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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was hit in the head with a Full-Metal copper-jacketed (FMJ) bullet fired from a low-to-medium velocity rifle and that this bullet fragmented greatly leaving behind two fragments that would wind up in the limousine, and also one that would remain in JFK's head. Meanwhile, they endorsed the Death Certificate signed by JFK's personal physician, Admiral George Burkley, that stated the cause of death was due to a HIGH-VELOCITY bullet hitting JFK in the head! They of course would bury this Death Certificate and NOT include this very basic document in their huge 10,000,000 word, twenty-six volume tombs to the case.
Why?
Because NOTHING they would claim later made any sense and did NOT match the Death Certificate's cause of death. NOR did it match the back wound description.
I will now list some sources for my belief that this shows the whole official theory is a pile of crap. In 2002 Mike Griffith wrote a great article about this topic called "FORENSIC SCIENCE AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S HEAD WOUNDS", and he has compiled several experts in different areas for comment on things the WC claimed about the head wound.
First up is Howard Donahue who is a court-certified firearms expert AND a ballistics expert. Donahue said he would find it "highly unlikely the 6.5 mm fragment seen in the x-rays could have come from the kind of ammunition allegedly used by Oswald." Griffith explains why he said this. "Warren Commission supporters speculate that the fragment was "sheared off" from the bullet as the bullet entered the skull. But Donahue observed that a bullet fired from the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, i.e., from the sixth-floor sniper's nest that Oswald supposedly used, would have entered the skull at a downward angle and therefore would have most likely deposited the fragment above the entrance point, not below it. He further noted he had never heard of a fully metal-jacketed bullet having a fragment peel off from it on impact (Bonar Menninger, Mortal Error, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992, pp. 68, 160).
Donahue interviewed several forensic pathologists about this subject, including Dr. Thomas Smith. All of them said they had never heard of a FMJ bullet behaving in this manner, and that they considered such a scenario highly unlikely (Menninger, Mortal Error, p. 68)."
Others agreed with this finding. "Australian forensic expert Detective Shaun Roach and forensic pathologist Dr. Halpert Fillinger have likewise stated they have never heard of a fully jacketed missile behaving in this manner, and that they consider such a scenario extremely improbable. Detective Shaun Roach:
...due to the inherent strength of the 6.5 mm Carcano jacket, I also believe that it would not shear off a fragment upon entering the head, then deposit that fragment on the outer table of the skull, either above or below the wound...
Unless full metal jacketed bullets strike an intermediate object in flight, prompting premature expansion and/or fragmentation, the depositing of fragments outside the entry wound is foreign to my experience. It is not common sense and would only be proposed by a person totally out of touch with the mechanisms of bullet penetration through the human body. (In Harrison Livingstone, Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993, pp. 57-58)
Dr. Fillinger:
"You can appreciate the fact that a jacketed projectile is going to leave very little on the bone margins because it's basically a hardened jacket, and it's designed so that it will not scrape off when it goes through a steel barrel. One can appreciate the fact that going through bone, which is not as hard as steel, may etch or scratch it, but it's not going to peel off much metal. In contrast to this, a softer projectile might very well leave metallic residues around the margins." (In Robert Groden and Livingstone, High Treason, Berkley Books Edition, New York: Berkley Books, 1990, p. 79)
Please read the full article for more detail on this subject.
Howard Roffman, for his book "Presumed Guilty" also interviewed Dr. Fillinger about this topic in regards to the velocity of the bullet. Keep in mind Dr. Fillinger is a FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST!
Roffman wrote, "The size and extent of the gaping defect, and the associated fracturing and fragmentation of the skull, are indicative of a high-velocity bullet's having struck the head to produce this damage. Dr. Fillinger has expressed to me his strong feeling that the extensive fragmentation of the skull is the consequence of a high-velocity round. He stated that the presence of such massive fracturing means that "there is a tremendous amount of force applied to the skull to produce all these fractures...This has been pretty well fragmented, as a matter of fact," he told me, "And again, it speaks for some sort of high-velocity round."
