THE SECOND BULLET WOUND First Head Shot
The Parkland Wound, Photo F8

Photo F8 the large defect of the head, must be correctly and positively oriented in order to understand the three wounds depicted in the photo. The body is face up on the table and the round glass on the lower left is NOT A JAR but the light fixture on the ceiling. The neck is on a metal rest and the skin is folded to the left side. You are looking at the back of the head through the head to the face. The center of the photo is roughly the dividing line between left and right and above and below the nose level. Positive landmarks in the photo: The ruler is over the right ear and pointed towards the occipital protuberance [bony part at the back of the head] at the bottom of the photo and two Dr.'s fingers are seen. About a 1/2 inch from the lower finger notice the steel object with 90 degree turns and straight lines. This is the neck rest supporting the body. Follow the lines of this rest to the left and find the glass at the end. This glass is the ceiling light fixture and not a jar as some have claimed. If it were a jar it has no visible support from the force of gravity. Notice the headrest in the Left Profile Photo F4. In F8 the body is supine on a neck rest similar to this one but probably not this exact rest. The body has been pulled back so the head extends beyond the table and the Photo F8 is taken from below the table looking up to the ceiling through the back of JFK’s head when almost supine [slight head elevation??]. You are looking at a headrest from the bottom perspective in Photo F8.
            SEE JFK Stare-of-death photo (F1) notice the semicircle in the right temple hairline at the end of a skin tear above right eye. Below this semicircle is a smaller wound or dark area probably caused by a bone fragment. Notice the size, shape and direction of the skin tears around the semicircle skin flap in the right temple. In Photo F8 this semicircle becomes a perfectly round hole with white light from the Dr.’s cloths reflected though it. The semicircle and the bone fragment wound are seen with light passing through them and the skin tear lines of F8 match the lines in F1. Thus the round white hole in F8 matches the semicircle at the end of the right temple skin tear in F1. Again find the neck rest about ½ inch from the lower finger in the bottom right of F8. As you slowly follow the straight line of the rest to the left you notice the skull overhangs part of the rest. About midway to center is the occipital protuberance and just above it is a white highlight in the bone. This highlight is reflection from fractured bone edges caused by a tangential gunshot wound as discussed below. See the back of the head photo F3. The protruding brain tissue in the hair near the neck is over the occipital protuberance and it is brain tissue still attached to brain within the skull. Photographic tampering by burring the hair prevents viewing the wound in F3. This protruding brain passed though the white highlight seen in F8 at the occipital protuberance, which is at the bottom about ½ inch to the right of the middle of the photo. In F3 the ruler is near a skin wound in the crown area that in Groden’s color F3 has been called the red spot. The HSCA claims this is the Oswald entry wound. By size and shape this is an exit wound that corresponds with the semicircle in the bone slightly to the left center in F8. See Groden’s right profile G1. The body is not in the same condition as the photo F1 however the semicircle and fragment wound on the skin tear in F1 can be identified in both photos. The semicircle, fragment wound and skin tears in F1, G1 and F8 are consistent thus these ballistic wounds are real. Photo F8 is now properly orientated by two objects and other photos.


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