LESSON #10 AT 18.3 ZAPRUDER FRAMES PER SECOND / 2.3 SECONDS FOR OSWALD TO SHOOT / OSWALD COULD NEVER MAKE THE SHOTS IN TIME TO CORRESPOND TO THE ZAPRUDER FILM FRAMES.

CHRIS, ABOVE IS THE PHIL WILLIS #7 PHOTO.  IT IS AT ZAPRUDER FILM FRAME 207.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS NOT HIT YET WITH ANY BULLET. (Black Arrow pointing down at JFK in the photo)


CHRIS, THIS IS FRAME #225.  JFK IS ONLY NOW REACHING FOR HIS THROAT.  IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO NOT HAVE REACTED BY NOW TO A SHOT WHETHER IT HIT HIS BACK AND WENT THRU HIS THROAT OR IF IT WAS AN ENTRANCE SHOT TO HIS THROAT.  FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS AGREE THAT IT WOULD BE LESS THAN 1/2 SEC FOR HIM TO REACT TO ANY OF THESE SHOTS FRONT OR BACK.  AT 18.3 ZAPRUDER FRAMES PER SECOND.  THE EARLIEST THAT JFK COULD HAVE BEEN HIT, USING THIS REFERENCE POINT (Z 225 TO Z 216 OR 9 FRAMES) IS Z FRAME 216.


CHRIS, THIS IS FRAME 236.  CONNALLY SHOWS HIS FIRST INDICATION OF BEING HIT.  HIS CHEEK IS PUFFING BECAUSE OF HIS PUNCTURED RIB INTO HIS LUNG.  FROM Z 216 TO Z 236 IS 20 FRAMES OR 1.2+ SECONDS.

FIRST, HOW DOES A BULLET HANG IN THE AIR FOR MORE THAN ONE SECOND TRAVELING FROM JFK TO CONNALLY FROM Z 225 TO Z236?

SECOND, IF CONNALLY AND J. EDGAR HOOVER SAID THAT CONNALLY WAS HIT BY THE SECOND SHOT, THEN HOW DID OSWALD FIRE A SHOT AT JOHN CONNALLY IF IT WOULD TAKE 2.3 SECONDS TO FIRE, RELOAD AND FIRE A RIFLE ~ WITHOUT AIMING ~ AND
THE TIME BETWEEN SHOT ONE Z 216 OR EVEN Z 207 IN THE WILLIS PHOTO TO Z 236 WHICH IS 29 FRAMES OR 29/36.6 FRAMES (18.3 FRAMES PER SECOND) OR BETTER YET,

LESS THAN 2 SECONDS (Z207 TO Z236 / 29 FRAMES / 18.3 FRAMES PER SECOND/ 1.5847 SECONDS) WHICH IS NOT 2.3 SECONDS AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT OSWALD SHOT THE RIFLE FROM ANYWHERE IN THE TSBD BUILDING!

LESSON #9 HOOVER TELLS LBJ THAT SECOND SHOT HIT CONNALLY NOT JFK

CHRIS, WHY DID HOOVER KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION AND AFTER TALKING TO BALLISTIC EXPERTS WOULD HE SAY AT THE 8:39 MARK IN THIS VIDEO THAT THE SECOND SHOT HIT CONNALLY AND THEN REITERATE IT TO LBJ AT 9:45 IN THEIR CONVERSATION?

LESSON #8 Ruby: Kennedy WAS killed over preference for Johnson

CHRIS, THIS IS JACK RUBY MAKING THE STATEMENT THAT IMPLICATES LBJ IN THE CONSPIRACY.  WHY WOULD HE EVEN CARE ABOUT LBJ IF HE WAS JUST A PATRIOT TRYING TO SAVE JACKIE KENNEDY THE PAIN OF A TRIAL FOR LHO?  NO CHRIS, HE WAS SPILLING THE BEANS OF HIS ROLE IN THE CONSPIRACY

LESSON #8A Jack Ruby's Conspiracy Explained

CHRIS, LISTEN TO JACK RUBY'S WORDS.  HE TOLD US EVERYTHING THAT MADE THE CONSPIRACY PLAUSIBLE.  WAS HE A CONSPIRACY RESEARCHER?  NO HE WAS TRYING TO SAVE HIS LIFE AND HIS BROTHERS BY SPILLING THE BEANS ON THE CONSPIRACY

LESSON # 6 JACKIE KENNEDY TRIES TO CATCH JFK'S BRAIN AS IT FLIES OUT OF HIS HEAD BACK AND TO THE LEFT

CHRIS, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE ZAPRUDER FRAME 326 ABOVE, JACKIE KENNEDY'S HAND IS BEHIND JFK'S HEAD ATTEMPTING TO CATCH HIS BRAINS AS THEY ARE HEADED BACK AND TO THE LEFT OF THE LIMOUSINE, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, OFFICER HARGIS IS ABOUT TO BE COMPLETELY SPLATTERED WITH BRAINS, BLOOD AND SKULL FROM JFK'S HEAD.  THE OTHER OFFICER AT THE RIGHT REAR OF THE LIMO WAS HIT WITH A MINISCULE AMOUNT OF THIS SPLATTER.  OFFICER HARGIS SAID,

Mr. HARGIS - Well, at the time it sounded like the shots were right next to me. There wasn't any way in the world I could tell where they were coming from, but at the time there was something in my head that said that they probably could have been coming from the railroad overpass, because I thought since I had got splattered, with blood--I was Just a little back and left of--Just a little bit back and left of Mrs. Kennedy, but I didn't know. I had a feeling that it might have been from the Texas Book Depository, and these two places was the primary place that could have been shot from.

LESSON #5 DR. ROBERT SHAW / CONNALLY WOUND 1.5 CM WIDE

CHRIS, THE WOUND IN JOHN CONNALLY'S BACK WAS AN ENTRANCE WOUND OF 1.5CM WIDE LIKE THE 1.5 CM WIDE WOUND IN JFK'S BACK.  BOTH WERE ENTRANCE WOUNDS AND BOTH HAD WOUND COLLARS.  A TUMBLING BULLET OF THE SINGLE BULLET THEORY COULD NOT HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THIS FEAT.  PLUS, DR. ROBERT SHAW DESCRIBED THE ENTRANCE WOUND IN CONNALLY AS A  "TUNNELING WOUND" WHICH IS INDICATIVE TO A DIRECT SHOT NOT A "TUMBLING" BULLET FROM JFK'S WOUNDS.  CONNALLY FIRST DESCRIBED HIS BACK WOUND AS BEING SEPARATE FROM THE FIRST SHOT THAT HIT THE PRESIDENT.   HE SAID HE WAS HIT BY THE SECOND SHOT.

