Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
It disclosed that the type of head wounds that the President
received could be done by this type of bullet. This surprised
me very much, because this type of stable bullet I didn’t
think would cause a massive head wound, I thought it would go
through making a small entrance and exit, but the bones of the
skull are enough to deform the end of this bullet causing it to
expend a lot of energy and blowing out the side of the skull or
blowing out fragments of the skull.[C3-160]
After examining the fragments of the bullet which struck the
reconstructed skull, Dr. Olivier stated that--
the recovered fragments were very similar to the ones recovered
on the front seat and on the floor of the car.
This, to me, indicates that those fragments did come from the
bullet that wounded the President in the head.[C3-161]
The President’s Neck Wounds
During the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital another bullet wound
was observed near the base of the back of President Kennedy’s neck
slightly to the right of his spine which provides further enlightenment
as to the source of the shots. The hole was located approximately 5½
inches (14 centimeters) from the tip of the right shoulder joint and
approximately the same distance below the tip of the right mastoid
process, the bony point immediately behind the ear.[C3-162] The
wound was approximately one-fourth by one-seventh of an inch (7 by
4 millimeters), had clean edges, was sharply delineated, and had
margins similar in all respects to those of the entry wound in the
skull.[C3-163] Commanders Humes and Boswell agreed with Colonel Finck’s
testimony that this hole--
* * * is a wound of entrance. * * * The basis for that
conclusion is that this wound was relatively small with clean
edges. It was not a jagged wound, and that is what we see in
wound of entrance at a long range.[C3-164]
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