Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Governor CONNALLY. This was after I heard the first rifleshot. There
was no pain connected with it. There was no particular burning
sensation. There was nothing more than that. I think you would feel
almost the identical sensation I felt if someone came up behind you and
just, with a short jab, hit you with a doubled-up fist just below the
shoulder blade.
Senator COOPER. That is all.
Mr. SPECTER. I have just one other question, Governor. With respect to
the films and the slides which you have viewed this morning, had you
ever seen those pictures before this morning?
Governor CONNALLY. I had seen what purported to be a copy of the film
when I was in the hospital in Dallas. I had not seen the slides.
Mr. SPECTER. And when do you think you were hit on those slides,
Governor, or in what range of slides?
Governor CONNALLY. We took--you are talking about the number of the
slides?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes.
Governor CONNALLY. As we looked at them this morning, and as you
related the numbers to me, it appeared to me that I was hit in the
range between 130 or 131, I don't remember precisely, up to 134, in
that bracket.
Mr. SPECTER. May I suggest to you that it was 231?
Governor CONNALLY. Well, 231 and 234, then.
Mr. SPECTER. The series under our numbering system starts with a higher
number when the car comes around the turn, so when you come out of the
sign, which was----
Governor CONNALLY. It was just after we came out of the sign, for
whatever that sequence of numbers was, and if it was 200, I correct my
testimony. It was 231 to about 234. It was within that range.
Mr. SPECTER. That is all.
The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions?
Mr. DULLES. I have one or two. Governor, were you consulted at all
about the security arrangements in connection with the Dallas visit?
Governor CONNALLY. No, sir; not really; no, sir; and let me add we
normally are not.
Mr. DULLES. I realize that.
Governor CONNALLY. Mr. Dulles, the Secret Service, as you know, comes
in, they work with both our department of public safety and the various
city police, and the various localities in which we are going. So far
as I know, there was complete cooperation on the part of everyone
concerned, but I was not consulted.
Mr. DULLES. I think you mentioned that there was a slight change in
plans before the arrival in San Antonio. I don't know whether it
affects our investigation at all. Do you recall that?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; I don't know whether it--I don't think it
affects the testimony at all. I was merely trying to relate some of
the problems that had gone into planning a Presidential trip into four
cities.
Mr. DULLES. Yes.
Governor CONNALLY. And trying to arrange this all initially within
about a 12-hour period which had been expanded into a little more than
that because the President finally agreed to come the day before, and
come into San Antonio on the afternoon before the Thomas dinner on
Thursday night.
Mr. DULLES. That was the change you had in mind?
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