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Cover Story
by Herbert Blenner | Posted April 22, 2011
illustrations by Paul Ernst
Part Nine - Holes in the Cover Story
jfk.boards.net/thread/196/medical-evidence-cover-story
None of these head shot eyewitnesses reported President Kennedy in position with his face down for a bullet to have entered the inferior-right-rear and exited the superior-right-rear of his head.
Humes testified that photographs of the occipital wound were taken from both tables of the skull.
Source: Warren Commission Testimony of Commander James J. Humes - 2H, 352
Commander HUMES - Experience has shown and my associates and Colonel Finck, in particular, whose special field of interest is wound ballistics can give additional testimony about this scientifically observed fact.
This wound then had the characteristics of wound of entrance from this direction through the two tables of the skull.
Mr. SPECTER - When you say "this direction," will you specify that direction in relationship to the skull?
Commander HUMES - At that point I mean only from without the skull to within.
Mr. SPECTER - Fine, proceed.
Commander HUMES - Having ascertained to our satisfaction and incidentally photographs illustrating this phenomenon from both the external surface of the skull and from the internal surface were prepared, we concluded that the large defect to the upper right side of the skull, in fact, would represent a wound of exit. A careful examination of the margins of the large bone defect at that point, however, failed to disclose a portion of the skull bearing again a wound of--a point of impact on the skull of this fragment of the missile, remembering, of course, that this area was devoid of any scalp or skull at this present time. We did not have the bone.
However, in the privileged communication of February 10, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Finck reported that he did not see some photographs. He wrote. "I saw no photos of bone of entry; I thought we had photographed the outside and inside of entry wound in skull. There were 2 4X5 sheets of color film with no image."
The missing photographs of a longitudinal defect of the skull and the observed photographs of an elliptical and longitudinal wound of the scalp compound these insurmountable problems for a highly tangential entry by a bullet.
The prosectors reported a 6 mm by 15 mm hole in the scalp without mentioning a surrounding abrasion. This report is troubling since the scalp is a thin layer of soft tissue covering the firm bone of the skull. These circumstances produce an especially prominent abrasion surrounding an entry wound. The Clark Panel revealed that the failure of the prosectors to mention the abrasion was not an oversight. Instead the panel explained that an ill-defined abrasion surrounded the 6 mm by 15 mm elliptical hole in the scalp.
The absence of a prominent abrasion is sufficient to discredit a bullet as the cause of the scalp wound and the evidence to corroborate the oval defect of the skull failed to develop.
by Herbert Blenner | Posted April 22, 2011
illustrations by Paul Ernst
Part Nine - Holes in the Cover Story
jfk.boards.net/thread/196/medical-evidence-cover-story
None of these head shot eyewitnesses reported President Kennedy in position with his face down for a bullet to have entered the inferior-right-rear and exited the superior-right-rear of his head.
Humes testified that photographs of the occipital wound were taken from both tables of the skull.
Source: Warren Commission Testimony of Commander James J. Humes - 2H, 352
Commander HUMES - Experience has shown and my associates and Colonel Finck, in particular, whose special field of interest is wound ballistics can give additional testimony about this scientifically observed fact.
This wound then had the characteristics of wound of entrance from this direction through the two tables of the skull.
Mr. SPECTER - When you say "this direction," will you specify that direction in relationship to the skull?
Commander HUMES - At that point I mean only from without the skull to within.
Mr. SPECTER - Fine, proceed.
Commander HUMES - Having ascertained to our satisfaction and incidentally photographs illustrating this phenomenon from both the external surface of the skull and from the internal surface were prepared, we concluded that the large defect to the upper right side of the skull, in fact, would represent a wound of exit. A careful examination of the margins of the large bone defect at that point, however, failed to disclose a portion of the skull bearing again a wound of--a point of impact on the skull of this fragment of the missile, remembering, of course, that this area was devoid of any scalp or skull at this present time. We did not have the bone.
However, in the privileged communication of February 10, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Finck reported that he did not see some photographs. He wrote. "I saw no photos of bone of entry; I thought we had photographed the outside and inside of entry wound in skull. There were 2 4X5 sheets of color film with no image."
The missing photographs of a longitudinal defect of the skull and the observed photographs of an elliptical and longitudinal wound of the scalp compound these insurmountable problems for a highly tangential entry by a bullet.
The prosectors reported a 6 mm by 15 mm hole in the scalp without mentioning a surrounding abrasion. This report is troubling since the scalp is a thin layer of soft tissue covering the firm bone of the skull. These circumstances produce an especially prominent abrasion surrounding an entry wound. The Clark Panel revealed that the failure of the prosectors to mention the abrasion was not an oversight. Instead the panel explained that an ill-defined abrasion surrounded the 6 mm by 15 mm elliptical hole in the scalp.
The absence of a prominent abrasion is sufficient to discredit a bullet as the cause of the scalp wound and the evidence to corroborate the oval defect of the skull failed to develop.
