BRIEF JFK ASSASSINATION OVERVIEW
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot multiple times and killed by persons unknown. According to the fiction of the Warren Report:
· Oswald for reasons unknown, acting alone fired three shots from the Sixth Floor Schoolbook Depository above and behind JFK.
· The apparent first shot is the impossible MAGIC bullet causing seven wounds, hitting JFK in the back, exiting the neck, hitting Connally in the back, exiting his chest, hitting his wrist exiting and entering his leg. This impossible bullet then fell out of the leg wound and was found almost undamaged at Parkland Hospital.
· The apparent second shot missed the car hitting a curbstone causing a wound, which was photographed, to James Tague standing near the overpass.
· The apparent third shot caused the fatal head wound to JFK by entering “the skull above and to the right of the occipital protuberance [the bony point at the back of the head]” breaking into fragments, the larger fragment exiting the right temple and a smaller exiting the right parietal area, with two fragments remaining in the skull. The exiting fragments would have to cause the windshield damage and account for all fragments recovered in the car.
The HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA):
Accepted the Warren Report’s findings of the three shots however they decided their was a FOURTH shot from the right front picket fence area which did not hit JFK thus Oswald did not act alone and a conspiracy probably existed. [Note that they test fired a .45 cal. bullet from the right front knoll area during re-enactments.]
· They also found that the autopsy Doctors had failed to accurately report the wounds as they appear in the autopsy photos. The 3rd shot was moved to enter the skull in the crown area about four inches above the official autopsy reported location to the right of the occipital protuberance as was done by the Clark panel in 1968.
· After entering in the crown area and it divided into perfectly round fragments causing round exit holes with the largest exiting the parietal area above the right ear and the smaller exiting at the right temple hairline which is opposite of the Warren Report. This finding is due to autopsy Photos F3 and F8. [Note bullets do not fragment into perfectly round parts nor do they cause round exit holes in the skull’s skin.] No perfectly round fragments were recovered from the car.
The locations of the fragment wounds are the same but the fragment wound sizes are reversed. How can the wounds move? Two fragments remained within the skull. The exiting fragments have to be the fragments that were found in the car and damaged the windshield otherwise another bullet was fired.
THE OFFICIAL HEAD WOUNDS
From these reports the head has four wounds to be investigated:
#1. Crown area 4 inches above the occipital protuberance.
#2. Right of the occipital protuberance.
#3. Right parietal.
#4. Right temple.
These four wound locations are critical to understanding what has occurred during the cover-up of the head wounds. The Neck and back wounds will be studied first since it was the first shot but first a brief review of the Parkland evidence.
PARKLAND EVIDENCE: According to the Parkland Doctors the neck wound was a small round smooth edge entry wound thus no impossible MAGIC bullet occurred. The back wound was not seen. The Parkland Doctors most often report a large egg shape right occipital wound of EXIT about 2-3 inches. Notice that this is the general location of the Warren Report’s entry wound to the right of the occipital protuberance #2 above. Dr. Crenshaw reports seeing a right temple hairline entry wound. Notice that this corresponds with location of an alleged fragment wound #4 above. JFK’s press secretary points to the right temple/parietal area to indicate the head shot just hours after the death. Notice that this location also corresponds with one or both alleged fragment wounds #3 and #4. Dr. Jenkins’ Warren Commission testimony, March, 1964, “... I thought there was a wound on the left temple area, right at the hairline and right above the zygomatic process.” Notice that had he said right instead of left this location would correspond with the parietal alleged fragment wound #3 or #4 above. Did the reporter accurately record his testimony or did he simply confuse left and right four months after the shooting? Dr. McClelland wrote in his Commission Exhibit 392, “The cause of death was due to ... a gunshot wound of the left temple.” Doctors sometimes confuse left and right but not the existence of a wound at a body part location. It is possible that the reports of a left temple entry wound are falsely reported and the wound is actually located on the right side. In either case an entry wound to the temple area did exist as reported by the witnesses, which would be #3 or #4 above or a new wound on the left side of the head.
