Bullet hole in windshield on JFK's Limo

[Jim Hawthorn]

I have never seen an exact description of the damage to the mirror. I doubt that damage is visible in photos at Parkland & at the garage.

Well it certainly looks puckered in this Parkland photo (click on the image twice to see it bigger):

[Marjan Rynkiewicz]

Yet it is mighty strange that the zone in Altgens 6 perfectly matches the position of the bullet impact photographed at Parkland:

Here in the above pix there is nearnuff no obliqueness to worry about (koz the camera is at the same level as the mirror) -- & the mirror is definitely (still) lower on the rhs here (now hours later i suppose).
Praps a driver did turn/adjust the mirror a little later that day or the next day (before this pix was taken) to correct for the turn due to the splatter impact during the chrome dent shot at Z310, but he did not correct/adjust the tilt it seems.

[Marjan Rynkiewicz]

Well it certainly looks puckered in this Parkland photo (click on the image twice to see it bigger):

Yes there is some strange denting.
But i would expect that the lead splatter at Z310 would impact the (reflective) front face of the mirror, &/or the top of the face, &/or the bottom rim of the face.
And i wouldnt expect any impact damage denting on the rear (unless there was some kind of extra ricochet involved)(unlikely).

[Marjan Rynkiewicz]

Yes, but see my reply#260.

[Royell Storing]

   That photo of the WASH Bucket sitting next to the JFK Limo at Parkland Hospital reveals this "crime scene" to have been tainted. The JFK Limo is worthless regarding Evidence. This includes all possible bullet fragments within. To put the top on the car at Parkland meant even the visors were Moved into the Down position. This too tainted the crime scene/JFK Limo. The jump seats were moved around, SS Agents were tramping around inside the vehicle as they struggled to remove JFK's body, etc. On and On it goes. The JFK Limo issa dead fish regarding Legit Evidence.

[Jim Hawthorn]

   That photo of the WASH Bucket sitting next to the JFK Limo at Parkland Hospital reveals this "crime scene" to have been tainted. The JFK Limo is worthless regarding Evidence. This includes all possible bullet fragments within. To put the top on the car at Parkland meant even the visors were Moved into the Down position. This too tainted the crime scene/JFK Limo. The jump seats were moved around, SS Agents were tramping around inside the vehicle as they struggled to remove JFK's body, etc. On and On it goes. The JFK Limo issa dead fish regarding Legit Evidence.

Apart from that bullet hole/impact.

[Andrew Mason]

Are you suggesting that Altgens was crouching for #6 and on his tiptoes for #7?

[Andrew Mason]

Apart from that bullet hole/impact.

It does look like the mirror was dented in the middle:



although there is no mention of the mirror in the Secret Service report of their inspection of the car (CD80). But it was replaced at some point because the current mirror (Ford Museum) is different: