These two men were best friends with both Jack and Bobby Kennedy. John Connally, who . Dealey Plaza is a plaza on the west end of downtown Dallas where the Sixth Floor Museum is now located. High-school student Rose Marie Simmons, who went with her father and friends to Love Field, hoping to see the Kennedys up close, spoke for the oral-history project: There were really more people at Love Field then I had anticipated The pink she wore was just so bright and she had a hat on to match and it was just exciting to see her come down the stairs He had her go first because she was so popular and the crowd really wanted to see what she was wearing. Witnesses reported that the first shot struck the pavement behind the Presidents limousine. I do not believe that is a credible shot. A high-powered rifle shot could easily have caused all of Connallys wounds. However, it is clear that the shooters were confident of their ability to control the crime scene. I believe the TSBDE shooter could not hit anything with his inferior rifle, and he will manage to fire just two shots in ten seconds. Note that the Zapruder film at 18.3 frames per second was not fast enough to capture the path of the bullet. So I turned to the right. [16] In his second dispatch from the car just 25 minutes after the shooting, he said, "Some of the Secret Service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired to the right rear of the president's car, probably from a grassy knoll to which police rushed." His story required the switch to the convoluted single bullet theory we are all familiar with. Groden believes it occurred at Z150 (Acoustic Z147) and caused Kennedy to stop waving. It is an attitude of universal benevolence. 7 Surveyor Chester Breneman reported hearing about a stress mark on the Stemmons Freeway sign that was caused by a bullet. Some researchers believe that two separate bullets hit Governor Connally because he could not have held on to his hat after his wrist was shattered. Fragments of the bullet were found on the right front seat and on the floor beside the right front seat (CE567-b & CE569). East from the planter box on the north side of Main St. is a tall, graduated obelisk. 17 On the Zapruder film, Kennedys head moves forward just before the shot to his head. Some researchers have posited the hypothesis that a sniper can be seen in one of the Cancellare photographs in the background, where this image of a man with what appears to be a rifle can be seen. Many witnesses said that the last two shots were close together. Nevertheless I believe the eighth shot is necessary to complete the picture of the assassination. But they just seemed to be taller and bigger and just vivacious. Shown is the location of cameraman Abraham Zapruder along with the trajectory of the third and fatal shot that killed. Mrs. Kennedy normally wouldnt do that. place where it hit the street would have been just exactly right. Former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was believed, by the prevailing accounts, to have been responsible for firing the shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building, which struck Kennedy in the neck and head as his motorcade passed through the plaza at 12:30 p.m. that day. Since a shot from the Texas School Book Depository hit the President in the head less than one second after the shot from the knoll, there would have been little apparent reason for a gunman on the knoll to fire a second shot. No witnesses described Dealey Plaza as a war zone or a shooting gallery. Witness estimates range from three to eight shots fired. These are established facts. The fact that the shooter took two risky shots suggests he did not realize he wasnt expected to hit anything. Both of their statements were consistent. After screening the film for Secret Service agents, Zapruder agreed to sell the rights to "Life," but did not want the film to be exploited. However this and the eighth shot are necessary to complete the picture of the assassination. On Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 10:15:10 AM UTC-4, people from here and a few from there, on their own were part, On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 12:23:36 PM UTC-4, mainframetech. Jacqueline Kennedy testified about the final minutes of her husbands life forthe Warren Commission on June 5, 1964: We got off the plane. After the shooting, Umbrella Man and Radio Man sat on the curb together. www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/index.html. Dealey Plaza (2015) as viewed from Reunion Tower. Consequently there were no fragments available to cause the crack in the windshield. Whitney: You know how it got there by any chance? Located near the north grassy knoll on November 22, 1963, there were several witnesses, three large traffic signposts, four sidewalk lamp posts, the John Neely Bryan north pergola concrete structure including its two enclosed shelters, a tool shed, one 3.3 foot (1m) high concrete wall connected to each of the pergola shelters; ten tall, wide, low-hanging live oak trees; a five-foot (1.5m) tall, wooden, cornered, stockade fenceline measured at approximately 169 feet (53.6m) long; six street