29-07-2011, 09:33 PM
My biggest take-away from this excellent Salandria piece is his conclusion that the Tague shot originated from the knoll--the more common explanation today is Dal-Tex Building:
Here is a gold mine of material. Tague was between Commerce and Main Streets. The bullet or bullet fragment hit the South curbing of Main Street. From my view of the maps, diagrams, photographs, and after a personal inspection of the situs, at no point would Tague have been in the line of fire from the Depository Building to the Presidential limousine. He was some 1l/2 blocks from the Depository Building, about a block south of the limousine. But he was directly across from the grassy knoll on the north side of Elm Street. The simplest and therefore best explanation of the source of that bullet is the grassy knoll north of Elm Street. If this was the source of Tague's wound, then Tague was very much in the line of fire since the limousine was then between him and the knoll. The trajectory is consistent with an elevation beginning about 25 feet above street level (my estimate from personal inspection of the height of the grassy knoll) downward to the curbing and thence into his cheek. As between the Depository Building and the grassy knoll as the source of this shot, any speculation that it came from the Depository Building must be considered the more improbable of the two.
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If he is correct in this, Bowers' confidential account of seeing two men firing from the fence area is corroborated.
Or, in the alternative, the live oak tree knocked the copper jacket off the Tague shot.
A tree can do that, but not Connally's rib or wrist. Bone, tree; bone; tree--and here one would have thought the bone was harder.
Here is a gold mine of material. Tague was between Commerce and Main Streets. The bullet or bullet fragment hit the South curbing of Main Street. From my view of the maps, diagrams, photographs, and after a personal inspection of the situs, at no point would Tague have been in the line of fire from the Depository Building to the Presidential limousine. He was some 1l/2 blocks from the Depository Building, about a block south of the limousine. But he was directly across from the grassy knoll on the north side of Elm Street. The simplest and therefore best explanation of the source of that bullet is the grassy knoll north of Elm Street. If this was the source of Tague's wound, then Tague was very much in the line of fire since the limousine was then between him and the knoll. The trajectory is consistent with an elevation beginning about 25 feet above street level (my estimate from personal inspection of the height of the grassy knoll) downward to the curbing and thence into his cheek. As between the Depository Building and the grassy knoll as the source of this shot, any speculation that it came from the Depository Building must be considered the more improbable of the two.
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If he is correct in this, Bowers' confidential account of seeing two men firing from the fence area is corroborated.
Or, in the alternative, the live oak tree knocked the copper jacket off the Tague shot.
A tree can do that, but not Connally's rib or wrist. Bone, tree; bone; tree--and here one would have thought the bone was harder.