Post by John Duncan on Mar 5, 2021 21:31:30 GMT -5
There was no missed shot....
By Raymond Gallagher
7/8/10
There was no missed shot....
Despite the claims that there were three shots from the TSBD fired at the JFK limousine.... prove it... Where is the physical evidence? The three shell casings found under the sixth floor window? That won't do.
Even the Warren Wizards weren't sure. Even the Warren Wizards weren't sure about the number of shots fired from the TSBD; SEE Page 110 and 111 of the Report to the President NUMBER OF SHOTS.
"The consensus among the witnesses at the scene was that three shots were fired.332 However, some heard only two shots, 333 while others testified that they heard four and perhaps as many as five or six shots. The difficulty of accurate perception of the sound of gunshots required careful scrutiny of all of this testimony regarding the number of shots. The firing of a bullet causes a number of noises: the muzzle blast, caused by the smashing of the hot gases which propel the bullet into the relatively stable air at the gun's muzzle; the noise of the bullet, caused by the shock wave built up ahead of the bullet's nose as it travels through the air; and the noise caused by the impact of the bullet on its target.335 Each noise can be quites sharp and may be perceived as a separate shot. The tall buildings in the area might have further distorted the sound.
The physical and other evidence examined by the Commission compels the conclusion that AT LEAST TWO SHOTS WERE FIRED As discussed previously, the nearly whole bullet discovered at Parkland Hospital and the two larger fragments found in the Presidential automobile, which were identified as coming from the assassination rifle, came from at least two separate bullets and possibly from three.336 The most convincing evidence relating to the number of shots was provided by the presence on the sixth floor of three spent cartridges which were demonstrated to have been fired by the same rifle that fired the bullets which
By Raymond Gallagher
7/8/10
There was no missed shot....
Despite the claims that there were three shots from the TSBD fired at the JFK limousine.... prove it... Where is the physical evidence? The three shell casings found under the sixth floor window? That won't do.
Even the Warren Wizards weren't sure. Even the Warren Wizards weren't sure about the number of shots fired from the TSBD; SEE Page 110 and 111 of the Report to the President NUMBER OF SHOTS.
"The consensus among the witnesses at the scene was that three shots were fired.332 However, some heard only two shots, 333 while others testified that they heard four and perhaps as many as five or six shots. The difficulty of accurate perception of the sound of gunshots required careful scrutiny of all of this testimony regarding the number of shots. The firing of a bullet causes a number of noises: the muzzle blast, caused by the smashing of the hot gases which propel the bullet into the relatively stable air at the gun's muzzle; the noise of the bullet, caused by the shock wave built up ahead of the bullet's nose as it travels through the air; and the noise caused by the impact of the bullet on its target.335 Each noise can be quites sharp and may be perceived as a separate shot. The tall buildings in the area might have further distorted the sound.
The physical and other evidence examined by the Commission compels the conclusion that AT LEAST TWO SHOTS WERE FIRED As discussed previously, the nearly whole bullet discovered at Parkland Hospital and the two larger fragments found in the Presidential automobile, which were identified as coming from the assassination rifle, came from at least two separate bullets and possibly from three.336 The most convincing evidence relating to the number of shots was provided by the presence on the sixth floor of three spent cartridges which were demonstrated to have been fired by the same rifle that fired the bullets which
caused the wounds. It is POSSIBLE that the assassin carried an EMPTY SHELL in the rifle and fired only two shots, with the witnesses hearing multiple noises made by the same shot. Soon after the three ....Cont'd
www.jfk-assassination.de/warren/wcr/page110.php
It would be senseless to argue that there was not an explosive "report" from the Knoll, and a careful analyses of testimonies clearly indicates that it was the first "report" of three such sounds, but it was not necessarily from a rifle and it didn't have to be fired at the motorcade. No one saw a weapon fired. And there was no physical evidence of such a shot. Witnesses, however, did report seeing and smelling smoke on the Knoll.
Besides the three casings, 76.7% of the witnesses said that three shots were fired. Thirty-five (33.7%) said the shots came from the Knoll and fifty-six (53.8%) said the TSBD. I personally believe that both were right.
Apparently the limousine was already past the TSBD when the first "report" of what was believed was a firecracker, or a similar sound reported by witnesses, so it is unlikely that a first shot was fired as the car made the turn on to Elm Street.
