Dr. SHIRES. At the time I returned, the chest procedure was in progress. The orthopedic procedure on the arm and the leg debridement were ready to be started. I scrubbed and performed the leg procedure. Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe, if anything, as to the condition of Governor Connally's chest wound? Dr. SHIRES. At the time I arrived, the chest wound had been debrided and was being closed. His general condition at that point was very good. He was receiving blood and the arm and leg wounds were being prepared for surgery. Mr. SPECTER. Did you have any opportunity to observe the wound on his back? Dr. SHIRES. Not at that time. Mr. SPECTER. Did you have any opportunity to observe a wound on his chest? Dr. SHIRES. Once again, not at that time--later, but not at that time. Mr. SPECTER. Well, what did you observe at a later time concerning the wound on his back and on his chest? Dr. SHIRES. Well, in part of his postoperative care, which was a large part of the treatment, we were concerned, of course, with all the wounds, and he had several chest wounds. These, at the time I saw them, had been debrided and were the site of draining, so that their initial appearance was completely altered by having had surgical debridement, so they were clean postsurgical wounds with drainage, at the time I first saw them. Mr. SPECTER. Would their alteration and condition preclude you from giving an opinion as to whether they were points of entry or points of exit? Dr. SHIRES. They would--really. Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe at the time you arrived at the hospital as to the condition of his wrist, if anything? Dr. SHIRES. At that point his wrist was being prepared for surgery, and although I did not examine this in detail, since I was concerned with the thigh wound, there appeared to be a through and through wound of the wrist which looked like a missile wound. Mr. SPECTER. Were you able to formulate any opinion as to the point of entry or the point of exit? Dr. SHIRES. No; since I didn't examine it in detail; no, not really. Mr. SPECTER. And what did you observe as to the wound on the thigh? Dr. SHIRES. The wound on the thigh was a peculiar one. There was a 1 cm. puncate missile wound over the junction of the middle and lower third of the leg and the medial aspect of the thigh. The peculiarity came in that the X-rays of the left leg showed only a very small 1 mm. bullet fragment imbedded in the femur of the left leg. Upon exploration of this wound, the other peculiarity was that there was very little soft tissue damage, less than one would expect from an entrance wound of a centimeter in diameter, which was seen on the skin. So, it appeared, therefore, that the skin wound was either a tangential wound or that a larger fragment had penetrated or stopped in the skin and had subsequently fallen out of the entrance wound. Mr. SPECTER. What size fragment was there in the Governor's leg at that time?