Mark Lane and Charles Brehm

[Michael Capasse]

It was a proper edit for someone who was trying to misrepresent what a witness has said. Mark Lane was a deceitful SOB and it is not at all surprising that he would cut anything a witness said that didn't support the false narrative that Lane was trying to push.

 
He asked which direction the matter flew.
...and Brehm answered him

[Fred Litwin]

No, not true. Go read my post. Lane asked him exactly where the shots came from, and he cut out the answer.

fred

[Michael Capasse]

No, not true. Go read my post. Lane asked him exactly where the shots came from, and he cut out the answer.

fred

  ...round and round u go.
I wonder what happened to the statement he gave to the Sheriff's Dept on the 22nd

[Tom Graves]

None of this has the least bit of relevance.

For starters, Brehm seems not to have heard the first shot and can be seen in the Z-film still clapping his hands as JFK passed by him, slumping from having been hit by the second shot. Brehm is hardly alone. It appears that some people recognized the first bang as a gunshot and others did not. Connally instantly recognized it as the sound of a high powered rifle while JFK sitting behind him seemed oblivious to it. SS agent Bennett recognized the first sound as a gunshot while he was scanning the crowd to his right. He immediately turned his attention to JFK and saw the second shot strike him high on his upper right back. Meanwhile, SS agent Hill apparently did not recognize the first shot and is seen looking forward toward JFK after the second shot had struck JFK in the back. He heard the third shot as he was racing to the limo but only remembers hearing two shots total. It's a mystery as to why some recognized the first shot for what it was and others did not. Perhaps the accelerating motorcycles coming off the sharp turn on Elm St muffled the sound of that first shot. Perhaps some thought the first shot was a motorcycle backfire.

The direction a piece of skull flew is no indication of the direction of the shot. Only an autopsy can determine that. Entry and exit wounds have distinct characteristics and it is elementary for qualified medical examiners to determine which wounds were entrances. That's why EVERY qualified medical examiner who has seen the autopsy photos and x-rays has concurred with the original finding that JFK was hit by two shots from behind and there is no medical evidence of a shot from any other direction.

Case closed.

Having heard Oswald's first, missing everything shot at "Z-124" (half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133), Glenn Bennett started leaning to his right to see if JFK was okay and George Hickey leaned over and started looking at the pavement.

[John Corbett]

Having heard Oswald's first, missing everything shot at "Z-124" (half-a-second before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133), Glenn Bennett started leaning to his right to see if JFK was okay and George Hickey leaned over and started looking at the pavement.

I don't know how you can say the first shot missed at theoretical Z-124. What evidence is there that places a shot at that time. Seems like pure speculation to me. I've seen the arguments for the first shot being fired prior to Z133 and I remain unimpressed by them. We have no definitive evidence for the time of that first shot but there are clues. JBC turning to look over his right shoulder beginning at Z164 seems like a good place to start. It fits with his testimony that he looked over his right shoulder upon hearing what he recognized as a rifle shot. What we don't know is how quickly he reacted. It's not like his reflexive arm flip which began at Z226. Reflexive responses are involuntary and almost immediate. I believe Dale Meyers posited a shot at Z160. That would require a fairly rapid reaction from Connally. Remember too that the sound of the bullet would take a couple frames to reach his ears after the shot was fired. The bullet would arrive before the sound. To me the best clue as to the time of the first shot is the jiggle of Zapruder's camera. The jiggle following the headshot occurred at Z318. It would have taken roughly 2.5 Z-frames for the bullet to cover the 88 yards from the rifle to JFK's head. That means a bullet impacting at Z313 would have been fired at Z310 or Z311.  Since the distance from Oswald's rifle to Zapruder's ears would be a constant for all three shots, we should expect a similar lag between the shot being fired and Zapruder jiggling his camera. There is also a jiggle at Z227 which would indicated a shot fired Z220 or Z221. Most likely Z221.  There is a definite jiggle at Z158. If that jiggle is in response to a gunshot from Oswald's rifle, that would indicate a shot fired at Z151 or Z152. Is that definitive proof of a shot at that timeframe. Of course not, but to me it is the best evidence for. when the first shot was fired. Until someone offers a more compelling argument. that is what I believe. Is it possible that the Z158 jiggle is not a reaction to a gunshot and the first shot was fired earlier, even before Zapruder resumed filming. Of course it is theoretically possible but a shot fired in the Z152-153 time frame fits with everything else we have available.