But also importantly, let's remember that Connally always swore that he was hit very quickly after he heard the first shot, and that he didn't remember hearing the shot that his him. What does that sound like to you?
The bolded is correct. The other is untrue. Connally testified to three shots, in chronological order, one he heard but didn't know what, if anything, it hit. A second which he didn't hear, which struck him. A third that he knew struck the President in the head. No more, no less.
I am unable to find anything where the Governor says he was hit "very quickly after he heard the first shot."
Oh, there's this often-quoted snippet of testimony which you can open any conspiracy book and find displayed prominently:
Mr. SPECTER. What is the best estimate that you have as to the time span between the sound of the first shot and the feeling of someone hitting you in the back which you just described?
Governor CONNALLY. A very, very brief span of time. Again my trend of thought just happened to be, I suppose along this line, I immediately thought that this--that I had been shot. I knew it when I just looked down and I was covered with blood, and the thought immediately passed through my mind that there were either two or three people involved or more in this or someone was shooting with an automatic rifle.
But then there's this testimony from the same session which no conspiracy book ever quotes:
Mr. SPECTER. Governor, you have described hearing a first shot and a third shot. Did you hear a second shot?
Governor CONNALLY. No; I did not.
Mr. SPECTER. What is your best estimate as to the timespan between the first shot which you heard and the shot which you heretofore characterized as the third shot?
Governor CONNALLY. It was a very brief span of time; oh, I would have to say a matter of seconds. I don't know, 10, 12 seconds. It was extremely rapid, so much so that again I thought that whoever was firing must be firing with an automatic rifle because of the rapidity of the shots; a very short period of time.
Ten seconds from the first to the third shot is five seconds between shots, assuming evenly spaced shots. [shot - five seconds - shot - five seconds - shot]. Twelve seconds is six seconds between evenly spaced shots.
If you want to argue for two close shots - at 190 and 224, AND the accuracy of the Governor's recollections, that puts a bit less than two seconds between the first two and about eight to ten seconds between the second and third.
Do you think that spacing of shots (the first and second much closer together than the second and third) is correct?
If not, it causes you a problem: You are the one citing the Governor as accurate about the timing of the shots - but not carrying your thinking through the entire shooting scenario - you're essentially ignoring that accepting what you claim is the Governor's timing for the first two shots argues against another aspect of the timing you've argued for -- that the second and third shots were closer together the first and second.
The Governor is either right or wrong about the timing, but he can't be both, depending on what you want to discuss.
Another way to reconstruct this is to work backward. The head shot at 313 and the shot at 224 are almost exactly five seconds apart (4.86 seconds at 18.3 frames per second). Allowing the same amount of time for the first shot puts the first shot at frame 135 or prior, doesn't it, if Connally's timing guess of ten to twelve seconds is accurate.
Now, do you think the first shot was anywhere near frame 135, which follows precisely from Connally's ten second estimate for the time of the shooting, or do you think the Governor was wrong about that?
There's a ton wrong with your post, but this pound will do for now.
Please explain how the Governor's statements, in total, argue for your reconstruction, because from here, it looks like you're just picking out the stuff you like and discarding the rest.
Hank