The wound in Connally’s back did not indicate a sideways hit any more than the wound in the back of Kennedy’s head.  The latter was 1.5 x 0.6 centimeters, and the former, 1.5 x 0.8 centimeters, as documented on at least four occasions by the governor’s thoracic surgeon, Dr. Robert Shaw.  (4WCH104, 107; 6WCH85, 86).   The holes in the back of Connally’s shirt and jacket were as small as his back wound. (5WCH64) (See TABLE below.)  The damage inside Connally’s chest also disproves a sideways hit.  According to Shaw, the bullet created a "small tunneling wound" (7HSCA149) and he noted, "the neat way in which it stripped the rib out without doing much damage to the muscles that lay on either side of it."  (4WCH116)   Shaw felt that the shape of the bullet was explained either by a “slight tumbling,” or by it striking at a tangent. (6WCH95)   It had to have been a tangential hit since the bullet  “followed the line of declination of the fifth rib” (4WCH105), i.e., its path slanted downward. 

Connally’s back wound became 3 centimeters when it was surgically enlarged.   Shaw explained that in order to clean and debride (cut away devitalized tissue) the wound, he had to enlarge it to twice its size.  (6WCH88)

CONNALLY AT 6:30 OF HIS INTERVIEW: I WAS HIT BY THE SECOND SHOT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvUaJLrdoSs

LESSON #4 OSWALD AND HIS RIFLE THAT HE DIDN'T SHOOT

CHRIS, THIS SHOULD EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW OSWALD DIDN'T SHOOT HIS RIFLE AND HIT JFK.  IT'S ALL FROM WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY AND HSCA DOCUMENTS (HOUSE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

I was reading Peter North's book, and I found something rather interesting regarding the rifle. A supposed "Oswald" went into at The Irving Sport Shop (Dale Ryder owner) with his family speaking Russian and asked the owner about getting a firing pin fixed on his rifle. That was the extent of it. Then, after the assassination, a rifle repair receipt from the shop said "OSWALD" on it. The repair was for 3 holes to be drilled into the rifle for a scope and some other minor cleaning. NO FIRING PIN REPAIRED. OSWALD MANNLICHER HAD A 2 HOLE SCOPE MOUNT.

Interestingly, the scope on Oswald's rifle was for a left handed shooter. Oswald was a right shot (HSCA). And as funny as it may seem, the paraffin test on Oswald's cheek showed no shot residue, and no fingerprints of Oswald's was found by the FBI on the rifle. However, after these tests ~ and Oswald's death, the Dallas Police found a right palm print on underside of the rifle in a shooting position for a left handed shooter. And guess what, it was in a position that only a left handed shooter could hold the rifle.

Warren Commission Testimony / Allen Dulles also present
Mr. EISENBERG. Could you tell us which of those prints you so identified?
Mr. MANDELLA. There was a photograph, a photograph of the underside of the gun barrel, Commission Exhibit No.-
Mr. EISENBERG. That is Commission Exhibit No. 658, and I will hand you that photograph now. You are referring to this photograph?
Mr. MANDELLA. Yes.
Mr. EISENBERG. And can you read the writing on the back of that?
Mr. MANDELLA. "Right palm Oswald underside gun barrel")

LESSON #3 The Back Wound was an entry wound that did not traverse the body and exit the throat

CHRIS, YOU WILL READ HERE THAT THE BACK WOUND BULLET NEVER TRAVERSED THE PRESIDENT'S BODY AND EXIT THROUGH HIS NECK.

Here's Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman (who sat in the front seat of the Presidential Limo), confirming that it was Dr. Pierre Finck who found the back wound:

Mr. Specter.
When did they lift him up and first observe the hole in the shoulder?
Mr. Kellerman.
They had been working on him for quite some time, Mr. Specter--through the photos and other things they do through an autopsy. And believe it was this Colonel Finck who raised him and there was a clean hole.
(WC)

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Floyd Reibe recalls Finck examining the back wound. He seems to have no memory of anyone examining it before Finck's arrival:
[15] RIEBE: Well, when they sat him up -
[16] DSL: Yeah.
[17] RIEBE: - right after, I think it was
[18] Colonel Finck, an Army ballistics specialist, came
[19] in.
...

Q: Did you observe any wounds on any other part
of President's Kennedy's body?
A: Yes, in the back.
Q: What did you observe on the back?
A: Well, it looked like - it looked like a
bullet hole. But when, I think it was, Colonel Finck
tried holding that with his finger, it didn't go
anywhere or so they said.
Q: So if I understand correctly, Colonel Finck
put his finger into the wound to try to see how far
down it would go, but it didn't go very far?
A: It didn't go very far. (ARRB)

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O'Connor said for a while there was no discussion of any other wounds until later on when they found the
bullet wound in the "...back in the neck... just above C-7." O'Connor said it was approximately dead center in the mid-line of the back...
O'Connor added that he didn't‘think the doctors were trying to establish anything by the autopsy, saying they were "...just glanced at the throat wound..." and later found the hole in the back.
(Paul O'Connor HSCA interview)

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During the latter stages of the autopsy, Dr. HUMES, located an opening which appeared to be a bullet hole which was below the shoulders and two inches to the right of the middle line of the spinal column. ...
Also during the latter stages of the autopsy, a piece of the skull measuring 10 X 6.5 Centimeters was brought to Dr. HUMES .. On the basis of the latter two developments, Dr. HUMES stated that the pattern was clear that one bullet had entered the President's back and had worked its way out of the body during external cardiac massage .
(Report by Francis X. O'Neill)

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Q: In other words, you would have told Arlen
Specter that the doctors firmly believed that the
bullet had worked its way out duting cardiac
massage?
A: Yes. Now, bear in mind, also, that
this whole situation with talk about external cardiac
massage was taking place not at the beginning, not
in the middle, but towards the end of the autopsy
itself. And that they were very interested to know
what that wound was in the back .And this is the
only explanation which they had.(O'Neill, ARRB)

