26-12-2022, 02:21 PM
Jack Myers soars to a height of excellence in enumerating the reasons for dismissing Tatum's presence as an eyewitness, then crashes & burns on the issue of the coup de grace:
Problem is, the forensic evidence showed that one of the shots was likely fired from a steep downward angle, from above the officer, unlike the other three shots. The final shot was more accurate, more deadly, and apparently done from a much closer distance.
This amplifies Joseph McBride's Into the Nightmare:
Dr. Rose authorized the clothing to be sent to the Dallas Criminal Laboratory, where it was found to have no powder burns, indicating no gunshot wounds to the chest were fired at close range. [p.591]
But the autopsy's Gunshot Wound Chart indicates that the directions of wounds 1, 2 & 3 (head, chest & chest) are either upward (1 & 3) or slightly upward (2) and that powder burns are absent from 1 [p.11]. The report states "No powder tattooing is noted at the margins" of the head wound (1) [p.29]. Therefore, all three have similar trajectories and none was fired at close range. Dr. Rose does not analyze "the sequence of occurrence," telling the FBI, "The numbers are arbitrary and were used for identification purposes..." [p.8]. I.e., there is no known "final shot."
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461220
Upshot is the discrepancies between what Jack Myers says about the wounds and the actual content of Dr. Rose's autopsy report constitute a massive continuity blunder, with the baseless coup de grace plot element bereft of both eyewitness & forensic support.
The long term problem is a common failure to condemn this spurious element as an obvious fiction concocted by the HSCA and injected into the large barrelful of red herrings in which Tippit murder research perpetually drowns.
Problem is, the forensic evidence showed that one of the shots was likely fired from a steep downward angle, from above the officer, unlike the other three shots. The final shot was more accurate, more deadly, and apparently done from a much closer distance.
This amplifies Joseph McBride's Into the Nightmare:
Dr. Rose authorized the clothing to be sent to the Dallas Criminal Laboratory, where it was found to have no powder burns, indicating no gunshot wounds to the chest were fired at close range. [p.591]
But the autopsy's Gunshot Wound Chart indicates that the directions of wounds 1, 2 & 3 (head, chest & chest) are either upward (1 & 3) or slightly upward (2) and that powder burns are absent from 1 [p.11]. The report states "No powder tattooing is noted at the margins" of the head wound (1) [p.29]. Therefore, all three have similar trajectories and none was fired at close range. Dr. Rose does not analyze "the sequence of occurrence," telling the FBI, "The numbers are arbitrary and were used for identification purposes..." [p.8]. I.e., there is no known "final shot."
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461220
Upshot is the discrepancies between what Jack Myers says about the wounds and the actual content of Dr. Rose's autopsy report constitute a massive continuity blunder, with the baseless coup de grace plot element bereft of both eyewitness & forensic support.
The long term problem is a common failure to condemn this spurious element as an obvious fiction concocted by the HSCA and injected into the large barrelful of red herrings in which Tippit murder research perpetually drowns.