In article <
503a...@mcadams.posc.mu.edu>,
"Research" <
quest...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry there John, I wasn't avoiding your comment, I simply missed your
> comment here.
No problem. I've missed replies to my articles sometimes too.
> "John King" <
caer...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:caeruleo-FC3988...@mcadams.posc.mu.edu...
> > In article <
5026...@mcadams.posc.mu.edu>,
> > "Research" <
quest...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In general terms of course. But you LNers can't stand
> >> it when your own theories are used by anyone that isn't you. I said some
> >> claim Connally was hit at Z226. That's you ain't it? That IS the SBT
> >> ain't
> >> it? But what you disagree with the fact the nutters say Connally turns to
> >> look into the rear as he said he did.
> >
> > You seem to be very misinformed about what Connally actually said.
> > Neither the "nutters," as you call them, or Connally, said what you claim
> > they said. Here's what Connally *really* said:
>
> I don't know where you got this Connally interview.
Oh good gawd. It's from his Warren Commission testimony:
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/conn_j.htm
> It's not exactly the
> one I was quoting. I got mine from the history channels "Who shot JFK."
Omg, no wonder. I learned the hard way in 2000 to never trust any claim
about what a witness said in any book, documentary, movie, etc. Whether
they take the point of view of a conspiracy or of LHO doing it alone,
they always very selectively quote these witnesses. I have long ago
lost count of how many times, when I've read the witness's *complete*
statements from start to finish how, if the author or filmmaker had just
quoted the very next sentence or the very next few sentences it would
have destroyed the entire argument the author/filmmaker seemed to be
making. My advice to you is to not trust this even when you see a
documentary of the witness speaking on camera, because you can't tell
what *else* the person said before and after the excerpt of the
interview that was used in the documentary.
> But it doesn't matter, cause your interview statement said it all. In your
> interrpution, Connally said "the sound appeared to come from over my right
> shoulder, so I turned to look back over my right shoulder."
And now you're doing exactly the same thing. You're not quoting the
*next* thing he said in the SAME SENTENCE:
"...and I saw nothing unusual except just people in the crowd, but I did
not catch the President in the corner of my eye..." even though I
***DID*** quote that below in the article of mine to which you were here
replying. Why did you leave out the REST of the sentence? I didn't.
And I quoted a lot more than just that one complete sentence.
> He said the had turned (meaning he turned his body),
Full stop. ***WHERE*** did he say he turned his ***BODY***? He did NOT
say that. He said he turned to look over his right shoulder but did NOT
TURN FAR ENOUGH TO SEE JFK. Sure, I see how you *could* interpret what
he said that way, but only if you ignore what he said RIGHT AFTER THAT
IN THE SAME SENTENCE.
> not a just simple
> head movement as you claimed Connally did at Z226.
Show me where he specifically said that he turned any other part of his
body than his head. I don't see it, in that sentence or any other that
I quoted below. You did know, long before today, that most people can
look over their shoulder by turning only their head, correct? Why do
you think he meant that he turned his whole body, when he did not
specifically say that? And why do you keep ignoring what *else* he
said, that he did not turn far enough to see JFK at all?
> Kennedy was showing
> signs of being hit by then. But Connally was not.
Oh, so that violent jerk by Connally that begins in Z226 isn't a sign of
being hit? What is it a sign of then? Did Nellie goose him?
> So the single bullet
> theory doesn't work.
According to you, only because you keep ignoring what Connally said
regarding how *far* he turned to his right, and keep ignoring the
violent jerk he makes beginning at Z226.
> That is if you can see the truth.
I can see what Connally actually said, *everything* he said, instead of
only part of it like you. I can also see that what he said,
*everything* he said, not just part of what he said, matches what is
seen in the film quite well.
> Z222 shows Connally
> had turn his head to the right. It also shows Greer looking in the mirror
> at the rear compartment.
What on earth Greer has to do with this I can't imagine.
> Z223 shows Connally had his head turned but not
> any further than Z222.
Yes, exactly what he said. He said he did not turn far enough around to
see JFK. Do you finally understand?
> Just somewhat clearer. Z226 is the lapel flip.