curb sewer openings, their sewer manholes and their interconnecting large pipes; and several 2 to 6 foot (0.6to1.8m) tall bushes, trees and hedges. What is necessary is focusing on the totality of circumstances and creating a shot scenario that assassination researchers can agree upon. The limousine is sketched at Z-210. The interval between shots is so brief (1.4 seconds) that the second shot was probably accidental; it was certainly inaccurate. The former county courthouse is individually listed on the National Register and is also designated a State Antiquities Landmark (SAL) and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL). It ain't me doing it. But then suddenly governor Connally was yelling, Oh, no, no, no., Zapruder:And as I was shooting, as the president was coming down from Houston Street making his turn, it was about halfway down there, I heard a shot, and he slumped to the side, like this. 11 Governor Connally had a bullet embedded in his left thigh. A free-standing brick elevator tower connects the center to the Sixth Floor Museum in the depository building. We. The Kennedy Memorial and Plaza is the only contributing property not in existence at the time of the assassination nor in view of its site. Gary Mack, the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza, writes for LightBox on how one rare photo, taken by Jim MacCammon of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest, suggests that the 24-year-old . This shot could only come from TSBDE as a credible shot at the President. Included in Walking Tour and Bus Tour THE GRASSY KNOLL 411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202 Democrats in vice president Lyndon Johnsons home state were splintering a year ahead of the next presidential election. cit., pg. Railroad Office/Shed, near Pacific Ave. east of Interlocking Tower This is a small one-story brick building constructed after the 1989 demolition of a predecessor that was erected at some point between 1930 and 1950 near the same location. The building holds a loading dock to the south. Some researchers believe that the throat wound and the supposed hole in the windshield are tied to the shooter in front of the limousine. The "X" marking the approximate spot in Dallas' Dealey Plaza where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago is no more. The following are contributing properties and other significant buildings within the historic district. Douglas Horne, in his book, Inside the ARRB pg 1447 also identified Whitaker as the employee who witnessed the condition of the windshield, and verified that the hole had been caused by a shot from the front, with fragmentation and beveling present on the inside. The presence of a bullet hole in the windshield of the limousine was witnessed at Parkland Hospital by motorcycle patrolmen Sargent Stavis Ellis, James Chaney, and Harry Freeman. At that time, I dubbed this position the cubby hole. Those newspapers can now fetch hundreds of dollars at auction. It is not easy to second-guess the Bethesda doctors but the logic of a single bullet causing both wounds is compelling. The eighth shot fits the witness accounts and the photographic evidence and it allows the TSBDE shooter to have a second shot at the President that went high. Before I found evidence in the Zapruder film, this was all we had to go on. 9 Governor Connally had a through and through bullet wound from his right armpit to his right nipple. Then I heard the crack of a couple of rifle shots. 18 Kennedys body fell back and to the left after the gunshot wound to his head. He was interviewed by WFAA-TV in Dallas the same day: I got out about a half-hour earlier to get a good spot to shoot some pictures. What is Dealey Plaza? Posted November 11, 2022. This next photo was taken by Gary King a couple of days ago, showing the inner dimensions of the utility box. They scheduled 45 minutes for the 10-mile trip, but huge crowds of spectators slowed the motorcade, which crawled through Dealey Plaza at just 10 mph in the moments before Kennedy was shot. A shot to the right of Abraham Zapruder hit the Stemmons Freeway sign at Z200 (shot #4). The Dealey Plaza Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark on the 30th anniversary of the assassination, to preserve Dealey Plaza, street rights-of-way, and buildings and structures by the plaza visible from the assassination site, that have been identified as witness locations or as possible locations for the assassin. But it was very clear, it was a through and through bullet hole, through the windshield of the car, from the front to the back. Other researchers believe in a back to throat trajectory or a throat to back trajectory. Jacqueline Kennedy:In the motorcade, you know, I usually would be waving mostly to the left side and he was waving mostly to the right, which is one reason you are not looking at each other very much. You know, then, there were pictures later on of me climbing out the back. From the gun position to the windshield it is dotted. That was one of the darkest days in US History. This suggests that the DTB shooter fired after the throat shot. 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