Assassination of John F. Kennedy or completely stop, the Warren Commission — based on the Zapruder film — found that the limousine had traveled an average speed of 11.2 miles per hour over the 186 ft of Elm Street immediately preceding the fatal head shot. Within one second of each other, President Kennedy, Governor Connally, and Mrs. Kennedy all turned abruptly from looking to their left to looking to their right, between Zapruder film frames 155 and 169. Connally, like the President, was a World War II military veteran but unlike him, a longtime hunter. Connally testified that he immediately recognized the sound as that
The Girl in the Limousine (play) the initial version of the play and offered it to producer Al Woods, who had previously produced "Up in Mabel's Room", a play Collison co-wrote with Otto Hauerbach. Woods gave it to Avery Hopwood for revisions. The play was initially titled "Betty's Bed", but was changed for production to "The Girl in the Limousine", despite the fact that no female character is in a limousine at any time during the story. The play's Broadway opening was at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on October 6, 1919. John Cumberland and Doris Kenyon starred as Tony and Betty. It ran on Broadway