11/22/63 Parkland Medical Reports, the Throat Wound, and the Large Head Wound

[Bill Chapman]

Here is an illustration of two autopsy photos being combined. Though made for illustrative purposes only, it does appear to be somewhat accurate because you can clearly see the reflected scalp with the bullet hole in it. The autopsy states that a rear head shot was documented. The image is a GIF and may take a moment to load as it's a large file:

What frontal shot?
Can you attach a bullet, rifle and culprit to such a shot?

And your 'bevelling' fails the Blob#Gate test.

[John Tonkovich]

Mr. Griffith:  three shots. From the rear. Three hits. Might want to examine the evidence.

[Michael T. Griffith]

No FMJ bullet striking a skull is going to break into dozens of fragments, leave dozens of fragments in the skull, leave a fragment above or below the entry point on the outer table of the skull, and leave sizable fragments in the area outside the skull. That is fantasy. FMJ bullets do not behave like that. No credible, honest forensic pathologist or wound ballistics expert would endorse such a scenario. I cover this matter in detail in my article "Forensic Science and President Kennedy's Head Wounds":

https://miketgriffith.com/files/forensic.htm

[Gerry Down]

No FMJ bullet striking a skull is going to break into dozens of fragments, leave dozens of fragments in the skull, leave a fragment above or below the entry point on the outer table of the skull, and leave sizable fragments in the area outside the skull. That is fantasy. FMJ bullets do not behave like that. No credible, honest forensic pathologist or wound ballistics expert would endorse such a scenario. I cover this matter in detail in my article "Forensic Science and President Kennedy's Head Wounds":

https://miketgriffith.com/files/forensic.htm

The problem there is the x-rays are about as useless as could be. It seems like no expert (on either side of the divide) can understand what is in them.

[Michael T. Griffith]

The problem there is the x-rays are about as useless as could be. It seems like no expert (on either side of the divide) can understand what is in them.

Sorry, but that's just ridiculously erroneous.

[Gerry Down]

Sorry, but that's just ridiculously erroneous.

Its not. The x-rays should have been the key to solving the JFK assassination (whether he was shot from the front or back) but instead they tell us JFK was shot with a 6.5mm semi-circular blob that Dr. Mantik has become obsessed about.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Quote from: Michael T. Griffith on September 16, 2020, 02:17:05 PM
Sorry, but that's just ridiculously erroneous.

Its not. The x-rays should have been the key to solving the JFK assassination (whether he was shot from the front or back) but instead they tell us JFK was shot with a 6.5mm semi-circular blob that Dr. Mantik has become obsessed about.

The x-rays do provide a great deal of information about Kennedy's wounds. They show he was struck by at least two bullets, one coming from the front. They also show that the ammo could not have been FMJ ammo. And, the 6.5 mm object is not a blob: it is a ghosted image that was placed over the image of the small genuine fragment in the back of the head. Dr. Mantik has established this with OD measurements, and has even duplicated how the object was ghosted.

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

Its not. The x-rays should have been the key to solving the JFK assassination (whether he was shot from the front or back) but instead they tell us JFK was shot with a 6.5mm semi-circular blob that Dr. Mantik has become obsessed about.

I agree that the medical evidence (the autopsy report, the X-rays, the photographs) in any murder case is of the utmost importance, but in the assassination of the President it has been tainted by stories of destroyed autopsy evidence, missing autopsy evidence, multiple original autopsy reports, altered photographs and X-rays, conflicting witness statements about the location and size of the wounds and so on.

Take the head wound. At autopsy it was determined that the bullet had entered the back of JFK's head LOW, a little above and to the right of the EOP, and created a large exit wound in the parietal bone, extending into the temporal and occipital regions.

The HSCA relocated the entry wound in the skull to the top of the head, while limiting the large exit wound almost entirely to the parietal region - at least that is how it appears in the Dox drawing.

The autopsy photograph of the back and top of the head does not show any of these wounds, except the bone flap which is in the back of the photo. The purpose of the picture is unclear, and the reason the ruler is held near the head and what exactly it is measuring is anybody's guess, as it can't be there to measure the size of the bullet hole in the cowlick, as the pathologists had located the entry wound 4 inches lower.