Read again from the Bennett affidavit:
The Motorcade entered an intersection and then proceeded DOWN A GRADE. At this point the well-wishers numbered but a few; the motorcade continued down this grade en route to the Trade Mart. At this point I heard what sounded like a FIRE CRACKER. I immediately looked from the right/crowd/physical area/and looked towards the President who was seated in the right rear seat of hislimousine open convertible. At the moment I looked at the back of the President I heard another fire-cracker noise and saw the shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder. A second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the President's head.
It is hard to imagine that one third of the witnesses were wrong when they reported shots from the Grassy Knoll. What is more interesting is what they said.
"I looked towards the top of the terrace to my right as the sound of the shots seemed to come from that direction." . and . . . . "There was to me about twice as much time between the first and second shots as there was between the second and third shots." (FORREST V. SORRELS, Secret Service Dallas Office Special Agent In Charge.)
SS Agent Clinton Hill said that the second and third shots sounded alike. they had a different sound..."than the first sound I heard."
Sam Holland; "...I definitely saw a puff of smoke and heard the report from under the trees."
Frank Reilly:... "at the park where all the shrubs is up there...up the slope."
James Simmons:... " Fumes of smoke near the embankment."
Austin Miller:..."there is a little plaza on the hill...who threw the firecracker or whatever it was."
Clemon Johnson:... " white smoke was observed by the pavilion."
Mary Woodward, Maggie Brown, Auretia Lorenzo, Ann Donaldson: All on the sidewalk said they heard a horrible "ear-shattering noise coming from behind us and a little to our right."
John Chism: ..." by the Stemmons sign, I looked behind me,"
Marion Chism;... "It came from behind us."
Ammett Hudson:.. "The shots that I heard definitely came from behind and above me." He was sitting on the steps on the Knoll.
Ronald Fisher:..." from just west of the TSBD."
Jean Hill: " I frankly thought they were coming from the Knoll."
Others that reported shots from the Knoll: Charles Brehm, Roy Truly, Virgil Campbell, Mrs. Alvin Hopson, Mrs. Chas. Davis, Dorthy Ann Garner, Steven Wilson, Otis Williams, Victoria Adams, Billy Lovelady, Danny Arce, Wesley Frazier, James Jarman, Roger Craig, J. E. Decker, James Jarman, Harry Weatherford, and many more names can be added to the list.
Even Zapruder was not sure of the shot sequence.
Mr. Liebeler. Let me go back now for just a moment and ask you how many shots you heard altogether.
Mr. Zapruder. I thought I heard two, it could be three, because to my estimation I thought he was hit on the second--I really don't know. The whole thing that has been transpiring--it was very upsetting and as you see I got a little better all the time and this came up again and it to me looked like the second shot, but I don't know. I never even heard a third shot.
And Tague thought the shots came from up on the hill:
Mr. Tague. Well, I was standing there watching, and really I was watching to try to distinguish the President and his car. About this time I heard what sounded like a firecracker. Well, a very loud firecracker. It certainly didn't sound like a rifle shot. It was more of a loud cannon- type sound. I looked around to see who was throwing firecrackers or what was going on and I turned my head away from the motorcade and, of course, two more shots.
And I ducked behind the post when I realized somebody was shooting after the third shot. After the third shot, I ducked behind the bridge abutment and was there for a second, and I glanced out and Just as Iooked out, the car following the President's car, the one with the Secret Service men, was just flying past at that time.
Mr. Liebeler. About 12 to 15 feet east of the point No. 6 on Commission Exhibit No. 354. Now you yourself, as I understand it, did not see the President hit?
Mr. Tague. I did not; no.
Mr. Liebeler. How long after did you feel yourself get hit by anything?
Mr. Tague. I felt it at the time, but I didn't associate, didn't make any connection, and ignored it. And after this happened, or maybe the second or third shot, I couldn't tell you definitely--I made no connection. I looked around wondering what was going on, and I recall this. We got to talking, and I recall that something had stinged me,.and then the deputy sheriff looked up and said, "You have blood there on your cheek." That is when we walked back down there.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you have any idea which bullet might have made that mark?
Mr. Tague. I would guess it was either the second or third. I wouldn't say definitely on which one.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you hear any more shots after you felt yourself get hit in the face?
Mr. Tague. I believe I did.
Mr. Liebeler. You think you did?
Mr. Tague. I believe I did.
Mr. Liebeler. How many?
Mr. Tague. I believe that it was the second shot, so I heard the third shot afterwards.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you hear three shots?
