THE FOURTH and last BULLET WOUND, THIRD Head Shot

In the JFK Stare-of-death photo (F1), notice the semicircle in the right temple hairline at the end of a tear above right eye. This is the point of entry of a high velocity bullet (at least 2000 ft/sec). This was the FOURTH BULLET WOUND, and THIRD Head Shot. Note the small dark mark just below it on the skin flap. This is a fragment wound caused by a bone or bullet fragment. Note that the lighting is good and you can see the floor. Note that the semicircle flap is raised away from the head due to underlying bone. No bone or brain can be seen in the black triangle near the skin flap. On good quality photos one can count the floor tiles leading to the right head wound. As the tiles disappear into the wound a thin white highlight appears in the size and shape of the natural skull. No brain is seen meaning that the top of head photos F6 and F7 and G1 show a brain present where F1 shows it missing thus different body conditions exist. If brain were present as shown in F6, F7 and G1 one would see a thick mass of reflected light from the brain in a position extending beyond the normal curvature of the head in F1. [F6, F7 and G1 show signs of being composite photos with deliberate tampering where F1 does not.] This thin white highlight in F1 is a frontal view the occipital bone edge as located in F8. As discussed above this right temple semicircle becomes a round white circle in photo F8 when the skin flaps are closed. The lower fragment wound is also seen with light passing though it. The skin flaps in F1 are consistent with F8 and a few points of light pass through the skin tear. This round hole is small about 6 mm and an inward flap of tissue can be seen hanging from the skin margin in F8. This is an entry wound by size and shape. See Figure X-28 and compare the wounds.
            JFK Top of the head photos (F6 and F7), notice the jet-black perfectly round dot within the black triangle at the point of entry, of the right temple hairline semicircle. This dot has been placed on the photo in a darkroom to hide the wound. The background is black where the floor and walls should be seen. In F7 the wall can be seen over JFK but it fades to black at the edges. The round dot has changed to a black triangle. The photos have been tampered with to conceal the wound. Strange photographic lines, probably matt lines, are present in F6 and F7 indicating that the hanging brain maybe a composite photo.
   Groden Superior Right Profile (G1). In G1 the right temple triangle is gray intact bone which is not present in F1. This bone should be seen in F1, F6, and F7 and thus this may be a composite photo. The background has been blacked out with the hairline from left to right. No individual hair texture can be seen and the hair has moved from F1. Individual hair texture can be seen by the Right Ear in G1 and F1. The right temple fragment wound can be seen in G1 and below it the bullet entry semicircle is well lighted and thus less visible but it is present. In addition to F8 both G1 and F1 confirm the presence of the semicircle and the fragment wound on the right temple skin flap. Deliberate photo tampering obscures these features in F6 and F7. The underlying bone holding the flap away from the head in F1 is not seen in G1. This bone does not appear fractured as Dr. Humes reports and its presence is inconsistent with the other photos and x-rays. The skin tears, semicircle, fragment wound are consistent in the photos F8, F1, G1, F6, and F7 even though the body condition has changed. The brain seen hanging down in F6, F7 and G1 is not seen in F1 so the body has changed between the photos.
           Photo F8, JFK Large Defect, in the center of the photo is a semicircle on the occipital bone edge. This an exit wound due to the outward beveling of the skull seen in the photo. This is the right superior occipital bone near the lambda along the lambdoid suture which is on the missing bone. This is about 4 inches above the occipital protuberance. This would be the crown of the head area, which is the head wound near the ruler in F5 known as the red spot. The red spot is the exit of the right temple hairline entry wound seen as a white circle in F8. Below the occipital bone semicircle is a star shaped area of dry blood on the bone. To the left of the dry blood is a dark black area in the folded skin flap. This is bruising caused by the exit wound in the skin at the location of the “Red Spot”. The dry blood is the size and shape of the actual skin exit wound. Sometime during the transport the bullet hole in the skin slipped over the occipital bone and air passed though the hole causing the blood and tissue to dry in the size and shape of the hole. The dry blood is about 20 x 30 mm at the longest points of the star. The oval body of the star is about 10 x 15 mm. This is the size and shape of an exit wound and not an entry wound as claimed by the Government. The semicircle edge on the occipital bone, the dry blood on the occipital bone and the bruising in the skin flap with the size and appearance in F5 demonstrate that the F5 red spot wound is an exit wound of moderate to low velosity. Also notice the positioning of the red spot wound in a line opposite the right temple entry and that the x-rays show a particle path connecting the two wounds. According to Dr. Mantik this particle path indicates a front to back bullet path.
            The fourth shot, third head shot, entered the right temple hairline and traversed cranial cavity in a front to back direction depositing minute particles along its path at the top of the head exiting in the crown area about 4 inches above the occipital protuberance. The velocity of the bullet with the existing skull fractures from the other two headshots was enough to cause the head to explode.
            Remember 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 {yielding 4,000,000 pounds per square inch} to cause an intact skull to explode. 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). The internal cranial pressure depends upon fluid physics. Pascal’s law, fluid pressure is the same in all directions. Liquid is relatively incompressible and external force is transmitted equally throughout the volume of the liquid. Fluids transmit pressure undiminished in a hydraulic press, which is a closed container. The kinetic energy of a fluid is, Ekin =1/2mV2 where V = velocity and m = mass (of the fluid). Bernoulli’s equation, P + pgh + 1/2PV2 = constant where P= absolute pressure and p=mass density of fluid. Simply put, the skull is a closed container filled with water and when a bullet moves fast enough the skull will explode. The fluid physics require most of the blood and brain to splatter in the direction of the bullet path. In the case of JFK blood and brain was splattered to the left rear of JFK due to the frontal shots.

