Connally Doc: Governor's Reaction Was Not "Delayed"

[Gil Jesus]

Dr. Robert Shaw, who operated on Governor Connally, said that the Governor's wounds were too massive to have caused a "delayed reaction".

 

 

[David Andrews]

Lapel flaps be damned, it's obvious in Zapruder that Connally was hit when he said he was, while turned toward JFK and beginning to turn forward. 

His back was to the south side of the Plaza at the time.  Where did the shot originate on that side?

[Paul Brancato]

58 minutes ago, David Andrews said:

Lapel flaps be damned, it's obvious in Zapruder that Connally was hit when he said he was, while turned toward JFK and beginning to turn forward. 

His back was to the south side of the Plaza at the time.  Where did the shot originate on that side?

Good question. He wasn’t hit from the right front, nor from the TSBD.

[Kirk Gallaway]

Yes, that's always been a good question I've never heard answered.

[Matthew Koch]

1 hour ago, David Andrews said:

Lapel flaps be damned, it's obvious in Zapruder that Connally was hit when he said he was, while turned toward JFK and beginning to turn forward. 

His back was to the south side of the Plaza at the time.  Where did the shot originate on that side?

If you do the math, it makes perfect sense that the reaction is around 10 to 12 frames later or about 1/2 second, which is around 236. The same thing will happen to JFK while he is hit behind the sign. Jackie turns her head, it will take around 12 frames for the limo to emerge from the sign where we begin to see JFK reacting in about the same time frame to being shot. This is why the Warren Commission had to come up with the delayed reaction because it was more like 35 frames later Connally instead of 10. 

 

[David Andrews]

On 1/2/2023 at 11:46 AM, Kirk Gallaway said:

Yes, that's always been a good question I've never heard answered.

We also don't know whether Connally had room between the jump seat and the limo door to move his legs along with his body when he turned 90 degrees to look at JFK.  Were his legs aligned with his body, allowing the torso shot to enter his leg? 

If not, where did the torso bullet go, if it exited the chest while Connally had his back to the south Plaza?

I just feel that Zapruder upholds Connally on when he was first hit.  I don't believe he could have made that turn during a "delayed reaction" after a torso through-and-through.  I'd love to see someone diagram the torso wound back to a proposed building on the south Plaza.

Edited January 3, 2023 by David Andrews

[Chris Bristow]

A shot from the south knoll is blocked by the windshield from fr 250 to 300. The south colonnade may work when he was in the middle of his turn but Nellie and the side window may have blocked that shot. Slightly earlier in his turn  a shot from the Old Red Courthouse or the county courts building on the north east side of Main and Huston would line up. Maybe a shot from the Records building would have worked very early around frame 235.

[Tommy Tomlinson]

Whatever the argument is for a "Delayed Reaction" it just doesn't account for the required trajectory. 

There is no evidence that Connally turned toward JFK in that short space of time behind the sign, which he would have had to do for the "Magic Bullet" to pass through him in order to fit the wound pattern. The evidence is, indeed, to the contrary...

Otherwise, we are back at Kevin Costner and the whole "Right... then left... Right... then left..." version of the legend of CE399.

The fact that JC stays facing the same direction for as long as he does is all you need to logically conclude that he was not hit by the same bullet to which Kennedy is reacting, upon emerging from behind the sign, delayed reaction not withstanding... the wounds just don't line up. At that point the question of a delayed reaction is moot. Like so many pieces of WC "evidence" it is a postulate construction that has no basis in fact when separated from the "need" for it to exist in order to support a theory dreamt up by a man with no background in any form of recognised science.