Mr. Tague. I heard three shots; yes sir. And I did notice the time on the Hertz clock. It was 12:29 Tague was never sure which shot caused the mark on his face. (When asked where he thought the shots came from) “my first impression was that up by the, whatever you call the monument…somebody was throwing firecrackers up there.” As Tague was hit by a fragment from one of the last two shots, his testimony cuts into Specter and the Commission’s options. If Specter says the first shot missed then he has to hold that Tague was injured by a fragment from the head shot, which many might find far-fetched.
The Zapruder film on close analysis shows the first bullet miss and hit the curb of the road that the car was traveling." (This is only the most ill-informed statement ever uttered by a supposed expert on the case. Not one analysis of the film, including those performed by the most zealous single-assassin theorists proposing Oswald acted alone, has claimed that a bullet strike on the curb is visible. Those holding that a first shot miss is detectable base their claims upon blurs on the film thought to coincide with rifle shots, and the behavior of a few of the witnesses. None have insinuated they could see the bullet hit a curb.
By May 1964 the damage had been covertly patched with a concrete paste and that in August, not July, 1964, the FBI tested the scrapings of the paste, not the damage, which gave two metal results."
Summing up. One shot missed the car completely and there is no record of recovering any of its remains. One shot allegedly passed through Kennedy and Connally and magically remained near pristine and ended up at Parkland Hospital.
This bullet weighed 161 grains before it was fired at the motorcade. When recovered it weighed 158.6 grains which means that very little was lost in its destructive journey.
A fragment weighing 0.5 grains was recovered from Connally's arm. Audrey Bell, the operating nurse, stated that there were four or five fragments "anywhere from three to four millimeters in length and a couple of millimeters wide. " These fragments disappeared at the autopsy.
In addition, what happened to the fragment found in Connally's leg wound? Also, there was a fragment in the governor's chest that was never recovered. He died with fragments still in his body that weighed more that the alleged two to three missing grains from C-399 that was described as near pristine. And the Warrens say , about pristine,
"The Governor's wrist wound WAS NOT CAUSED BY A PRISTINE BULLET." p. 94
So this leaves one bullet and it had to be the fatal projectile that removed part of the president's skull and much of his brains.
After the coup, two bullet fragments were found in the Lincoln. According to Warren , the two fragments weighed 44.6 and 21.0 grains respectively. “The heavier fragment was a portion of a bullet's nose area...the lighter fragment consisted of a bullet's base...the two fragments were both mutilated, and it was not possible to determine from the fragments themselves whether they comprised the base and nose of one bullet or of two separate bullets." WR
If one bullet missed the car completely and one ended up at Parkland almost pristine, the last bullet logically would have to be the bullet that hit JFK in the head and both fragments were from the same
projectile I disagree with this conclusion.
I suspect that, with the angle of the neck shot, the above fragments would remain in the car, ergo,the remains of the single bullet , and the head shot bullet probably ended up in tiny bits in Dealey Plaza.
Some say that Tague was hit by the first MISSED shot, but he heard shots before he was hit by a very tiny fragment. So, he was probably hit by a fragment from the third shot instead of the ALLEGED MISSED FIRST SHOT. He also thought that the shots came from the "hill"
I personally do not believe there was a missed shot. If I were the master-mind of the murder, I would be sure to provide evidence that would assure the connection to the rifle and its owner. And since could not rely on the future condition of the bullets actually fired at the occupants of the limousine, I would fire a bullet through the barrel of the murder weapon before 11-22-63 and be sure to leave it where it would be found. Enter the near pristine Parkland slug.
And enter Jack Ruby and the Parkland slug. As Assistant. DA Alexander said, "The single bullet is like the Immaculate Conception. Either you believe it or you don't."
I do BELIEVE that a single bullet transited both men thus the single bullet, but I will never believe that the Parkland bullet is one and the same bullet. I believe that the JFK /Connally bullet remained in the car and the Parkland bullet was planted on the wrong stretcher, at Parkland, by Jack Ruby, when he failed to plant it in the limousine in Dealey Plaza because the car went on to the hospital.
(Jack Ruby was in Dealey Plaza during the shooting) SEE: The Fourth Decade, Volume 4, Issue 2
Current Section: Where Was Jack Ruby on November 21 and November 22?, by Martha A. Moyer & R.F. Gallagher
At the time of the shooting, Jack Ruby was in front of the Texas School Book Depository, not in the Dallas Morning News as he claimed.
SEE pictures
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=519986.