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Q: Let’s turn to what we’ve been calling the back wound.Whcn was it -When, during the course of the autopsy, was it discovered that there was a wound in what you’ve been calling the
back?
A: Well, I don’t think it was right at the initial start of the autopsy. I know it was after the original incision was made. But when they raised him up, then they found this back wound And that’s when they started probing with the rubber glove and the finger, and - and also with the chrome probe.
(Sibert ARRB)

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A: He was on his back and I examined all external areas of the cadaver. While on the table I asked to have the cadaver turned over so as to make an examination of the skin of the entire cadaver. (Finck,Shaw Trial)

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“Who gave the order not to probe the throat wound?”
“Burkley. Burkley gave all the orders like that. He says, ‘Don’t do that because the family doesn’t want you to do that.’ We didn’t even know there was a bullet hole in the back, his back.”
“You didn’t . . .“
“We didn’t even know it until about two hours into the autopsy.”
“That there was a hole in his back . . .“
“No. We turned him over and ‘Oh, look, there’s a hole!’ That’s . . that’s the way that night went. It was just absolutely crazy!”
(Paul O'Connor , Livingstone Interview, HT2)

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Document Provided to ARRB by Francis X. O’Neill, Jr. on September 12,
1997 Containing Recollections of Events Surrounding JFK Assassination :

"After completion of the procedure on the front of the
body we assisted in turning it over. One must realize that at
that the body had never been turned over in Dallas. We were
aware, from information furnished by Kellerman and Greer, that
external cardiac massage was performed by the attending Dallas
physicians. Upon viewing the rear of the President the first
thing that everyone noticed was the large scar on the President's
back due to. an operative procedure. Jim Sibert noticed a small :
hole in the upper right rear of the back and pointed it out to
. Humes and Finck. They said it was a bullet wound. Humes and Finck
probed the wound with a surgical probe and their fingers. and
determined that since the extremity of the hole could be felt
there was no exit for the wound."

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There is also this rather involved passage from Ebersole's interview with the HSCA FPP, which indicates that Dr Weston was of the belief that the back wound was not found until just before the body was about to be sewn up :

Weston: [Quoting from the Sibert & O'Neill report] ". On the third page of their report they say specifically that following the
removal of the wrapping it was ascertained that the President
clothing had been removed and it was almost apparent that a
tracheotomy had been performed; namely, in the top of his
skull. All personnel, with the exception of medical officers
needed in the taking of photographs and x rays were requested
to leave the .autopsy room and remain in the adjacent room.
The implication is then, he goes on to say, upon comple-
tion of X rays and photographs it was my understanding that
from the very beginning it was their intentions to take a
certain number of X rays at least of the head and neck and the
chest which probably represents the first series."
IE, these 'early' x-rays were taken 'pre-evisceration' & were all the x-rays it was initially intended to produce. He continues:

" Then it goes on to say X rays of the brain area which was removed,
half of the missile which appeared to enter the back of the
skull and disintegrated fragments could be observed along the side of the skull.
The largest description has to do with the examination of the skull.
Now then he goes on to say during the latter stages of this
autopsy Dr. Humes located an opening which appeared to be
a bullet hole which was below the shoulders
to the right of the middle line of the spinal
column. This opening was probed by Dr. Humes with the finger
at which time it was determined that the trajectory of the missile had entered at a downward position for 45 to 60 degrees.
Further probing determined that the distance traveled
by this missile was a short distance inasmuch as the end of
the opening could be felt with the finger, inasmuch as a
complete bullet of any‘size could be located in the brain
area and likewise no bullet could be located in the back or
any other areas. An inspection revealed there was no point
of exit. The'individuals performing the autopsy were at a
loss to explain why they could find no bullets."
Weston explains the second series of x-rays (post- evisceration) as being taken just after the back wound was discovered, in order to try to locate this newly discovered missing bullet .This would indeed be very 'late' in the autopsy. He continues:
"And it was subsequent to that time that I believe you took the post-
visceration autopsies. Now is that consistent?"
Ebersole is effectively sunk on his 'early back wound discovery', but he throws this back at Weston:
"Dr. Ebersole. Does it seem reasonable to you that a pathologist would carry out an autopsy of this nature without looking at the front and back of the body? My remembrance is
that we were aware of the wound of entrance relatively early in the game."
To which the answer would have to be 'no', but that this is exactly what appears to have happened. Baden comes in to rescue Ebersole:

"Mr. Baden. That is what he said,and that Dr. Humes probed...
Dr. Weston. No, no, no. [Only Weston seems to understand the point he has just made..]
Dr. Ebersole. I did not say that.
Dr. Weston. It is in the latter stages of the procedure. As a matter of fact, there is another record somewhere that it indicates it was about the time that they were ready to sew the body up that they were washing it and they then discovered the wound"
I wish I knew what document Weston is referring to. : )
Weston's analysis is consistent with the other accounts of the back wound being found very late. This may explain how come the autopsists did not immediately call the Dallas doctors about the tracheotomy as possible exit site. It was simply too late to do so.
Midnight, or so.

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Finally, what time was the well known phone call to the FBI lab made that 'solved the mystery' for Humes? (When he heard that a bullet had been found on a Dallas stretcher.)
"Question: What time did Agent Sibert call Agent Killian at the FBI
Laboratory?
Answer: Some time between 11:00 p. m., and 12:00 midnight"
(Sibert/O'Neill, summary of interview with Arlen Specter)
The autopsy began around 7.30pm. Finck arrived around 8 pm. If the back wound was found before Finck arrived, then the back wound was an absolute unsolved mystery for no less than FOUR HOURS or so, and it took the FBI guys four hours to pluck up the courage to call Killion to enquire about 'ice bullets' or 'the type of bullets that fragmentise completely'.
On the other hand, if we believe Finck himself, Kellerman, O'Connor, Sibert and O'Neill, the back wound was found relatively late in the autopsy, and the very late call to Killion becomes a little more rationally explicable. According to Finck himself ( Finck, Letter to Gen. Blumberg ) the autopsy was over by midnight.

