Nellie CONNALLY on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Nellie Connally is a former first lady of Texas, mother, and grandmother. She is also the last person to speak to President John F. Kennedy, before his assassination on November 22, 1963. She now recounts those tragic moments in Dallas, as the only surviving member of the President's parade limousine. On this episode of "InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse," our conversation with Nellie Connally.
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What a nice, kind interviewer...... unlike what we’ve become to expect in this day and age! I had the privilege of meeting Governor Connally and his beautiful wife, Nellie, many times over the years and I appreciate the respect she was given and deserved by your interviewer....good reporting!
Yes class has seemed to evaporate from our society. This is what we suffer from the WW2 generation absence.
It must have been an incredible experience to meet two of the most wonderful people in our country and the 2 people who were first hand involved and impacted by the most tragic incident in our nation's history! Nellie's recall of the incident is so detailed and vivid and it's so incredible how she described the events minute by minute!
And to think she would be a trump type if she lived today….
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I'm going to correct one thing Mrs. Connally said. The bubble top while being plexiglass it was not bulletproof.
So much for the Single Bullet Theory. They both said that John Connally was hit by the second bullet and they should know. I'm glad she set the record straight on this. Many say including S. M. Holland, that there were 4 shots.
In theory, could it be that a reaction to a gun wound took it show long? Probably not although in films bad guy can walk meters before the collapse :)
After fifty seven years (2020) it still hurts to hear about that day in Dallas. We lost a great man on November 22, 1963 and the fallout from that day continues to effect our country and the entire world.
You are so right.
I lived in Grapevine texas but was only 2.Whenever I hear people talking him down I let them know Kennedy and the Soviet leader saved the ENTIRE WORLD from nuclear war and if we even survived would be living a miserable existence to survive.
Obviously not everyone thought he was a great man. How amazing that a leader of our country was killed in cold blood, in broad daylight, and still don't know who really did it or was associated with it. I was 9 at that time. I remember my mother saying that evening. "Jack is a martyr." He possibly was for his dad and brother.
D sad thing about this is that her husband was part of d murder team according to some book shame on Texas.
Fairytale.
Nellie showed a tremendous amount of elegance and grace in this interview. I have always felt so badly for her and Jackie. They both may have suffered a certain level of PTSD for the rest of their lives over the events of November 22nd.
How could they not?
From a 63 year old black man. This was such a special and courageous woman. When her husband was shot, she didn't panic she just grabbed him and told him everything is going to be ok. And I'm sure she kept a lot of people strong during such a chaotic period. What great and special woman. RIP Nellie.
Jackie did. She didn't bc her husband knew what was happening.
@@johnwalker4329 She kept Connolly down so the shooters could reach JFK easier. Are you for real!? Wake up. Connolly was in on it and had no choice but to sit in the car...do some research.
What a wonderful woman it must have been one of the worst day of her life I'm glad she shared her story
Yes.
Tough generation. From WW2 to Nov 22 1963
Her daughter was shot behind the right ear just like JFK 4 years prior to JFK.
@@TEXCAP I never knew that
Perfect interview. So civil and kind which we need from the press. Mrs. Connelly projects sincerity.
Yes, she learned how to lie very well after watching her sleazy husband do it for years.
That was an awesome interview. Both interviewer and interviewee were the epitome of grace and I am ever grateful for those who made this interview possible
Incredible interview - Mrs. Connally was such a classy lady. Down to earth and great communicator.
Bless her heart! Nellie C. courageously recounts an event that shocked the world!
So much love and respect for this woman. RIP Nellie.
I felt for her when she said she wanted to be deferential to the President but she was wondering how long she had to wait until she asked somebody to help her husband. I can only imagine. She knew the president would not survive and her husband had a chance. One of the hospital doctors later said Gov Connolly had no security whatsoever when he was recovering in the hospital several days later. His words were “anybody could have walked in his room.” Times were certainly different.
Such an eloquent lovely woman. I was 3 weeks old and born in England when it happened. It’s easy to get bogged down with the events of that day but Nellie Connolly speaks from the heart. A pure and unadulterated version of events as she experienced them.
What an eloquent and beautiful speaker and story teller. I always got a kick out of her coming out of the plane at lLove Field. Had a little hop in her step and just seemed so happy and in the moment
Strong devoted wife, mother and American. We need more people like her in this world.
She was a wonderful woman and amazing person
10mins she says re: the bubble top. They couldn’t have killed him. She says ‘They’. That’s not a slip. She could have said he or Oswald, or the assassin but she didn’t she said ‘they’.
Trev Gibb still thats no evidence
I bet behind closed doors the Connelly's believe there's more to this assassination than they let on. I may be wrong but i bet they believe in some sort of conspiracy.
@@mrsinister8943 Oh I think they knew exactly what happened.
@@kingoftheseamusic i agree. Wish Connelly would of gotten that bullet fragment out of his body and let investigators examine it and compare it to the supposed magic bullet. I think we all know why that never happened cause it could of disproved that theory easily and been a major breakthrough.