I would agree that there were three shots fired. At least it would be hard to argue that 90% of the witnesses did not hear three SOUNDS that they called gunfire. It is also hard to argue that one of these shots did not come from the grassy knoll, but it may not have been a shot at the President. Witnesses said it sounded different and it was the first sound. Some of us believe that it was Jim Braden firing a 38.
Cal .pistol into the air as a diversion shot to draw attention away from the TSBD and allow our shooter to get away. Was he the alleged Secret Service man that Officer Smith confronted? The Commission may have thought so also, since they had a .38 fired on the knoll during the later reenactment. And how about that bent casing found on the floor of the TSBD? Most of the gun lovers that I know say that it could not have been fired from C-2766 that day or any other day. I agree. (See Tink Thompson Six Seconds in Dallas.) Was it the empty casing that the Commission said may have been carried in the rifle?
(P111 WR) If someone fired a diversion shot on the knoll and witnesses reported three shots - it would help if three casings were found in the TSBD to make us believe that three shots were fired from there, NO?
Was Agent Bennett one of them? He was stationed in the right rear seat of the follow up car. He heard a sound like a firecracker as the motorcade proceeded down Elm Street. Could that have been Braden and his .38 ? Bennett then said, " I looked at the back of the President. I heard another firecracker noise and SAW THAT SHOT HIT THE PRESIDENT ABOUT FOUR INCHES DOWN THE RIGHT SHOULDER. A second shot
followed immediately and hit the right rear of the President's head.
Substantial weight may be given Bennett's observation. Although his formal statement was dated Nov, 23, 1963, his notes indicated that he recorded what he saw and heard at 5:30 PM 11-22-63 , on the airplane en route to Washington, prior to the autopsy, when it was not yet known that the President had been hit in the back.
I would like some physical evidence that an alleged first shot was even fired and missed the limousine. Show me some. No, " I think so ."
www.jfk-assassination.de/warren/wcr/page110.php
It would be senseless to argue that there was not an explosive "report" from the Knoll, and a careful analyses of testimonies clearly indicates that it was the first "report" of three such sounds, but it was not necessarily from a rifle and it didn't have to be fired at the motorcade. No one saw a weapon fired. And there was no physical evidence of such a shot. Witnesses, however, did report seeing and smelling smoke on the Knoll.
Besides the three casings, 76.7% of the witnesses said that three shots were fired. Thirty-five (33.7%) said the shots came from the Knoll and fifty-six (53.8%) said the TSBD. I personally believe that both were right.
Apparently the limousine was already past the TSBD when the first "report" of what was believed was a firecracker, or a similar sound reported by witnesses, so it is unlikely that a first shot was fired as the car made the turn on to Elm Street.
Read again from the Bennett affidavit:
The Motorcade entered an intersection and then proceeded DOWN A GRADE. At this point the well-wishers numbered but a few; the motorcade continued down this grade en route to the Trade Mart. At this point I heard what sounded like a FIRE CRACKER. I immediately looked from the right/crowd/physical area/and looked towards the President who was seated in the right rear seat of hislimousine open convertible. At the moment I looked at the back of the President I heard another fire-cracker noise and saw the shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder. A second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the President's head.
It is hard to imagine that one third of the witnesses were wrong when they reported shots from the Grassy Knoll. What is more interesting is what they said.
"I looked towards the top of the terrace to my right as the sound of the shots seemed to come from that direction." . and . . . . "There was to me about twice as much time between the first and second shots as there was between the second and third shots." (FORREST V. SORRELS, Secret Service Dallas Office Special Agent In Charge.)
SS Agent Clinton Hill said that the second and third shots sounded alike. they had a different sound..."than the first sound I heard."
Sam Holland; "...I definitely saw a puff of smoke and heard the report from under the trees."
Frank Reilly:... "at the park where all the shrubs is up there...up the slope."
James Simmons:... " Fumes of smoke near the embankment."
Austin Miller:..."there is a little plaza on the hill...who threw the firecracker or whatever it was."
Clemon Johnson:... " white smoke was observed by the pavilion."
Mary Woodward, Maggie Brown, Auretia Lorenzo, Ann Donaldson: All on the sidewalk said they heard a horrible "ear-shattering noise coming from behind us and a little to our right."
John Chism: ..." by the Stemmons sign, I looked behind me,"
Marion Chism;... "It came from behind us."
Ammett Hudson:.. "The shots that I heard definitely came from behind and above me." He was sitting on the steps on the Knoll.
Ronald Fisher:..." from just west of the TSBD."
Jean Hill: " I frankly thought they were coming from the Knoll."
