Did S.M. Holland See Cigarette Smoke?
- Fred Litwin
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S. M. Holland: The President slumped over forward like that and he tried to raise his hand up. Governor Connally, sitting in front of him on the right side of the car, tried to turn to his right, and he was sitting so close to the door, he couldn't make it that way. And he turned back like that with his arm out, to the left. And about that time the second shot was fired. It knocked him over forward, and he slump to the right, and
I guess his wife pulled him over in her lap because he fell over in her lap. And, about
that time, there was a third report that wasn't near as loud, as the two previous reports. It came from that picket fence. And, then there were the fourth report. And the third and fourth reported almost simultaneously, but the third report wasn't nearly as loud as the two previous reports or the fourth report. I glanced over underneath that green tree, and you can see a little puff of smoke. It looked like a puff of steam or cigarette smoke, and the smoke was about oh, eight or ten feet off the ground, and about fifteen foot this side of that tree.
Interestingly, Richard Dodd said they found lots of cigarette butts behind the wooden fence. Might someone have simply been smoking?
By the way, this interview is from the 1967 CBS New Inquiry, part II. Holland was being interviewed by Eddie Barker.
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