Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. SPECTER. Mr. Frazier, based on the angles, distances, and speeds of
the car and bullet in this situation, what lead would a marksman have
to give to strike the moving target, allowing for all of those factors?
Mr. FRAZIER. The lead would be approximately the same for all of these
positions represented by your frame or rather your Commission Exhibit
No. 888, which is frame 161, all the way up to frame 313 which I don't
have, the Commission's Exhibit is No. 902 on frame 313, a lead of 6
inches above the point of impact would be sufficient to account for
the movement of the car during the flight of the bullet.
The fact that the same lead would be necessary at each place is because
at the closer frame numbers, the lower frame numbers, 161, 166, 185,
and so forth, there is a relatively steep downward angle beginning at
40°, whereas the last shot, the downward angle is approximately 17° or
20°, in that neighborhood.
Just one thing more, it would require less apparent elevation of the
crosshair over the point of impact at the distant target to allow for a
further movement of the car of approximately 2 feet at the point where
the head shot occurred.
So the lead would be constant between 5.9 inches above the point of
impact to 6.3 inches above the point of impact.
Mr. DULLES. Have you asked the witness--I was studying these frame
pictures--at about what frame he thinks the body of Governor Connally
would have been in a position to receive a bullet that would go through
the body with this trajectory?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes; I believe I did.
Mr. DULLES. I wasn't quite clear.
Mr. FRAZIER. I testified that it would have been in position from
anywhere from frames 207 to 225.
However, I cannot limit it to 207 because at that point the car goes
back under the foliage and you can't actually see clearly enough.
Mr. DULLES. Between frames 207 and 225?
Mr. FRAZIER. Yes, sir; approximately frame 207 to approximately frame
225.
Mr. DULLES. Thank you.
Mr. SPECTER. Looking at Exhibit No. 902, frame 313, on the view shown
on the "photograph through rifle scope," is that the way you saw it at
the time of the reconstruction, when the car was in that position as
shown in that exhibit?
Mr. FRAZIER. Yes; it is.
Mr. SPECTER. At this time I move for the admission into evidence of
Commission Exhibits Nos. 885 through 903 which constitute all of the
photographs referred to by Mr. Shaneyfelt and Mr. Frazier during their
testimony.
(Commission Exhibits Nos. 855 through 903 were marked for
identification, and received in evidence.)
Mr. McCLOY. They may be admitted.
Mr. SPECTER. That completes the questioning.
Mr. McCLOY. As I get it, Mr. Frazier, what you are saying is there
is only a certain point at which the bullet could pass through the
President, could have hit Mr. Connally, and that is at a point when he
is not sitting full face forward and at a point when he is not too far
turned around.
Mr. FRAZIER. That is exactly right.
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