26. CHEST SHOT
The red flightpath is the chest shot at 223 from TSBD window #14 .... the black dots do not fit the observed facts . . .
The upper limousine detail shows the Committee's solution worked out at 186 with the Governor turned 32 1/2 degrees right of center .... located on Elm two-thirds of a second later and 198 ....
The lower limousine detail shows the Governor as you saw him: facing about 15 degrees to his right, turning to look over his left shoulder at 223 ....
The thorax detail, lower right, shows the 18-degree-40 minute angle to the midline of the actual track between the wounds of entry and exit, the 43-degree angle to the mid-line of the Committee's flightpath and the 54-degree angle to the mid-line of my red flightpath ....this wide variation indicates:
1. The thorax's position may be further around to the right than drawn
2. There may be some flightpath deflection caused by the rib
3. No one has ever answered the question: Why hit the Governor?
If the rifle was aimed at the President, the bullet may have been deflected by the top branches of this tree .... observation from inside TSBD last November, confirmed this as more than a possibility ....
Mr. Chairman: based partly on the fact that this shot cannot come from window #1, the critique's second recommendation is: TSBD's sixth-floor window #14 is the point of origin for the Chest Shot which caused all five of the Governor's wounds at Z-223.
PS
Incidentally, here is the window/hand-hold line at 186, when Betzner snapped his picture, missing the camera by an appreciable amount .... still within the allowable limits of drafting's inexactitudes ....
Comparison of the 43 and 54 degree, thorax detail, is largely apple-orange talk because of the more-than-one-second time d ifferential ....
However, 54 vs almost 19 is real .... some solace can be gleaned from the car's motion and the thorax's being in rotation before it was hit .... the largest question remains: why hit JBC?