Re: Missing the first shot

claviger wrote:

> Andrew,
> 
> I can't find a copy of the Rosemary Willis testimony to the HSCA or
> the article by David Lui, "The Little Girl Must Have Heard," (Dallas
> Time-Herald, June 3, 1979), but I did find this quote from a Texas
> Monthly interview. The website doesn't say when this interview took
> place.
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> Rosemary: As they made the turn from Houston to Elm Street, they'd
> just gone a few feet when the first shot rang out, and upon hearing
> the sound, my normal body reaction was to look up and follow the sound
> that I heard, it was so abrupt. I didn't know what it was, but I was
> looking for what I heard. And the pigeons immediately ascended off
> that roof of the school book depository building and that's what
> caught my eye. My eyes were searching for what I heard and I see the
> pigeons, you know, they're scared to death, and take off in abrupt
> flight. Next thing I know, right after that, there's another shot.
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> 
> Notice the similarity to the following quotes:
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> WC:
> 
> Mrs. CONNALLY.
> I could resist no longer. When we got past this area I did turn to the
> President and said, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love
> you." Then I don't know how soon, it seems to me it was very soon,
> that I heard a noise, and not being an expert rifleman, I was not
> aware that it was a rifle.
> 
> Governor CONNALLY.
> We had just made the turn, well, when I heard what I thought was a
> shot. I heard this noise which I immediately took to be a rifle shot.
> 
> 
> HSCA:
> 
> Mr. CORNWELL. What distance, after turning the corner, do you recall
> the car going before you noticed something was wrong?
> 
> Mrs. CONNALLY. Not very far. I don't really know how far.
> 
> Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. Cornwell, we had just turned to Elm. We had gone, I
> suspect, oh, 150, 200 feet when I heard what I thought was a rifle
> shot...
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> I think the first shot was sooner, about half the distance estimated
> by Gov. Connally of 150 feet.

I am not sure why you think you are a better estimator of distance that 
the Governor. Others said they were 1/3 to 1/2 the distance to the 
overpass. Greer, the driver of the president's car said the car was 
almost past the TSBD when the first shot sounded. That puts the first 
shot at about z200, which is exactly where Mary Woodward and Phil Willis 
put it.

Andrew Mason