John Connally: What Did He See On 11/22/63? And What Didn't He See?
David Von Pein
THE TOTALITY OF GOVERNOR CONNALLY'S POST-ASSASSINATION STATEMENTS YIELDS
THE PROBABLE ANSWER TO THAT INQUIRY.....
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A conspiracy theorist wrote the following sentence recently.....
"{John} Connally saw the President "slump" out of the corner of his eye
before he felt any impact."
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My response to this remark is.....
And then John B. Connally evidently lied about this ultra-important fact
for the rest of his life. Right?
Or: He simply FORGOT that he saw the President "slump" when he gave his
official testimony later to the WC and the HSCA? Is that correct?
And he also forgot about the "slump" remark whenever he talked about his
vivid recollections of the event on various JFK documentaries and in TV
interviews over the years. Right?
How on Earth could he NOT include this very critical "I Saw JFK Slumping"
remark in EVERY ONE of the many interviews he gave if it were, in fact,
true? Including mentioning it, of course, during his under-oath statements
to the WC, where he was as clear as a bell regarding this point of seeing
JFK vs. not seeing him.....
"This almost sounds incredible, I am sure, since we were in the car with
them. But again I will repeat very briefly when what I believe to be the
shot first occurred. I turned to my right, which was away from both of
them, of course, and looked out and could see neither {JFK & Jackie}, and
then as I was turning to look into the back seat where I would have seen
both of them, I was hit, so I never completed the turn at all, and I never
saw either one of them after the firing started." -- John B. Connally;
1964
So....The late John Connally was either a liar, or he simply misspoke
during the bedside interview in late 1963 when he said "the President had
slumped". That latter option is much more likely to be true.
The "slump" remark was probably a combination of his own version of what
he saw, mixed in with a little of his wife Nellie's version of events.
Because there's no way (no how) that he's going to forget something as
important as that....especially when you factor in his detailed,
NEVER-CHANGING testimony with respect to OTHER portions of his account of
the shooting. Such as:
"I was not hit by shot #1; Then I was hit; I heard but was not hit by the
third shot; It felt like a balled-up fist hit me in the back; I looked
down and could immediately see that I was covered with blood; I did not
hear the shot that hit me; They're going to kill us all; Blood and brain
tissue from the head shot fell on us; I didn't notice anything unusual in
the crowd, just the general activity of people waving".
All of the above comments were repeated (nearly verbatim) every time I
ever heard Governor Connally talk about the assassination. But the "he
slumped" remark was never repeated. Ever wonder why?
Was Governor Connally a liar? Or was he merely ASSUMING that JFK had
"slumped", because he was of the OPINION that President Kennedy had been
struck by that first gunshot (based solely on his wife's opinion)?
Food for thought.
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(Food) courses #2 and #3 re. this matter:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/741a872f58796bfe