What investigators believe to have been the third, or possibly fourth, shot of the day was fired by Braden from the third floor of the Dal-Tex building, hitting the President in the back and causing him to slump forwards, across the lap of his wife.
Based on the evidence of the further shots that entered the car, from the direction of the Book Depository and potentially the storm drain on Elm; investigators later surmised that had the President remained upright, he would have suffered much more than the further minor wounds both he, and Governer Connoly, were subjected to. It was believed that one of these would most likely have been fateful.
A recuperating Kennedy, speaking from his hospital bed, was quoted as later saying to reporters "God was with me that day".'
So: what happens next?
Based on the evidence of the further shots that entered the car, from the direction of the Book Depository and potentially the storm drain on Elm; investigators later surmised that had the President remained upright, he would have suffered much more than the further minor wounds both he, and Governer Connoly, were subjected to. It was believed that one of these would most likely have been fateful.
A recuperating Kennedy, speaking from his hospital bed, was quoted as later saying to reporters "God was with me that day".'
So: what happens next?