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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) fired three shots at the Presidential limousine on November 22, 1963, killing President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and wounding Governor John B. Connally (JBC). They further claimed that one bullet struck both men as it first hit JFK and then went on to wound JBC.
This theory became known as the Single Bullet Theory (SBT) and involved Commission Exhibit (CE) 399. We have seen numerous times in many posts that the SBT was impossible, and this post will again show this from yet another angle.
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Following the shooting of JFK he was rushed to Parkland Hospital (PH) where he was attended to by the doctors and nurses on staff. Quite a number of them commented on the massive head wound that they observed. One of these was Dr. Malcolm Perry.
Mr. SPECTER - Will you now describe as specifically as you can, the injury which you noted in the President's head?
Dr. PERRY - As I mentioned previously in the record, I made only a cursory examination of the President's head. I noted a large avulsive wound of the right parietal occipital area, in which both scalp and portions of skull were absent, and there was severe laceration of underlying brain tissue. My examination did not go any further than that.
Mr. SPECTER - Did you, to be specific, observe a smaller wound below the large, avulsed area which you have described?
Dr. PERRY – I did not.
I have already done a post on all the comments regarding the head wound in other posts so I will not go further on the head wound, but Dr. Perry’s comment was the consensus among the doctors and nurses that saw JFK.
The purpose of this post is to consider the validity of the SBT claim. Dr. Ronald Jones would tell WC counsel Arlen Specter this about the wound in JFK’s neck.
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 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.
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.
This is a very important statement as he is saying that the neck wound most likely an entrance wound, but if it was an exit wound then the bullet had to exit at such a low velocity that it “just dropped out” of the neck. This destroys the SBT because if the bullet just “dropped out” then how could it travel on to hit JBC and cause all those wounds in him? Obviously, it couldn’t.
The other question is how could a high velocity bullet be reduced to such a low velocity by just going through the neck when it didn’t hit any bone? We have also seen that the angle of entry most definitely precluded it from going through the neck and the autopsy doctors were never able to show that the bullet had traversed through the neck as claimed.
Notice how Dr. Jones said that the wound in JFK’s neck was “clean-cut” in nature. Now let’s compare this with Dr. Robert Shaw’s description of the chest wound he saw in JBC.
Mr. SPECTER - When did you first have an opportunity then to examine Governor Connally's wound on the posterior aspect of his chest?
Dr. SHAW - After the Governor had been anesthetized. As soon as he was asleep so we could manipulate him--before that time it was necessary for an endotracheal tube to be in place so his respirations could be controlled before we felt we could roll him over and accurately examine the wound entrance. We knew this was the wound exit.
Mr. DULLES - How did you know it was a wound exit?
Dr. SHAW – By the fact of its size, the ragged edges of the wound. This wound was covered by a dressing which could not be removed until the Governor was anesthetized.
This shows us the difference between a wound of exit versus one of entry. Dr. Shaw would tell us how you tell if a wound is one of entrance or exit.
Mr. SPECTER - What were the characteristics, if any, which indicated to you that it was a wound of entrance then?
Dr. SHAW – Its small size, and the rather clean cut edges of the wound as compared to the usual more ragged wound of exit.
Clean cut is what the doctors saw at PH in regard to the wound in JFK’s neck. This was most definitely a wound of entrance. If not, it was a wound of exit created by an extremely low velocity bullet that just “dropped out”. Either way this cannot be the cause of the wounds that JBC suffered.
Furthermore, Mrs. John B. Connally distinctly said in her testimony that JFK and JBC were it by separate bullets.
Mr. SPECTER. Mrs. Connally, tell us what happened at the time of the assassination.
Mrs. CONNALLY. …Then I don't know how soon, it seems to me it was very soon, that I heard a noise, and not being an expert rifleman, I was not aware that it was a rifle. It was just a frightening noise, and it came from the right.
I turned over my right shoulder and looked back, and saw the President as he had both hands at his neck.
Mr. SPECTER. And you are indicating with your own hands, two hands crossing over gripping your own neck?
Mrs. CONNALLY. Yes; and it seemed to me there was--he made no utterance, no cry. I saw no blood, no anything. It was just sort of nothing, the expression on his face, and he just sort of slumped down.
Then very soon there was the second shot that hit John. As the first shot was hit, and I turned to look at the same time, I recall John saying, "Oh, no, no, no." Then there was a second shot, and it hit John, and as he recoiled to the right, just crumpled like a wounded animal to the right, he said, "My God, they are going to kill us all."…
JBC would agree with his wife as he always said that he was hit by a separate bullet, and this too destroys the SBT.
Another thing that destroys the SBT, in addition to all the things we have seen in other posts already, is an interesting comment by Dr. Shaw during an interview given less than a week after the assassination. He granted an interview to Martin Steadman of the New York Herald-Tribune in which he stated that the bullet that had hit JFK “was removed in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where an autopsy was performed. (New York Herald-Tribune, November 28, 1963, edition)
So how could a bullet (CE 399) have been found on a stretcher in PH when the bullet in JFK had been removed at the autopsy? Clearly it couldn’t have, thus, this is one more piece of evidence showing that the SBT is totally incorrect.
Once again, we see evidence that shows the SBT is incorrect and this means that the WC’s conclusion is incorrect.
