JFK's Throat Wound Was an Entrance Wound: Refuting the Shored-Wound Theory

[Ted Sager]

When yer right, yer right.

[John Corbett]

When yer right, yer right.

Yes I am.

And when yer FUBAR, yer FUBAR.

[Ted Sager]

Even if Oswald had hit K through the back, he was much higher than even this
bs photo. From the sixth floor the angle would have been 60 or 70 degrees downward. All reports that the back shot was 20 or 30 degrees is impossible. Back shot was even at an upward angle. Where could an upward shot have come from? Think about it.

[John Mytton]

Even if Oswald had hit K through the back, he was much higher than even this
bs photo. From the sixth floor the angle would have been 60 or 70 degrees downward. All reports that the back shot was 20 or 30 degrees is impossible. Back shot was even at an upward angle. Where could an upward shot have come from? Think about it.

The first image comes from the HSCA analysis and they have the SBF happening at about Z190 but modern Scholars have the SBF occurring as Kennedy emerges from behind the Stemmons sign from Zapruder's POV.











JohnM

[Michael T. Griffith]

The back shot entered low enough to graze K's first thoracic vertebra as seen from the X-ray. This would put the entrance much lower than picture indicated. First, Oswald could NOT have made that shot from six stories up. Back shot was even at an upward angle.

Bullseye. The HSCA FPP, to their credit, acknowledged that the autopsy photo of the back wound shows that the bullet entered and then tunneled at an upward angle. The FPP's chairman, Dr. Michael Baden, was nice enough to actually demonstrate on camera the only way he could get the wound's upward trajectory to fit with the single-bullet theory (SBT), namely, by assuming that JFK was leaning well over 50 degrees forward when the bullet hit. When Baden demonstrated this mythical forward lean for the cameras, he leaned forward by over 50 degrees.

And, actually, the fact that the back-wound bullet hit and then tunneled at an upward angle was established before the FPP came along: it was established in 1975 by the Rockefeller Commission's medical panel that consisted of three forensic pathologists (Dr. Werner Spitz, Dr. James Weston, and Dr. Russell Fisher). I quote from Dr. Spitz's report:

There is no doubt that the bullet which struck the President’s back penetrated the skin in a sharply upward direction, as is evident from the width of the abrasion at the lower half of the bullet wound of entrance. The term "sharply upward direction" is used because it is evident from this injury that the missile traveled upwards within the body. (Report of Werner Spitz, 4/24/75, p. 1, Rockefeller Commission papers)

This is the one of the few issues on which Dr. Spitz and Dr. Cyril Wecht agreed when the two served together on the FPP, and it was one of the few FPP findings that Dr. Wecht did not dispute. In his lectures on the medical evidence, Dr. Wecht would demonstrate why the back-wound's upward trajectory destroys the SBT.

Yet, the fraudulent SBT trajectory analyses done by John Lattimer and Dale Myers both have the bullet hitting the back at a noticeably downward angle. So do John Mytton's bogus SBT reconstructions.

Another fact that the FPP acknowledged, again to their credit, is that the WC's wound diagram places the back wound at least 1 inch higher than the autopsy photo shows it. The FPP moved the back wound downward by about 1.4 inches, placing it even with or slightly below the throat wound.

Obviously, that makes a huge difference for any trajectory analysis, which is why Lattimer's and Myers' fraudulent SBT reconstructions assume the back wound was a good 1 inch above the throat wound. This is also why the WC's SBT diagram (CE 385) erroneously puts the back wound about 1 inch above the throat wound.

You can see screencaps/photos from Lattimer's and Myers's SBT trajectory analyses in two of Pat Speer's chapters on the SBT:

https://www.patspeer.com/chapter11thesingle-bullettheory

https://www.patspeer.com/chapter12canimania

BTW, there have been many demolitions of Myers' bogus SBT simulations, but Speers' critique is probably the best one ever done. Myers' simulations also change JFK's body shape and change Connally's body size to make the SBT "work." Speers discusses the fact that Myers' simulations have contradicted themselves in their depiction of JFK's clothing and posture. Here is just a little bit of what Speers says about Myer's SBT simulation:

. . . his deception regarding the single-bullet theory is simply inexcusable. He would have to know that when people see computer simulations they believe the proportions are consistent from angle to angle—otherwise it’s just a cartoon. By changing the body shape of Kennedy to accommodate the bullet trajectory through his body, and by shrinking Connally 20% or more to accommodate the bullet trajectory in the car, Myers moved on up to the high rent neighborhood of Thomas Canning: deliberate deceptionville.

In 2023, the forensic engineering firm Knott Laboratory conducted the most data-intensive SBT trajectory analysis ever done and proved the SBT is impossible because JFK and Connally were never in a position to allow a trajectory back to the sixth-floor window.

Knott Lab's experts conducted a high-definition laser scan of Dealey Plaza to generate a point cloud of up to 2 million points per second, to accurately measure point-to-point anywhere in the scene. Using a 3D laser scanner (Leica RTC360), Knott Lab's experts did 36 laser scans of Dealey Plaza, producing a digital reconstruction of the plaza that has 851 million data points. No other SBT trajectory analysis has included such a detailed, accurate digital model of the plaza and of JFK's and Connally's positions in the limousine.

BTW, Knott Lab's SBT trajectory analysis has been endorsed by the the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science and the journal Forensic. In fact, Forensic did their own documentary on the JFK case using Knott Lab's SBT trajectory study.

Finally, it bears repeating ad nauseum that we now know that the back wound had no exit point, that there was no hole through JFK's tie, that there was no nick on either edge of the tie knot, and that numerous photos show that JFK's tie knot was neatly centered in the middle of the collar band during the Dallas motorcade.

JFK's Clothing Proves the Single-Bullet Theory Is Impossible
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MAgWA0frOLVeWY6ok9nzdrgpRN4Wv1AL/view
 

[John Corbett]

If MTG wants to argue that the frontal neck wound is an entrance wound, he needs to explain why there are two entrance wounds, no exit wounds, and no bullets found in the body. If he can't do that, there is no point in even discussing the other issues he has raised.

My guess is he will simply do what he always does when confronted with inconvenient truths. He will simply dodge the question and move on to other silly arguments.