Hey Steve. Jackie crawling across the Limo trunk lid is indicative of her mental state at that point in time. And upon arrival at Parkland, she was incapable of lighting her own cigarettes and they even brought Mayor Cabell's wife inside to sit beside her. Based on All of this, Jackie's memory concerning her attempted reassembly of the head of JFK is subject to question. Based on the Z Film, that Gaping Wound in the (R) Temple area would have been obvious to a blind man. And remember that both Newman and Sitzman said they saw JFK "HIT" in the (R) Temple Area. "Hit" = Entrance Not Exit. I can understand an Entrance Wound in the hair possibly being missed. Multiple Dr's missing that MESS we see on the Z Film? No way.
I agree that Mrs. Kennedy's state of mind upon seeing the top of her husband's head gone, and seeing his brain exposed certainly sent her into shock, but I don't think she was incapable of lighting her cigarette. Her cigarette lighter, as I recall, was lost, someone found it later, and gave it to her. Regarding her trying to keep the top of her husband's head down, and trying to keep his "brains" inside his skull, I believe she fully recalled this because she repeated this twice to Theodore White during her interview. She described a piece of skull detaching itself. One large fragment flew past her in front of her face, struck either Nellie Connally on the back-or struck the top of her seat. bounced off and fell to the floor (all captured in the Zapruder film). The other skull fragment she could have been referring to was the large flap hanging over the side of the head and to the front of the ear, extending across the side of the head, covering his temple. This fragment can clearly be seenin the Zapruder film and the "back of the head" autopsy photos. (see photo attachments). Mrs. Kennedy most defintely would have closed up the wound as much as she could've by closing part of the massive hole on top of his head, putting the loose skull flap hanging over the temple into place by flipping it back where it belonged. There is also a discovery I made a couple of years ago in the Nix film as the limousine is pulling out of Dealey Plaza after the last shot, and Mrs. Kennedy is partially on the trunk with Clint Hill halfway onto the back of the car. The clearest of the few frames showing the top of the head of JFK shows the top of JFK's gone, and his brain exposed is the one attached, along with the Z frame it correspons to. The frame corresponds with Zapruder film frame 386. In my opinion, Mrs. Kennedy did a good job of describing what she did on the way to Parkland.
