Mr. Shaneyfelt.

to 42 frames to establish two points in the film where two successive quick shots could have been fired.

Representative Ford.

That is with one shot and then the firing.

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

Work the bolt and fire another one.

Mr. Specter.

At frame 249 was Governor Connally in a position where he could have taken a shot with the bullet entering at the point immediately to the left under his right armpit with the bullet then going through and exiting at a point immediately under his right nipple?

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

No; Governor Connally has begun to turn in his seat around in this manner, in such a way, turn to his right so that his body is in a position that a shot fired from the sixth floor window could not have passed through the path that it reportedly took through his body, if the bullet followed a straight, undeflected path.

Mr. Dulles.

I don't quite get that. You mean because of his having turned this way, the shot that was then--had then been fired and apparently had hit the President could not have gone through him at that point?

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

That is correct under the stated conditions. Even a shot, independent of the shot that hit the President, could not have gone through in that manner, coming from the sixth floor window, because the window was almost directly behind the automobile at that time and the Governor was in a position where the bullet couldn't have gone through his body in the manner that it reportedly did.
It would have come in through his shoulder and out through the other shoulder, in the way that he was lined up with the window.

Mr. Specter.

So you say it could have gone through him, but it could not have passed through him with the angle of entry as disclosed in the Parkland Hospital records and described by Dr. Shaw?

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

That is correct, if it followed a straight path.

Mr. Specter.

And exiting immediately under his right nipple, again as described in the hospital records at Parkland and by Dr. Shaw.

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

That is correct.

Mr. Specter.

Have those points of entry and exit been made available to you in your analysis of this situation?

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

Yes; they have.

Mr. Specter.

Could you elaborate just a little further on the observations and reasoning which you have undertaken to come to the conclusion which you have just expressed?

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

We are speaking of frame 249, are we?

Mr. Specter.

Yes, sir, frame 249.

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

Could I see that exhibit? The photograph in the lower left corner of Commission Exhibit No. 899 is the photograph taken through the scope of the rifle on the sixth floor window when the car was stationed in this frame number position. It is noted from this photograph that the rifle is not quite directly behind the car but very nearly directly behind the car.
Governor Connally's body is turned. We have duplicated the position in the Zapruder photographs of Governor Connally and the President in the reenactment photograph, as nearly as possible, duplicated the same body position, and from the sixth floor window then you can see from the photograph that the Governor's body is turned to the Governor's right in such a fashion that an undeflected shot would not go through in the path as described by the Parkland doctors.

Mr. Mccloy.

I don't quite follow that yet. The President has been shot at frame 249, according to your theory.

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

Yes.

Mr. Mccloy.

Might he not also have been shot at some earlier frames in--the indications are the reactions are shown considerably ahead of that frame.

Mr. Shaneyfelt.

That is correct.

Mr. Mccloy.

So, for. example, at frame 237 and at frame 237 Governor Connally hasn't turned to the right.

Mr. Dulles.

But a shot has been fired at this time.