It bears repeating that the only way lone-gunman theorists can explain the throat wound's appearance is the shored-wound theory.
We get to decide why the throat wound looked the way it did to Dr. Perry. You don't get to limit our choices. The reason the throat wound was a neat, round hole is because FMJ bullets don't expand when passing through soft tissue. The will make a neat round hole both entering and exiting a body.
This has been their explanation for decades now. My experience has been that they are quite surprised to learn that their theory is not only refuted by the location of the shirt slits but that forensic science tells us that shored wounds will not be small and neat.
I have heard that explanation but it was never my belief so I was never surprised. The reason exit wounds are usually larger than entrance wounds is because lead bullets and hollow points will expand while passing through a body. That doesn't happen with FMJ bullets.
One of the historic contributions that Doug Horne has made to our knowledge of the JFK case is his confirmation of the fact that the first two drafts of the autopsy report said nothing about the throat wound being an exit wound for the back wound.
Nobody who recycled David Lifton's theory of post-mortem surgery is somebody who should be taken seriously. q[uote]
Another historic development came along with the ARRB materials, which reveal, among other things, that on the night of the autopsy, the autopsy doctors positively established through prolonged, extensive probing that the back wound was a shallow wound with no exit point. The pathologists even removed the chest organs and positioned the body "every which way" to facilitate the probing and to enable them to see where the probe was going. The disclosed materials reveal that men around the autopsy table could see the end of the probe pushing up against the lining of the chest cavity. As mentioned, James Jenkins told David Lifton the same thing long before the ARRB came along.
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It is absolutely ridiculous to think a bullet would have only penetrated a few inches into JFK's back and then fallen out. Even lower velocity handgun ammo has far more penetration than that.