I assumed that I had turned as I described a moment ago, placing my right hand on my left leg, that it hit my wrist, went out the center of the wrist, the underside, and then into my leg, but it might not have happened that way at all.

Mr. Specter.

Were your knees higher on the jump seat than they would be on a normal chair such as you are sitting on?
Governor CONNALLY. I would say it was not unlike this, with the exception the knees might be slightly higher, perhaps a half an inch to an inch higher.

Mr. Dulles.

In this photograph. you happen to have your right arm on the side of the car. I don't know whether you recall that. That is Commission Exhibit 698. That just happened to be one pose at one particular time?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes; I don't think there is any question, Mr. Dulles, at various times we were turned in every direction. We had arms extended out of the car, on the side.

Mr. Dulles.

That was taken earlier, I believe. Was that on Main Street? Where was that taken

Representative Boggs.

I wonder if I might ask a question?

The Chairman.

Go right ahead.

Representative Boggs.

This is a little bit off the subject, but it is pretty well established that the Governor was shot and he has recovered. Do you have any reason to believe there was any conspiracy afoot for somebody to assassinate you?
Governor CONNALLY. None whatever.

Representative Boggs.

Had you ever received any threat from Lee Harvey Oswald of any kind?
Governor CONNALLY. No.

Representative Boggs.

Did you know him?
Governor CONNALLY. No.

Representative Boggs.

Had you ever seen him?
Governor CONNALLY. No.

Representative Boggs.

Have you ever had any belief of, subsequent to the assassination of President Kennedy and your own injury, that there was a conspiracy here of any kind?
Governor CONNALLY. None whatever.

Representative Boggs.

What is your theory about what happened?
Governor CONNALLY. Well, it is pure theory based on nothing more than what information is available to everyone, and probably less is available to me, certainly less than is available to you here on this Commission.
But I think you had an individual here with a completely warped, demented mind who, for whatever reason, wanted to do two things: First, to vent his anger, his hate, against many people and many things in a dramatic fashion that would carve for him, in however infamous a fashion, a niche in the history books of this country. And I think he deliberately set out to do just what he did, and that is the only thing that I can think of.
You ask me my theory, and that is my theory, and certainly not substantiated by any facts.

Representative Boggs.

Going on again, Governor, and again using the word "theory," do you have any reason to believe that there was any connection between Oswald and Ruby?
Governor CONNALLY. I have no reason to believe that there was; no, Congressman. By the same token, if you ask me do I have any reason not to believe it, I would have to answer the same, I don't know.

Representative Boggs.

Yes.
Governor CONNALLY. I just don't have any knowledge or any information about the background of either, and I am just not in a position to say.

Mr. Dulles.

You recall your correspondence with Oswald in connection with Marine matters, when he thought you were still Secretary of the Navy?
Governor CONNALLY. After this was all over, I do, Mr. Dulles. As I recall, he wrote me a letter asking that his dishonorable discharge be corrected. But at the time he wrote the letter, if he had any reason about it at all, or shortly thereafter, he would have recognized that I had resigned as Secretary of the Navy a month before I got the letter, so it would really take a peculiar mind,

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