A Small, Overlooked Interesting JFKA Clue?

[Benjamin Cole]

The JFKA is the greatest detective story ever written, even as its repugnant horror seems to never fade away.

And even yet, new clues can emerge out of old cloth. Literally.

So recently, I was puzzling over Gov. JBC's already mysterious wrist-wound.

JBC's surgeon, Dr. Robert Shaw, thought the wrist wound, which resulted from a slug entering the dorsal side---the wristwatch side---and which left the ventral side of the wrist, may have resulted from a separate projectile.

Recently I reviewed a photo of the hole in JBC's left pant leg, into which CE-399 is said to have temporarily buried itself, before popping out (after passing through JFK's neck, JBC's torso, and JBC's right wrist, and yes, both the WC and the more-skeptical HSCA accepted this explanation).

See the photo:



The Western Cartridge 6.50 slug has a diameter of a little more than 1/4". It is large slug, at about 1 and 1/4" inches long.

This is a neat, perfect hole CE-399 purportedly made in JBC's pant leg on 11/22, indicative of spiraling slug.

Gun enthusiasts know that a modern-era bullet is spiraling (a bit like a well-thrown football) as it leaves a rifle barrel, and one can see spirals on the inside of a gun barrel that impart the spin.

OK. So, it appears whatever bullet struck JBC in the leg had maintained its spiral, and was not tumbling.

OK, if the SBT is true, then a bullet passed through JFK's neck, then passed through JBC's torso (taking out four inches of rib), then fractured his wrist, and then still spiraling, made a perfect hole in JBC's pant leg to burrow into the leg itself.

Add on: A strange quote from JBC's wrist surgeon:

Dr. GREGORY. Yes; debridement is a surgical term used to designate that
procedure in attending a wound which removes by sharp excision all nonvital
tissue in the area together with any identifiable foreign objects.
In attending this wound, it was evident early that clot had been carried into
the wound from the dorsal surface to the bone and into the fracture. This
would imply that an irregular missile had passed through the wrist from the
dorsal to the volar aspect.

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/pdf/WH6_Gregory.pdf

An irregular missile? Does that describe a slug that must have been spiraling when it struck JBC's leg? Does that describe CE-399?

I wish I had a sensible answer to the wound pattern on JBC. For me, the SBT does not hold water---indeed, even if JBC was struck by a separate shot, his wound pattern is mysterious.

I have long pondered if JBC's wrist was struck by a shot from the GK smoke-and-bang show.

The wound to JBC's leg, however, poses yet new curiosities.

Dr. Gregory's long-forgotten quote that an "irregular" missile had passed through JBC's wrist is another oddity.

Last thought: Gov. JBC's twice said (WC and HSCA) slugs were entering the JFK cab limo as is from "automatic weapons" fire.

More later.

[Royell Storing]

The JFKA is the greatest detective story ever written, even as its repugnant horror seems to never fade away.

And even yet, new clues can emerge out of old cloth. Literally.

So recently, I was puzzling over Gov. JBC's already mysterious wrist-wound.

JBC's surgeon, Dr. Robert Shaw, thought the wrist wound, which resulted from a slug entering the dorsal side---the wristwatch side---and which left the ventral side of the wrist, may have resulted from a separate projectile.

Recently I reviewed a photo of the hole in JBC's left pant leg, into which CE-399 is said to have temporarily buried itself, before popping out (after passing through JFK's neck, JBC's torso, and JBC's right wrist, and yes, both the WC and the more-skeptical HSCA accepted this explanation).

See the photo:



The Western Cartridge 6.50 slug has a diameter of a little more than 1/4". It is large slug, at about 1 and 1/4" inches long.

This is a neat, perfect hole CE-399 purportedly made in JBC's pant leg on 11/22, indicative of spiraling slug.

Gun enthusiasts know that a modern-era bullet is spiraling (a bit like a well-thrown football) as it leaves a rifle barrel, and one can see spirals on the inside of a gun barrel that impart the spin.

OK. So, it appears whatever bullet struck JBC in the leg had maintained its spiral, and was not tumbling.

OK, if the SBT is true, then a bullet passed through JFK's neck, then passed through JBC's torso (taking out four inches of rib), then fractured his wrist, and then still spiraling, made a perfect hole in JBC's pant leg to burrow into the leg itself.

Add on: A strange quote from JBC's wrist surgeon:

Dr. GREGORY. Yes; debridement is a surgical term used to designate that
procedure in attending a wound which removes by sharp excision all nonvital
tissue in the area together with any identifiable foreign objects.
In attending this wound, it was evident early that clot had been carried into
the wound from the dorsal surface to the bone and into the fracture. This
would imply that an irregular missile had passed through the wrist from the
dorsal to the volar aspect.

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/pdf/WH6_Gregory.pdf

An irregular missile? Does that describe a slug that must have been spiraling when it struck JBC's leg? Does that describe CE-399?

I wish I had a sensible answer to the wound pattern on JBC. For me, the SBT does not hold water---indeed, even if JBC was struck by a separate shot, his wound pattern is mysterious.

I have long pondered if JBC's wrist was struck by a shot from the GK smoke-and-bang show.

The wound to JBC's leg, however, poses yet new curiosities.

Dr. Gregory's long-forgotten quote that an "irregular" missile had passed through JBC's wrist is another oddity.

Last thought: Gov. JBC's twice said (WC and HSCA) slugs were entering the JFK cab limo as is from "automatic weapons" fire.

More later.

        This is why Specter handled the questioning of Tomlinson. Specter was required in order to muddle the issue of the pristine bullet having fallen from the JFK stretcher. Same goes for Specter being called in to question ASAIC Kellerman and his description of a "flurry" of shells coming into the JFK Limo. Specter being called in to question a witness was a "break glass in case of fire" necessity. 

[Benjamin Cole]

RS-

Thanks for your collegial reply.

I agree, Specter played the role of the prosecution in the WC, not an investigator. There was no defense counsel. In brief, the WC became a posthumous prosecutorial body.

In general, I accept the conclusions of the subsequent HSCA, but (like every JFKA researcher) I have drawn my own conclusions also. 

Side note: Yes, the WC was formed to find LHO as a LN.

But that also meant that G2 or KGB influences on LHO, possibly through KGB moles embedded in the CIA, were also shoved under the rug. Victor Marchetti thought as much.

Researchers have been able to pore over CIA documents....but not those of the KGB or G2, except as revealed by those governments.

So, we researchers face an oceanic black hole in our study of LHO.