Nellie Connally must have made Texas proud as its first lady. She reminds me of my dear grandmother with her strength, resilience, and optimism, no matter what comes your way. I love her ability to tell a story which such great detail while keeping your attention.
Nellie Connally was a real class act. God Rest Her Soul!
She is great. Her words around 5:00 is prove that Warren com. lied.
Man. What a first count witness to hear on this matter. No one in the world was closer than she was
Very good interview. Strong and wonderful woman! Thank you Nellie Connally for your bravery and account of one of the most tragic moments in American history.
@David Armstrong So what is your objection?
She was in on it! She knew her role
@@JamesBond-pb2qy ...so what was that part she played in 'the murder conspiracy'? Lol!
@@jamesb.9155 these conspiracy kooks are all the same.
@@JamesBond-pb2qy she was in on it? Yes, the selling point for her was the wounding of her husband.
She says that there were three shots and they all hit. The Warren Commission said that one shot missed, so there is a conflict.
No. First shot missed by deflecting off a street light then hit a curb. 2nd shot hit Kennedy in the neck, third shot fatal wound. For decades people thought there were four shots but unfortunately that fourth sound was of Jfk's head exploding.
@@kevinforrester777 thats not what she said
Yes.
@@kevinforrester777 "For decades people thought there were four shots but unfortunately that fourth sound was of Jfk's head exploding."
Not true at all. Hard to believe you said something that stupid.
Indeed, she clearly dispels the single bullet theory, as did John Connally. And the single bullet theory was central to the Warren Commission Report.
Im glad she and her husband made it out slive. I sense a lack of empathy for Jackie. What she endured is beyond horrible. Having his brains smeared all over her and knowing he was gone has no comparison. She was alone at the worst moment. I was 13 when I heard the news. By the time I got home he was dead. What a public display of cruelty and evil. Seems like it waa yesterday. Tragedy marked this family. What about Caroline? She lost them all.😢😢
What a wonderful and brave woman, who reminds me of my Texas grandmother. It is hard to imagine what it must have been like in that car and afterwards. On my visits to Dealey Plaza, I always think of her and Gov. Connally as well as JFK and Jackie.
What a well spoken, heartfelt, true Texan woman. I would love to be at her home for Thanksgiving dinner and give her a hug and just listen to her gifted storytelling. The interviewer is very respectful as well. Reporting of American history at its finest.
Well said Kate. Nellie died a few years ago now, 2006 aged 87.
“Oswald fired 3 shots and had 3 hits” 😂 She lied right there or is completely ignorant. It was proven the first shot missed, even the Warren Commission had that right
This Woman should be held in the highest of esteems - She went through a catastrophic event - up close and personal - Thank God she wasn't hurt - Mr Connally was fortunate to have such a strong, formedable partner
I was wearing a pink cotton skirt and a pink cotton blouse with pink knee socks and white keds when the announcement was made over the school intercom. School let out early & we walked home like zombies.
1:06 - 40 years later, Nellie Connaly is NOT the last survivor of the Kennedy car. Not even after 58 years. Secret Service agent Clint Hill ran to the car and jumped in to protect Jackie and John Kennedy. He spread his body over the two and was in the car all the way to Parkland Hospital. That said, Nelly is a wonderful woman.
I believe you misheard. Nellie specifically says she’s the last of the four in the rear of the limousine during the assassination.
@@toddhardcastle1066 Michael is just being Michael.
Ernie Manouse has the softest compassionate eyes I have ever seen and he conducted this interview so well. Mrs Connally is a lady!!
She's a Lady?
Refering to Oswald as having
a scrambled mind?
All the evidence is out that proves
Oswald was innocent.
These people live in the lap of luxury.
They want to keep it that way.
Selling their souls for their decendents.
Makes you wet, doesn't it?
I thought the same thing about this fine man of an interviewer!
Agreed !
She knew her husband was involved!
John Connelly in 1980 ran for President. When asked about Teddy Kennedy also running said, "Well, at least I didn't drown anybody."
A great and true observation.
OUCH!!! what a burn..WOO..WOW
He actually did say it. When they asked Teddy if he was running for President in 1980; he said, "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."
He also ran for vice president and probably would have used the same game plan as his criminal best friend LBJ used to get in the oval office to steal the top job.
In all our speculation, in all the conspiracy theories, I think we all forget these people are human. We lost a president. They lost a friend......a husband.....how could they live with that horrific memory etched in their minds forever?? It would be so painful to me. Such incredibly incapacitating pain....these women are STRONG. Gov. Connally was a strong man. I don’t think we as a whole have the kind of strength these people had, who lived through wars every decade, who went through the depression, who experienced these painful moments in history, and STILL pressed on, with NO complaint, with such joy for the little moments of life.....these are my role models. Not instagram and RUclips gurus, not rappers and artists....these people right here ✊🏽
They was all in on that shit
This lady was a true royal treasure to history. I'm so glad she had lived to share her story. May Mrs. Connally be in eternal peace with the Lord. 🌹🕊❤
More like the Devil in Hell with her Husband and all involved like these Connleys
@@JamesBond-pb2qy So you're a libtard, Jim?
