hi jerry . with all due respect mr brehms opinion of mr lane is a seperate issue to what brehm himself actually said on film .
In late-1966, Lane did invent a quote from Brehm saying the head shot came from the front:
"Mr. Brehm said: 'I saw the effect of the bullet upon the President's head. As the
bullet struck his head, a portion of the President's skull was driven backward and
to the left over the rear and left of the car indicating that the fatal shot came
from a right front area, not from the rear, not from behind the limousine.""
That may have been among the reasons for Brehm's 1967 comments about Lane:
"It was one critic, Mark Lane, who takes very great liberties with adding
to my quotation. I never said that the -- any shot came from here
like I was quoted by Mr. Lane. Mr. Lane would liked me to have
positively identified the -- what I saw fly over here -- his skull --
although I told him I could not -- I did not -- I thought it was but I
could not. So he had added his interpretations to what I said, and
consequently that's where the story come from that -- that I said
the shots came from up there. No shot came from up there at any
time during the whole fiasco that afternoon."
now in regard what mr von pien said . lone nut advocates of my experience (pretty much every one of them to be fair , and its quite a few ) continually state that ALL brain , blood and gore flew forwards and upwards . to add to that they have disregarded the statement of hargis being hit in the face if you will with blood and brain , and instead assert that the 4 motorcycle officers merley drop beneath the blood and gore as it went upwards , and that in essence the blood then dropped down on them .now i am being told some thing a bit different . now i am being told if i understand correctly that blood , brain etc flew backwards , and with sufficient force that it flew quite a distance . i mean at the point of the head shot how many feet were between jfk and brehm ? . i imagine a bare minimal 20 feet .thats quite a distance .we are told again by lone nut advocates that blood and gore only went forwards and upwards , they point out blood and particles can be clearly seen on the zapruder film flying in those directions . does mr von pien have any images / stills etc showing what brehm said he saw fly rearward ? . i think its a fair question .jerry thank you for posting and posting the info that dan was looking for .
You seem to think Brehm said a piece of debris " land[ed] at the curb where he stood". In looking back at the 1966 interview with Lane, Brehm said:
"I saw a piece fly over in the area of the curb where I was standing …
it seemed to have come left and back … whatever it was that I saw
did fall both in that direction and over into the curb there."
This apparently is from the same interview:
"That which appeared to be a portion of the President's skull went flying
slightly to the rear of the President's car and directly to its left. It did fly
over toward the curb and to the left and to the rear."
So just "slightly to the rear" (as least how Brehm perceived it; it might not have went to the rear at all) and not landing at his feet, but "over into the curb there". I think when Brehm said "over in the area of the curb where I was standing," he was trying to specify the curb was the south curb, not the north curb.
