Posted by:
steve benson
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Date: February 27, 2011 10:34PM
Timothy--
In another thread you wrote:
"I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch, but I am probably the only person in America who has actually read the entire Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
"Its fairly f**ked up, at worst, and ridiculously speculative, at best, but the most telling part of the so-called 'investigation' can be found in Chapter 1: Summary and Conclusions - Conclusions: Section 3:
“'Although it is not necessary to any essential findings of the Commission to determine just which shot hit Governor Connally, there is very persuasive evidence from the experts to indicate that the same bullet which pierced the President’s throat also caused Governor Connally’s wounds.'
"Not necessary to any essential findings? … Uh, it is when your entire case rests on it!"
"In that same vein, I read with increasing frequency on this board how mainstream christianity (whatever the hell that is) largely ignores or no longer recognizes the old testament as bona-fide scripture. Really? . . . "
("Old Testament no longer recognized as 'factual' by mainstream christianity?," posted by "Timothy," on Recovery from Mormonism" bulletion board, 27 February 2011, 1:59 p.m., at:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,124734)
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Since you brought up this aspect of the assassination of JFK as an example of an essential factor in case-making, here's something you might find interesting, given that it relates directly to your mention of a particularly important element of the President's murder:
I happened to be in the Dallas area with a colleague of mine for a 20-year high school reunion for students of Richardson High School (Richardson is a North Dallas suburb, where I attended RHS through my junior year).
My friend John Stanley (who was not a RHS alumni but who was also interested in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy) and I decided to go down to Dealey Plaza, where I was standing across from Elm Street in the late afteroon, looking toward the Texas School Book Depository (where accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald worked).
I had my camera out, when someone came up to me and earnestly informed me that former Texas Governor John Connally was over at the Depository building.
I crossed Elm Street and went over to the Depository, where a black stretch limo was parked at one corner of the building--and out of which had stepped Governor Connally.
I had with me at the time a facsmile copy of the findings of the Warren Commission.
("Warren Commission Report: The official report presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 21, 1964, By the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy," as "Delivered by Executive Order No. 1130 on September 24, 1964" (New York: Marboro Books Corp., a division of Barnes and Noble Books, Inc., 1992, 888 pp.)
I asked Governor Connally if I could have my photograph taken with him. He graciously agreed. (I still have that photo, which shows Governor Connally and myself standing next to his limo, with the parking lot of the Depository building and the railway operator's tower in the background, with me holding at my side my personal copy of the Warren Commission Report).
At my request, Governor Connally signed the book, writing, "John Connally Oct '92."
I asked Governor Connally if I could ask him a question and he said I could.
I inquired of him whether he had been shot with the same bullet that struck President Kennedy.
He quietly but firmly replied that he had not. He told me that he heard a shot, turned in an attempt to look at President Kennedy (who was sitting in the back seat) grabbing for his throat after having been struck by a bullet, then was himself (Connally) hit by another (i.e., a different) bullet.
It was a short, pleasant conversation. I thanked him and left.
Governor Connally died the following June, eight months after we spoke.
Edited 29 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/2011 07:01AM by steve benson.