Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. SPECTER. Fine.
Mr. DULLES. Could you tell at all how the arm was held from that mark
or that hole in the sleeve?
Dr. SHAW. Mr. Dulles, I thought I knew just how the Governor was
wounded until I saw the pictures today, and it becomes a little bit
harder to explain.
I felt that the wound had been caused by the same bullet that came out
through the chest with the Governor's arm held in approximately this
position.
Mr. SPECTER. Indicating the right hand held close to the body?
Dr. SHAW. Yes, and this is still a possibility. But I don't feel that
it is the only possibility.
Senator COOPER. Why do you say you don't think it is the only
possibility? What causes you now to say that it is the location----
Dr. SHAW. This is again the testimony that I believe Dr. Gregory will
be giving, too. It is a matter of whether the wrist wound could be
caused by the same bullet, and we felt that it could but we had not
seen the bullets until today, and we still do not know which bullet
actually inflicted the wound on Governor Connally.
Mr. DULLES. Or whether it was one or two wounds?
Dr. SHAW. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. Or two bullets?
Dr. SHAW. Yes; or three.
Mr. DULLES. Why do you say three?
Dr. SHAW. He has three separate wounds. He has a wound in the chest, a
wound of the wrist, a wound of the thigh.
Mr. DULLES. Oh, yes; we haven't come to the wound of the thigh yet,
have we?
Mr. McCLOY. You have no firm opinion that all these three wounds were
caused by one bullet?
Dr. SHAW. I have no firm opinion.
Mr. McCLOY. That is right.
Dr. SHAW. Asking me this now if it was true. If you had asked me a
month ago I would have.
Mr. DULLES. Could they have been caused by one bullet, in your opinion?
Dr. SHAW. They could.
Mr. McCLOY. I gather that what the witness is saying is that it is
possible that they might have been caused by one bullet. But that he
has no firm opinion now that they were.
Mr. DULLES. As I understand it too. Is our understanding correct?
Dr. SHAW. That is correct.
Senator COOPER. When you say all three are you referring to the wounds
you have just described to the chest, the wound in the wrist, and also
the wound in the thigh?
Dr. SHAW. Yes.
Senator COOPER. It was possible?
Dr. SHAW. Our original assumption, Senator Cooper, was that the
Governor was approximately in this attitude at the time he was----
Senator COOPER. What attitude is that now?
Dr. SHAW. This is an attitude sitting in a jump seat as we know he
was, upright, with his right forearm held across the lower portion of
the chest. In this position, the trajectory of the bullet could have
caused the wound of entrance, the wound of exit, struck his wrist and
proceeded on into the left thigh. But although this is a possibility,
I can't give a firm opinion that this is the actual way in which it
occurred.
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