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. DULLES. Are there any other perforations in these trousers at all,
any other holes?
Dr. SHAW. No.
Mr. DULLES. So that means that whatever made the hole on the front side
did not come through and make a hole anywhere else in the trousers?
Dr. SHAW. That is correct. It had to be a penetrating wound and not a
perforating wound, it didn't go on through.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you turn those trousers over, Dr. Shaw?
Dr. SHAW. I believe we had already looked at it.
Mr. SPECTER. On the reverse side, and state whether or not this picture
bearing Commission Exhibit No. 688 accurately depicts the reverse side
of the trousers?
Dr. SHAW. Yes; it does.
Mr. SPECTER. Is there any hole shown either on the picture or on the
trousers themselves?
Dr. SHAW. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Dr. Shaw, I now show you a body diagram which is marked
"Commission Exhibit No. 689."
Senator COOPER. May I ask a question before you ask that question?
When you first saw Governor Connally in the emergency room was he
dressed or undressed?
Dr. SHAW. His trousers were still on. He had his shorts on, I should
say, Senator Cooper, but his coat, shirt, and trousers had been removed.
Mr. SPECTER. Were his clothes anywhere in the vicinity where you could
have seen them?
Dr. SHAW. No; I never saw them. This is the first time that I saw them.
Mr. SPECTER. That is earlier today when you examined them in this room?
Dr. SHAW. That is correct.
Mr. SPECTER. Looking at Commission Exhibit No. 689, is that a drawing
which was prepared, after consultation with you, representing the
earlier theory of all of the Governor's wounds having been inflicted by
a single missile?
Dr. SHAW. That is correct.
Mr. SPECTER. With reference to that diagram, would you explain the
position that you had earlier thought the Governor to have been in when
he was wounded here?
Dr. SHAW. We felt that the Governor was in an upright sitting position,
and at the time of wounding was turning slightly to the right. This
would bring the three wounds, as we know them, the wound in the chest,
the wound in the wrist, and the wound in the thigh into a line assuming
that the right forearm was held against the lower right chest in front.
The line of inclination of this particular diagram is a little more
sharply downward than is probably correct in view of the inclination of
the ribs of the chest.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you redraw that line, Dr. Shaw, to conform with what
you believe to be----
Dr. SHAW. The fact that the muscle bundles on either side of the
fifth rib were not damaged meant that the missile to strip away 10
centimeters of the rib had to follow this rib pretty much along its
line of inclination.
Mr. DULLES. I wonder if you could use that red pencil to make it a
little clearer for us?
Dr. SHAW. I think these would probably work well on this paper. Perhaps
this isn't a tremendous point but it slopes just a little too much.
Mr. SPECTER. You have initialed that to show your incline?
Dr. SHAW. Yes.
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