LESSON #2 JFK ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY LESSONS FOR CHRIS MATTHEWS

Chris, please visit www.jfkthefrontshot.blogspot.com 

for a better graphic representation of this lesson #2. 

Thank you, Tony DeFiore

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Dr. Ronald Jones' OUTSTANDING confirmation of the front entrance wound on Face The Nation 11/17/1963

At 3:40 of the video above, Dr. Ronald Jones, chief surgical resident at Parkland Hospital on 11/22/1963, and now Chairman of Surgery at Baylor University made a staggering admission in a rather innocent conversation on Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer on the 11/17/2013 show when he stated, “I saw a small hole in the President’s throat about ¼ of an inch…before Dr. Perry made a tracheotomy in the wound in the throat”.  Dr. Jones attested to the fact that Drs. Carrico and Perry were both in Trauma Room One with him working on the President after the assassination attempt.  

 Dr. Carrico attested to the wound collar surrounding the entrance wound in the throat when he said, "(wound collars to entrance wounds are found on ALL entrance wounds) AS THEY ALWAYS ARE" TO HAROLD WEISBERG.  See my previous post below.

Dr. Jones attests to the "small wound in the throat about 1/4 of an inch."

THESE DOCTORS ARE NOT LYING!

Friday, November 15, 2013

FRONT THROAT SHOT CONFIRMATION BY DR. CARRICO & DR. PERRY

FRONT SHOT EVIDENCE CONFIRMED

A Critical examination of the words of both Dr. Charles Carrico & Dr. Malcolm Perry discovered by Harold Weisberg irrefutably proves a front entrance shot to the throat.

In his outstanding work on the Kennedy Assassination, Harold Weisberg uncovered a definitive attestation from Dr. Malcolm Perry that, in this author’s belief, unknowingly confirmed the front throat wound as a wound of entrance.  The words written by Harold Weisberg cannot be any more clear for us.  His analysis is striking.

“As I lead him (Dr. Perry) over those events (the Parkland Hospital procedures with the President) and his participation, what he did and the sequence, he recalled that he first looked at the wound (in the throat), then asked a nurse for a “trake” (short for tracheotomy) tray, wiped off the wound, saw a ring of bruising around it, and started cutting.  In describing the appearance of the wound and the ring of bruising, he used the words, “as they always are.” Pretending not to notice the significance of this important fact he had let the bubble out, I retraced the whole procedure with him again.  When he had repeated the same words, I asked him if he had ever been asked about the ringed bruise around the wound in front of the neck.  The question told the experienced hunter and the experienced surgeon exactly what he had admitted, one description of an entrance wound.  He blushed and improvised the explanation that there was blood around the wound.  I did not further embarrass him by pressing him, for we both knew he had seen the wound clearly.  He had twice said he had wiped the blood off and had seen the wound clearly, if briefly, before cutting.

The official representation and that of an unofficial apologist to which we shall come would have us believe that bruising is a characteristic of entrance wounds only.  This is not the case.  The reader should not be deceived on this or by Perry’s admission that there was bruising.  Exit wounds also can show bruising.  One difference is that exit wounds do not have to show bruising.  That in this case there was bruising by itself need not be taken as an expression of Perry’s professional opinion that it was a wound of entrance.  The definitive answer is in those words he twice used, quoted directly above,“ ‘as they always are’.  It is an entrance wound only that always are of this description.  Thus, Dr. Perry had said again and in a different way that this was a shot from the front.  In context, this is also the only possible meaning of what Carrico had said.”

Sunday, November 10, 2013

JIM MARRS PROVES GRASSY KNOLL SHOOTER

Outstanding new confirmable evidence that during the assassination, Lee Bowers saw the muzzle flash and gun smoke!  The gun smoke immediately waffed into Elm Street and was captured on film by the Weigman photos!  PLEASE WATCH THIS SHOW ON THE TRAVEL CHANNEL / and other channels.

Marrs and Baker recreated the grassy knoll shooter (helmet / hat man) firing from the parallel fence to elm street.  Forget Badgeman! THE PUFF OF SMOKE CAPTURED BY WEIGMAN PHOTO IN CIRCLE BELOW & HELMET / HAT MAN SNIPER SEEN IN THE MOORMAN PHOTO (below Weigman photo) BY THE TREE BEHIND THE THREE MEN ON THE GRASSY KNOLL.  Lee Bower view of the sniper is the final photo below.  CONTRARY TO BLUE RECTANGLE COMMENTARY (LEE BOWERS DID SEE A SHOOTER, PUFF OF SMOKE AND "FLASH" (MUZZLE FLASH) IN THE BLUE RECTANGLE!  IT PROVES THE GRASSY KNOLL SHOOTER!

Friday, November 8, 2013

Dr. Carrico / PARKLAND: The movie

In the movie, Dr. Carrico called the front throat entrance wound, "It's a wound." when asked by Dr. Perry regarding the trach incision.

BUT,

FRONT SHOT EVIDENCE #5

A Critical examination of the words of Dr. Charles Carrico discovered by Harold Weisberg irrefutably proves a front entrance shot to the throat.

In his outstanding work on the Kennedy Assassination,Harold Weisberg uncovered a definitive attestation from Dr. Malcolm Perry that, in this author’s belief, unknowingly confirmed the front throat wound as a wound of entrance.  The words written by Harold Weisberg cannot be any more clear for us.  His analysis is striking.

“As I lead him (Dr. Perry) over those events (the Parkland Hospital procedures with the President) and his participation, what he did and the sequence, he recalled that he first looked at the wound (in the throat), then asked a nurse for a “trake” (short for tracheotomy) tray, wiped off the wound, saw a ring of bruising around it, and started cutting.  In describing the appearance of the wound and the ring of bruising, he used the words, “as they always are.” Pretending not to notice the significance of this important fact he had let bubble out, I retraced the whole procedure with him again.  When he had repeated the same words, I asked him if he had ever been asked about the ringed bruise around the wound in front of the neck.  The question told the experienced hunter and the experienced surgeon exactly what he had admitted, one description of an entrance wound.  He blushed and improvised the explanation that there was blood around the wound.  I did not further embarrass him by pressing him, for we both knew he had seen the wound clearly.  He had twice said he had wiped the blood off and had seen the wound clearly, if briefly, before cutting.