Roffman continues, "The gaping defect and accompanying extensive fragmentation of the skull are not consistent with having been produced by the type of ammunition the Commission alleges was used which, despite contrary claims, was of "medium" velocity.
The Commission asserts that the fatal shot was fired at a distance of 270 feet (R585). Although the Report gives the average striking velocity of the bullets fired from "Oswald's" rifle at other distances as measured during the wound ballistics' tests, it does not record the velocity for the head shot tests at the proper distance. At 210 feet, the average striking velocity was 1,858 feet per second (R584). Dr. Fillinger told me that he would consider an impact velocity of 2,000 fps "medium."[18] Even Dr. Malcolm Perry of Parkland Hospital testified that he considered the Mannlicher-Carcano "a medium velocity weapon" (3H389). FBI ballistics expert Robert Frazier called the velocity "low" (3H414) although this would appear more of a comparative evaluation than an absolute statement, since bullets can be fired as slowly as 800 fps or as fast as 4,100 fps.
Because there was great damage to the head and extensive bullet fragmentation in the brain, Dr. Fillinger was doubtful that the Mannlicher-Carcano could have produced these wounds. "To produce this kind of effect," he told me, "you have to have a very high-velocity projectile, and the Carcano will not stand very high bolt pressures."
The massive defect corresponds perfectly to the characteristics that Humes described in reference to bullets that "have a common characteristic of fragmenting extensively upon striking," and that would have "extensively disrupted" the skull at the point of impact (2H356). Such a bullet would most likely be that which is used for "varminting." Bullets used in varmint hunting must be fired at very high velocities ranging upward from 2,700 fps, and are designed so that they will smash apart immediately on impact. They commonly leave pinhead-sized fragments scattered throughout the tissues."
It is obviously clear to anyone who is open to the truth that LHO's alleged M-C was NOT the murder weapon. To argue otherwise is to lie.
jfkindex.com/photos/head-wound-photos-640x258.jpg
The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was hit in the head with a Full-Metal copper-jacketed (FMJ) bullet fired from a low-to-medium velocity rifle and that this bullet fragmented greatly leaving behind two fragments that would wind up in the limousine, and also one that would remain in JFK's head. Meanwhile, they endorsed the Death Certificate signed by JFK's personal physician, Admiral George Burkley, that stated the cause of death was due to a HIGH-VELOCITY bullet hitting JFK in the head! They of course would bury this Death Certificate and NOT include this very basic document in their huge 10,000,000 word, twenty-six volume tombs to the case.
Why?
Because NOTHING they would claim later made any sense and did NOT match the Death Certificate's cause of death. NOR did it match the back wound description.
I will now list some sources for my belief that this shows the whole official theory is a pile of crap. In 2002 Mike Griffith wrote a great article about this topic called "FORENSIC SCIENCE AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S HEAD WOUNDS", and he has compiled several experts in different areas for comment on things the WC claimed about the head wound.
First up is Howard Donahue who is a court-certified firearms expert AND a ballistics expert. Donahue said he would find it "highly unlikely the 6.5 mm fragment seen in the x-rays could have come from the kind of ammunition allegedly used by Oswald." Griffith explains why he said this. "Warren Commission supporters speculate that the fragment was "sheared off" from the bullet as the bullet entered the skull. But Donahue observed that a bullet fired from the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, i.e., from the sixth-floor sniper's nest that Oswald supposedly used, would have entered the skull at a downward angle and therefore would have most likely deposited the fragment above the entrance point, not below it. He further noted he had never heard of a fully metal-jacketed bullet having a fragment peel off from it on impact (Bonar Menninger, Mortal Error, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992, pp. 68, 160).
Donahue interviewed several forensic pathologists about this subject, including Dr. Thomas Smith. All of them said they had never heard of a FMJ bullet behaving in this manner, and that they considered such a scenario highly unlikely (Menninger, Mortal Error, p. 68)."
