Dotting the Eye

[Gordon Gray]

You don't address any of the points I am making. Let me try to be clear one more time before I give up. We are discussing the black dot. Whether it is an entrance or exit wound. If it's an entrance wound then given the direction the President's head is facing at Z312, it would have had to have come from the area of the South Knoll. The only evidence I can think of for a shot from that direction is Plumlee, and Fetzer's hole in the windshield. I think both are suspect. It could be an exit wound. The autopsists found a 17 cm x 10 cm wound extending from the temperal bone through the parietal well down into the occipital bone. The Dallas doctors did not see a wound this large because while the scalp had been lacerated it covered most of the forward edges of the wound in the skull. When the Bethesda doctors reflected the scalp they found that skull fragments had adhered to the underside of the scalp and the wound in the underlying bone was much larger. At the bottom edge of the wound in the occiput they found a notch with beveling that was in keeping with an entrance. They found beveling on a separated fragment of occiput that they fit into the wound to form what they believed was the wound of entrance. They also found beveling on another fragment from the front of the head with the beveling indicating an exit. This is by no means conclusive or even compelling, but it is suggestive of a rear entrance. And let me try to be very clear here, a rear entrance wound in no way precludes a front entry as well. In addition they found bullet fragments in the area behind the orbital bone, very near the location of the dot. Combine this with the forward head movement in Z312-313 and the observations of the people who saw the "other film" and observed a clear distinction between a forward movement followed by a rearward movement, and I think you have evidence of two shots, and more evidence for a rear entry with an exit at the point of the dot, than you do for an entry at that point. In addition both Cyril Wecht and David Mantik believe there were both shot's from the rear and the front.( Wecht believes a shot entered at the rear and exited the right front leaving a defect. Another shot entered at this defect and blew out the back of the head.) Since they certainly don't accept the higher rear location of the HSCA, they must accept the lower location of the autopsy doctors. The autopsists located the rear entrance at a point to the right of the mid line and somewhat above the occipital protuberance. Unfortunately we don't say how far above. But certainly not the 10cm that the HSCA said it was. However, a shot from the second or third floor of the Dal Tex building, striking at this location, could exit from the area of the dot in JFK frontal bone. Could. Not saying that it did, just that it is plausible.