Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination (52 page)

74
Testimony of Gov. John Bowden Connally, Jr., Warren Commission Hearings, April 21, 1964, Vol. IV, pages 129–146, at pages 132–133.

75
Ibid., page 136.

76
Ibid., pages 138–139.

77
Ibid., page 144.

78
Testimony of Mrs. John Bowden Connally, Jr., Warren Commission Hearings, April 21, 1964, Vol. IV, pages 146–149, at page 147.

79
Ibid.

80
“A Matter of Reasonable Doubt: Amid Heightening Controversy about the Warren Report, Governor Connally Examines for ‘Life’ the Assassination Film,”
Life Magazine
, Nov. 25, 1966, pages 38–53.

81
Ibid., pages 40–43.

82
Ibid., page 48.

83
Ibid.

84
Warren Commission, page 112.

85
Ibid.

86
Testimony of Comdr. James J. Humes, Comdr. J. Thornton Boswell, and Lt. Col. Pierre A. Finck, Warren Commission Hearings, March 16, 1964, Vol. II, pages 347–384, at page 376.

87
Warren Commission, pages 114–115.

88
Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact
, pages 28–29.

89
Richard B. Trask,
Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy
(Danvers, Massachusetts: Yoeman Press, 1994), “A Firecracker Going Off,” pages 159–166, at pages 160–162.

90
Willis Exhibit No. 1, “Continued (Slide #5),” Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. XXI, page 770.

91
Trask,
Pictures of the Pain
, pages 167–182, at pages 171–172.

92
“Gerald Ford’s Terrible Fiction: Moving the Back Wound and the Single-bullet theory,”
JFKLancer.com
,
http://www.jfklancer.com/Ford-Rankin.html
. See also: Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press, “Former President Ford confided to FBI about panel’s doubts over JFK assassination,”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
, Aug. 9, 2008,
http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=26469829
.

93
Commission Exhibit 903, on title, Photograph of Arlen Specter, in a reconstruction of the JFK assassination, May 24, 1964, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. XVIII, page 96.

94
Testimony of Robert A. Frazier Resumed, Warren Commission Hearings, June 4, 1964, Vol. V, pages 165–175, at pages 171–172.

95
Craig Roberts,
Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza
(Tulsa, Oklahoma: Typhoon Press, 1994), page 5.

96
Ibid.

97
Ibid., page 6.

98
Ibid.

99
Ibid., pages 6–7.

100
Ibid., page 9.

101
Description of Dealey Plaza, Commission Exhibit 877, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XVII, pages 897–898.

102
Roberts,
Kill Zone
, page 9. The italics are part of the original title.

103
Ibid., page 11. The italics are part of the original text.

104
Finn Nielsen, “The Mannlicher-Carcano,”
Surplusrifle.com
,
http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting/mannlichercarcano/index.asp
; and, Finn Nielsen, biography, Finn Nielsen Consultant Inc., March 7, 1943–July 30, 2008,
http://www.finnnielsen.com/
.

105
“Probability of competing in athletics beyond high school,” NCAA, Sept. 17, 2012,
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect//files/04/51/40/f045140/public/ncaa/pdfs/2012/estimated+probability+of+competing+in+athletics+beyond+the+high+school+interscholastic+level
.

106
Bill Wall, “The Cognitive Psychology of Chess,”
Chess.com
, June 21, 2010,
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-cognitive-psychology-of-chess
.

107
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, pages 190–191.

108
Donald E. Wilkes, Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, “Oddities of the JFK Assassination,”
Athens Human Rights Festival
, May 8 and 9, 1993, page 8,
http://www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/jfk_10oddities.html
; mentioned also by Jim Marrs,
Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, Inc., Publishers, 1989), pages 12–15, 35, and 244–245; also, Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone,
High Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, What Really Happened
(New York: The Conservatory Press, 1989), pages 13–16.

109
Mark Lane,
Rush to Judgment: A critique of the Warren Commission’s inquiry into the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald
(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966), page 32.

110
Testimony of Lee E. Bowers, Jr., Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 2, 1964, Vol. VI, pages 284–289.

111
Ibid., page 285.

112
Ibid., page 287.

113
Ibid.

114
Ibid., page 288.

115
Lane,
Rush to Judgment
, page 32.

116
Testimony of Lee E. Bowers, Jr., Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, page 287.

117
Ibid.

118
Bugliosi,
Reclaiming History
, pages 847–848.

119
Posner,
Case Closed
, page 238.

120
Testimony of S. M. Holland, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 8, 1964, Vol. VI, pages 239–248, at 243–244.

121
Ibid., pages 245–246.

122
Ibid., page 246.

123
Ibid., page 247.

124
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, pages 103–104.

125
Dallas Police Department, “Investigation of the Assassination of the President,” Commission Exhibit 2003, no date, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXIV, pages 195–404, at page 219.

126
Testimony of Howard Leslie Brennan, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, March 24, 1964, Vol. III, pages 140–161.

