03-11-2014, 04:09 PM
The medical panels disputed the location of the head wound specified by Commander Humes.
Source: Warren Commission Testimony of Commander James J. Humes on March 16, 1964 - 2H, 351
Commander HUMES - The second wound was found in the right posterior portion of the scalp. This wound was situated approximately 2.5 centimeters to the right, and slightly above the external occiptal[sic] protuberance which is a bony prominence situated in the posterior portion of everyone's skull. This wound was then 2 1/2 centimeters to the right and slightly above that point.
Source: Clark Panel Report - page 11
On one of the lateral films of the skull (#2), a hole measuring approximately 8 mm. in diameter on the outer surface of the skull and as much as 20 mm. on the internal surface can be seen in profile approximately 100 mm. above the external occipital protuberance. The bone of the lower edge of the hole is depressed. Also there is, embedded in the outer table of the skull close to the lower edge of the hole, a large metallic fragment which on the anteroposterior film (#1) lies 25 mm. to the right of the midline. This fragment as seen in the latter film is round and measures 6.5 mm in diameter immediately adjacent to the hole on the internal surface of the skull, there is localized elevation of the soft tissues. Small fragments of bone lie within portions of these tissues and within the hole itself. These changes are consistent with an entrance wound of the skull produced by a bullet similar to that of exhibit CE 399.
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The Forensic Pathology Panel concurred with the placement of the entry skull wound by the Clark Panel. These medicals panels also disputed with the essential details of the back wound described by Humes during his WC testimony.
Source: Warren Commission Testimony of Commander James J. Humes on March 16, 1964 - 2H, 351
Commander HUMES - These exhibits again are schematic representations of what we observed at the time of examining the body of the late President. Exhibit 385 shows in the low neck an oval wound which excuse me, I wish to get the measurements correct. This wound was situated just above the upper border of the scapula, and measured 7 by 4 millimeters, with its long axis roughly parallel to the long axis of vertical column.
Source: Clark Panel Report - page 8
There is an elliptical penetrating wound of the skin of the back located approximately 15 cm. medial to the right acromial process, 5 cm. lateral to the mid-dorsal line and 14 cm. below the right mastoid process. This wound lies approximately 5.5 cm. below a transverse fold in the skin of the neck. This fold can also be seen in a lateral view of the neck which shows an anterior tracheotomy wound. This view makes it possible to compare the levels of these two wounds in relation to that of the horizontal plane of the body.
A well defined zone of discoloration of the edge of the back wound, most pronounced on its upper and outer margins, identifies it as having the characteristics of the entrance wound of a bullet. The wound with its marginal abrasion measures approximately 7 mm. in width by 10 mm. in length. The dimensions of this cutaneous wound are consistent with those of a wound produced by a bullet similar to that which constitutes exhibit CE 399.
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The FPP described a back wound with its longer axis roughly perpendicular, not parallel, to the long axis of the vertical column.
Rydberg and Dox illustrated this glaring contradiction in the drawings.
http://hdblenner.com/temps/backwounds.jpg
Finally Fox-5 confirms the existence of two objects on the back of President Kennedy with relative dimensions and orientations of the longer axes that match the differing descriptions of the back wounds.
http://hdblenner.com/coldfusion_files/f5rotated.jpg
Source: Warren Commission Testimony of Commander James J. Humes on March 16, 1964 - 2H, 351
Commander HUMES - The second wound was found in the right posterior portion of the scalp. This wound was situated approximately 2.5 centimeters to the right, and slightly above the external occiptal[sic] protuberance which is a bony prominence situated in the posterior portion of everyone's skull. This wound was then 2 1/2 centimeters to the right and slightly above that point.
Source: Clark Panel Report - page 11
On one of the lateral films of the skull (#2), a hole measuring approximately 8 mm. in diameter on the outer surface of the skull and as much as 20 mm. on the internal surface can be seen in profile approximately 100 mm. above the external occipital protuberance. The bone of the lower edge of the hole is depressed. Also there is, embedded in the outer table of the skull close to the lower edge of the hole, a large metallic fragment which on the anteroposterior film (#1) lies 25 mm. to the right of the midline. This fragment as seen in the latter film is round and measures 6.5 mm in diameter immediately adjacent to the hole on the internal surface of the skull, there is localized elevation of the soft tissues. Small fragments of bone lie within portions of these tissues and within the hole itself. These changes are consistent with an entrance wound of the skull produced by a bullet similar to that of exhibit CE 399.
End of quotations.
The Forensic Pathology Panel concurred with the placement of the entry skull wound by the Clark Panel. These medicals panels also disputed with the essential details of the back wound described by Humes during his WC testimony.
Source: Warren Commission Testimony of Commander James J. Humes on March 16, 1964 - 2H, 351
Commander HUMES - These exhibits again are schematic representations of what we observed at the time of examining the body of the late President. Exhibit 385 shows in the low neck an oval wound which excuse me, I wish to get the measurements correct. This wound was situated just above the upper border of the scapula, and measured 7 by 4 millimeters, with its long axis roughly parallel to the long axis of vertical column.
Source: Clark Panel Report - page 8
There is an elliptical penetrating wound of the skin of the back located approximately 15 cm. medial to the right acromial process, 5 cm. lateral to the mid-dorsal line and 14 cm. below the right mastoid process. This wound lies approximately 5.5 cm. below a transverse fold in the skin of the neck. This fold can also be seen in a lateral view of the neck which shows an anterior tracheotomy wound. This view makes it possible to compare the levels of these two wounds in relation to that of the horizontal plane of the body.
A well defined zone of discoloration of the edge of the back wound, most pronounced on its upper and outer margins, identifies it as having the characteristics of the entrance wound of a bullet. The wound with its marginal abrasion measures approximately 7 mm. in width by 10 mm. in length. The dimensions of this cutaneous wound are consistent with those of a wound produced by a bullet similar to that which constitutes exhibit CE 399.
End of quotations.
The FPP described a back wound with its longer axis roughly perpendicular, not parallel, to the long axis of the vertical column.
Rydberg and Dox illustrated this glaring contradiction in the drawings.
http://hdblenner.com/temps/backwounds.jpg
Finally Fox-5 confirms the existence of two objects on the back of President Kennedy with relative dimensions and orientations of the longer axes that match the differing descriptions of the back wounds.
http://hdblenner.com/coldfusion_files/f5rotated.jpg