25-01-2011, 04:52 PM
Except there was an entry wound in the right temple and the X-rays show a pattern of tiny pieces of lead or, more likely, mercury that were distributed from the explosion of the frangible bullet that created the shock wave that blew his brains out to the left rear with such force that, when Officer Bobby Hargis, who was riding to the left rear, was hit with them, he initially thought that he himself had been shot. That Clint Hill observed a massive, gaping fist-sized hole in the back of his head does not suggest a shot from the rear. It is certainly not the position of David W. Mantik, John Costella, Jack White, Charles Crenshaw, David Lifton, David Healy or me. For an overview that synthesizes what we have discovered about the assassination, where this synthesis is mine, see "Dealey Plaza Revisited: What Happened to JFK?", http://www.und.edu/org/jfkconference/UNDchapter30.pdf I highly recommend reviewing Mantik's study of the medical evidence in MURDER IN DEALEY PLAZA (2000), where his analysis confirms Crenshaw's personal observation that a bullet entered in the immediate vicinity of the right temple. While Chuck was of the opinion that it was a tangential shot that went directly out the back of his head, it is David's conclusion, based upon the distribution of metallic fragments, that it was a frangible bullet that fragmented upon impact, where Bob Livingston, a world authority on the human brain and an expert on wound ballistics, explained to me that the shock waves from the exploding bullet blew his brains out the back of his head, which had already been weakened from a shot in the vicinity of the EOP and which included cerebellar as well as cerebral tissue. Of special interest is his expert opinion that even a causal interaction of the two shots to the head would not have dislodged cerebellar tissue unless the tough membrane that covers it, the tentorium, had previously been ruptured. On that basis, he inferred that the shot that hit JFK in the throat had to have fragmented, one part going upward and cutting the tentorium, the other downward into his lung. The death of the president was therefore a result of the causal interaction of three shots, the shot to his throat, the shot to the back of his head, and the shot that entered his right temple and exploded with the dramatic effects that I have described above. Thanks to Bernice for raising a question that invited me to expand on this crucial point, which is essential to understanding the causes of death.
Bernice Moore Wrote:I believe there's a possible false assumption with the rearward brain and blood material. That pattern is possible from an exploding head from a rear shot. Hill saw an intact section of skull, scalp, and hair on the seat. Assumably the plug that detached from the wound. However if this was the forceful ejection of a piece of Kennedy's head from a gunshot exit wound it seems it would have ejected further according to the position Kennedy was in at the time. However if this was a section knocked-out by a shot from the rear it would remain in one piece as it did, and not eject too far, and plop down - as it did.
this NIX gif below, hopefully working here as it shows a fragment being shot out the back of jfk's head..