Others that reported shots from the Knoll: Charles Brehm, Roy Truly, Virgil Campbell, Mrs. Alvin Hopson, Mrs. Chas. Davis, Dorthy Ann Garner, Steven Wilson, Otis Williams, Victoria Adams, Billy Lovelady, Danny Arce, Wesley Frazier, James Jarman, Roger Craig, J. E. Decker, James Jarman, Harry Weatherford, and many more names can be added to the list.
Even Zapruder was not sure of the shot sequence.
Mr. Liebeler. Let me go back now for just a moment and ask you how many shots you heard altogether.
Mr. Zapruder. I thought I heard two, it could be three, because to my estimation I thought he was hit on the second--I really don't know. The whole thing that has been transpiring--it was very upsetting and as you see I got a little better all the time and this came up again and it to me looked like the second shot, but I don't know. I never even heard a third shot.
And Tague thought the shots came from up on the hill:
Mr. Tague. Well, I was standing there watching, and really I was watching to try to distinguish the President and his car. About this time I heard what sounded like a firecracker. Well, a very loud firecracker. It certainly didn't sound like a rifle shot. It was more of a loud cannon- type sound. I looked around to see who was throwing firecrackers or what was going on and I turned my head away from the motorcade and, of course, two more shots.
And I ducked behind the post when I realized somebody was shooting after the third shot. After the third shot, I ducked behind the bridge abutment and was there for a second, and I glanced out and Just as Iooked out, the car following the President's car, the one with the Secret Service men, was just flying past at that time.
Mr. Liebeler. About 12 to 15 feet east of the point No. 6 on Commission Exhibit No. 354. Now you yourself, as I understand it, did not see the President hit?
Mr. Tague. I did not; no.
Mr. Liebeler. How long after did you feel yourself get hit by anything?
Mr. Tague. I felt it at the time, but I didn't associate, didn't make any connection, and ignored it. And after this happened, or maybe the second or third shot, I couldn't tell you definitely--I made no connection. I looked around wondering what was going on, and I recall this. We got to talking, and I recall that something had stinged me,.and then the deputy sheriff looked up and said, "You have blood there on your cheek." That is when we walked back down there.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you have any idea which bullet might have made that mark?
Mr. Tague. I would guess it was either the second or third. I wouldn't say definitely on which one.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you hear any more shots after you felt yourself get hit in the face?
Mr. Tague. I believe I did.
Mr. Liebeler. You think you did?
Mr. Tague. I believe I did.
Mr. Liebeler. How many?
Mr. Tague. I believe that it was the second shot, so I heard the third shot afterwards.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you hear three shots?
Mr. Tague. I heard three shots; yes sir. And I did notice the time on the Hertz clock. It was 12:29 Tague was never sure which shot caused the mark on his face. (When asked where he thought the shots came from) “my first impression was that up by the, whatever you call the monument…somebody was throwing firecrackers up there.” As Tague was hit by a fragment from one of the last two shots, his testimony cuts into Specter and the Commission’s options. If Specter says the first shot missed then he has to hold that Tague was injured by a fragment from the head shot, which many might find far-fetched.
The Zapruder film on close analysis shows the first bullet miss and hit the curb of the road that the car was traveling." (This is only the most ill-informed statement ever uttered by a supposed expert on the case. Not one analysis of the film, including those performed by the most zealous single-assassin theorists proposing Oswald acted alone, has claimed that a bullet strike on the curb is visible. Those holding that a first shot miss is detectable base their claims upon blurs on the film thought to coincide with rifle shots, and the behavior of a few of the witnesses. None have insinuated they could see the bullet hit a curb.
By May 1964 the damage had been covertly patched with a concrete paste and that in August, not July, 1964, the FBI tested the scrapings of the paste, not the damage, which gave two metal results."
Summing up. One shot missed the car completely and there is no record of recovering any of its remains. One shot allegedly passed through Kennedy and Connally and magically remained near pristine and ended up at Parkland Hospital.
This bullet weighed 161 grains before it was fired at the motorcade. When recovered it weighed 158.6 grains which means that very little was lost in its destructive journey.
A fragment weighing 0.5 grains was recovered from Connally's arm. Audrey Bell, the operating nurse, stated that there were four or five fragments "anywhere from three to four millimeters in length and a couple of millimeters wide. " These fragments disappeared at the autopsy.
