Re: Missing the first shot

claviger wrote:
> Motorcycle Escort
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> DPD Stavis "Steve" Ellis
> http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/History/The_deed/Sneed/Ellis.html
> http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/Recent_additions.html
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> DPD Douglas L. Jackson, one of the Presidential motorcycle officers in
> the motorcade [deceased]:
> a) WC references: 19 H 134; 20 H 489;
> b) early 1970's interview with Fred Newcomb and Perry Adams for
> "Murder From Within" (pages 60, 66, 71, 89, 90, 93, and 96 [see also
> "Killing Kennedy" by H.E.L., pages 144 and 152)---"Mr. Connally was
> looking back toward me. And about that time then the second shot went
> off. That's the point when I knew that somebody was shooting at them
> because that was the time he [Connally] got hit---because he jerked. I
> was looking directly at him=85he was looking=85kind of back toward me a=
nd=85
> just kind of flinched."; Jackson "stated that he was not hit [with
> blood/ debris]. This is possible because Jackson had begun to lag
> behind the limousine and was about ten feet away from it at the time
> of the fatal shot."; "=85that car [JFK's limo] just all but stopped=85j=
ust
> a moment."
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Thanks very much for this. It appears that Jackson was to the right
rear=20
of the limo but you may wish to check that.  If so, this description of=20
the position of JBC, with JBC looking to the rear, only fits the=20
position of JBC seen in frames z250-278

Andrew Mason

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