Z224 is the lapel flip, and the majority of assassination researchers,
CTs and LNs alike, have been agreeing with that for years. Don't
believe me? Let's see if I'm correct:
**********
For many years some have viewed the flipping up of Connally's lapel at
Z224 as meaning that a bullet had struck it as it passed througn the
Governor. Wind gust were appearent by looking at the Muchmore and
Zapruder films as Hill, Moorman and Oliver's coats flipped around in the
wind. Just the other day a researcher named 'Moriarty' had pointed out
something I had never noticed before. Moriarty saw that Connally's lapel
was flipping around as he came out from behind the road sign. What was
seen at Z224 (known as "the lapel flip") was the lapel flipping back
upwards again. I offer some slow motion clips of the lapel falling down
and going back up as Connally emerges from behind the road sign.
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=2228
**********
This person clearly believes the lapel flip was not caused by a bullet,
so this person is almost certainly a CT. But this CT *also* says it was
at Z224. Here's another one:
**********
Failure Analysis Associates laid this argument to rest in 1992, when it
was observed for the first time that the Governor's jacket lapel is
thrust violently outward at frame 224 ‹ the obvious result of a bullet
strike just prior to the exposure of that frame.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/jfkhit.htm
**********
This person is clearly an LN, but he still agrees with the CT above that
the lapel flip is seen at Z224. Here's another one:
**********
JFK is reacting before Z-223, before the lapel flip which appears to
occur at Z-224.
http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php?topic=5066.30;wap2
**********
This person is obviously a CT, because of the claim that JFK is already
reacting at Z223, but this CT *still* agrees with the CT and LN above
that the lapel flip occurred at Z224.
Still don't believe me? I'll issue a challenge then. For every person
you quote saying that the lapel flip is at Z226, I will quote at least
*three* people, including CTs, who say it is at Z224. You appear to be
in the minority, even among your own fellow CTs, in claiming that it is
at Z226.
> Z227
> would have been a better frame to chose for the lapel flip, cause the
> limosine image is completely blurred.
The lapel flip is already over by Z227, as even the majority of your own
fellow CTs agree.
> But does show Connally looking to
> his left, sitting up straight and apparently uninjured.
So he jerks violently starting in Z226, but you say he is apparently
uninjured in the next frame, in which the same violent jerk is still
continuing?
> Z228 shows the
> same.
Yes, it shows him continuing to jerk violently, with the sudden flip of
his hat and so forth.
> Except Connally's shirt can't be seen because the lapel flip is
> still visible, even though Connally doesn't seem to show a reaction.
Jerking violently isn't showing a reaction?
> > "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. I
> > instinctively turned to my right because the sound appeared to come from
> > over my right shoulder, so I turned to look back over my right shoulder,
> > and I saw nothing unusual except just people in the crowd, but I did not
> > catch the President in the corner of my eye, and I was interested, because
Yep, there's where I quoted him specifically saying that he did not turn
far enough to see JFK. Why did you ignore that part?
> > once I heard the shot in my own mind I identified it as a rifle shot, and
> > I immediately--the only thought that crossed my mind was that this is an
> > assassination attempt. So I looked, failing to see him, I was turning to
And there's where I quoted him saying for the SECOND time that he didn't
turn far enough to see JFK. "Failing to see him" means that he didn't
see JFK. Because he didn't turn FAR ENOUGH to see JFK. Why did you
ignore this part too?
> > look back over my left shoulder into the back seat, but I never got that
> > far in my turn. I got about in the position I am in now facing you,
> > looking a little bit to the left of center, and then I felt like someone
> > had hit me in the back."
And there's where I quoted him saying that just as he turned back toward
the front, and only got to "a little bit to the left of center," when he
felt himself to be struck. Why did you ignore this part too? We can
all see that I quoted it, and you even, in your present article, quoted
me quoting it. Sheesh.
And what do we see in the film? Exactly what he described. We see him
turning to the right (he never, ever, ever said that he turned his
"body" to the right), but not far enough to see JFK. From Z224 to Z226
we then see him turning toward the front. We then at Z226 see him
suddenly begin to jerk violently. He said he was hit just as he had
barely gotten his head slightly left of center. We see him jerk
violently at exactly the point his head does exactly what he said.