In addition, what happened to the fragment found in Connally's leg wound? Also, there was a fragment in the governor's chest that was never recovered. He died with fragments still in his body that weighed more that the alleged two to three missing grains from C-399 that was described as near pristine. And the Warrens say , about pristine,
"The Governor's wrist wound WAS NOT CAUSED BY A PRISTINE BULLET." p. 94
So this leaves one bullet and it had to be the fatal projectile that removed part of the president's skull and much of his brains.
After the coup, two bullet fragments were found in the Lincoln. According to Warren , the two fragments weighed 44.6 and 21.0 grains respectively. “The heavier fragment was a portion of a bullet's nose area...the lighter fragment consisted of a bullet's base...the two fragments were both mutilated, and it was not possible to determine from the fragments themselves whether they comprised the base and nose of one bullet or of two separate bullets." WR
If one bullet missed the car completely and one ended up at Parkland almost pristine, the last bullet logically would have to be the bullet that hit JFK in the head and both fragments were from the same
projectile I disagree with this conclusion.
I suspect that, with the angle of the neck shot, the above fragments would remain in the car, ergo,the remains of the single bullet , and the head shot bullet probably ended up in tiny bits in Dealey Plaza.
Some say that Tague was hit by the first MISSED shot, but he heard shots before he was hit by a very tiny fragment. So, he was probably hit by a fragment from the third shot instead of the ALLEGED MISSED FIRST SHOT. He also thought that the shots came from the "hill"
I personally do not believe there was a missed shot. If I were the master-mind of the murder, I would be sure to provide evidence that would assure the connection to the rifle and its owner. And since could not rely on the future condition of the bullets actually fired at the occupants of the limousine, I would fire a bullet through the barrel of the murder weapon before 11-22-63 and be sure to leave it where it would be found. Enter the near pristine Parkland slug.
And enter Jack Ruby and the Parkland slug. As Assistant. DA Alexander said, "The single bullet is like the Immaculate Conception. Either you believe it or you don't."
I do BELIEVE that a single bullet transited both men thus the single bullet, but I will never believe that the Parkland bullet is one and the same bullet. I believe that the JFK /Connally bullet remained in the car and the Parkland bullet was planted on the wrong stretcher, at Parkland, by Jack Ruby, when he failed to plant it in the limousine in Dealey Plaza because the car went on to the hospital.
(Jack Ruby was in Dealey Plaza during the shooting) SEE: The Fourth Decade, Volume 4, Issue 2
Current Section: Where Was Jack Ruby on November 21 and November 22?, by Martha A. Moyer & R.F. Gallagher
At the time of the shooting, Jack Ruby was in front of the Texas School Book Depository, not in the Dallas Morning News as he claimed.
SEE pictures
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=519986.
I would agree that there were three shots fired. At least it would be hard to argue that 90% of the witnesses did not hear three SOUNDS that they called gunfire. It is also hard to argue that one of these shots did not come from the grassy knoll, but it may not have been a shot at the President. Witnesses said it sounded different and it was the first sound. Some of us believe that it was Jim Braden firing a 38.
Cal .pistol into the air as a diversion shot to draw attention away from the TSBD and allow our shooter to get away. Was he the alleged Secret Service man that Officer Smith confronted? The Commission may have thought so also, since they had a .38 fired on the knoll during the later reenactment. And how about that bent casing found on the floor of the TSBD? Most of the gun lovers that I know say that it could not have been fired from C-2766 that day or any other day. I agree. (See Tink Thompson Six Seconds in Dallas.) Was it the empty casing that the Commission said may have been carried in the rifle?
(P111 WR) If someone fired a diversion shot on the knoll and witnesses reported three shots - it would help if three casings were found in the TSBD to make us believe that three shots were fired from there, NO?
Was Agent Bennett one of them? He was stationed in the right rear seat of the follow up car. He heard a sound like a firecracker as the motorcade proceeded down Elm Street. Could that have been Braden and his .38 ? Bennett then said, " I looked at the back of the President. I heard another firecracker noise and SAW THAT SHOT HIT THE PRESIDENT ABOUT FOUR INCHES DOWN THE RIGHT SHOULDER. A second shot
followed immediately and hit the right rear of the President's head.
Substantial weight may be given Bennett's observation. Although his formal statement was dated Nov, 23, 1963, his notes indicated that he recorded what he saw and heard at 5:30 PM 11-22-63 , on the airplane en route to Washington, prior to the autopsy, when it was not yet known that the President had been hit in the back.
I would like some physical evidence that an alleged first shot was even fired and missed the limousine. Show me some. No, " I think so ."