Well, if you’re going to play the “could have” game, then the throat shot could have hit the asphalt and disappeared.
John "Where The Hell Did My Baby Go?" Iacoletti,
Well, didn't Governor Connally and some other witnesses say in so many words that they heard a shot (or a "backfire" or a "firecracker") ring out when the limo had just come out of the infamous Elm Street turn?
John Connally: “We had just made the turn [onto Elm Street], well, when I heard what I thought was a shot. I heard this noise which I immediately
took to be a rifle shot.” (4/21/64)
George Hickey, a Secret Service agent in the follow-up car: “After a very short distance I heard a loud report which sounded like a firecracker. It appeared to come from the right and rear and seemed to me to be at ground level. I stood up and looked to my right and rear in an attempt to identify it. Nothing caught my attention except people shouting and cheering. (11/30/63)
etc.
Edit: I deleted what Howard Brennan said, because he obviously meant to say 30 feet instead of yards. LOL
-- MWT