On Jan 22, 1:48=A0pm, Robert Harris <reharr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The following paragraph, from Mrs. Kennedy's testimony contains a wealth
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f im****tant information about the shooting. The first sentence, btw, which
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ppears nonsensical, probably contains a transcription error. Rather than
say=
ing, "..the one that made me turn around was Gov. Connally yelling.", I
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ect the extremely softspoken first lady was saying, "..what made me turn
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und was Governor yelling.".
>
> "Well, there must have been two because the one that made me turn around
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as Governor Connally yelling. And it used to confuse me because first I
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mbered there were three and I used to think my husband didn't make any
sound=
when he was shot. =A0And Governor Connally screamed. =A0And then I read
the=
other day that it was the same shot that hit them both. =A0But I used to
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ink if I only had been looking to the right I would have seen the first
shot=
hit him, then I could have pulled him down, and then the second shot
would =
not have hit him. =A0But I heard Governor Connally yelling and that made
me =
turn around, and as I turned to the right my husband was doing this
[indicat=
ing with hand at neck]. He was receiving a bullet. And those are the only
tw=
o I remember."
>
> Ok, let's apply some very simple analysis here.
>
> Jackie is lamenting the fact that she was looking away from her husband
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en, what she believed was the first shot, was fired, right? Our first
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t might be that she was referring to an early shot, circa Z150-160.
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> But wait a minute! In the next sentence, she tells us *why* she wasn't
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king at JFK. "But I heard Governor Connally yelling and that made me turn
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ound.".
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> The Governor, as we all know, began to shout in roughly, the mid Z-200's
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certainly no earlier than 240.
>
> Now, let's look at the Zapruder film. Yep, Jackie does indeed, turn away
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rom her husband and toward Governor Connally at about Z-254, just after he
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egan to shout, and exactly as she claimed.
>
> She then hears the shot that she believes, first struck her husband. But
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he is looking at Governor Connally at the time, and by her reckoning,
didn't=
have enough time to pull him down. Ergo, that shot had to have been
fired, =
WHILE SHE WAS LOOKING AT GOVERNOR CONNALLY.
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> She was looking at Connally from Z-254 to Z-290, when she suddenly spins
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ack toward the President and drops her head at an extreme rate of speed.
It =
is not a coincidence that her reaction occurred at exactly the same
instant =
that Dr. Alvarez placed Zapruder's reaction to the "noise" at Z-285 and
with=
in a sixth of a second of clear reactions by Kellerman, Mrs. Connally, and
G=
reer.
>
> Jackie never recognized the first "noise" she heard, probably around
Z150-=
160, as an actual gunshot. =A0These were her words,
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> "I guess there was a noise, but it didn't seem like any different noise
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ally because there is so much noise.."
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> Neither did she (or anyone else, except for the victims) hear or react
to =
a shot at Z-223. So, her perception was that the first shot was fired at
Z-2=
85. She heard the second shot at Z-312, one and a half seconds later.
>
> Her thought that she might have had time to pull JFK down, if she had
been=
looking at him, was not at all unreasonable, though it is unlikely she
coul=
d have done it within that short span of time.
>
> Robert Harris
Did you even think about this before you posted it. Are we supposed to
believe JFK was not hit until after Z254?
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