Inexplicable Wounds made by Special Bullets

[Drew Phipps]

I by no means endorse the Zap film as an accurate recording of the assasination.

Purely for the purpose of this thread, I make the following observations:

The most extreme turn Connally made to the right ends at z 291 as he starts to turn back to center. Has he been hit at that point? Connally identified the Zap frame in which he was hit as Z 234 in his "Life" interview.

The hand appears to be in the correct position.

This is well prior (4 sec?) to him craning his head around to the right (Z 291) to look at JFK just prior to the headshot.


Was he making a upper body turn to the right 4 sec after being shot in the chest?

I'm willing to conceed that Connally might have been shot later than Z 234, perhaps as late as Z 291 (if such upper body movements are unlikely after being shot in the chest) but his facial reactions after that seem to indicate he's already in pain after Z 292. Of course, Connally getting shot that late in the game means 2 shooters of necessity. To borrow a commonly used phrase, "BANG..BANG.."

The "sucking wound" implies that the bullet did not "pass along the rib" (remaining outside the plural cavity) but instead that it went through the rib into the pleural cavity, yes? Perhaps bits of shattered rib tore the pleura.