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good evening
for the record - is there an official note or comment from Dr Shires saying something like the wound was clear of bullets and all i needed to do was sew the wound up. No bullet extraction was required?
I have never seen myself an official statement saying the leg wound was empty
If i had such a proven statement, i would then be prepared to accept that this "leg" bullett was indeed the stretcher bullet Ce 399
Can you find for me such an official statement about an "empty" leg?
Mike
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. punctate 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? Dr. SHIRES - We recovered none. The small one that was seen was on X-ray and it was still in the femur and being that small, with no tissue damage after the debridement, it was thought inadvisable to remove this small fragment. Mr. SPECTER - Is that fragment in the bone itself at the present time? Dr. SHIRES - Yes. Mr. SPECTER - What would your best estimate be as to the size of that fragment? Dr. SHIRES - One millimeter in diameter---one to two. Mr. SPECTER - Would you have any estimate as to how much that might weigh in grains? Dr. SHIRES - In grains---a fraction of a grain, maybe, a tenth of a grain---very small. Mr. SPECTER - A tenth of one grain? Dr. SHIRES - Yes.
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