01-02-2014, 02:48 AM
Hi Albert
I went back and listened to the interview again, only this time not assuming I knew exactly what Chaney meant by his words. I think I may have been misinterpreting him slightly and that he uses the term "look back" in two different contexts.
At the sound of the first shot, he says he "looked back over to my left" and President Kennedy "looked back over his left shoulder". I think Chaney is saying here that he was looking back over his left shoulder, or more simply saying looking to his left.
The mistake I think I have made is assuming Chaney returned to looking straight ahead before the second shot. However, if he was still looking behind him to the left, or even to the left, his saying "I looked back just in time to see the President struck in the face by the second bullet" takes on a whole new meaning. Now it would mean that he was in the process of returning to look straight ahead when he witnessed JFK being shot in the face.
This would, of course, allow Chaney to be in a position behind JFK, if he did not have to turn back to see JFK. However, although we are able to see almost the entire limo in the Zapruder film, Chaney is not visible beside the right rear fender. Even considering the compression effect of a telephoto lens, Chaney looks way out of place in the Altgens 6 photo.
I went back and listened to the interview again, only this time not assuming I knew exactly what Chaney meant by his words. I think I may have been misinterpreting him slightly and that he uses the term "look back" in two different contexts.
At the sound of the first shot, he says he "looked back over to my left" and President Kennedy "looked back over his left shoulder". I think Chaney is saying here that he was looking back over his left shoulder, or more simply saying looking to his left.
The mistake I think I have made is assuming Chaney returned to looking straight ahead before the second shot. However, if he was still looking behind him to the left, or even to the left, his saying "I looked back just in time to see the President struck in the face by the second bullet" takes on a whole new meaning. Now it would mean that he was in the process of returning to look straight ahead when he witnessed JFK being shot in the face.
This would, of course, allow Chaney to be in a position behind JFK, if he did not have to turn back to see JFK. However, although we are able to see almost the entire limo in the Zapruder film, Chaney is not visible beside the right rear fender. Even considering the compression effect of a telephoto lens, Chaney looks way out of place in the Altgens 6 photo.
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964