Nellie Conally still sharp with her memories!! God Bless her!!
I feel this woman was gracious and honest.
Three shots from Oswald? Impossible.
Remember that silencers were invented decades before this event. What you heard was one thing but what really happened another.
And also there was a very tall parking garage several blocks East of Dealey Plaza.
Yes they were. Suppressors is another word used. Coordinated volleys of shots were fired from multiple locations. She contradicts her accounts of the shots fired. Kennedy's throat shot did not hit Connally.
@@stevemaher7481 The public does not really know. It was a coup d'état
Follow the money.Ladybird owned a huge part of Bell Helicopter.We LOST 4500 helicopters in this war.
@@allanbrogdon5317 Very possible on the Bell & Howell
As she told here, and John Connally said in different interviews, he was not hit by the same bullet as Kennedy. He turned to see what was wrong with Kennedy and then he was hit. There was more than one shooter.
wrong The exit bullet hit Connally also.
@@spaa-qw3sj That's what you say. But, I'd be more likely to believe what someone who was there and lived through the incident had to say.
@@spaa-qw3sj wrong 2 bullets!
RIGHT, more than one shooter . He was shot from behind and the kill shot was from the front right.
Two shooters from the rear one from the front right.
@@spaa-qw3sj That''s what you say but Ms. Connally says different. Looking at both of their interviews, they both describe the same shot that caused the governor to turn around but Ms. Connally says that shot caused the president's throat wound. She says the next shot hit Connally.
Man, Ms. Nellie just took charge of this interview and ran with it. You could certainly tell this wasn't her first rodeo. Such a boss!
A very good interview, the host was tactful and very considerate.
Well said. He was very respectful and didn't interrupt her.
It’s sad that journalists in this day have little to no respect fo their interviewees. It’s not uncommon for journalists to accuse and try and entice a dramatic response. As you stated, this host was very tactful.
One shooter! Lee Harvey Oswald beyond all doubt!
What a wonderful lady. Always speaks the truth and when someone tried to get something else from her she never fell for the tactics. God bless Ms Connallay.
This could not have happened without inside help. FBI OR CIA OR BOTH?
Some think the mafia was involved too for both him and his brothers deaths
Interesting how she believes in the lone assassin theory but she consistently refers to "they." i.e. "When they shot him,' When they started shooting" ....
Well, there WERE several shooters...and she (after the terrible trauma from that day), apparently did the best she could.
m b. Even her husband said,"Oh my God! They're going to kill us all!"Most people would say,"Oh my God! We're all going to die(or get shot)! You don't identify the number of shooters if you actually don't know.
Come on dummy it's a figure of speech
@m b: You kooks are so deranged that you see conspiracies lurking behind a pronoun.
@@randyharris3175 you are an insulting p**t.
The people of Dallas couldn’t have been nicer until they blew jfk’s head off. I’m always shocked when people from texas say they couldn’t have been nicer. But Dallas texas was the chosen place for the assassination to take place. So not all people could have been nicer. Lee Harvey could have been nicer.
Wow she seems so intelligent. What an amazing speaker and great story teller.
Capt'n Tread ‘A true southern lady with an education and manners.
She sure is a great story teller allright. A FAKE STORY! Her husband was at the Clint Merchasin houseld, the night before, where the final assassination planning was conducted. Shame on her!!!
At least she can articulate without a big southern drawl that makes one sound uneducated.
NELLIE CONNALLY is what you would call a real Southern lady !
The bubble top was not.bullet proof
True but would have helped obscure and perhaps deflect an accurate shot and cause a miss.
@@stevejohnson2627 I agree, with that.
I have to interject one thing for history sake, just as though there is a misconception about the bubble top being bulletproof when in fact it wasn't. The doctors at Parkland were extremely surprised when they stripped down the president in trauma room one, to find the President from the base if his neck down to his torso WAS WRAPPED IN A BACK BRACE, WHICH ENABLED HIME TO WALK EASILY, DUE TO HIS SEVERE INJURY TO IT, I BELIEVE FROM PT109 in WWII.The point I'm making is she would not have been able to pull him down as most people would have assumed she might have physically been able to do had she had her total composure and recollection the secret service agent Clint Hill later confirmed this fact.
Believe me, I had always wondered that myself, wondering if history could have been changed, but he would not have been able to have been pulled down because of that brace.
Two things sealed the doom for John Kennedy. One was the back brace and the second was when the weather cleared. Had they put the bubble top up, it would have at least deflected or made it more difficult the shooters ability to Succinctly, zoom in on the target due to the framing of the bubble top interfering with the line of sight.
