19-11-2012, 12:29 PM
Since we are talking about shots in Dealey Plaza, i believe - and i am not an expert when it comes to shots and trajectories-that two shots hit JFK's head, one at the back of his head near the EOP and one near the right temple from somewhere the front. The shot near the EOP was probably a tangential shot and originated either from behind (Dal Tex top floors or roof or the County recrds building). Alternatively this shot could have been fired from the front (near the overpass where it meets the grassy knoll). Dr. Kemp Clark at Parkland first described a tangential shot. Boswell and Lipsey also described such a shot.
Kemp Clark testimony
Dr. CLARK - I described the President's wound in his head in very much the same way as I have described it here. I was asked if this wound was an entrance wound, an exit wound, or what, and I said it could be an exit wound, but I felt it was a tangential wound.
Lipsey testimony
LIPSEY: No. That's...No. I hope I'm not contradicting myself. But at this point, there again, like I said, it's been a long time. I feel that there was no really entrance wound --maybe I said that --in the rear of his head. There was a point where they determined the bullet entered the back of his head but I believe all of that part of his head was blown. I mean I think it just physically blew away that part of his head. You know, just like a strip right across there or may have been just in that area -- just blew it out..
Q: So you say the damage caused by the entrance and the exit of the bullet to the head caused one large hole?
LIPSEY: To the best of my recollection, yes it did.
Boswell testimony
Q. Let's go back, if we could, to the location of the entrance wound in the skull. Could you tell me whether the entrance wound that you identified in the skull was something that appeared like a puncture in a bone with the remainder of the bone surrounding the hole? Or did the hole break off such that you would need other pieces of bone to be brought into place to show the entire periphery of the wound?
Q. Let me just state for the record you're referring now to the second page of Exhibit 1, and when you say "this," you're referring to the small fragment at the bottom of the page. Is that correct? A Yes.
Q. Okay.
A. And the beveling is such on both the wound here--or the remaining bone that is someplace in this area, but not shown in this diagram, and in this piece which, when put there, shows the approximate dimensions of the wound, and the beveling on the bone shows entrance and exit.
So according to Boswell, when a fragment was attached to the skull, they formed a wound that it was both of entrance and exit, what the experts call a key hole. So to my understanding the wound near the EOP was a tangential wound that it was revealed only after the fragment was fitted to the skull. Or else how the beveling would show both entrance and exit?
Kemp Clark testimony
Dr. CLARK - I described the President's wound in his head in very much the same way as I have described it here. I was asked if this wound was an entrance wound, an exit wound, or what, and I said it could be an exit wound, but I felt it was a tangential wound.
Lipsey testimony
LIPSEY: No. That's...No. I hope I'm not contradicting myself. But at this point, there again, like I said, it's been a long time. I feel that there was no really entrance wound --maybe I said that --in the rear of his head. There was a point where they determined the bullet entered the back of his head but I believe all of that part of his head was blown. I mean I think it just physically blew away that part of his head. You know, just like a strip right across there or may have been just in that area -- just blew it out..
Q: So you say the damage caused by the entrance and the exit of the bullet to the head caused one large hole?
LIPSEY: To the best of my recollection, yes it did.
Boswell testimony
Q. Let's go back, if we could, to the location of the entrance wound in the skull. Could you tell me whether the entrance wound that you identified in the skull was something that appeared like a puncture in a bone with the remainder of the bone surrounding the hole? Or did the hole break off such that you would need other pieces of bone to be brought into place to show the entire periphery of the wound?
Q. Let me just state for the record you're referring now to the second page of Exhibit 1, and when you say "this," you're referring to the small fragment at the bottom of the page. Is that correct? A Yes.
Q. Okay.
A. And the beveling is such on both the wound here--or the remaining bone that is someplace in this area, but not shown in this diagram, and in this piece which, when put there, shows the approximate dimensions of the wound, and the beveling on the bone shows entrance and exit.
So according to Boswell, when a fragment was attached to the skull, they formed a wound that it was both of entrance and exit, what the experts call a key hole. So to my understanding the wound near the EOP was a tangential wound that it was revealed only after the fragment was fitted to the skull. Or else how the beveling would show both entrance and exit?