Head Shot at z230?

[Bob Prudhomme]

Sorry about that. I meant to get back onto this later in the day but other obligations and distractions came up.

Anyways, the evidence I was referring to that made me think JFK had suffered a shot to the back of the head can be found in the HSCA interview of Gawler's Funeral Home director Thomas Robinson:

[size=12]Purdy: We've just gone through the backgrounds of when you were
present at the autopsy prior to beginning your work. Could
you please detail for us your recollection of events and
what you saw once you began your work.

Robinson: Once I began the work? I remember the tracheotomy; I
remember the bones of the skull and face badly shattered.

Purdy: Where on the face were they shattered, which of the bones?

Robinson: You cannot see that from the outside. This is looking
through the opening that the physicians had made at the
back of the skull.

As far as I can tell, Robinson was the only person involved with the autopsy that mentioned the breakage of JFK's facial bones. This kind of damage is typical of a bullet that breaks up so completely, it comes to a stop in the wound and hydraulically transfers all of its energy to surrounding tissue.

Although it was not in this interview and I am unable to recall exactly where I saw it, Robinson also mentioned there were two small "leaks" in JFK's face that necessitated being filled with wax, in order to prevent fluid leaking onto JFK's face while he was in the casket.

Once again, I refer the reader to my thread "Inexplicable Wounds made by Special Bullets", in which I discuss the 6.5mm Carcano M37 frangible bullet.



As seen above, the jacket is in two pieces, plus a very deep cannelure near the base. Inside, there is sand in the base, powdered lead in the middle and a solid maillechort pellet in the nose. Converting this to a lethal bullet would only require deepening the opening in the nose by 1 or 2 mm. and making a true hollow point out of this bullet.

With the hollow point breaking up first inside JFK's skull, the maillechort pellet would be reduced to many small fragments, and it is likely these that inflicted the wounds that left the "leaks" in JFK's face. Once the maillechort pellet was gone, the powdered lead and sand would spread out into a 3-4 inch cloud, come to an abrupt halt partway through the brain, and create an enormous pressure wave that would break all of JFK's facial bones and destroy the right side of JFK's brain; leaving a cloud of dustlike fragments inside the cranial cavity. No other type of bullet is capable of being reduced to powder or dust. As I have stated before, lead is malleable, not brittle. This complete breakup of the bullet would also mean there was a very good chance there would be no exit wound.

So, if there were no exit wound, would the coordinator of the sniper team be able to tell if a fatal wound had been inflicted at z230? Of course not, and this is why there were additional shots, with the final shot exiting the back of JFK's skull almost precisely where the first bullet entered.
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