21-06-2013, 12:50 AM
Albert Rossi Wrote:If I might ask another question ... and please do not interpret this as defense of one or the other position in this discussion, it is purely an interrogative: has there been any attempt to reconcile the notion of a single, McClelland/Carrico 5-7 cm occipital exit wound at Dallas with the pattern of debris and skull fragments scattered, not only in the limo, but in Dealey Plaza? If someone could point me to something published which at least addresses this issue, I'd love to give it a gander (if I haven't already and thus am suffering from memory lapse). I know Fiester deals with backspatter, but I don't think her argument is tightly coupled to the dimensions or exact configuration of the rearward-exiting wound. Plus she does not really deal specifically with where the bone fragments landed -- or better, where they were reported to have landed. (Not to complicate this question, I leave aside here the thorny issue of where the recovered fragments actually fit on the cranium, which is certainly a relevant question but is somewhat distinct from the one I'm asking here). Thanks!Albert, I have found Dr. Aguilar to be one of the best sources for understanding the medical evidence. Perhaps you are already familiar with him. If not here is a link: http://www.history-matters.com/essays/jf...rong_6.htm[TABLE="align: left"]
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[TD]Warren Commission Exhibit 386 shows a head entrance wound which is distinct from the large right-side wound. Dr. Boswell told the HSCA in 1977 and the ARRB in 1996 that the entrance hole was actually inferred from beveling present on a late-arriving bone fragment which fit into a wound which was initially much larger than shown here, and which extended down to the entrance hole.
(see CE 386 in WH16, Dr. Boswell's HSCA interview in Vol 7., p. 246, and Dr. Boswell's ARRB deposition, p. 80)
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"They didn't just observe a cone-shaped hole in an otherwise intact plate of skull bone, like it appears in the Rydberg diagram. Instead, the beveling was present only on an edge of intact occipital bone. The rest of it was present on the edge of a bone fragment that arrived late during the autopsy, a fragment that "fit into" the rearward skull defect around the edge of the bullet hole. Boswell told the Review Board that the Rydberg diagram (See Figure 1) (which was drawn months after the autopsy,[354] and only from memory) "does not depict any of the skull wounds."[355] Though the rear portion of Rydberg's "skull" appears to show only a small entrance hole in otherwise intact occipital bone, the diagram, Boswell said, was meant only to show the appearance of the scalp in the rear, not the defect in the skull bone. The real defect in Kennedy's skull, he explained, was far larger. " This fragment of occipital bone found on the seat of the limo is evidence IMO of a bone fragment blown out the rear of the presidents' head.