> >> The SBT is a pretty summation. But not quite accurate. But it was the
> >> best
> >> J. Edgar could come up with in a week. Even though the rest of his
> >> conclusions were all lies. So why would we be expected to believe the SB
> >> lie?
> >
> > Ugh. You are all over the place, so that it is difficult to know which of
> > your misconceptions to address first.
>
> Yeah well try to keep up. Read slower. (ii)
Once again you give me advice that applies to you far better than it
does to me. You addressed only this part of the sentence he said,
"I instinctively turned to my right because the sound appeared to come
from over my right shoulder, so I turned to look back over my right
shoulder,"
but made no mention at all of the REST of the sentence,
"and I saw nothing unusual except just people in the crowd, but I did
not catch the President in the corner of my eye, and I was interested,
because once I heard the shot in my own mind I identified it as a rifle
shot, and I immediately--the only thought that crossed my mind was that
this is an assassination attempt."
even though I quoted the *entire* sentence to you.
Then you compounded that by also ignoring his NEXT sentence, which he
AGAIN said he did not turn far enough to see JFK, even though I quoted
it to you too:
"So I looked, failing to see him, I was turning to look back over my
left shoulder into the back seat, but I never got that far in my turn. I
got about in the position I am in now facing you, looking a little bit
to the left of center, and then I felt like someone had hit me in the
back."
It is quite obviously you who very badly needs to read those sentences
very slowly, and very carefully, all the way from the first word to the
last word of each. And you definitely have no excuse now. Not only is
this at least the third time I have quoted those sentences to you,
complete, but near the beginning of this article I gave you a link to
the complete, unabridged testimony that I'm quoting all this from, which
I first read at least eleven years ago. At that time I read every word,
every phrase, and every sentence, from start to finish. Could you
please do the same *before* you post any further replies to me about
what Connally did and didn't say about this matter? Thanks.
Oh, and if that's not enough, he said the same things to the HSCA more
than a decade later:
**********
I thought the shot came from back over my right shoulder, so I turned to
see if I could catch a sight of the President out of the corner of my
eye because I immediately had, frankly, had fear of an assassination
because I thought it was a rifle shot.
I didn't think it was a blowout or explosion of any kind. I didn't see
the President out of the corner of my eye, so I was in the process of,
at least I was turning to look over my left shoulder into the back seat
to see if I could see him. I never looked, I never made the full turn.
About the time I turned back where I was facing more or less straight
ahead, the way the car was moving, I was hit.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/m_j_russ/hscacon.htm
**********
Read all that very slowly, very carefully. Once again he said he turned
to the right, but not far enough to see JFK. "I didn't see the
President out of the corner of my eye..." See those exact words above?
And see where he says that he had JUST BARELY turned to face more or
less straight ahead again, intending to turn around to his left, but
that he "never made the full turn"? See those exact words above too?
See him saying that he had just gotten to facing "more or less straight
ahead," he was hit.
There is only one place in the entire Zapruder film where he turns
right, but not far enough to see JFK, and then turns to face straight
ahead: Z165 to Z226. The much later turn, in which he DOES turn far
enough to see JFK, but does not AFTER THAT face forward, is obviously a
DIFFERENT place in the film than what he was talking about to both the
WC and HSCA. And now you have no excuse to not read his complete HSCA
testimony as well, because I just gave the link to that above too.
> To start with, the theory of a
> > single bullet did not originate with Hoover. Hoover initially thought
> > that Connally was hit with a separate bullet from the two which struck
> > Kennedy, i.e. that all three shots struck someone in the limo and that
> > none of them missed the limo entirely.
>
> Yeah, that is what he told LBJ, that he first thought that in the recorded
> phone conversation on the 29th. But then he also told LBJ that both were
> shot by a single bullet.
I have heard that very recording several times over the years, including
again last week. In the midst of typing this very article I am
listening to it again here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZWERQevzms
At 8 minutes and 36 seconds I very clearly hear Hoover saying this:
"The third shot ‹ which hit the President ‹ he was hit by the first and
the third ‹ the second shot hit the Governor."
Hoover was quite clearly saying that JFK and Connally were hit by
separate bullets. Not only is it you, instead of me, who needs to read
more carefully, you need to listen more carefully as well.
> This is way before Spector entered the picture.
> Spector just tried to steal the credit for the theory, as most politicans
> do. But it was Hoover who spread the lie.