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) fired three shots at the Presidential limousine on November 22, 1963, killing President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and wounding Governor John B. Connally (JBC). They further claimed that one bullet struck both men as it first hit JFK and then went on to wound JBC.
This theory became known as the Single Bullet Theory (SBT) and involved Commission Exhibit (CE) 399. We have seen numerous times in many posts that the SBT was impossible, and this post will again show this from yet another angle.
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Following the shooting of JFK he was rushed to Parkland Hospital (PH) where he was attended to by the doctors and nurses on staff. Quite a number of them commented on the massive head wound that they observed. One of these was Dr. Malcolm Perry.
Mr. SPECTER - Will you now describe as specifically as you can, the injury which you noted in the President's head?
Dr. PERRY - As I mentioned previously in the record, I made only a cursory examination of the President's head. I noted a large avulsive wound of the right parietal occipital area, in which both scalp and portions of skull were absent, and there was severe laceration of underlying brain tissue. My examination did not go any further than that.
Mr. SPECTER - Did you, to be specific, observe a smaller wound below the large, avulsed area which you have described?
Dr. PERRY – I did not.
I have already done a post on all the comments regarding the head wound in other posts so I will not go further on the head wound, but Dr. Perry’s comment was the consensus among the doctors and nurses that saw JFK.
The purpose of this post is to consider the validity of the SBT claim. Dr. Ronald Jones would tell WC counsel Arlen Specter this about the wound in JFK’s neck.
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 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.
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.
This is a very important statement as he is saying that the neck wound most likely an entrance wound, but if it was an exit wound then the bullet had to exit at such a low velocity that it “just dropped out” of the neck. This destroys the SBT because if the bullet just “dropped out” then how could it travel on to hit JBC and cause all those wounds in him? Obviously, it couldn’t.
The other question is how could a high velocity bullet be reduced to such a low velocity by just going through the neck when it didn’t hit any bone? We have also seen that the angle of entry most definitely precluded it from going through the neck and the autopsy doctors were never able to show that the bullet had traversed through the neck as claimed.
Notice how Dr. Jones said that the wound in JFK’s neck was “clean-cut” in nature. Now let’s compare this with Dr. Robert Shaw’s description of the chest wound he saw in JBC.
Mr. SPECTER - When did you first have an opportunity then to examine Governor Connally's wound on the posterior aspect of his chest?
Dr. SHAW - After the Governor had been anesthetized. As soon as he was asleep so we could manipulate him--before that time it was necessary for an endotracheal tube to be in place so his respirations could be controlled before we felt we could roll him over and accurately examine the wound entrance. We knew this was the wound exit.
Mr. DULLES - How did you know it was a wound exit?
Dr. SHAW – By the fact of its size, the ragged edges of the wound. This wound was covered by a dressing which could not be removed until the Governor was anesthetized.
This shows us the difference between a wound of exit versus one of entry. Dr. Shaw would tell us how you tell if a wound is one of entrance or exit.
Mr. SPECTER - What were the characteristics, if any, which indicated to you that it was a wound of entrance then?
Dr. SHAW – Its small size, and the rather clean cut edges of the wound as compared to the usual more ragged wound of exit.
Clean cut is what the doctors saw at PH in regard to the wound in JFK’s neck. This was most definitely a wound of entrance. If not, it was a wound of exit created by an extremely low velocity bullet that just “dropped out”. Either way this cannot be the cause of the wounds that JBC suffered.
Furthermore, Mrs. John B. Connally distinctly said in her testimony that JFK and JBC were it by separate bullets.
Mr. SPECTER. Mrs. Connally, tell us what happened at the time of the assassination.
Mrs. CONNALLY. …Then I don't know how soon, it seems to me it was very soon, that I heard a noise, and not being an expert rifleman, I was not aware that it was a rifle. It was just a frightening noise, and it came from the right.
I turned over my right shoulder and looked back, and saw the President as he had both hands at his neck.
Mr. SPECTER. And you are indicating with your own hands, two hands crossing over gripping your own neck?
Mrs. CONNALLY. Yes; and it seemed to me there was--he made no utterance, no cry. I saw no blood, no anything. It was just sort of nothing, the expression on his face, and he just sort of slumped down.
Then very soon there was the second shot that hit John. As the first shot was hit, and I turned to look at the same time, I recall John saying, "Oh, no, no, no." Then there was a second shot, and it hit John, and as he recoiled to the right, just crumpled like a wounded animal to the right, he said, "My God, they are going to kill us all."…
JBC would agree with his wife as he always said that he was hit by a separate bullet, and this too destroys the SBT.
Another thing that destroys the SBT, in addition to all the things we have seen in other posts already, is an interesting comment by Dr. Shaw during an interview given less than a week after the assassination. He granted an interview to Martin Steadman of the New York Herald-Tribune in which he stated that the bullet that had hit JFK “was removed in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where an autopsy was performed. (New York Herald-Tribune, November 28, 1963, edition)
So how could a bullet (CE 399) have been found on a stretcher in PH when the bullet in JFK had been removed at the autopsy? Clearly it couldn’t have, thus, this is one more piece of evidence showing that the SBT is totally incorrect.
Once again, we see evidence that shows the SBT is incorrect and this means that the WC’s conclusion is incorrect.