Can't find diagram of shots to jfk from conspiracy point of view?

[Drew Phipps]

Are you referring to the Dictaphone audio that was reviewed by the HCSA and found by their experts to contain 4 shots, and subsequently generally discredited (as the officer said to have recorded the shots was recorded on film far behind the location he needed to be for that analysis to be valid)?

Connally says he was hit once, before the head shot, and you can clearly see in the Z film, an agonized expression on his face as he turns back left prior to the head shot. If you watch the film in motion he makes a (more or less) smooth turn toward the front and collapses forward. I believe Connally is sincere, and courageous enough to tell his story even in the face of WC pressure. However, Connally believes the shot "blew" him forward, but that just doesn't happen. Hollywood movie magic.

Using M-C 91/38 and WC ammo as a reference (just because I am familiar with it) a 10.5 gram bullet (.023 lbs) travelling at 2100 ft/sec imparts a momentum of 48.3 ft lbs./sec to anything it hits (that stops the bullet completely). The above situation doesn't account for the energy lost by the bullet leaving the body, or by the energy lost by breaking bones and carving out a bullet track, but for the moment let's assume all the momentum is transferred to Connally.

Assuming facts most favorable to the scenario, if Connally weighed a total of 180 lbs (just a guess) and we only consider the upper portion of the body (roughly 2/3 of the normal body's total mass (120 lbs)), his torso would be pushed forward at the rate of 48.3/120 = .4 ft/sec or a mere 4.8 inches per second (18 zapruder frames). Connally pitching forward cannot be attributed solely to a single bullet. Or even 2 bullets, if one hit him in the wrist and exited. (In reality, less momentum is transferred because the bullet leaves his torso and breaks bones and leaves wounds in its wake.)

However, it is far more likely that the car is slowing down (as Clint Hill is running to catch it) and Connally's body is moving at the slightly higher speed, so inertia serves eventually to push him forward relative to the car. Nellie Connally also moves forward at the same time, and she wasn't struck by a bullet. Could be that the driver hit the brakes breifly in response to being spattered. Could be that Z frames after the headshot have been removed and stuff looks more sudden.

There's one other thing Connally must be wrong about. He describes the condition of the back of the limo after he is shot, but he plainly isn't looking in that direction then. No doubt he saw it later as he was being removed from the car.