@@willwood798 Great point and insight I also wonder if the back brace didn't play a part of Kennedy's reaction to the head shot.
what a great lady .. i was 10 yrs old..thatll never go away
Mrs Connally,a wonderful,wonderful straight up no nonsense woman .I was ten years of age on that terrible day ,at St Joesephs Catholic school in Picton New Zealand.The Head Sister entered our school room and spoke to our nun ,then told us all to cease with school work imediately and begin with prayer for president Kennedy,57years later it still upsts me.
It will be 60 years in November..were still upset and it never stopped😢😢 from the Midwest, USA 🇺🇸
A CLASS LADY R.I.P
An incredible lady
Gia Guidera A true southern woman of manners, dignity and intelligence.
“Lady” in the midst of a rich life full of corruption in the background. Not saying she knew what was up regarding her husband and all his acquaintances but....
Forget about her seemingly sweet southern accent.
Random but voice reminds me of how Laura Bush speaks today; kinda crazy.
Are you serious???
@@BrookelLakeKC shut up you conspiracy tard
1:00 Hard to believe it's soon going to be 60 years since that day!
Very respectful lady! But I don’t think she can help in solving this mystery murder and conspiration (!?!).
She just blew the lone shooter theory.
Such a graceful lady!
She didn't take them out of the cabinet for "33" years .... Imagine that ..
You’d better fill out those damn forms. We don’t care who you are!! Damn hospitals gotta get paid!!!!!
I interviewed John Connally he was very interesting about the shooting.
I've heard many times that the bubble top that would have been on the car was not bulletproof. However it still may have altered the shot and history...
I have to interject one thing for history sake, just as though there is a misconception about the bubble top being bulletproof when in fact it wasn't. The doctors at Parkland were extremely surprised when they stripped down the president in trauma room one, to find the President from the base if his neck down to his torso WAS WRAPPED IN A BACK BRACE, WHICH ENABLED HIME TO WALK EASILY, DUE TO HIS SEVERE INJURY TO IT, I BELIEVE FROM PT109 in WWII.The point I'm making is she would not have been able to pull him down as most people would have assumed she might have physically been able to do had she had her total composure and recollection the secret service agent Clint Hill later confirmed this fact.
Believe me, I had always wondered that myself, wondering if history could have been changed, but he would not have been able to have been pulled down because of that brace.
Two things sealed the doom for John Kennedy. One was the back brace and the second was when the weather cleared. Had they put the bubble top up, it would have at least deflected or made it more difficult the shooters ability to Succinctly, zoom in on the target due to the framing of the bubble top interfering with the line of sight.
It either would have deterred the shooter or all of them would have been dead because then bubble top would have shattered into thousands of pieces
Mandela effect. She was not in vehicle in my universe. Different car as well.
When interviewer asks Mrs. Connally “You and your husband stayed in public life after that. Why?” She proudly answers “Well, like a good little soldier, you have to face forward and march. You can’t just live in the past or you’ve got to go on and if you have anything left…” she then tilts her head with big grin. As witness to horrific event of JFK assassination, sitting right in front of President & Mrs. Kennedy, with blood & matter splattered everywhere and her own husband also shot, Mrs. Connally and her husband could have lived the rest of their lives with severe PTSD, but instead, concentrated on raising their children, continued working in public service, while pushing that tragic event far from their daily lives, but never forgotten. They were part of the Greatest Generation who after WW2, chose to live their lives and raise their families as normally as they could. She may not have been correct about the real shooter. But when she describes how one of the bullets wounded her husband in the shoulder, rib area, leg and out through his wrist, you have to wonder about that magic bullet theory. Mrs. Connally, with emotional strength & grace, was indeed a brave soldier, devoted to her husband, concerned for the people of Dallas and of thoughtful of the wife of the police officer who was also fatally shot that day. She was a true patriot. God bless her soul.
She didn't believe in the magic bullet, in her book she wrote that three Oswald shot three bullets and hit three times, two shots hit the president and the other hit Connally!! in this interview the states that less clearly but said Oswald shot three times and hit three times!!
Definitely there aren't a magic bullet, only a reality!! that happened!! Governor Connolly said the same from the day he got out from the hospital until the day he died!!
Amen!
@@sandrasanders706 Thank you for reading & commenting on my comment on this video interview 4 years ago! I'm fascinated with reading what I had written at that time, and only alerted when someone replies to my comment. You must have gone through alot of comments before you discovered mine. I appreciate you reading it! I could say the same for former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who also had to continue moving on with her life and raising her fatherless children, after this horrific event in modern American history. Today, 6/1/2023, we wonder if Robert Kennedy, Jr., will follow in the footsteps of his father and uncle in pursuing to become POTUS in 2024.
So Nellie and John both disavowed the "magic bullet" and yet "Phil" Specter and the Warren Commission bought off on it. BS.
