01-09-2014, 03:29 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Bob: Your fragmenting bullet idea is consistent with the throat wound being an exit wound, of a small fragment of a back-entering bullet, as the fragments that leave the main mass of the bullet have some other trajectory than the back entry trajectory.
This is possible, although, if the bullet did enter the top of the right lung and disintegrate there, as a frangible bullet will, any remaining fragment (or piece of jacket casing) large enough to make the throat wound would have a rather circuitous route to navigate, in order to find its way out of the upper right thoracic cavity and into JFK's throat. Also, fragments tend to be irregular in shape, and make irregularly shaped entry and exit wounds unlike the wound described in JFK's throat.
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964