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...victims, Kennedy and then Texas Governor John Connally, who was seated ahead of the President on a jump seat in a limousine; 3) one bullet missed both men; one passed through Kennedy's neck and Connally's chest and right wrist, stopping in his left thigh. The other hit Kennedy in the head...
There has been little medical argument over Connally's wounds. His doctors agree that a single bullet struck the right side of his back, fractured a rib, then hit the upper side of his right wrist and shallowly penetrated his left thigh. For this bullet to have come from ahead of the car, the shot would have had to be fired from near the level of the floor...
...account for the single-bullet wounds. Moreover, the wound in Connally's back is not neatly circular; its vertical dimension is longer. Only a bullet that has struck something else and is tumbling would leave such a mark. The shape of Connally's thigh wound indicates that this turning bullet entered his leg backward. Lattimer's test firings of the powerful bullets into human-cadaver wrists also convince him that Connally's wrist would have been totally shattered if struck by a bullet that had not been drastically slowed up by other objects...
...that Connally, like so many witnesses to the events, was mistaken. He may have heard a shot before he was hit, they say, but perhaps it was the shot that missed both men. They note that Connally did not even know he had been hit in the wrist and thigh until he awoke from surgery the next...
...whose chief doctor put the odds against his survival at 100 to 1, withstood the operation well and seemed to show signs of recovery. But by mid-week he sustained yet another series of setbacks. Phlebitis, a vein inflammation that almost killed him last year, developed in his left thigh. Then in a reaction to the various physical breakdowns in his system, Franco's kidneys failed, and toxins began building up in his blood...