Nellie CONNALLY on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse 

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.

Perfect interview. So civil and kind which we need from the press. Mrs. Connelly projects sincerity.

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.

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!

Strong devoted wife, mother and American. We need more people like her in this world.

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

Bless her heart! Nellie C. courageously recounts an event that shocked the world!

Incredible interview - Mrs. Connally was such a classy lady. Down to earth and great communicator.

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.

What a wonderful woman it must have been one of the worst day of her life I'm glad she shared her story

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

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.

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

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

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. 🌹🕊❤

Ernie Manouse has the softest compassionate eyes I have ever seen and he conducted this interview so well. Mrs Connally is a lady!!

Nellie Connally was a real class act. God Rest Her Soul!

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.

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.

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.

Great interview. The interviewer actually read the book.

I feel this woman was gracious and honest.

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.

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.😢😢

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.

She says that there were three shots and they all hit. The Warren Commission said that one shot missed, so there is a conflict.

Nellie Conally still sharp with her memories!! God Bless her!!

I barely knew Nellie but I saw her OFTEN. She encouraged her husband to go have great ideas while puttering around his walled-off front yard at the edge of River Oaks Blvd and Ella Lee. I had a daily habit of jogging that took me past their home and I shared a few words, wink and a nod,,with Gov Con maybe 700x. He was so handsome and she was an ideal wife by my standards. Never once did we discuss that event in Dallas. I've known lost of people who survived gunshot wounds and I think only one told me all about it in extreme detail. Big love. He was a classy guy. She too. BIG quiet tasteful support. No camera hogging. A good lesson for wives of prominent men today. I'm a feminist. I just think you decide on the point person and that's how it works.

A very good interview, the host was tactful and very considerate.

John Connelly in 1980 ran for President. When asked about Teddy Kennedy also running said, "Well, at least I didn't drown anybody."

Wow she seems so intelligent. What an amazing speaker and great story teller.

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’.

Such a great interview

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.

Mahalo I really appreciate hearing her story 🤙🌺

All are gone now. Glad she put her memories on video.

An excellent interview

Such a graceful lady!

what a great lady .. i was 10 yrs old..thatll never go away

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.

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 RU-vid gurus, not rappers and artists....these people right here ✊🏽

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.

This was very enjoyable.

What a thoughtful and sweet interviewer!

An incredible lady

great interview, she and mrs. kennedy were just inches away from the flying bullets, terrifying.

Fascinating!

Thank you Nellie, bless your heart

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.

Wonderful interviewer

what a beautiful, well spoken account of that fateful day. Classy lady

Wonderful lady!

You went straight down on the floor by the tv coverage

Very pleasant interviewer and very sweet lady😊🥰😍

I'm going to correct one thing Mrs. Connally said. The bubble top while being plexiglass it was not bulletproof.

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.

such a beautiful lady.

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.

A CLASS LADY R.I.P

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...

Awesome Lady

God bless Nellie Connally and Jackie Kennedy..RIP

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 RU-vid. I'll look again, maybe it's obvious and I just missed it.

I met John and Nellie Connally. Nellie was lovely woman and would have made a gracious First Lady.

NELLIE CONNALLY is what you would call a real Southern lady !

Good interviewer.

She didn't take them out of the cabinet for "33" years .... Imagine that ..

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.

Remember that silencers were invented decades before this event. What you heard was one thing but what really happened another.

Nellie Connally, what a great woman. I huge asset to Mr. Connally.

The date of this interview should have been noted somewhere. My apologies if I missed it.

@ 10:10 actually the convertible top wasn't bulletproof.

What an amazing woman

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" ....

What a fantastic woman☮️💟

Ms. Connally seems to be a wonderful lady ! I want to read her book now very much. She is so charming and graceful you can't help but love her.

I usually don`t comment on RU-vid 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".

Interview is 2002 but video graphics look like 1995

I interviewed John Connally he was very interesting about the shooting.

She just blew the lone shooter theory.

...Like a good soldier..

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!

1:00 Hard to believe it's soon going to be 60 years since that day!

33 years

Very classy lady...

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.

Who was John Connally doctor during this happening?

Your telling me this has been up for 10 years and it was only commented on for the first time 4 years after it was posted? With the majority of comments being from 3years ago-now? This wasnt on here 10 years ago no way

Pure class.

She did not dare interview at this magnitude 33 yrs ago. Imagine that.

How could he NOT ask her if she had ANY inkling of where the third shot came from (6:56)????

Great lady! I saw them in ft.worth that day and was only twelve

Beautiful lady

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.

10:08 the bubble-top was NOT bulletproof, but it may have prevented Oswald from firing.

Such a graceful lady, sweet, natural

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..!

Bang goes the "magic bullet" theory.