I hate to undermine her, but Oswald was NOT one of the shooters. There's plenty of evidence to show that he didn't kill Kennedy or Tippit. For one thing, we know that one of the acknowledged shots missed, so she's wrong when she says there were three shots and three hits. She apparently didn't know that there were similar plots planned for Chicago, Tampa, and Los Angeles shortly before it was pulled off in Dallas. She apparently didn't know that Oswald admired Kennedy, mostly because of his efforts to racially integrate the South. She apparently didn't know that Oswald had ties to the CIA, the FBI, and the Mafia. She apparently didn't know that no one saw Oswald holding the rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository or on the stairwell between there and the second floor where Oswald was seen right after the assassination. There's so much else that she apparently didn't know.
I hope you have sources for all these allegations.
I like Nellie but she was mistaken about JFK being shot by a different bullet than her husband. Jackie testified to never recognizing the sound of the first shot. She said she was looking to her left and only turned to look at her husband AFTER the Governor exclaimed "Oh no, no, no!" after HE heard the first shot. She is visible in the Zapruder film beginning to turn at about or shortly after frame z160. This is convincing evidence that the first shot came early, extending the time frame and supporting the single bullet. Relevant excerpts from Jackie's sworn testimony...
"I guess there was a noise, but it didn't seem like any different noise really because there is so much noise, motorcycles and things. But then suddenly Governor Connally was yelling, "Oh, no, no, no."
I was looking this way, to the left, and I heard these terrible noises. You know. And my husband never made any sound. So I turned to the right.
the one (sound) that made me turn around was Governor Connally yelling.
But I heard Governor Connally yelling and that made me turn around,"
Nellie puts John's utterance later but the film shows otherwise. Its extremely unfortunate that the WC failed to recognize and relate her testimony to the Zapruder film. It would have eliminated the shorter time frame that many thought unlikely which added fuel to conspiracy theories.
Bang goes the "magic bullet" theory.
Paul Beresford no it doesn’t
Dustin Provencio: Why?
Dustin Provencio: The "magic bullet" theory is based on the assumption that the bullet which caused Kennedy to grasp his throat was the same bullet which inflicted multiple injuries on John Connally.
in this video, Nellie Connally clearly describes how, after having turned round and seen JFK grasp his throat, another bullet then hits her husband.
if that is so, then the magic bullet theory falls apart. Would you not agree?
Paul Beresford no you have to go to the totality of evidence. John said he was sure he wasn’t hit by the first and only heard two, she heard 3, and both of them said they heard the shots come from the rear over their right. There is and eyewitness that said the first shot hit the street and seen sparks, then you have James get nicked from the ricochet fragment from a bullet or the sidewalk pavement. If you think Kennedy had his own first bullet in the neck which was from behind by evidence of his shirt, and John C had his own bullet from the back, where did the first bullet go? There is no evidence it hit anyone else in the car, or even the driver which probably should have been hit from the first shot. Then you have the bullet enter John C from the back hitting him sideways, meaning it had to hit something first for the bullet to to make that impression on his back, the yaw effect.
@@dustinkfc6633 there was a bullet hole through the windshield, as well as one dug out of the ground that was photographed.
What year did they do this interview, I wonder?
In the description it says 2011, but she died in 2006 so that can't be right.
I suppose 2011 must be the year they put it on RUclips.
I'll look again, maybe it's obvious and I just missed it.
great interview, she and mrs. kennedy were just inches away from the flying bullets, terrifying.
Mr President you can't say Dallas doesn't love you. Well I Bet He will never Hear Her say that again.
Mahalo I really appreciate hearing her story 🤙🌺
No President should ride in an open car from now on because now we know what can happen if they are in a open top car...... Jackie she was walking with her blood filled suit she said leave it I want America to see what they did to my husband!!!!!! They killed a brillant man a caring man a man that we will see as a hero forever so smart and so kind!!!!!
This is why no president has ever ridden in an open top car since. They don’t do this anymore.
Did she say that??? America??? I thought that she said that she wants THEM to see what they did.
What a classy woman !
Surgeonswerejustgoingthruthemotions
“You can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you”
- Nellie Connolly says smiling before the president is shot to death by the Central Intelligence Agency
Wyatt Russell No, J Edgar Hoover
Well, certainly shot to death by someone. The people behind this (in high and powerful places) have sufficiently muddied the waters around this so as to make it practically impossible to say who did it and who all were involved.
@@davidstout9829 It doesn't matter which alphabet agency did it; what matters is precisely who ordered it.
@@photobuzz Well said. These people probably started the conspiracy theories; they help their cause.
Her statements prove he was shot by a different bullet, just as her husband said to the day he died
The fact of the matter is if there's no magic bullets there's 4 shots....one bystander was wounded by shrapnel....and if there's 4 shots there's 2 gunmen
Actually they don't. Eyewitness is not reliable.
such a beautiful lady.
You need glasses
Thank you Nellie, bless your heart
@Stephanie Little Wolf: You forgot to bless JFK's "little" head. Might have helped. Then again....
