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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.😢😢
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 "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.
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.
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 TH-cam gurus, not rappers and artists....these people right here ✊🏽
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.
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’.
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.
@@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.
I’m a Floridian but lived in Texas for 10 years. I love the Texans. Love their patriotism all the flags the laughs the wonderful friends I made. I was 12 watching TV on that fateful day.
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!!
@@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.
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.
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.
Sweet Lady and wonderful hearing her side of that day. I don't know how she could believe that Oswald acted alone, but that is what she was told over and over I am sure. That generation was so strong and able to go on.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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" ....
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.
I usually don`t comment on TH-cam 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".
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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 TH-cam. I'll look again, maybe it's obvious and I just missed it.
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
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.
“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
Dominion T.V. I’ve said that what was the secret service agents in that car do and they turned around and looked there training for this and instead of speed in the car up they slow down to make sure that headshot got there I don’t care what anybody said secondly how did Jack Ruby gain access down there with us a while to silence him I don’t care what anybody says it but it is still a conspiracy I’ve also heard that LBJ had something to do with it and I believe it and other members of the mafia but I’m just saying that as Oswalt said he was a Patsy and he never said I shot JFK or officer Tippett
i agree! i’ve watched the footage so many times & as the driver of the PRESIDENT, I would’ve taken all precautions. the first or AT LEAST the second shot that rung out, he should’ve sped off without hesitation. it’s no way in hell Hill should’ve been able to catch up to them ON FOOT because the driver should’ve sped off immediately. it is very odd to look back and slow down after you hear shots ring out, but that’s just my opinion. smh & i know a lot of people have said in other comment sections “you don’t know what you’d do if you were there in that moment” true, but i know damn sure slowing down would not be an option.
Kelcey, agreed! Youd have thought hed have sped up and got gone after hearing what he even suspected was the first shot, but that damn sure didn't happen!
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.
@@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.
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..!
Great interview. I loved what she said at the end about her notes, her words being history only if she left them exactly "as is" the day that she wrote them.
Hard to believe 60 years have gone by since the Kennedy assassination. One of my earliest memories as a child, watching the Kennedy children facing their father's casket on the news.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!!
@@1954crc Did she (Jackie) conduct an exhaustive investigation before she blurted out her comment? Or was it just, upon hearing several shots, a heat-of-the-moment impetuous utterance?
@@stddisclaimer8020 I sincerely believe that she was very aware of various rumored conspiracies to kill her husband.Normally people would they it this way:" My husband has been killed..." People don't normally identify the number,singular or plural, of shooters in a murder.That's NOT to say that it's impossible but just improbable.Theoretically,yes,It may have been a heat-of-the-moment impetuous utterance.However,I don't think so. Yes,I may be wrong about that but in my 60 plus years of life i know how people tend to talk and react pretty well. Your question is a fair one.
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.
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.
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.
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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Strong devoted wife, mother and American. We need more people like her in this world.
She was a wonderful woman and amazing person
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.
Incredible interview - Mrs. Connally was such a classy lady. Down to earth and great communicator.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 🇺🇸
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.
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.
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.😢😢
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.
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.
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 TH-cam gurus, not rappers and artists....these people right here ✊🏽
They was all in on that shit
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.
Nellie Conally still sharp with her memories!! God Bless her!!
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.
At least she can articulate without a big southern drawl that makes one sound uneducated.
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.
I’m a Floridian but lived in Texas for 10 years. I love the Texans. Love their patriotism all the flags the laughs the wonderful friends I made. I was 12 watching TV on that fateful day.
I feel this woman was gracious and honest.
what a great lady .. i was 10 yrs old..thatll never go away
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.
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!
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.
Such a graceful lady!
All are gone now. Glad she put her memories on video.
Sweet Lady and wonderful hearing her side of that day. I don't know how she could believe that Oswald acted alone, but that is what she was told over and over I am sure. That generation was so strong and able to go on.
Both her and her husband's testimony rule out the single bullet tbeory...I don't think either of them understood that means at least 4 shots
She stated three separate shots-investigators knew one had missed-and the rifle used by Oswald couldn’t have fired four in that amount of time.
We know from studying the film the bullet went through both.
Such a great interview
Thank you Nellie, bless your heart
@Stephanie Little Wolf: You forgot to bless JFK's "little" head. Might have helped. Then again....
An excellent interview
Mahalo I really appreciate hearing her story 🤙🌺
Three shots from Oswald? Impossible.
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.
@@BrookelLakeKC shut up you conspiracy tard
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
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
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.
I met John and Nellie Connally. Nellie was lovely woman and would have made a gracious First Lady.