Bullet Impact Upon the Skull

  1. The bullet hits the skin crushing it against the skull. The outer skin edge is curved inward and stretches as the marginal abrasion compression ring is formed as the bullet passes. A hole about the size of the bullet is formed in the skin. Sometimes crushed skin tags remain attached to the inner compression ring as seen in the white circle in F8.
  2. The bullet hits the skull and it fractures in a unique cone shaped pattern of inward beveling. The hole in the skull surface struck by the bullet is smaller than the hole on the exiting the surface. Other fractures often occur parallel to the suture lines of the skull bones. About 300 foot-pounds of energy is transferred from the bullet to the skull to cause the fractures.
  3. Bone fragments become missiles and enter the brain. The bullet is deformed by the impact. Some bullets mushroom while others fragment. Often the direction of the bullet path is deflected by the impact with bone. Thus bullet path through the body usually does not point directly to the shooter but to the general area of the shooter. The path of the final JFK head shot is upwards at about 40º as measured on Z 312. The path is also left to right given the looking left head position indicating a south bridge sewer shooting position assuming only upward deflection. Because of the probability of deflection the shooter could be in either the lower or upper sewer or behind the picket fence or even on or under the bridge and possibly the south bridge sewer but absolutely in front of JFK. Assuming no bullet deflection the shooter must be in the lower north sewer. It is very difficult to match JFK’s Z 312 position with this frontal shot and the shooter’s position.
  4. Occasionally some of the skin edge will be pulled into the bone beveling fracture of the skull, which can be seen in the marginal compression ring of the skin. Compression rings cause the skin to be inward beveled so that when the excised skin is laid flat and viewed from the inner surface the wound margins are elevated higher than the surrounding skin. To demonstrate, punch a hole in a sheet of paper supported by a cardboard box with a pencil and examine the hole from both sides of the paper. Notice the characteristics for determining the direction of the entry.
  5. As the bullet enters the brain a few inches the internal cranial pressure rises to approximately the square of the velocity of the bullet, which is a minimum of 2,000 feet per second {yielding 4,000,000 pounds per square inch} to cause an intact skull to explode. [JFK already has two bullets in the head so less pressure is required.] [Go to a lake and throw bullet-sized rocks into the water and study the size and shape of the splash at varying velocities and angles of impact. The faster the rock the bigger the splash. In a closed container this means a bigger explosion.]
  6. Pascal’s law, fluid pressure is the same in all directions. A small amount of blood is then ejected under pressure out the entry hole. [Blood does not have to pool as some have said because the passing bullet virtually liquefies the brain and the pressure forces it out the hole.] In the case of JFK the .45 bullet is seen exiting the head and both a lower and a horizontal jet of blood is seen going towards Connally in Z 313. This blood appears to be ejected from both the right temple entry and the .45 entry. No jet of blood is seen from the occipital Parkland wound because the intact brain acted like a plug. The Parkland wound bullet left the brain virtually intact however this initial pressure probably caused the protruding brain tissue seen in F5 and the cerebellum tissue reportedly seen at Parkland. An unusually black blob obscures the back of the head wound in the Z film. This could be photo tampering to obscure the occipital wound but it could be natural shadow but it is strange. Closed containers filled with water produce the same effect when shot. A small amount of fluid is usually ejected from the entry towards the shooter. [This amount of fluid, less than an ounce is part of the so called “jet effect theory” for the JFK backward head snap discussed below.]
  7. As the bullet proceeds the internal cranial pressure reaches maximum and the skull explodes. The skull fractures and the skin tears along lines of least resistance thus the head explodes near the point of bullet entry. The skin often tears across the entry wound leaving semicircles on the skin flaps. When the skin flaps are brought together a complete circle of entry is formed. The explosion reduces the pressure wave around the bullet. Remember JFK already has two bullet wounds to the head with multiple skull fractures thus the bullet velocity to explode the skull is less than 2000 ft/sec. [Also notice that the .45 cal bullet is probably inside the skull and moving at the same time thus increasing pressure.]
  8.  The bullet traverses the brain with reduced velocity and a smaller temporary cavity. About 160 foot-pounds of energy is transferred from the bullet to the head.
  9. The deformed fragmented bullet hits the skull and it fractures in a unique cone shaped pattern of outward beveling [usually larger than the entry wound] as it exits the skull. An additional 300 foot-pounds of energy is transferred from the bullet to the skull to cause the fractures.
  10.  The bullet exits the skin. Because the head exploded with many skin tears and flaps with multiple skull fractures the skin exit may not be exactly over the skull exit. Because the skull exploded reducing the pressure wave and the slowing of the bullet to low velocity the exit is only 2 to 3 times the bullet diameter instead of several inches were it at high velocity. This is a situation where the gross appearance of the exploded entry appears larger than the exit. Discounting the skin tears caused by the explosion the entry is smaller than the exit, which is almost always the case in all ballistic wounds.

ALL OF THIS OCCURS IN 1/2000TH OF A SECOND

            In 1/18th of a second the bullet travels 111 feet assuming a bullet speed of 2000 ft/sec.

Back to Table of Contents
Back to Frontal Shot(s)