Who’s telling the truth: Clint Hill or the Zapruder film?

[Albert Doyle]

That occurs in the Prologue to MURDER on page 4. In the Preface to HOAX, I point out that Newsweek (22 November 1993) published an article showing the head shot as having occurred around 35 feet further west than the "X" mark on Elm Street.

If you move Kennedy further west it only increases the unfavorable factors I discussed. It then becomes even more unlikely that a frangible bullet would not only not blast-off the top of Kennedy's head but would also make a hard left turn and remove an intact plug in the occiput.

What stresses me about this is the bringing the mountain to Mohammed aspect of how this conflicts with all the witnesses and other photographs.

While the bullet entered at the right temple, it did not exit at the back of the head, but rather created shock waves that blew his brains out the back of his head with such force that Officer Hargis, impacted with the debris, thought he himself had been shot.

I question this because it brings into bearing all the points I raised. It does not conform to gunshot wound behavior that a "shockwave" would create such a precise plug wound that is then referred to as an "exit wound". You are working against physics when you zone the explosive pattern of a frangible bullet against its know behavior. If a frangible bullet enters at the temple area and explodes it creates a determinable pattern that radiates out from that point. What you are doing is channeling the force of this event towards the rear wound in such a way that necessitates the focus of this energy in the occipital wound area with enough force to cause the Parkland rear wound but avoid causing the predictable wounds that would have occurred closer to the area of impact. While I think the Discovery Channel re-creation is not scientifically valid, I believe it does show a good representation of an exploding bullet wound to the head. The Grassy Knoll shot blows the dummy's head off completely. When you compare the Parkland perfect hair with this explosive event you get an idea of what is wrong with this theory and the true nature of these shockwaves. At this point it is fairly unbelievable to match an exploding bullet wound to the temple and the condition of Kennedy's parietal area at Parkland (in my opinion).

With regard to some of your more specific suggestions, the ejecta was all over the trunk and nauseated other Secret Service agents when they observed in on the limo in Washington, as I point out in HOAX on page 27, yet is missing in the film.

The skull is a contained dome. The transit of a bullet inside creates a huge overpressure that can blast the skull open. The hemispherical shape of the skull creates a hemispherical burst pattern from this event. The enhanced slow-motion Nix Film shows ejecta bursting rearward at the same time as the parietal burst.

I agree the trunk looks too clean for what was told by witnesses. However this doesn't preclude the forgers eliminating visible trunk material for the purpose of establishing a rear shot no matter what the shot directions. If Zapruder shows how the camera captures a gunshot wound over frames 313-314-315 then there's no excuse for it not capturing the rear wound. Unless the rear plug plopped-out when Kennedy jerked backwards. Or even later on the ride to Parkland. ?

Bob was a world authority on the human brain and also an expert on wound ballistics. It was his inference that the bullet that hit JFK in the throat fragmented and part went upward and severed the tentorium, which thereby exposed the cerebeullum.

I'd really like to see an extensive examination of the microscopic direction of the tie fibers and how they are explained.

It did, of course, also blow open the skull flap, which is apparent in frame 374, in the HSCA diagram and photograph, and was described by Thomas Evan Robinson, the mortician, who mentioned it to Joe West when he interviewed him about the wounds.

So how much of this do you attribute to the blood fog and how much to the forgery?


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