JFK's Tie Knot

[Bob Prudhomme]

As the nick is roughly 3.5 inches from where the tail of the tie was severed, it is very obvious the nurses pulled 2-3 inches of slack on the tail of the tie before cutting the tail just to the left of the tie knot, either with scissors or a scalpel, although a scalpel is definitely not the customary tool for this job.

That being said, if a scalpel was used to sever the tail of the tie where it came out the left side of the tie knot, the knot would have been nowhere near the shirt collar, and I believe we can eliminate the tie-cutting-with-a-scalpel as the culprit for the vertical slits in the shirt.



If the nurses did not make the slits in the shirt with a scalpel as they were cutting the tie off, when did they make them?

The only other possibility is the slits were made by the nurses while attempting to cut the collar button off, in an attempt to open JFK's collar. However, this doesn't really work either.

If someone was trying to cut the button off, wouldn't they lay the scalpel blade flat under the button and cut the threads? How would you end up with the button still attached, and vertical slits well below and nowhere near the button?

I think we have been had, and the matching "slits" are actually either the exit or entry point of a projectile.