Here is part of a story from the "LA Times" by author J. Reston, author of "The Accidental Victim," which claims that Lee Harvey Oswald's target was NOT JFK but Texas Governor John Connally: "In the hours after the Kennedy assassination, after Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit and was identified as the president's assassin, a Secret Service officer named Mike Howard was dispatched to Oswald's apartment. Howard found a little green address book, and on its 17th page under the heading "I WILL KILL" Oswald listed four men: an FBI agent named James Hosty; a right-wing general, Edwin Walker; and Vice President Richard Nixon. At the top of the list was the governor of Texas, John Connally. Through Connally's name, Oswald had drawn a dagger, with blood drops dripping downward.
Special Agent Howard turned the address book over to the FBI and, ultimately, to the Warren Commission. Only some time later did he learn that the list with its hugely important insight into the killer's motive had been torn out of the book.
I didn't hear about Howard until after I published my book "The Accidental Victim" three years ago on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. In it I argue a circumstantial case that it was Connally, not John F. Kennedy, who was Oswald's target in Dallas. It is the story of a smoldering grudge in which Oswald came to associate Connally with all the setbacks in his disastrous, hopeless life.
In her testimony to the Warren Commission, Oswald’s wife, Marina, definitively named Connally and not Kennedy as her husband’s target.
This grudge got started in January 1962. Oswald was in the Soviet Union, where he'd gone after being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps. When the Marines learned he wanted to defect, Oswald's discharge was summarily downgraded to undesirable. (The defection was never consummated.) Oswald was angry and for good reason; his actions after his discharge had nothing to do with his three years as a Marine.
By early 1962, Oswald was disenchanted with Soviet life and wanted to return home. He was now saddled with a wife, Marina, and a child, and he knew that someone with a ninth-grade education, who had spent time in Russia and had an undesirable discharge on his record, would have few prospects in America.
Oswald wrote a heartfelt plea to Connally, a fellow Texan and the head of the Navy Department, the civilian overseer of the Marines. In poignant terms Oswald asked Connally to redress what was a transparent miscarriage of justice. What he got back a month later, in February 1962, was a classic bureaucratic brushoff. The dismissive letter arrived in an envelope with Connally's smiling face on the front, bursting from a Texas star and announcing his bid for the Texas governorship.
In the months after Oswald's return to America, his worst fears were realized. He did, indeed, have serious trouble finding and holding jobs in Texas. According to the testimony of Russian emigres in Dallas who knew him during this period, every time his discharge came up in a job interview, Oswald froze, and his blame of Connally deepened.
In her testimony to the Warren Commission, Oswald's wife, Marina, definitively named Connally and not Kennedy as her husband's target. She repeated this belief in testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978. Dallas emigres also testified to Oswald's obsession with Connally. Moreover, there was ample testimony that Oswald bore no animus toward Kennedy. Indeed, he admired JFK's important initiatives like the president's efforts at detente with Russia."
........IF Special Agent Howard passes a polygraph exam concerning the missing page from Oswald's diary, Mr. Reston's theory explains why Oswald was angry at FBI Agent Hosty, why he shot at and barely missed retired General Edwin Walker, a right-wing firebrand, why he told his concerned wife Marina he had gone to "have a look" at Richard Nixon, and why he shot former Secretary of the Navy and Texas Governor John Connally, who was sitting next to President John F. Kennedy in the motorcade. After the assassination, Oswald fatally Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit---whose police car #10 was allegedly observed near the grassy knoll and in front of Oswald's apartment---- after Oswald left his place of employment at the Dallas School Book Depository, after picking up his pistol and a jacket at his apartment, but before he reached the Texas Theater, where he was arrested. There still remains the possibility that Oswald's "handlers" and contacts knew he planned to shoot Governor Connally, and placed a professional "hit man" in another location to fire the kill shot at JFK, using Oswald as a diversion, as a "Patsy."
I interviewed Madeline Brown several times on my talk radio show on WFIR AM 960....she seemed honest and sincere to me. Her account (as told in "The Plot to Kill King" by Mr. Pepper, the King family attorney) of an "intimate gathering" at the home of Texas oil billionaire Clint Murchison, attended by key people, including Richard Nixon, Madeline's lover and father of her son, LBJ, John J. McCloy of the Rockefeller oil empire's Chase Bank, and George Brown of Brown and Root, LBJ's main financial "angel," on the evening of November 21, 1963 is quite interesting. The guest of honor at this little soiree? FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover! That dinner party sounds like a private coronation of Lyndon B. Johnson, who became President the next day.
I read the entire "Warren Report," including the footnotes and the transcript of the FBI polygraph exam of Jacob Rubinstein, aka "Jack Ruby." Ruby passed the lie detector test, except for the question about his NAME, which he changed to "fit in" to conservative WASP Dallas society. Was Jack Ruby asked or pressured into silencing Lee Harvey Oswald? Ruby had Chicago mob connections and owned the Carousel Strip Club. He had a notoriously hot temper, got into fights with unruly customers, and was known to use his gun. Ruby also took medication which made him irrational and disoriented at times. While in prison for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, Ruby hinted that persons "at the highest levels" of government had the most to gain from JFK's murder, but never directly accused anyone of conspiring to kill JFK.