Others agreed with this finding. "Australian forensic expert Detective Shaun Roach and forensic pathologist Dr. Halpert Fillinger have likewise stated they have never heard of a fully jacketed missile behaving in this manner, and that they consider such a scenario extremely improbable. Detective Shaun Roach:
...due to the inherent strength of the 6.5 mm Carcano jacket, I also believe that it would not shear off a fragment upon entering the head, then deposit that fragment on the outer table of the skull, either above or below the wound...
Unless full metal jacketed bullets strike an intermediate object in flight, prompting premature expansion and/or fragmentation, the depositing of fragments outside the entry wound is foreign to my experience. It is not common sense and would only be proposed by a person totally out of touch with the mechanisms of bullet penetration through the human body. (In Harrison Livingstone, Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993, pp. 57-58)
Dr. Fillinger:
"You can appreciate the fact that a jacketed projectile is going to leave very little on the bone margins because it's basically a hardened jacket, and it's designed so that it will not scrape off when it goes through a steel barrel. One can appreciate the fact that going through bone, which is not as hard as steel, may etch or scratch it, but it's not going to peel off much metal. In contrast to this, a softer projectile might very well leave metallic residues around the margins." (In Robert Groden and Livingstone, High Treason, Berkley Books Edition, New York: Berkley Books, 1990, p. 79)
Please read the full article for more detail on this subject.
Howard Roffman, for his book "Presumed Guilty" also interviewed Dr. Fillinger about this topic in regards to the velocity of the bullet. Keep in mind Dr. Fillinger is a FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST!
Roffman wrote, "The size and extent of the gaping defect, and the associated fracturing and fragmentation of the skull, are indicative of a high-velocity bullet's having struck the head to produce this damage. Dr. Fillinger has expressed to me his strong feeling that the extensive fragmentation of the skull is the consequence of a high-velocity round. He stated that the presence of such massive fracturing means that "there is a tremendous amount of force applied to the skull to produce all these fractures...This has been pretty well fragmented, as a matter of fact," he told me, "And again, it speaks for some sort of high-velocity round."
Roffman continues, "The gaping defect and accompanying extensive fragmentation of the skull are not consistent with having been produced by the type of ammunition the Commission alleges was used which, despite contrary claims, was of "medium" velocity.
The Commission asserts that the fatal shot was fired at a distance of 270 feet (R585). Although the Report gives the average striking velocity of the bullets fired from "Oswald's" rifle at other distances as measured during the wound ballistics' tests, it does not record the velocity for the head shot tests at the proper distance. At 210 feet, the average striking velocity was 1,858 feet per second (R584). Dr. Fillinger told me that he would consider an impact velocity of 2,000 fps "medium."[18] Even Dr. Malcolm Perry of Parkland Hospital testified that he considered the Mannlicher-Carcano "a medium velocity weapon" (3H389). FBI ballistics expert Robert Frazier called the velocity "low" (3H414) although this would appear more of a comparative evaluation than an absolute statement, since bullets can be fired as slowly as 800 fps or as fast as 4,100 fps.
Because there was great damage to the head and extensive bullet fragmentation in the brain, Dr. Fillinger was doubtful that the Mannlicher-Carcano could have produced these wounds. "To produce this kind of effect," he told me, "you have to have a very high-velocity projectile, and the Carcano will not stand very high bolt pressures."
The massive defect corresponds perfectly to the characteristics that Humes described in reference to bullets that "have a common characteristic of fragmenting extensively upon striking," and that would have "extensively disrupted" the skull at the point of impact (2H356). Such a bullet would most likely be that which is used for "varminting." Bullets used in varmint hunting must be fired at very high velocities ranging upward from 2,700 fps, and are designed so that they will smash apart immediately on impact. They commonly leave pinhead-sized fragments scattered throughout the tissues."
It is obviously clear to anyone who is open to the truth that LHO's alleged M-C was NOT the murder weapon. To argue otherwise is to lie.