"Respect" for the clothing evidence?

[Gordon Gray]

I have to say, I've always been curious about the bullet hole in the coat and the bullet hole in the shirt matching closely. To have the bullet hole in the same place on both shirt and coat, you need either no bunching at all (when seated with arm at shoulder height) or an exact same bunching of both. Both of those strike me as unlikely.

I wear suit coats, from time to time, and they usually do bunch up, if my arm is raised shoulder height or better, or if I sit down. However, that doesn't mean that the underlying shirt (generally secured by a belt) is bunching up as well. It seems to me that the coat material slides over the shirt material independently during any "bunching."

JFK had a better tailor. When he raised his arm his jacket indented.



When Drew Phipps casually raises his right arm the shirt fabric along his right shoulder-line indents.

Every. Single. Time.

The photo is instructive. The autopsy report located the back wound "14 cm (5.5 in) below the right mastoid process (the bony prominence behind the ear)." The Mastoid process is about level with the top of JFK's collar in this picture, so 5.5 " below would match the bullet hole in the shirt.