The official representation and that of an unofficial apologist to which we shall come would have us believe that bruising is a characteristic of entrance wounds only.  This is not the case.  The reader should not be deceived on this or by Perry’s admission that there was bruising.  Exit wounds also can show bruising.  One difference is that exit wounds do not have to show bruising.  That in this case there was bruising by itself need not be taken as an expression of Perry’s professional opinion that it was a wound of entrance.  The definitive answer is in those words he twice used, quoted directly above,“ ‘as they always are’.  It is an entrance wound only that always are of this description.  Thus, Dr. Perry had said again and in a different way that this was a shot from the front.  In context, this is also the only possible meaning of what Carrico had said.”

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MR. MATTHEWS, THIS IS WHY THE SINGLE BULLET THEORY IS A FRAUD

LESSON #1

Chris, this is the information regarding the impossible weight of the single magic bullet (CE399) of the single bullet theory.  The fragments are added to the current CE399 bullet weight, and IT IS HEAVIER THAN ANY BULLET EVER MADE LIKE THIS ONE EVER!

 

Governor Connally's Wrist Wound and CE-399

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This is a test. Please take your time.
This article offers high-resolution government photographs of the bullet that that Warren Commission says caused all of Governor Connally's wounds.
You are then shown bullet fragments that the Warren Commission says came from that bullet. And you are also given sworn testimony from attending emergency room personnel telling you that there are even more fragments left in the Governor's body.
Your mission: To pinpoint exactly where on this bullet all these fragments came from. The Warren Commission concluded that all these fragments came from CE-399. Their whole case is based on the "single bullet theory."
If you can see where the fragments came from, then you prove the Warren Commission's case.
But if you cannot see defects in CE-399 to account for the fragments shown and testified to, then you have just destroyed the Warren Commission's findings in their Report.

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Introduction I haven't seen a comparison of...

• photographs of the "pristine bullet" (WC Exhibit CE-399)
• the fragments remaining in Governor Connally's wrist
• Warren Commission expert testimony

...side-by-side anywhere. This article offers seven high-resolution photographs of CE-399, as well as portions of testimony given by Warren Commission expert witnesses.
Although I, as a lay person and not acquainted with the medical profession, cannot see enough imperfections in CE-399 to account for all the fragments described by experts, I see that I am not alone in my belief that CE-399 could not have caused all of the Governor's wounds.
My personal thanks to JFK Lancer's Debra Conway for publishing this dry, lengthy article in the current issue of Assassination Chronicles magazine.
Please take your time to read the testimony offered ... and make sure you 'click' on each of the seven pictures of CE-399 to see the high-resolution copies.
Private, email comments welcome.

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The Warren Commission (formally known as "Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy") concluded that:

The Governor had been hit by a bullet which entered at the extreme right side of his back at a point below his right armpit. The bullet traveled through his chest in a downward and forward direction, exited below his right nipple, passed through his right wrist which had been in his lap, and then caused a wound to his left thigh.

The Commission's Report later elaborated:

...Ballistics experiments and medical findings established that the missile which passed through the Governor's wrist and penetrated his thigh had first traversed his chest... ...The ballistics experts learned the exact nature of the Governor's wrist wound by examining Parkland Hospital records and X-rays and conferring with Dr. Gregory. The C2766 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle found in the Depository was fired with bullets of the same type as the bullet found on the Governor's stretcher and the fragments found in the Presidential limousine...
...All the evidence indicated that the bullet found on the Governor's stretcher could have caused all his wounds. The weight of the whole bullet prior to firing was approximately 160-161 grains and that of the recovered bullet was 158. grains. An X-ray of the Governor's wrist showed very minute metallic fragments, and two or three of these fragments were removed from his wrist. All these fragments were sufficiently small and light so that the nearly whole bullet found on the stretcher could have deposited those pieces of metal as it tumbled through his wrist. In their testimony, the three doctors who attended Governor Connally at Parkland Hospital expressed independently their opinion that a single bullet had passed through his chest; tumbled through his wrist with very little exit velocity, leaving small metallic fragments from the rear portion of the bullet; punctured his left thigh after the bullet had lost virtually all of its velocity; and had fallen out of the thigh wound.

I cannot understand the above conclusion. The Warren Commission singled out Dr. Gregory and his testimony for the "exact nature of the Governor's wrist wound" in their findings. Here is Dr. Gregory's testimony. If you can find in it any instance of the Commission asking Dr. Gregory if a bullet in the condition of CE-399 could have caused the Governor's chest, wrist, and thigh wounds, then you're a better reader than I.
And when the Warren Commission states that "All the evidence indicated that the bullet found on the Governor's stretcher could have caused all his wounds," I guess they had forgotten the following expert witness testimony they solicited.
- Clint Bradford, 08/99

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Commander Humes, Medical Corps, United States Navy.
Humes' undergraduate training was at St. Joseph's College at Villanova University in Philadelphia. He received his medical degree in 1948 from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He received his internship and postgraduate training in Pathology at various Naval hospitals, and at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C. At the time of his Warren Commission testimony, Humes' title was Director of Laboratories of the Naval Medical School at Naval Medical Center at Bethesda. He was charged with the responsibility of the overall supervision of all of the laboratory operations in the Naval medical center, including the field of anatomic pathology (examining surgical specimens and postmortem examinations) and clinical pathology (examination of the blood and various body fluids). He was certified both in anatomic pathology and in clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology.

Mr. SPECTER. Now looking at that bullet, Exhibit 399, Doctor Humes, could that bullet have gone through or been any part of the fragment passing through President Kennedy's head in Exhibit No. 388? Commander HUMES. I do not believe so, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. And could that missile have made the wound on Governor Connally's right wrist?
Commander HUMES. I think that that is most unlikely ... The reason I believe it most unlikely that this missile could have inflicted either of these wounds is that this missile is basically intact; its jacket appears to me to be intact, and I do not understand how it could possibly have left fragments in either of these locations.
Mr. SPECTER. Dr. Humes, under your opinion which you have just given us, what effect, if any, would that have on whether this bullet, 399, could have been the one to lodge in Governor Connally's thigh?
Commander HUMES. I think that extremely unlikely. The reports, again Exhibit 392 from Parkland, tell of an entrance wound on the lower midthigh of the Governor, and X-rays taken there are described as showing metallic fragments in the bone, which apparently by this report were not removed and are still present in Governor Connally's thigh. I can't conceive of where they came from this missile.
Representative FORD. The missile identified as Exhibit 399.
Commander HUMES. 399, sir.

