22-06-2013, 05:27 PM
Daniel Gallup Wrote:You're probably right, but is it possible to severe the strap muscle's while making only a 2-3 cm incision? Maybe? One other possibility occurs to me. If the body was placed in a body bag, but moved significantly before it was placed in a coffin, as perhaps when it was offloaded from Air Force one, it's possible the unsupported head could have fallen back and that could have enlarged the throat wound. Some one with more medical expertise than me would have to weigh in on that.Quote:There are three possible explanations for the throat wound IMO: It was enlarged some time between Dallas and Besthesda in order to remove a bullet and/or obscure the entrance wound; it was enlarged by the doctors at Besthesda in order to do the same; or Perry himself enlarged it in order to look for damage to the trachea, as would be normal in the case of a bullet wound to the throat.
I agree with you -- these are the only three options possible. If Perry did this himself, why the very specific reply to Lifton in 1966? Why the description of the wound as "inviolate" after the trach tube was removed? Perry changed his tune on the direction of the non-fatal shot and the location of the head wound; why is there no testimony about enlarging the trach incision to inspect the trachea? There was damage to the trachea, and he did have to sever some strap muscles in order to perform the tracheotomy, but no mention of a 6-8 cm irregular gash in any early deposition. I think option 3 is a desperate attempt to avoid covert wound alteration, which would be the case for options 1 and 2, since the state of death photo is supposed to represent the condition of the President before the autopsy began.