Just putting this here. Rather's description of his seeing the Z film, which the public was not allowed to see until 1975, and sneakily at that as it appeared on late night TV and was supposedly "snuck onto" the show.
Anyway, Rather never describes the violent headshot going backward and to the left. He does explain a rather intriguing part of the film - Kennedy had already been been hit according to him, then Connally looks to left - unhit - then starts turning to right when he is then hit.
So this pretty much nullifies the ridiculous single bullet theory.
Why should Rather’s recollection about the Zapruder film trump what I observe in the Zapruder film?
A person who watched the Zapruder film one time is like a witness who saw the assassination in real time. Their recollection, in both cases, can easily be false. It is no stranger for Rather to remember the President going forward from his memory of the film then for witnesses who were there reporting the motorcade had stopped. Memories are unreliable. False memories about certain details are not strong evidence of liars.
And your reasoning is not being applied consistently. If Rather’s memory of the film ‘proves’ that JFK and Connally were not hit by the same bullet, why doesn’t Rather’s memory of JFK going forward ‘prove’ that the movement of JFK’s head only indicates a shot from the back, and does not indicate something else, like a shot from the front, or a shot from the back, combined with a Neurological Spasm.
And, while Rather did not report JFK’s head going forward right after the head shot, I don’t think that hardly any witness that day reported his head going forward, right after the head shot. Oh, sure, years later, after witnesses saw the Zapruder film, or heard reports about it, witnesses starting talking about their memory of JFK’s head going forward. But I don’t think there were many accounts from November 22, 1963. Were all these witnesses promised to be made the chief anchorman of CBS sometime in the future?
