Charles Brehm - Contributions To Assassination Documentaries

Contributions To Assassination Documentaries

In the 1966 video documentary Rush to Judgment while speaking of the blood cloud and the bits of brain and bone matter that Brehm saw flying in the air when the President's head exploded, Brehm stated he was specifically attracted to watch a piece fly towards himself, "over in the area of the curb where I was standing." ... "It seemed to have come left, and back." ... "Sir, whatever it was that I saw did fall, both, in that direction, and, over into the curb there."

Charles Brehm was located behind, and to the President's left when the President's head first exploded.

On November 22, 1963 only minutes after the assassination, and while still standing within Dealey Plaza, Brehm was quoted by a newspaper reporter as saying that Brehm, "seemed to think the shots came from in front of, or, beside the President."

In his November 24, 1963 FBI statement, and, during the 1987 Showtime cable-TV mock trial, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, Brehm testified that the shots came from either the Texas School Book Depository or the Dal-Tex building.

Mark Lane told Playboy Magazine in 1967 that he interviewed Brehm on film. Brehm told Lane that part of the President's skull was driven back and sharply left, exiting over the rear of the Presidential limousine. Lane elaborated, stating that according to the laws of physics, this confirms the opinion of those who believe the shot came from the right front of the car, opposite the direction of the Texas Book Depository.

Like many other supporting witnesses, Brehm stated that he distinctly remembered hearing another separate shot after the shot which wounded the President's head. The latter shot missed hitting anyone and was the reason that Brehm quickly dragged his son to the ground, covering him protectively.

In 1988 Brehm told author Larry Sneed, "After the car passed the building coming toward us, I heard a... surprising noise, and (the President) reached with both hands up to the side of his throat and kind of stiffened out.... And when he got down in the area just past me, the second shot hit which damaged, considerably damaged, the top of his head.... That car took off in an evasive motion... and was just beyond me when a third shot went off. The third shot really frightened me! It had a completely different sound to it because it had really passed me as anybody knows who has been in down under targets in the Army or been shot at like I had been many times. You know when a bullet passes over you, the cracking sound it makes, and that bullet had an absolute crack to it. I do believe that that (third) shot was wild. It didn't hit anybody. I don't think it could have hit anybody. But it was a frightening thing to me because here was one shot that hit him, obviously; here was another shot that destroyed his head, and what was the reason for that third shot? That third shot frightened me more than the other two, and I grabbed the boy and threw him on the ground because I didn't know if we were going to have a 'shoot-'em-up' in this area."