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. As opposed to any objectively determinable facts from the
bullets, the situs of the wounds or your viewing of the pictures?
Dr. SHAW. Yes. I was influenced a great deal by what Governor Connally
knew about his movements in the car at this particular time.
Mr. DULLES. You have indicated a certain angle of declination on this
chart here which the Chief Justice has.
Dr. SHAW. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know enough about the angle of declination of the
bullet that hit the President to judge at all whether these two angles
of declination are consistent?
Dr. SHAW. We know that the angle of declination was a downward one from
back to front so that I think this is consistent with the angle of
declination of the wound that the Governor sustained.
Senator COOPER. Are you speaking of the angle of declination in the
President's body?
Dr. SHAW. Of the first wound?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes.
Dr. SHAW. First wound.
Mr. SPECTER. What you have actually seen from pictures to show the
angle of declination?
Dr. SHAW. That is right.
Mr. SPECTER. In the wounds in the President's body?
Dr. SHAW. Yes; that is right. I did not examine the President.
Mr. DULLES. And that angle taking into account say the 4 feet
difference between where the President was sitting and where the
Governor was sitting, would be consistent with the point of entry of
the Governor's body as you have shown it?
Dr. SHAW. The jump seat in the car, as we could see, placed the
Governor sitting at a lower level than the President, and I think
conceivably these two wounds could have been caused by the same bullet.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you have anything else to add, Dr. Shaw, which you
think would be helpful to the Commission in any way?
Dr. SHAW. I don't believe so Mr. Specter.
Mr. SPECTER. May it please the Commission then I would like to move
into evidence Commission Exhibits Nos. 679 and 680, and then reserve
Nos. 681 and 682 until we get the photographs of the X-rays and I now
move for admission into evidence Commission Exhibits Nos. 683 through
689.
Senator COOPER. They have all been identified, have they?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes, sir; during the course of Dr. Shaw's testimony.
Senator COOPER. It is ordered then that these exhibits be received in
the record.
(The documents referred to, previously identified as Commission
Exhibits Nos. 679, 680, and 683-689 for identification were received in
evidence.)
Mr. McCLOY. Just one or two questions. It is perfectly clear, Doctor,
that the wound, the lethal wound on the President did not--the bullet
that caused the lethal wound on the President, did not cause any wounds
on Governor Connally, in your opinion?
Dr. SHAW. Mr. McCloy, I couldn't say that from my knowledge.
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