PURPOSE
The JFK
assassination medical evidence is so confused and contaminated with false and
deceptive dis-information that the only way to truly know the truth of JFK’s
death would be to exhume the body for a proper autopsy by objective pathologists
not under government control and filmed in a public setting with many neutral
witnesses. Since this will not occur any time soon one must conduct a detailed
study of the autopsy photos.
An
objective study of the existing autopsy photos using actual 8x10 copies from
several different sources and published as the “Fox” set was performed. This
requires the assumption that the photos are true and correct and then simply
look for ballistic wounds within the photos. Any wounds found from any direction
must be confirmed in other photos but not all photos. Any evidence of photo
manipulation will be noted because it indicates Government cover-up but it does
not disprove the existence of a wound. In fact a faked or tampered with photo
will often support a finding of the evidence of the bullet wounds. The fact that
some photos appear to be taken at different times and show different conditions
of the body does not matter to the determination of ballistic wounds within any
photo. It is the correlation between the several photos that demonstrates the
wounds and the path of the bullets. In this study the photos are considered
the best evidence of the wounds taking priority over all witnesses statements
and the official autopsy report. All of the wounds identified in this study
are supported by at least some of the witness reports and first day evidence.
To
understand JFK’s wounds one must know what bullet wounds look like and the
ballistics that caused them and photography.
BASIC BALLISTICS
In the case of
a high-powered rifle, high velocity bullets, the external appearance of the
entrance wound does not materially differ from that of a gunshot wound inflicted
with a handgun or ordinary rifle, low velocity bullets. Such entry wounds are
generally round with smooth edges, about the same size as the bullet and a
compressing margin abrasion ring is present. A compression ring is caused when
the bullet passes though the skin and the skin is crushed and its edges scrape
against the bullet. Soft tissues collapse into a vast temporary cavity produced
in the wake of the high velocity bullet. The exception occurs in skull wounds.
The skull is simply a ridged closed container filled with water. The skull
including the base is often shattered by the impact and then again by the
pressure wave caused by velocity creating a vast temporary cavity. According to
Wilber the internal cranial pressure is approximately equal to the square of the
velocity of the bullet. In addition bullet velocity must be a minimum of 2,000
feet per second to cause the skull to explode. This intercrainial pressure
(4,000,000 pounds per square inch) can cause the skull to explode causing skin
tears at the entry wound thus one does not expect to see an intact round hole of
entry but semicircles that become round holes when the skin tears are brought
together. The wound track may be 3 or 4 inches in diameter. The size of the
temporary cavity depends on the kinetic energy of the bullet, Ekin
= (m/2) V2
where V = velocity and m = mass (bullet weight).
A high
velocity bullet will make an extremely large temporary cavity creating gaping
tears in the tissue and usually a large ragged exit wound. Figure X-28, near the
end of this document, is a man shot in the right temple from a 30-30 rifle, from
a distance of about 60 ft. The wound of entrance is marked. This is very similar
to JFK’s wounds. The skin tears ALWAYS point to the round entry wound with
a circumferential marginal abrasion [compression ring] or an irregular shaped
exit wound. Skin tear wounds from distant high velocity bullets are a result
of the intense increase in pressure within the skull due to the temporary cavity
of the bullet.
CONCLUSIONS OF THE STUDY
This study of the autopsy photos finds that JFK was shot FOUR times
from the right front by at least three different guns none of which were fired
from the Sixth Floor School Book Depository.
This
means, Oswald did not shoot JFK, but if he was shooting from the Sixth Floor, one
of his shots hit Connally in the back, as proven by the medical report, and
probably caused all of his injuries and the damage to the windshield and all the
fragments recovered in the car. One of Oswald’s shots missed the car
hitting a curb and wounding Tague as proven by the photos of his injury. The
other shot missed and is unknown other than Sheriff Decker and others report
seeing a shot hit the pavement in front or near JFK’s car. It is possible but
not probable that this shot also hit Connally’s wrist and accounts for some
fragments. This accounting of Oswald’s possible three shots corresponds very
well with Oswald’s known shooting scores and the condition of the Carcano
rifle found and the known evidence.