127
Ibid., page 144.

128
Warren Commission, pages 63–64, and 143–146, at page 144.

129
Ibid., page 143.

130
Ibid.

131
Ibid., pages 143–144.

132
Special Agent Robert C. Dish, Memorandum, “Subject: UNSUB: Assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY,” dated Nov. 22, 1963, filed in Dallas, Texas.

133
Testimony of Howard Leslie Brennan, pages 147–148.

134
Ibid., page 148.

135
Dallas Police Department, “Investigation of the Assassination of the President,” Commission Exhibit 2003, no date, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXIV, pages 195–404.

136
Testimony of Howard Leslie Brennan, page 148.

137
Bugliosi,
Reclaiming History
, pages 951–969, at pages 956–957.

138
Posner,
Case Closed
, pages 248–250, at 249.

139
Gerald McKnight,
Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed and Why
(Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2005), page 398.

140
Testimony of J. Herbert Sawyer, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 8, 1964, Vol. VI, pages 315–325, at 317.

141
Ibid., page 322.

142
Ibid., page 320.

143
Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact
, page 10.

144
Testimony of Howard Leslie Brennan, pages 145–146; and, Testimony of Forrest V. Sorrels, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, May 7, 1964, Vol. VII, pages 332–360, at 348–349.

145
Commission Exhibit 479, Zapruder Film Frame 188, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XVII, page 198.

146
Testimony of Howard Leslie Brennan, page 144.

147
Ibid.

148
Commission Exhibit 486, no title, no date, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XVII, page 203.

149
Commission Exhibit 887, no title, no date, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XVII, page 86.

150
Commission Exhibit 1310, 1311, 1312, no title, no date, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXII, pages 484–485.

151
Testimony of Seymour Weitzman, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 1, 1964, Vol. VII, pages 105–109.

152
Ibid., page 108.

153
Testimony of D.V. Harkness, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 9, 1964, Vol. VI, pages 308–315, at 312.

154
Testimony of Joe Marshall Smith, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, July 23, 1964, Vol. VII, pages 531–539, at 535.

155
Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact
, page 26.

156
Testimony of James Thomas Tague, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, at page 558.

157
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, pages 82–111, at page 111.

158
Josiah Thompson’s post on
educationforum.ipbhost.com
on March 30, 2011, at 7:34 pm,
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=17516&page=17#entry222451
.

159
David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1980).

160
Ibid., page 692.

161
Ibid., pages 692–693.

162
Ibid., page 598.

163
Ibid., page 598.

164
Report by FBI Special Agents Francis X. O’Neill, Jr. and James W. Sibert, “Autopsy of Body of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” page 3 of the original report.

165
Lifton,
Best Evidence,
pages 601-602.

166
Testimony of J.C. Day, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. IV, April 22, 1964, pages 249-279; and, Affidavit of Lt. J.C. Day, dated May 7, 1964, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol VII, pages 401-402; and, Affidavit of Lt. J. C. Day, dated June 23, 1964, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. VII, page 402.

167
Ibid.

168
“O’Connor, Paul K.,” in Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel Press, 1993), pages 319-320, at page 320.

169
For a YouTube presentation of Frame 464 of the Zapruder film, see: GerdaDunckel, “dead JFK rising from his seat … (?)” uploaded Jan. 9, 2012,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDCJ3Ndvz9M
.

170
Testimony of Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Warren Commission Hearings, June 5, 1964, Vol. 5, pages 178-181, at 180-181.

171
Clint Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
(New York: Gallery Books, 2012), pages 290-291.

172
Press Conference, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963, 2:16 p.m. CST, transcript,
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/press.htm
.

173
Testimony of Dr. Charles James Carrico, Warren Commission Hearings, March 30, 1964, Vol. III, pages 357-366, at page 361.

174
Ibid.

175
Testimony of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, Warren Commission Hearings, March 25, 1964, Vol. VI, pages 30-39, at 33.

176
Ibid., page 35.

177
Affidavit, signed by Seymour Weitzman, Nov. 23, 1963, in Dallas Police Department, “Investigation of the Assassination of the President,” page 63, Commission Exhibit 2003, no date, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXIV, pages 195–404, at page 228.

178
Testimony of Seymour Weitzman, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 1, 1964, Vol. VII, pages 105–109, at page 109.

179
E. L. Boone, #240, Dallas Sheriff’s Office, “Presidential Assassination,” Supplementary Investigation Report, Nov. 22, 1963, 2 pages, published as Decker Exhibit No. 5323, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XIX, pages 508–509.

180
Testimony of Eugene Boone, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, March 25, 1964, Vol. III, pages 291–295, at 295.

181
Press Conference of District Attorney Wade in Assembly Room, Dallas Police and Courts Building, Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, 12:30 a.m., Commission Exhibit 2169, in Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXIV, pages 829–841, at 831.

182
Testimony of Mark Lane, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, March 4, 1964, Vol. II, pages 32–61, at 46.