Inexplicable Wounds made by Special Bullets

[Bob Prudhomme]

No need to get upset, I thought that was what you were arguing. I'd suspect that document, whatever it would show, would be easily hidden within national security confidential information orders. Though I'm not sure what it would show? I'd imagine the spooks would be kept off the record.

Not upset. Just one of those moments within this community that can be frustrating, at least for me.

I agree it could be and likely has been hidden if it even survived. But it also seems like the kind of thing that someone that doesn't understand what they are looking at might miss when documents are being classified. Pure conjecture on my part, I admit.

Precisely, Michael. The same applies to medical evidence. This is why the WC side has been able to tell us for years that doctors at PH were placing chest tubes into JFK to relieve a condition known as "subcutaneous emphysema". Not only is this condition non-life threatening, it is not a condition you would attempt to deal with on a pulseless patient, as basic life support would take a much higher precedence. Also, as a doctor friend informs me, chest tubes would not necessarily be the recommended procedure to relieve subcutaneous emphysema.

Plain and simple, JFK was shot in the back with a frangible bullet that entered his right pleural cavity and did not exit. The bullet entered 5.75" below the collar line, at about the level of thoracic vertebra T3, and 1.5-2" to the right of the spinal midline. This bullet entered the top of the right lung, inducing a tension pneumothorax there with, in the words of Dr. Marion Jenkins, "obvious signs of pneumothorax.....", which included JFK's trachea being deviated to the left. Without prompt medical attention, this wound alone could have proven to be fatal.

Chest tubes are regularly inserted, in the ER, into patients with possible respiratory injuries, as assisted ventilation is at a higher pressure than the patient would be able to inhale from atmospheric pressure, and it may be argued the chest tubes were placed into JFK merely as a precaution against a tension pneumothorax that might develop, once assisted ventilation was begun. However, with Dr. Jenkins observing "obvious signs of pneumothorax..." and he and several other doctors observing JFK's trachea deviation to the left, it is quite apparent JFK's tension pneumothorax was present before resuscitation attempts were begun.