Articles-The Second Oswald: the Case for a Conspiracy Theory

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and so a bullet in his upper back could have exited from his throat (without hitting his chin??). But if this were so, the bullet would obviously have been too low to hit Connally where it did; and the Zapruder pictures clearly rule out the possibility that Kennedy was bending over at this time. The Detroit Free Press, June 5, 1966, p. 22A, offers another possibility, that Kennedy's coat was hiked up and bunched at the time. They offer a photo "taken just seconds before the first

bullet." The issue is of course the condition of his clothes at the very moment. Zapruder's pictures don't show this; and they portray only a front view of Kennedy. However, if the jacket was bunched, it seems most unlikely that a bullet fired at neck level would leave only one hole in the jacket nearly six inches from the top of the collar. And even if it were somehow possible, this would still leave the problem of the shirt. Would a buttoned shirt hike and bunch in this manner, that is, rise in such a way that a point nearly six inches below the top of the collar would at that moment be at neck level, and not be doubled over? (Commission Exhibit 397, 17-45)

## 17:45. has an autopsy chart showing the bullet in the back, not the neck.)

Even if one could somehow connect the holes in the jacket and the shirt with a wound in the neck (and I doubt it can be done), the original problem remains: the time-interval on Zapruder's pictures between Kennedy's being wounded and Connally's being hit. As we have seen, the Commission has to hold to the theory that the Governor was hit at the same time as the President, but that his reaction was delayed. The pictures, however, definitely show him without noticeable reaction when Kennedy had already been

wald's rille through any substance became mashed, unlike pristine No. 399, which is supposed to have gone through two human bodies, and have smashed Connally's rib, wrist, and entered his femur. Commission Exhibit 858 (17: 851), a photograph taken during tests sponsored by the Commission, shows a bullet fired from Oswald's gun through a skull filled with gelatin. The bullet is quite distorted. There is no evidence that the Commission could obtain anything like pristine No. 399 in any of its tests.

Third, no one knows near whose stretcher No. 309 was found. It was found by a Mr. Tomlinson, when he adjusted two stretchers blocking an entrance to a men's room. At this stage of our knowledge of the case, neither Mr. Tomlinson, nor anyone else, knows which stretcher the bullet came from, nor whose stretchers these were, nor whether either Kennedy or Connally was ever on either one of them. There is no factual basis whatever for the Commission's claim that the bullet was on Connally's stretcher. The FBI had earlier said it was Kennedy's stretcher. Tomlinson just did not know and refused to guess (6:128-34). There were other patients in the hospital. The stretcher might have come from upstairs or might have come from the emergency section. The Commission made no effort to track down what happened to both Kennedy's and Connally's stretchers, so they really have no evidence as to which stretchers may be at issue. Anyone could have entered the hospital. It was full of newsmen, spectators, Secret Service men, FBI men, and, according to the management, the place was a madhouse.

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