Colonel Finck was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Geneva Medical School in Switzerland in 1948. He experienced 4 years of training in pathology after his internship, 2 years, including 2 years of pathology at the University Institute of Pathology in Geneva, Switzerland, and 2 years at the University of Tennessee Institute of Pathology in Memphis, Tenn. He was in the Army since 1955. From 1955 to 1958, he performed approximately 200 autopsies, many of them pertaining to trauma, including missile wounds, while stationed at Frankfort, Germany as pathologist of the United States Army Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. He was Chief of the Wound Ballistics Pathology Branch of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, personally reviewing all the cases forwarded by the Armed Forces, and some civilian cases from the United States and forces overseas, totalling approximately 400 cases. Finck was certified in pathology anatomy by the American Board of Pathology in 1956, and by the same American Board of Pathology in the field of forensic pathology in 1961.

Mr. SPECTER. And could it [CE 399] have been the bullet which inflicted the wound on Governor Connally's right wrist? Colonel FINCK. No; for the reason that there are too many fragments described in that wrist.

From Mr. Frazier, FBI firearms expert:

Mr. EISENBERG. Mr. Frazier, did you determine the weight of the exhibit-that is, 399? Mr. FRAZIER. Yes, sir. Exhibit 399 weighs 158.6 grains.
Mr. EISENBERG. How much weight loss does that show from the original bullet weight?
Mr. FRAZIER. We measured several standard bullets, and their weights varied, which is a normal situation, a portion of a grain, or two grains, from 161 grains--that is, they were all in the vicinity of 161 grains. One weighed--- 160.85, 161.5, 161.1 grains.
Mr. EISENBERG. In your opinion, was there any weight loss?
Mr. FRAZIER. There did not necessarily have to be any weight loss to the bullet. There may be a slight amount of lead missing from the base of the bullet, since it is exposed at the base, and the bullet is slightly flattened; there could be a slight weight loss from the end of the bullet, but it would not amount to more than 4 grains, because 158.6 is only a grain and a half less than the normal weight, and at least a 2 grain variation would be allowed. So it would be approximately 3 or 4 grains.
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Mr. SPECTER. Mr. Frazier, is it possible for the fragments identified in Commission Exhibit 840 to have come from the whole bullet heretofore identified as Commission Exhibit 399?
Mr. FRAZIER. I would say that based on weight it would be highly improbable that that much weight could have come from the base of that bullet since its present weight is--its weight when I first received it was 158.6 grains.
Mr. SPECTER. Referring now to 399.
Mr. FRAZIER. Exhibit 399, and its original normal weight would be 160 to 161 grains, and those three metal fragments had a total of 2.1 grains as I recall--2.3 grains. So it is possible but not likely since there is only a very small part of the core of the bullet 399 missing.

Dr. Shaw is a physician and surgeon who received his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1927, and M.D. degree from the same institution in 1933. He then served 2 years at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City in training in general surgery. He then experienced 2 years of training in thoracic surgery at the University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He entered private practice in 1938 in Dallas, Texas, limiting his practice to thoracic [chest] surgery. He remained at his private practice except from June, 1942, until December 1945, when he was a member of the Medical Corps of the Army of the United States, serving principally in the European theater of operations. He was away again from December, 1961, until June, 1963, when he was head of the MEDICO team and performed surgery at Avicenna Hospital in Kabul, Pakistan. He returned to Dallas and on September 1, 1963, started working full time with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School as professor of thoracic surgery and chairman of the division of thoracic surgery. He was also chief of thoracic surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, which is the chief hospital from the standpoint of the medical facilities of the school. He was certified by the Board of Thoracic Surgery since 1948. He had civilian experience with bullet wounds in his work at Parkland Hospital. His had more experience with bullet wounds during the Second World War when he was serving as chief of the thoracic surgery center in Paris, France. During this particular experience, he admitted over 900 patients with chest wounds of various kinds. His best estimate as to the total number of bullet wounds he experienced? "It would be approximately 1000, considering the large number of admissions we had in Paris."

Mr. SPECTER: What is your opinion as to whether bullet 399 could have inflicted all of the wounds on the Governor, then, without respect at this point to the wound of the President's neck? Dr. SHAW. I feel that there would be some difficulty in explaining all of the wounds as being inflicted by bullet Exhibit 399 without causing more in the way of loss of substance to the bullet or deformation of the bullet. (Discussion off the record.)

Dr. Shaw's testimony is interrupted at this point, and "off the record" discussions take place. Later...

Dr. SHAW: All right. As far as the wounds of the chest are concerned, I feel that this bullet could have inflicted those wounds. But the examination of the wrist both by X-ray and at the time of surgery showed some fragments of metal that make it difficult to believe that the same missle could have caused these two wounds. There seems to be more that three grains of metal missing as far as the--I mean in the wrist. Mr. SPECTOR: Does that bullet appear to you to have any of its metal flaked off?
Dr. SHAW: I have been told that the one point on the nose of this bullet that is deformed was cut off for purposes of examination. With that information, I would have to say that this bullet has lost literally none of its substance.

Dr. Oliver shot the wrists of cadavers for the Commission. Olivier was a supervisory research veterinarian who worked for the Department of the Army at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. His primary duties consisted of "investigating the wound ballistics of various bullets and other military missiles."

