(Testimony of Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt)
Mr. Mccloy.
But a shot has been fired at that time.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes.
Mr. Mccloy.
So at that point he could have been hit; Governor Connally could have been hit.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; Governor Connally could have been hit by frame 238.
Mr. Mccloy.
But your point is when he gets farther along, he couldn't have been hit, let's say at frame 249 in the same spot where he was hit.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is correct.
Mr. Mccloy.
Yes.
Mr. Dulles.
He made the turn later than those frames you have been discussing at the time apparently of the first shot at the President.
Mr. Mccloy.
Yes; the first shot, but according to these frames, the first shot hit the President considerably before this.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Mccloy.
And at a time again when Governor Connally's back was square to the window.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Well, not exactly square. I believe he was turned slightly to the right as he went behind the sign.
Mr. Mccloy.
Take frame 231.
Mr. SHANEYFELT, Yes.
Mr. Mccloy.
There the President has got his hands up as you put it to his throat.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes.
Mr. Mccloy.
And here is Connally facing to the front.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes.
Mr. Mccloy.
So at that point a bullet coming through the President's throat could have hit Connally in the spot where it did hit Connally.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
I am going to defer that question to Mr. Frazier who is in the window with the rifle scope and made a more thorough study of the possible path of the bullet. But he is straight in the car in frame 231.
Mr. Mccloy.
But your testimony is in frame 248--frame 249 Connally couldn't have been hit from this window in the position where he was sitting.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is correct, on the basis stated.
Mr. Dulles.
But you would have then the problem you would think if Connally had been hit at the same time, would have reacted in the same way, and not reacted much later as these pictures show.
Mr. Mccloy.
That is right.
Mr. Dulles.
Because the wounds would have been inflicted.
Mr. Mccloy.
That is what puzzles me.
Mr. Dulles.
That is what puzzles me.
Senator COOPER. Would you identify the frame in which Governor Connally started turning to the right?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
I might say that as--in the motion picture as the car comes out from behind the signboard, the Governor is turned slightly to his right in this manner. This would be in the first frame, in frame 222, he is turned just slightly to his right, and from there on he turns almost square, straight on with the car momentarily, and there is a jerking motion there at one point in the film about there, at which time he starts to turn this way and continues to turn.
Mr. Dulles.
Jerky motion in Connally in the film.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
There is--it may be merely where he stopped turning and started turning this way. It is hard to analyze.
Mr. Dulles.
What I wanted to get at--whether it was Connally who made the jerky motion or there was something in the film that was jerky. You can't tell.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
You can't tell that.
Mr. Mccloy.
Certainly the film is jerky at that point. I mean there is a big blur.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
He does turn.
Mr. Mccloy.
Just before and after that.
Representative Ford.
But isn't it apparent in those pictures that after a
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