Matt, why is that a problem? The apex of the lung was bruised by the shockwave of the bullet as it passed above it.
"The apex of the lung was bruised by the shockwave of the bullet as it passed above it."How does a bullet creating a shockwave that bruises the top of JFK's lung, as it passes over top of it, exit
the front of his throat through a clean punched out hole roughly the same diameter as the alleged bullet?
Doctors who saw the wound pre-tracheotomy said it was an entrance wound. Their reasoning: The shock
wave from a rifle bullet would have created more damage and left a much larger exit wound in the front of
JFK's throat.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=622&relPageId=5ARRB MD 41 - White House Transcript of Dallas Press Conference-snip-
Q. Where was the entrance wound?Dr.Perry: There was an entrance wound in the neck, in regards the one on the
head, I cannot say. Q. Which way was the bullet coming on the neck wound? At him?Dr.Perry: It appeared to be coming at him.-snip-
Q. Doctor, describe the entrance wound. You think from the front in the throat?Dr.Perry: The wound appeared to be an entrance wound in the front of the throat; yes,
that is correct.-snip-
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http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/31st_Issue/vs_wounds.htmlMr. Specter. What would be the considerations which, in your mind, would make it, as you characterized it, unlikely?
Dr. Baxter. It would be unlikely because the damage that the bullet would create would be--first its speed would create
a shock wave which would damage a larger number of tissues, as in its path, it would tend to strike, or usually would strike,
tissues of greater density than this particular missile did and would then begin to tumble and would create larger jagged--the
further it went, the more jagged would be the damage that it created; so that ordinarily there would have been a rather large
wound of exit. (VI, H-42)
"Mr. Specter had even more severe problems with Dr. Ronald Coy Jones of Parkland Hospital, whom he asked about the neck wounds:"Mr. Specter. In this report, Dr. Jones, you state the following, "Previously described severe skull and brain injury was noted
as well as a small hole in the anterior midline of the neck thought to be a bullet entrance wound." What led you to the thought
that it was a bullet entrance wound, sir?
Dr. Jones. The hole was very small and relatively clean cut, as you would see in a bullet that is entering rather than exiting
from a patient. If this were an exit wound, you would think that it exited at a very low velocity to produce no more damage than
this had done, and if this were a missile of high velocity, you would expect more of an explosive type of exit wound, with more
tissue destruction than this appeared to have on superficial examination. (VI, H-55)
"Even Mr. Specter could not find in this account much opportunity for turning this neck wound into an exit wound. So, in good prosecutor
-like fashion, he prodded for the thin slant of Commission daylight in Dr. Jones's otherwise dark view of the Commission's suggestions:"Mr. Specter. Would it be consistent, then, with an exit wound, but of low velocity, as you put it?
Dr. Jones. Yes, of very low velocity to the point that you might think that this bullet barely made it through the soft tissues and
just enough to drop out of the skin on the opposite side. (VI, H-55)