Mr. SPECTER. I now hand you a photograph marked as Commission Exhibit 855 and ask you what that represents? Dr. OLIVIER. This is a photograph taken from the X-ray, Commission Exhibit 854.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe for the record the details of the injuries shown on 854 and 855, please?
Dr. OLIVIER. This is a comminuted fracture of the distal end of the radius. It was struck directly by the bullet. It passed through, not directly through but through at an oblique angle so that it entered more proximal on the dorsal side of the wrist and distal on the volar aspect.
Mr. SPECTER. How does the entry and exit compare with the wound on Governor Connally which you observed on the X- rays?
Dr. OLIVIER. In this particular instance to the best of my memory from looking at the X-rays, it is very close. It is about one of the best ones that we obtained.
Mr. SPECTER. Is there any definable difference at all?
Dr. OLIVIER. I couldn't determine any.
Mr. SPECTER. It is close, you say?
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes. If I had both X-rays in front of me if there was a difference I could determine it, but from memory I would say it was for all purposes identical.
Mr. SPECTER. I now hand you a bullet in a case marked Commission Exhibit 856 and ask if you have ever seen that before?
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes. This is the bullet that caused the damage shown in Commission Exhibits Nos. 854 and 855.
Mr. SPECTER. Would you describe that bullet for the record, please?
Dr. OLIVIER. The nose of the bullet is quite flattened from striking the radius.
Mr. SPECTER. How does it compare, for example, with Commission Exhibit 399?
Dr. OLIVIER. It is not like it at all. I mean, Commission Exhibit 399 is not flattened on the end. This one is very severely flattened on the end.
Mr. SPECTER. What was the velocity of the missile at the time it struck the wrist depicted in 854 and 855?
Dr. OLIVIER. The average striking velocity was 1,858 feet per second.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you have the precise striking velocity of that one?
Dr. OLIVIER. No; I don't. We could not put velocity screen in front of the individual shots because it would have interfered with the gunner's view. So we took five shots and got an average striking velocity.
Mr. SPECTER. When you say five shots with an average striking velocity, those were at the delineated distance without striking anything on those particular shots?
Dr. OLIVIER. Right, and after establishing that velocity, then we went on to shoot the various arms.
Mr. SPECTER. And what was the exit velocity?
Dr. OLIVIER. On this particular one?
Mr. SPECTER. If you have it?
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes. Well, I don't know if I have that or not. We didn't get them in all because some of these things deflect. No, I have no exit velocity on this particular one.
Mr. SPECTER. What exit velocity did you get on the average?
Dr. OLIVIER. Average exit velocity was 1,776 feet per second. This was for an average of seven. We did 10. We obtained velocity on seven.
Mr. SPECTER. Would the average reduction be approximately the same, in your professional opinion, as to the bullet exiting from the wrist depicted in 854 and 855?
Dr. OLIVIER. Somewhat. Let me give you the extremes of our velocities. The highest one was 1,866 and the lowest was 1,664, so there was a 202-feet-per-second difference in the thing. Some of the cases bone was missed, in other cases glancing blows. But I would say it is a close approximation to what the exit velocity was on that particular one.
Mr. SPECTER. And what would the close approximation be, the average?
Dr. OLIVIER. The average.
Mr. SPECTER. Would you compare the damage, which was done to Governor Connally's wrist, as contrasted with the damage to the wrist depicted in 854 and 855?
Dr. OLIVIER. The damage in the wrist that you see in the X-ray on 854 and 855, the damage is greater than was done to the Governor's wrist. There is more severe comminution here.
Mr. SPECTER. How much more severe is the comminution?
Dr. OLIVIER. Considerably more. If I remember correctly in the X-rays of the Governor's wrist, I think there were only two or three fragments, if that many. Here we have many, many small fragments.
Mr. SPECTER. In your opinion, based on the tests which you have performed, was the damage inflicted on Governor Connally's wrist caused by a pristine bullet, a bullet fired from the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle 6.5 missile which did not hit anything before it struck the Governor's wrist?
Dr. OLIVIER. I don't believe so. I don't believe his wrist was struck by a pristine bullet.
Mr. SPECTER. What is the reason for your conclusion on that?
Dr. OLIVIER. In this case I go by the size of the entrance wound and exit wound on the Governor's wrist. The entrance wound was on the dorsal surface, it was described by the surgeon as being much larger than the exit wound. He said he almost overlooked that on the volar aspect of the wrist.
In every instance we had a larger exit wound than an entrance wound firing with a pristine bullet apparently at the same angle at which it entered and exited the Governor's wrist. Also, and I don't believe they were mixed up on which was entrance and exit. For one thing the clothing, you know, the surgeon found pieces of clothing and the other thing the human anatomy is such that I don't believe it would enter through the volar aspect and out the top.
So I am pretty sure that the Governor's wrist was not hit by a pristine or a stable bullet.
Mr. SPECTER. What is there, in and of the nature of the smaller wound of exit and larger wound of entrance in the Governor's wrist as contrasted with a smaller wound of entrance and larger wound of exit in 854 and 855, which leads you to conclude that the Governor's wrist was not struck by a pristine bullet?
Dr. OLIVIER. Do you want to repeat that question again?
Mr. SPECTER. What is there about the wound of entry or exit which led you to think that the Governor's wrist wasn't struck by a pristine bullet?
Dr. OLIVIER. Well, he would have had a larger exit wound than entrance wound, which he did not.
Mr. SPECTER. And if the velocity of the missile is decreased, how does that effect the nature of the wounds of entry and exit?
Dr. OLIVIER. If the velocity is decreased, if the bullet is still stable, he still should have a larger exit wound than an entrance.
Now, on the other hand, to get a larger entrance wound and a smaller exit wound, this indicates the bullet probably hit with very much of a yaw. I mean, as this hole appeared in the velocity screen the bullet either tumbling or striking sideways, this would have made a larger entrance wound, lose considerable of its velocity in fracturing the bone, and coming out at a very low velocity, made a smaller hole.
Mr SPECTER. So the crucial factor would be the analysis that the bullet was characterized with yaw at the time it struck?
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Causing a larger wound of entry and a smaller wound of exit?
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Now is there anything in the----
Dr. OLIVIER. Also at a reduced velocity because if it struck at considerable yaw at a high velocity as it could do if it hit something and deflected, it would have, it could make a larger wound of exit but it would have been even a more severe wound than we had here. It would have been very severe, could even amputate the wrist hitting at high velocity sideways. We have to say this bullet was characterized by an extreme amount of yaw and reduced velocity. How much reduced, I don't know, but considerably reduced.
Mr. SPECTER. Does the greater damage, inflicted on the wrist in 854 and 855 than that which was inflicted on Governor Connally's wrist, have any value as indicating whether Governor Connally's wrist was struck by a pristine bullet?
Dr. OLIVIER. No; because holding the velocity the same or similar the damage would be greater with a tumbling bullet than a pristine.
I think it reflects both instability and reduced velocity. You have to show the two. I mean, the size of the entrance and exit are very important. This shows that the thing was used when it struck. The fact that there was no more damage than was done by a tumbling bullet indicates the bullet at a reduced velocity. You have to put these two things together.
Mr. SPECTER. Had Governor Connally's wrist been struck with a pristine bullet without yaw, would more damage have been inflicted----
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Than was inflicted on the Governor's wrist?
Dr. OLIVIER. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. So then the lesser damage on the Governor's wrist in and of itself indicates in your opinion----
Dr. OLIVIER. That it wasn't struck by a pristine bullet; yes.

