"Bone Flap"

[Robin Unger]

Quote:

"... I could see a piece of his skull sort of wedge-shaped, like that, and I remember that it was flesh colored with little ridges at the top."

In this description Jackie may be refering to the "Bone flap"

[Dan O'meara]

Quote:

"... I could see a piece of his skull sort of wedge-shaped, like that, and I remember that it was flesh colored with little ridges at the top."

In this description Jackie may be refering to the "Bone flap"

I find this view of the BF quite difficult to reconcile with other views of it. Perhaps because JFK is lying on his back and the BF is more in a "closed" position.

[Louis Earl]

" I was trying to hold his hair on. From the front there was nothing --- I suppose there must have been. But from the back you could see, you know, you were trying to hold his hair on, and his skull on."

I assume her "from the front" quote meant there was no wound visible from the front.  But she adds " . . . there must have been."  Why would she say that unless she thought he was shot from the front?  I don't know.

[Dan O'meara]

There's the 'Mytton Gif' which shows the 'bone flap' almost back in situ and not hanging down by the side. The damage shown agrees well with Robin's graphic of the damage to JFK's skull. It appears the BF has been pushed back into position:




We also have these images of the BF in different positions:



It would be interesting to get some kind of chronology of these photos.
One aspect of the case that I feel needs explaining is that so many people seem to report a blowout at the back of JFK's head when, in fact, almost all of the top right portion of JFK's skull has been blown out, from front to back.

[Allan Fritzke]

We also have these images of the BF in different positions:



It would be interesting to get some kind of chronology of these photos.
One aspect of the case that I feel needs explaining is that so many people seem to report a blowout at the back of JFK's head when, in fact, almost all of the top right portion of JFK's skull has been blown out, from front to back.

There are certainly huge discrepancies between skull diagram and the picture below with an eye opened president.   Where exactly is the BF? It should be within about 1" or so of the eye socket opening.    It begs you to question whether that was a surgical cut which Gary Unger raises as to "normal" protocol of a standard autopsy which would not result in that cut.  There also appears to be no blood on the face and a lack of frontal blowout.   If that is a surgical cut, then that is not a BF from the assassination.   Correctly you are drawing conclusion as to the importance of sequence of events.   Was the BF shown surgical in nature!  It does appear to have a sharp corner to match the cut line.

A skull cracking front shot  originating from grassy knoll would give a rear blowout and would suggest a plausible explanation as to why Jacqueline wasn't blinded by material pushed forward from a posterior entrance hole.   She never lost vision even in the cloud formed at Z313 and was first shocked almost a full second later with her reaction.  There also appears to be a "mass" in front of the BF which is moving forward on the Zapruder film and is definitely not an intact face as shown on morgue slab picture.  This also coincides with crowd movement going forward to grassy knoll and not back towards TSBD as further visual evidence of possible shot origin.