The bullet trajectory - ridiculously impossible from the rear!

[Jake Maxwell]

The Warren Commission's exhibits #386 and #388 show the initial medical depictions of Kennedy's wounds and the supposed path of the fatal bullet from the rear. If this drawing has any credibility, it is absolutely ridiculous to think Kennedy was killed by an Oswald shot from the sixth floor. The transparency image below, from Z frame #312, right before the fatal shot, makes this very clear.

We have only three options when considering the Warren Commission's initial supposed bullet trajectory, IMO (SEE Jerry Organ post below):
1) Someone in the rear vehicle killed him (certainly no one from the sixth floor)
2) Frames have been left out of Zapruder (and other films) showing that the president was actually bent over much further
3) The medical drawing was made to look like JFK took a shot from the rear

[Jake Maxwell]

Oh yes... I left out another option... there were at least TWO magic bullets!

[Gary Craig]

More cognitive dissonance and doubt.

Where are the photographs the autopsy doctors had taken of the fatal wound in JFK's skull that show the

inside and outside veiw of the bullet hole at the EOP?

[Jake Maxwell]

Jerry, Thanks for this helpful information. It does raise a few questions about whether some might have tried to re-interpret the wounds to be more compatible with a sixth floor fatal shot.... HOWEVER, if I'm seeing things correctly, the re-interpretation is just as bad in trying to line things up with a sixth floor shot. NOTE how the HSCA graphic you provided, in transparency with a purple arrow, compares with your image tracing out the shot with a yellow arrow. It really looks like the re-interpreted angle from proposed entry and exit would require a helicopter shot...!
Am I missing something here?

[Jake Maxwell]

Does the HSCA suggested trajectory (purple arrow) look like the fatal bullet could have come from the sixth floor of the TSBD?

[Jake Maxwell]

Jerry, Am I mistaken here... Is this not from the Clark Panel finding referenced in your post above?

[Walt Cakebread]

That's a drawing produced by the HSCA, showing their general acceptance of the Clark Panel's siting of the skull entry wound ("inshoot"). The "outshoot" on that drawing did not come from the Clark Panel. The Clark Panel Report ("Panel Review", 1968) is here: Link.

The Bethesda pathologists reviewed the autopsy materials earlier, submitting a report (nicknamed "Military Review", 1967): Link.

I disregard the HSCA "outshoot" site. But if you're going to use the HSCA "inshoot/outshoot" slope line to back-project a trajectory, at least consider a cone projection backwards to represent the margin of error and potential for deflection.

Above: Example of back-project method. Note it doesn't show the head-wound case.
Don't back-project using a singular line.


HSCA Exhibit F-139

Using a back-projection cone that they said represented a reasonable margin of error, the HSCA discover that the rear portion of the projection cone included the Oswald window. They never claimed a singular-line would trace from the outshoot backwards through the inshoot and further backwards on into the Oswald window.

If one uses the Humes/Studivan "near EOP" inshoot, there is a degree of deflection necessary to account for the entry site to redirect to the gaping exit wound site. There is also a theory that the explosive head wound in Z313 is not really an exit wound at all, but the entry wound for a frangible bullet.

Using a back-projection cone that they said represented a reasonable margin of error, the HSCA discover that the rear portion of the projection cone included the Oswald window.

The deception here is:.....  Labeling the SE corner window as "The Oswald Window"....   Lee was in the Domino Room at the time of the murder....

And although a "projection one may include that SE corner window that "projection cone" is deceptive because even though the window is in that area...it does NOT mean a rifle could have been fired from several feet back from that window by a sniper sitting on a box and using a stack of books as a steady rest for the rifle. ( as the theory proposed by the authorities suggested) because the muzzle of the rifle could not have been declined to hit anything on Elm street...

[Walt Cakebread]

Window opened more on day of assassination than how it is now at the Sixth Floor Museum

Box Arrangement as seen inside		Same Box Arrangement as seen outside

Seems enough room to position a rifle over the topmost box and acquire a target.

In the first place you're not using the photos....you are using a phony drawing...and secondly....the authorities theorized that the arch villain Lee Harrrrvey Osssswald sat on a box back away from the window and used the stack of three rolling readers as a steady-rest for firing the rifle......using their theory....It would have been impossible to decline the muzzle of the rifle down onto the murder scene.....