An account of the October 30-November 2, 1963 Chicago plot to kill JFK alleges that both former US Marines Thomas Arthur Vallee and Lee Harvey Oswald were set up as "Patsies" or diversions from the true "hitters" and had received training from U.S. intelligence agencies. Oswald was a paid but low-level informant of at least one government agency. Vallee, who was mentally ill, had criticized JFK publicly, was a member of the right-wing John Birch Society, and possessed weapons and large amounts of ammunition. Vallee was arrested and imprisoned the day after the Secret Service and Chicago PD located four participants in the Chicago plot---which was eerily similar to the events in Dallas three weeks later. At least one of the four plotters was an anti-Castro Cuban. Based on a phone tip to the FBI from an informant named "Lee," (who may have been Lee Harvey Oswald), two of the four-man hit squad were briefly detained; the other two escaped. One of the Chicago Police Dept. officers who arrested Vallee received specialized intelligence training, likely by the CIA, and was the Chicago PD Sergeant commanding the squad which killed Black Panthers Fred Hampton, Mark Clark and others in Chicago several years later.
Gary Minter first he wasn’t Texan and was rejected by the Marines and Russia. He was in Dallas to chase his wife who didn’t want anything to do with him.
Oh for Christ sake. Would you wait until there was 100 times the security around your target!
WAKE Up dummy
She is a sharp tack
...Like a good soldier..
All are gone now. Glad she put her memories on video.
I met John and Nellie Connally. Nellie was lovely woman and would have made a gracious First Lady.
Godwaswithnellyconally
Now we have to exhume Connolly to dig out the remaining bullet fragment for weight and disprove the single bullet theory- not that it already known to be a lie. Thanks Nellie for n ot allowing the fragment recovery on his death. We now have to dig them out from his corpus dilecti later on. It would have been easier on johns death.
Wrong. First it's delicti, not delecti. Second, here's what it means : Corpus delicti (Latin: 'body of the crime'; plural: corpora delicti) is a term from Western jurisprudence referring to the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime.
Truefirstladyoftexas
I usually don`t comment on RUclips postings (as people can be so unkind in their responses), but at the 10:15 mark Mrs.Connolly clearly says " 'They' might could have hit him, but 'They' probably could not have killed him." "They", as opposed to "He".
sean kelly In John’s interview from 1964, he also refers to “they.”
sean kelly too bad it wasn’t raining & they kept top up.
Maybe "they" - the bullets, the shots.
Nothing to really read into the phraseology of the word "They" in this case since it is totally appropriate usage to describe he, she, or it .
Definition of they
1 a : those ones -used as third person pronoun serving as the plural of he, she, or it or referring to a group of two or more individuals not all of the same sex they dance well
b : 1he 2 -often used with an indefinite third person singular antecedent
everyone knew where they stood -E. L. Doctorow
nobody has to go to school if they don't want to -N. Y. Times
2 : people 2 -used in a generic sense as lazy as they come
She also clearly said that it was Oswald who fired the shots from his room.
When you hear the sound of running hooves, no need to assume zebras.
Bubbletopwouldhaveheped
I am so very sorry to all it may offend, but I heard out of the Governors own mouth that he heard at least 4 shots and DID NOT agree with the Warren Commission. Sorry Nellie
John McGrew The Warren Commission was a farce. LBJ and Hoover covered up the assassination of JFK nicely. LBJ was hell bent on becoming President and knew of the assassination. LBJ was the biggest crook the Americans had to endure and he was told not to run for another term or he would be assassinated and that is the best thing he could have done. I could not stand the classless man!!
me too
John McGrew he did say there were 4 shots
Joan Marshall may he burn in hell for eternity!
Joan Marshall who told LBJ not to run for another term and why? He was backed by the mob or deep state. I doubt they had an issue with him especially after taking us into Vietnam
She was doing great in this interview until she says Oswald shot those rounds...!!! I wonder if she ever found out that the VP orchestrated the whole assassination..!
Raven Leader no, not LBJ, it was J Edgar Hoover
Shewasajournalists
Interview is 2002 but video graphics look like 1995
Wouldn't she have made a great first lady? What a brave woman to have endured such a horrific time. That's the kind of gal we call American! We need more like her.
Very classy lady...
she pulled the trigger
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God bless Nellie Connally and Jackie Kennedy..RIP
Awesome Lady
I respect Nellie Connally, but can’t believe that after 50 to 60 years, she is unaware that there were more than three shots. Both she & Governor Connally rejected the Single Bullet Theory, but facts like the injury to James Tague, the bullet hole in the windshield, the bullet in the curbside, the rhythm of the shots- too close together, all of these show there were at least 4-6 shots, & therefore multiple gunmen.
Although she accepts the 'official' explanation she clearly recalls the governor 'not' being struck by the shot that first injured the President, but by a second shot which followed. If that is true the injury to Tague necessitates a fourth shot. It's very odd that no one has ever pointed that out to her or her husband, or WE THE PEOPLE!
