How Mrs. Connally Described Her Husband Being Shot-HSCA

[John Corbett]

I can agree with that.

Nellie and Gayle Newman both described JBC as being turned to the right when hit.

He was turned to his right when hit, dummy. At or about Z222. Immediately after that he turned even more dramatically to his right.

 

But what I did not realize until today in looking through some of the Commission Documents was that Connally's medical team also agreed that JBC was turned right when hit.  In fact, a report prepared by ASAIC Warren in January 1964 following interviews with the doctors (labelled as CD 326), states that they agreed that his "Torso turned to the right and nearly parallel with the flight of the projectile".   



That would put the shot striking JBC sometime after z250.

Connally's medical team would not have been aware of the fact that the bullet that struck JBC in the back had first passed through JFK and yawed upon exit. That produced an elongated entry wound that the medical team could have easily misinterpreted as a tangential strike which would produce such an elongated wound. The problem with that explanation is such a wound would have to have been fired from a near perpendicular angle to limo, which would mean a shot from the west end of the TSBD.

[Andrew Mason]

Connally's medical team would not have been aware of the fact that the bullet that struck JBC in the back had first passed through JFK and yawed upon exit. That produced an elongated entry wound that the medical team could have easily misinterpreted as a tangential strike which would produce such an elongated wound. The problem with that explanation is such a wound would have to have been fired from a near perpendicular angle to limo, which would mean a shot from the west end of the TSBD.

We know that the bullet did not come from the west end of the TSBD. If the doctors were correct, that would mean that JBC was not hit at z225.  It was not until about z250 that his torso was aligned so that a shot from the SN would have struck him with his torso nearly parallel to the flight of the bullet.

The doctors were just going by the wounds and path of the bullet through the body they observed and the fact that the wrist was turned back facing the bullet.  That appears to be the basis for their agreement that the torso was turned right and was "nearly parallel with the flight of the bullet". 

[John Corbett]

We know that the bullet did not come from the west end of the TSBD. If the doctors were correct, that would mean that JBC was not hit at z225.  It was not until about z250 that his torso was aligned so that a shot from the SN would have struck him with his torso nearly parallel to the flight of the bullet.

The doctors were just going by the wounds and path of the bullet through the body they observed and the fact that the wrist was turned back facing the bullet.  That appears to be the basis for their agreement that the torso was turned right and was "nearly parallel with the flight of the bullet".

At the time the medical team looked at the wound, it was not known that the bullet had first hit JFK and yawed upon exiting. That wasn't known even by January when they were interviewed. The SBT had not yet been formulated. It is understandable that they would think the bullet made a tangential entry since that would be the more common reason for such an elongated wound.

[Andrew Mason]

At the time the medical team looked at the wound, it was not known that the bullet had first hit JFK and yawed upon exiting.

A bit circular.  I thought you were arguing that the bullet was yawing because of what the doctors saw, not what they may have gathered from talking to others.   In any event, the concept that the torso was "nearly parallel with the flight of the bullet" must be based on the direction of the bullet not its orientation when it entered.