> I'm sure many kooks have speculated about John Connally's possible role on
> that tragic day.
One person on Youtube recently said that Connally shot JFK...
> In so many of the photographs taken prior to the event,
> he looks sad, nervous and distressed. Perhaps he had indigestion. Perhaps
> Nellie had told him she was pregnant. I dunno.
Perhaps if you'll do a bit of research you'll find that there were some
pretty intense squabbles prior to the motorcade regarding who was to
ride with whom, particularly between Lyndon Johnson and Ralph
Yarborough, and Connally was caught in the middle of all of that. I
think I'd be just a trifle annoyed too.
> He goes way back with LBJ,
> I see. Way back. And George Bush didn't like him much, I gather, bettering
> George in politics and all. I was just watching his hospital interview,
> Bobby's video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP04_lGjkO0 , and he looks
> so happy there, as if everything worked out nicely, considering he got
> shot, that is.
Hmm, you certainly have a different impression from that than I do.
I've never thought he looked especially happy in that interview.
> He said something interesting about that, too. He was shot
> by the second shot, not a shot that hit JFK, but one that hit him alone.
That is what he believed, yes. Of course, just because he believed that
doesn't automatically mean he was correct. And there continues to be
that little problem of both men quite obviously jerking violently at
exactly the same instant in the Zapruder film. They both begin those
motions in Z226.
> One that had his name on it. He said, "...I think the man did what he
> intended to do, shoot both of us. And, uh, that's the only thing I can
> think." That reminded me of a conversation LBJ recorded with Hoover on the
> blower two days later. LBJ proposes to Hoover that if Connally hadn't been
> in the way, the President would have been hit by the 2nd shot, too.
No, you've got that backward. The idea was that if JFK was hit by the
first shot, when he then slumped to the left he was no longer in the way
of Connally being hit. Of course, that's not what actually happened,
but I don't think Hoover had seen the Zapruder film yet. Connally had
seen it in the hospital, but I don't know if it was ever shown to him
more than once.
> Hoover
> said that was very likely. I don't know Did the shooter intend to shoot
> them both, or did he just shoot Connally because he was in the way?
He wouldn't be in the way of any shot from the TSBD, obviously. It
would be the other way round, JFK being in the way of hitting Connally.
Of course, if we go with your shooter from the bridge then sure,
Connally might be in the way of JFK, sort of, except with that there's
the problem of Connally being seated lower than Kennedy.