Not according to Hoover's 11-29-63 telephone conversation, which you
mistakenly claimed was when he said both men were hit by a single
bullet. And since the single bullet has yet to be proven conclusively
to be a lie, there is, even today, no "lie" to spread in the first
place. You merely saying that the single bullet is a lie doesn't
automatically make it one. And even if you were to counter with the
claim that the single bullet has never been conclusively proven to be
TRUE, since it ALSO hasn't been conclusively proven to be FALSE, it
cannot yet be a "lie," even if it is also not yet the "truth."
And sorry, but there's a tremendously larger body of evidence indicating
that it is true than that indicating that it is false.
> Secondly, that Hoover lied about
> > many things is irrelevant to the single bullet. The single bullet is
> > true, or it is false, independently of anything Hoover said.
> >
> > And finally, though you might argue that the single bullet has never been
> > proven to be true, when, exactly was it proven to be false? Since it has
> > not yet been established to be a lie, there is no "lie" to disbelieve.
>
> When some one bluntly claims Connally was shot at Z226, then they have
> made a false assumption.
Who is saying that he was shot at Z226? Certainly not me. I said he
starts to REACT at Z226 because that's where he starts his violent
jerking. Given the lapel flip at Z224 (the frame in which even most of
your fellow CTs agree it occurred) I'd say that's more likely the exact
frame in which the bullet passed through him. But that's only two
frames earlier, which is a minuscule amount of time, and whether we say
Z224 or Z226 for when he was hit, that is not necessarily a false
assumption. You seem to be confused regarding the difference between
objective fact and subjective opinion. It is merely your ***OPINION***
that Connally was hit later than Z226. It has never, ever, ever been
conclusively ***PROVEN*** that he was hit later, even if you were to
***ALSO*** argue that it has never, ever, ever been conclusively
***PROVEN*** that he was NOT hit later. And yes, yes, yes, many of your
fellow CTs share this ***OPINION*** that he was hit later. But it is
irrelevant how many or how few people share the same ***OPINION***, it
is still nothing more than an ***OPINION*** if the matter has never been
conclusively proven either way.
> Which by Webster is a lie.
No. In the most common English usage, a "lie" is when you KNOW or
BELIEVE what you're about to say is false BEFORE you say it, you
CONTINUE to believe it's false AS you're saying it, and you STILL
believe it's false AFTER you say it. Making an honest mistake is an
entirely different thing. Being wrong without realizing you're wrong is
an entirely different thing. Most English-speakers worldwide do not
call that a "lie."
A "lie" is an *intentional* falsehood. An *unintentional* falsehood is
an honest mistake.
For example, I do not believe for a moment that you were intentionally
"lying" when you made the obviously false statement that in that
telephone conversation, Hoover said that both JFK and Connally were
struck by the same bullet. I believe instead that at the time you typed
that, you honestly believed that what you were saying was true. You
made an honest mistake. You were not intentionally "lying."
Correct?
The same goes for me. I do indeed HONESTLY BELIEVE that both men were
wounded by the same bullet. Therefore I am not "lying" when I say that.
I would only be "lying" if I said something that I did NOT believe to be
true at the time I said it.
And just in case you end up misunderstanding me again, I did NOT say
that YOU called me a liar. I am merely pointing out what a "lie" is.
> And Hoover was the
> first to spread it.
***WHEN*** was he the first to spread it?? Certainly not on 11-29-63
when you *mistakenly* claimed he did. Since I'm assuming that you
honestly believed what you said, I'm also assuming that you made an
honest mistake, that you honestly believed what you were saying, even
though what you were saying was not true, therefore you did not lie.
> Falsely.
Actually, in my honest ***OPINION*** the FALSE statement he made was
that all three shots hit someone in the limo. But although I know he
lied on many, many, many occasions, on this particular occasion I think
he honestly believed that what he was saying was the truth. And I
believe that the sole reason for that was that he did not yet have
anything close to the complete evidence at his disposal. On 11-29-63
had he yet been informed that James Tague had been hit? I don't know
either way. On 11-29-63 had he yet seen the entire Zapruder film, and
even if he had, how many times did he watch it and how carefully did he
watch it? I have no idea there either, do you?