Excellent interview
great interview, she and mrs. kennedy were just inches away from the flying bullets, terrifying.
What a thoughtful and sweet interviewer!
NELLIE CONNALLY is what you would call a real Southern lady !
1:00 Hard to believe it's soon going to be 60 years since that day!
A CLASS LADY R.I.P
such a beautiful lady.
You need glasses
She just blew the lone shooter theory.
I interviewed John Connally he was very interesting about the shooting.
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.
I'm going to correct one thing Mrs. Connally said. The bubble top while being plexiglass it was not bulletproof.
I usually don`t comment on TH-cam 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.
God bless Nellie Connally and Jackie Kennedy..RIP
Awesome Lady
Fascinating!!!
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.
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.
what a beautiful, well spoken account of that fateful day. Classy lady
She did not dare interview at this magnitude 33 yrs ago. Imagine that.
She didn't take them out of the cabinet for "33" years .... Imagine that ..
Nellie Connally, what a great woman. I huge asset to Mr. Connally.
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 TH-cam.
I'll look again, maybe it's obvious and I just missed it.
You went straight down on the floor by the tv coverage
Scared then, scared now,the us is in a very bad bad way,Lord help us all.
Interview is 2002 but video graphics look like 1995
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.
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.
“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
Gawdang!! How many shots did that driver have to see his occupants getting hit with until he reacts ? He was waiting for the killshot.
Dominion T.V. I’ve said that what was the secret service agents in that car do and they turned around and looked there training for this and instead of speed in the car up they slow down to make sure that headshot got there I don’t care what anybody said secondly how did Jack Ruby gain access down there with us a while to silence him I don’t care what anybody says it but it is still a conspiracy I’ve also heard that LBJ had something to do with it and I believe it and other members of the mafia but I’m just saying that as Oswalt said he was a Patsy and he never said I shot JFK or officer Tippett
@@jlee9735 good points man. Confirming the kill
Photos and videos prove that both men in the front seats turned around to see the final shot, after the driver had slowed the limo nearly to a stop!
i agree! i’ve watched the footage so many times & as the driver of the PRESIDENT, I would’ve taken all precautions. the first or AT LEAST the second shot that rung out, he should’ve sped off without hesitation.
it’s no way in hell Hill should’ve been able to catch up to them ON FOOT because the driver should’ve sped off immediately.
it is very odd to look back and slow down after you hear shots ring out, but that’s just my opinion. smh
& i know a lot of people have said in other comment sections “you don’t know what you’d do if you were there in that moment” true, but i know damn sure slowing down would not be an option.
Kelcey, agreed! Youd have thought hed have sped up and got gone after hearing what he even suspected was the first shot, but that damn sure didn't happen!
Very pleasant interviewer and very sweet lady😊🥰😍
...Like a good soldier..
Wonderful interviewer
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.
The date of this interview should have been noted somewhere. My apologies if I missed it.
Well she said 40 years so that would make it about 2003 and at the end it says 2003, so I'm going with 2003.
Very classy lady...
she pulled the trigger
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One shooter! Lee Harvey Oswald beyond all doubt!
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
Great interview. I loved what she said at the end about her notes, her words being history only if she left them exactly "as is" the day that she wrote them.
Hard to believe 60 years have gone by since the Kennedy assassination. One of my earliest memories as a child, watching the Kennedy children facing their father's casket on the news.
“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.
This was very enjoyable.
Wonderful lady!
What a beautiful, intelligent lady! She was so Texas.
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
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.
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.
John Connally was a very lucky man to have a beautiful, articulate, and strong wife in Nellie.
Jackie Kennedy: “They have killed my husband; I have his
brains in my hand.”
Bill Benton. Interesting that Jackie said"They" killed my husband,not "someone" killed my husband.Even she believed it was a group.
PLEASE---someone--make SURE to DELETE this terrible comment!!!
Always one halfwit
@@1954crc Did she (Jackie) conduct an exhaustive investigation before she blurted out her comment? Or was it just, upon hearing several shots, a heat-of-the-moment impetuous utterance?
@@stddisclaimer8020 I sincerely believe that she was very aware of various rumored conspiracies to kill her husband.Normally people would they it this way:" My husband has been killed..." People don't normally identify the number,singular or plural, of shooters in a murder.That's NOT to say that it's impossible but just improbable.Theoretically,yes,It may have been a heat-of-the-moment impetuous utterance.However,I don't think so. Yes,I may be wrong about that but in my 60 plus years of life i know how people tend to talk and react pretty well. Your question is a fair one.