The JFK 100

Here New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) describes the fourth shot, originating in the "sniper's nest" window -- the easternmost window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

JIM (VOICE OVER) Connally's turning now here. Frame 238 . . . the fourth shot misses Kennedy and takes Connally in the back. This is the key shot that proves two rifles from the rear. This is 1.6 seconds after the third shot, and we know no manual bolt action rifle can be recycled in that time.

Connally is hit, his mouth drops, he yells out, "My God, they're going to kill us all" . . . Here . . .

CUT TO: the sixth floor shooter firing rapidly and missing Kennedy but hitting Connally (stand in).⁽¹⁾

 

NOTES:

1. Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film (New York: Applause, 1992), p. 165. All quotations are from the shooting script and may vary slightly from the finished motion picture.