbing anything in that.

[John Mytton]

She can't get out of there quick enough. It's mad to think what might have happened if Clint Hill hadn't shown up to stop her.

Agreed, she's in such a hurry that she even uses her husbands exploded head as a push off point so that she can jump quicker out the back, if Clint wasn't there I reckon she would have tumbled onto the road. Also worth noting is that Jackie goes from looking at her husband to instantly moving to get out which means she didn't have her enough time to establish that anything was retrievable on the trunk.



This stabilized Zapruder footage shows what appears to be a shiny pristine trunk. And as Tim has just pointed out, she slides her hand across the trunk surface and doesn't grab anything.



JohnM

[Martin Weidmann]

I don't see her grabbing anything in that.

Start at 29:09

[Steve Barber]

She can't get out of there quick enough. It's mad to think what might have happened if Clint Hill hadn't shown up to stop her.

 Hear Hear!!!  Dan O'Meara!

  Notice also if you will, she places her hand right in the area on the back of his head that conspiracy buffs say is "blackened out" to cover up the "rear head wound".

[Steve Barber]

I saw this interview years ago, and heard nothing that convinced me of a head wound anywhere but where Mrs. Kennedy saw it. On top of the head!  She's looking right into the skull cavity in frames 335 and 337 (clearest of the many frames) The large skull flap hanging over the temple belongs to the top of the head.   Mrs. Kennedy pushed this piece back into place, and she said as much in her interview with Theodore White 7 days after the assassination.  She said she was "Trying to hold the top of his head down...Maybe I could keep his brains in".  The piece of matter that Pepper Jenkins said she handed him was not picked up off the trunk lid.  She picked nothing up off the trunk lid.  The Zap[ruder film shows her gloved wide hand open and flat against the extremely slick surface of the trunk lid as her right hand meets the trunk lid surface, sliding out from in front of her, causing her to slam down onto the trunk lid with her left elbow.  It's all there in the Zapruder film gif John Mytton posted.  Thank you, John.

[Steve Barber]

You have proof that the 20-something witnesses to the back head wound were all lying? Lets hear it. That film clip certainly doesn't do it.

 I didn't say they were "lying".  You did!  They were mistaken, and the film and especially Mrs. Kennedy's own words prove it.  They didnt see any hole in the back of the head because there was none!  Three different home movies, and a still photograph prove it, as do the interviews of people like Mrs. Kennedy( And not one, single person saw the head damage better than she did!). Zapruder, Sitzman, Hargis, the Newmans, and Brehm all saw the condition of the head.  Brehm said he saw the top of his head fly off.    What the people at Parkland saw was after the fact, when Mrs. Kennedy was trying to keep his brain inside his skull, and "keep the top of his head down" so that "maybe I could keep his brains in".  Those are her words spoken to Theodore White whom interviewed her within 7 days of the assassination.   And there were 2 skull fragments found in the grass and one in the street by 3 different people, Seymour Weitzman, Billy Harper and  David Burros. The skull fragments were all located several yards ahead of where the limousine was positioned at the time of the shooting. None of them were found to the rear of the limousine.