I believe this can be explained. Both John and Nellie heard the first shot (the one that hit Tague), and thought THAT was the shot that struck Kennedy.
@BryanM61 She didn't say she "thought" the first shot hit Kennedy, she clearly says that the first shot hit him and that she saw him raise his hands up to his throat. She also says that the shot that hit Kennedy in the throat and the shot that hit Connally in the back were two separate shots, which Connally himself has also said. A third shot unfortunately hit Kennedy in the head and took his life, which means that there had to have been at least 4 shots for James Teague to have been hit.
What about the shot through the front windshield from the front of the car?
@@kenebarb5377 Could have been a fragment. It's never been 'officially' explained, so far as I know, whether the damage was caused by entry or by exit. Additionally, there was a significant dent to the dashboard panel, just right of the steering wheel. Regardless of all this, the WC also believed the two men were struck separately, until the Tague injury came to their attention. That's when Arlen Specter devised the 'single bullet' explanation.
@@kenebarb5377 Never really explained, whether entry pr exit. Could have been a fragment. There was also a significant dent in the dashboard, about where the radio would be.
Notice how she says that one shot but Kennedy, then a second one hit the governor.
4:27 - 5:27
SHE TALKS ABOUT HER HUSBAND LIKE HE WAS A STRANGER..
I wondered about that also. We will never the truth. What a complete cover-up of the facts.
She talks about her husband the same way Madelyn Brown talks about LBJ, like they were distant but together!
IT is Southern Respect.
she lied the bubbletop was NOT bulletproof
When the First Lady of Texas is mistaken about the properties of a piece of plastic she never saw and never had any reason to examine, we say she is mistaken. We do not say she is lying.
I have to interject one thing for history sake, just as though there is a misconception about the bubble top being bulletproof when in fact it wasn't. The doctors at Parkland were extremely surprised when they stripped down the president in trauma room one, to find the President from the base if his neck down to his torso WAS WRAPPED IN A BACK BRACE, WHICH ENABLED HIME TO WALK EASILY, DUE TO HIS SEVERE INJURY TO IT, I BELIEVE FROM PT109 in WWII.The point I'm making is she would not have been able to pull him down as most people would have assumed she might have physically been able to do had she had her total composure and recollection the secret service agent Clint Hill later confirmed this fact.
Believe me, I had always wondered that myself, wondering if history could have been changed, but he would not have been able to have been pulled down because of that brace.
Two things sealed the doom for John Kennedy. One was the back brace and the second was when the weather cleared. Had they put the bubble top up, it would have at least deflected or made it more difficult the shooters ability to Succinctly, zoom in on the target due to the framing of the bubble top interfering with the line of sight.
@@willwood798 good analysis one thing you said "shooter(s),which tells me you believe LHO did not act alone that it was a conspiracy and the Warren report is 🗑
The bubbletop itself not, but the windows - which would have been in up-position….I think this is, what she wanted to say…
Somebody should tell this poor lady about the rifle that couldn't be sighted in without shims in the scope mount... and the iimpossibility of cycling the bolt action fast enough between the first and second shots to even make two shots that close together. And then there was the guy that guy that got hit with bullet fragments from a round that struck the curb.
You are talking nonsense. The time between the shots that struck was 5.2 seconds. It took 2.3 seconds to cycle the rifle and fire again. Oswald had approx 5 seconds for the head shot.
There was no shot between the two that struck. A missed shot was probably fired just after the turn at approx Zapruder frame 160.
James Tague was the bystander who was struck by a fragment. It could have been a head shot fragment or fragment from a missed shot.
There is medical and ballistics evidence of only 2 shots in the JFK case. It is assumed there was a third missed shot based on the three shells found in the TSBD and witness testimony that supports 3 shots in total.
@ingebrecht, I agree with these observations.
@@patrickcollins7407 Perhaps it's you who is talking nonsense. The "nonsense" those behind this crime want you to believe. Dig deeper and study harder. If you do that, there's no way you'll buy the Warren report version.
I own and have read over 420 books on the JFK case have given guest lectures at some UK universities. I studied the subject as part of a masters at Cambridge in the 80s and worked on some TV docs. So it would be difficult to study more or harder as you ignorantly suggest.
On the contrary the more you study the case, the more you realise Oswald probably acted alone.
His plan was probably around 36 hours in the making and required luck. It was an opportunistic act.
My book on the assassination should be out in 2023.
I suggest you read some of these authors
Peter Knight
Mel Ayton
John McAdams
Larry Studivan
Fred Litwin
You might then understand the subject better.
@@photobuzz Then you are ignorant.
Shot 1 Z155 approx - missed
Shot 2 Z223 + 4 seconds
Shot 3 Z313 + 5 seconds
Approx 9 seconds.....plenty of time. Wake up.
Did she say the "second" bullet hit Connally ? Umm ok 1 in jfks kneck 1 in connally 1 in jfks head ? My guess 7 shots 2 misses.