Dr. Frederick W. Light, Jr. conducted tests at the Edgewood Arsenal. He was a physician specializing in pathology. Light earned his A.B. from Lafayette in 1926, M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1930, and Ph.D. from Hopkins in 1948. He began working at Edgewood Arsenal in 1951, primarily studying the pathology of wounding. He sat in on the previous session of testimony given by Dr. Olivier.

Dr. LIGHT. I think that is possible; yes. I might say I think perhaps the best, the most likely thing is what everyone else has said so far, that the bullet did go through the President's neck and then through the chest and then through the wrist and then into the thigh. [To whom is Light referring when he states, "What everyone else has said so far?"]
Mr. SPECTER. You think that is the most likely possibility?
Dr. LIGHT. I think that is probably the most likely, but I base that not entirely on the anatomical findings but as much on the circumstances.
Mr. SPECTER. What are the circumstances which lead you to that conclusion?
Dr. LIGHT. The relative positions in the automobile of the President and the Governor.
Mr. SPECTER. Are there any other circumstances which contribute to that conclusion, other than the anatomical findings?
Dr. LIGHT. And the appearance of the bullet that was found and the place it was found, presumably, the bullet was the one which wounded the Governor.
Mr. SPECTER. The whole bullet?
Dr. LIGHT. The whole bullet.
Mr. SPECTER. Identified as Commission Exhibit No. 399?
Dr. LIGHT. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. And what about that whole bullet leads you to believe that the one bullet caused the President's neck wound and all of the wounds on Governor Connally?
Dr. LIGHT. Nothing about that bullet. Mainly the position in which they are seated in the automobile.
Mr. SPECTER. So in addition to the----
Dr. LIGHT. And the fact that the bullet that passed through the President's body lost very little velocity since it passed through soft tissue, so that it would strike the Governor, if it did, with a velocity only, what was it, 100 feet per second, very little lower than it would have if it hadn't struck anything else first. I am not sure, I didn't see, of course, none of us saw the wounds in the Governor in the fresh state or any other time, and I am not too convinced from the measurements and the descriptions that were given in the surgical reports and so on that the actual holes through the skin were unusually large.

When Governor Connally was told of the "single bullet theory," he tried to re-create his wounds for the Commission:

I ... wound up the next day realizing I was hit in three places, and I was not conscious of having been hit but by one bullet, so I tried to reconstruct how I could have been hit in three places by the same bullet, and I merely, I know it penetrated from the back through the chest first. 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. [emphasis added]

Here are seven views of Commission Exhibit CE-399, the "magic" bullet. You may click on each for a higher-resolution copy. Then press "BACK" in your browser to return to this page.
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| | From the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), I offer a few selections of testimony from expert witnesses as they viewed photographs of CE-399:

Dr. WECHT: Commission exhibit 399...a side view...shows the copper jacket to be completely intact, unscathed with no deformity, mutilation or markings... The small defect at the tip is where a piece of metal was properly taken by the FBI for spectographic analysis...
...the nose, the penetrating portion of the missile which is completely unmarked and without any scathing at all...
...the base of the bullet which is the only area of deformity, what I would refer to as some flattening with indentation of the metallic rim and focal extrusion of the inner lead core. That is the only deformity.

HSCA/JFK Exhibit F-294

Dr. WECHT: This exhibit, F-294, is a composite photo that I believe clearly, dramatically and most succinctly demonstrates the absurdity, the scientific untenability of the single bullet theory. This is Commission exhibit 399. I will not engage in semantical quibbling with my friend and collegue, Dr. Baden, whether you can be near pristine or fully pristine. It is a near pristine bullet, again, with the only deformity being demonstrated at the base... Mr. PURDY: Dr. Wecht, is it your opinion that no bullet could have caused all of the wounds to President Kennedy and Governor Connally or the Commission exhibit 399 could not have caused all of the wounds to both men?
Dr. WECHT: Based upon the findings in this case, it is my opinion that no bullet could have caused all these wounds, not only 399 but no other bullet that we know about or any fragment of any bullet that we know about in this case.

Back to HSCA testimony...

Dr. BADEN: [After asking for and receiving the above wrist X-ray of Governor Connally] The wrist was explored and operated on, and recovered from the wrist was some cloth fabric which matched the jacket of Connally. Thank you. And the largest of those metal fragments, I think there are three fragments that are visible from this distance, overlay the distal radius near the wrist - the largest of those three fragments was removed by the surgeons in the course of their operation and preserved, kept at the Archives and made available to the committee many years later. Mr. FITHIAN: The other fragments were not removed?
Dr. BADEN: The other fragments were not removed and are still present as demonstrated on subsequent X-rays available to the committee when the Governor's arm was healing.

Wait a moment...besides the fragments removed from the Governor's wrist - shown below in Commission Exhibit CE842...
...there are additional fragments left in Connally's wrist? Are there enough "defects" in the "magic bullet" to account for all these fragments?

Where did they come from?

Dr. SHAW: All right. As far as the wounds of the chest are concerned, I feel that this bullet could have inflicted those wounds. But the examination of the wrist both by X-ray and at the time of surgery showed some fragments of metal that make it difficult to believe that the same missle could have caused these two wounds. There seems to be more that three grains of metal missing as far as the - I mean in the wrist.

The Warren Commission ignored their own expert witnesses when they concluded that "All the evidence indicated that the bullet found on the Governor's stretcher could have caused all his wounds."

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Photographs courtesy of FOIA and Special Access Records (NWCTF), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.

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