Since you brought up the Limo occupants.
Mrs Connally
Mr. DULLES. To the right was into your arms more or less?
Mrs. CONNALLY. No, he turned away from me. I was pretending that I was him. I never again looked in the back seat of the car after my husband was shot. My concern was for him, and I remember that he turned to the right and then just slumped down into the seat, so that I reached over to pull him toward me. X was trying to get him down and me down. The jump seats were not very roomy, so that there were reports that he slid into the seat of the car, which he did not; that he fell over into my lap, which he did not.
I just pulled him over into my arms because it would have been impossible to get us really both down with me sitting and me holding him. So that I looked out, I mean as he was in my arms, I put my head down over his head so that his head and my head were right together, and all I could see, too, were the people flashing by. I didn't look back any more. The third shot that I heard I felt, it felt like spent buckshot falling all over us, and then, of course, I too could see that it was the matter, brain tissue, or whatever, just human matter, all over the car and both of us.
John Connally
Mr. SPECTER. Nellie is Mrs. Connally?
Governor CONNALLY. Mrs. Connally. When she pulled me over into her lap, she could tell I was still breathing and moving, and she said, "Don't worry, Be quiet. You are going to be all right." She Just kept telling me I was going to be all right.
After the third shot, and I heard Roy Kellerman tell the driver, "Bill, get out of line." And then I saw him move, and I assumed he was moving a button or something on the panel of the automobile, and he said, "Get us to a hospital quick." I assumed he was saying this to the patrolman, the motorcycle police who were leading us.
William Robert Greer.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, how many shots, or how many noises have you just described that you heard?
Mr. GREER. I know there was three that I heard--three. But I cannot remember any more than probably three. I know there was three anyway that I heard.
Roy Kellerman heard a flurry of shots enter the Limo(which I believe were the fragments bouncing around), but he definitely heard more than two.
Mr. SPECTER. You mean now two shots in addition to the first noise?
Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes, sir; yes, sir; at least.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, to the best of your ability to recollect, exactly when did your automobile first accelerate?
Mr. KELLERMAN. Our car accelerated immediately on the time-at the time--this flurry of shots came into it.
Mr. SPECTER. Would you say the acceleration--
Mr. KELLERMAN. Between the second and third shot.
I would also like to finally add that three shells were found in the sniper's nest and the closest earwitness, the "boom click click, boom click click, boom click click" man(Harold Norman) heard 3 shots.
And the closest earwitness, Harold Norman, who was just on the floor below heard 3 shots.
Mr. BALL. How many shots did you hear?
Mr. NORMAN. Three.
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JohnM
These witnesses are a perfect example of the ever -changing and morphing witness statements. All at some time, have no knowledge of a third shot or the second shot is the headshot or plainly there was only two shots. This is why a compilation comparing different witness statements as to two or three shots is flawed from the very get go.
Nellies first comments were made through her spokesman Julian Read after he was asked by the press during a press conference immediately after the assassination:
“Nellie does not know about a third shot”
Gov Connally only heard two shots. He claimed he said Oh No No No after he was struck by the bullet. Both Jackie and Nellie stated that he stated that after the first shot.
Greer stated he accelerated the car after the second shot. Additionally, Arlen Specter wrote a memo to J. Lee Rankin two days after Greer’s testimony in which he said, “ Mr. Greer told me on March 3rd that he recollected two shots, but he then testified he heard three shots.”
Greer was interviewed by the HSCA, in his report dated February 28, 1978, the investigator wrote: “Greer does not recall the third shot and final shot.”
Kellerman places the headshot as the second shot by stating that the car accelerates after the second shot and before the third.
The other two witnesses alongside Norman: James Jarmin describes the car accelerating after the headshot and Bonnie Ray Williams stated there was only two shots.
Interesting, you would choose Norman over Williams and Jarmin. Norman made no statement until four days after the assassination and then had an assortment of added information in his different statements.
The Zapruder film clearly shows the car accelerates after the headshot. According to James Altgens stated that the headshot was the last shot.
