Dr. Gary Aguilar gives his view of two shots striking JFK on 11.22, including one shot from the GK.
Aguilar is obviously intelligent, literate and informed on topic.
Interesting presentation, whether one agrees or not.
Caveat emptor, and draw your own conclusions.
And, as neuroanatomist Dr. Joseph Riley documented, there are two separate, unconnected wound paths in JFK's brain -- one is cortical and the other is sub-cortical.
You also have the fact that you have fragments on the JFK autopsy skull x-rays that are far removed from any other fragments. For example, the 7 x 2 mm and 3 x 1 mm fragments above and just behind the right orbit are well forward of the right-frontal fragment cluster that forms part of the high fragment trail, and that fragment cluster starts with tiny particles and progresses rearward with larger (though still relatively small) fragments, indicating, according to everything we know from ballistics and physics, that the bullet hit the right-frontal region. The heavier the fragments, the farther they will travel.
Dr. Michael Chesser, a neurologist who was allowed to view the autopsy materials at the National Archives, explains this while discussing the same right-frontal entry wound that Dr. David Mantik has identified:
This is what I saw on the original right lateral skull x-ray at the archives. There is a gap in the bone -- not very big, maybe 3 mm, but remember that this is a composite of all the material between the x-ray machine and the film—when viewed from the side, a hole in the frontal bone may not be seen at all, and if it is, it won’t appear as wide as its actual width. I think that this defect is probably due to a combination of an entry wound and associated radial fracture line(s).
The most important finding here is the proximity of these tiny metallic fragments to this bone defect. This location, on the intracranial side of the bony defect, is highly suggestive of an entry wound. One of the principles of skull ballistics is that the largest fragments travel the farthest from the entry site, with the smallest fragments traveling the least distance, and that is exactly what is seen on this right lateral skull x-ray. Tiny fragments were seen on the inner side of this right front skull defect, and the largest fragments were noted in the back of the skull.
When you look at the x-rays that are stored at the archives now, on the lateral x-ray there is a fragment trail. It actually expands from front to back, and there are dozens of very tiny dustlike fragment particles up in this location.
Dr. David Mantik: Now why is that important? Well, what we know is that the larger bullet fragments travel farther, whereas the smaller ones tend to stay near the entry site. That’s what we see on these x-rays. In other words, we can reasonably interpret these as being consistent with a frontal bullet, but being radically inconsistent with a posterior bullet. . . .
Kinetic energy explains why larger fragments travel farther than smaller fragments. Kinetic energy = 1/2 mv2, where m = mass and v = velocity. Thus, a particle with more mass has more kinetic energy. Besides that, though, smaller fragments decelerate faster—the drag forces on them are relatively greater. Hence, the tiny particles near the forehead suggest an entry near that site. The larger fragment at the right rear provides additional evidence for a frontal entry. As expected, larger fragments travel farther. (In Mantik, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis, 2024, pp. 192-194)
Also, the two fragments near the right-orbit are much larger than the dozens of fragment particles in the forward part of the high fragment trail and are at least 1 inch forward of the particles. Dr. Mantik believes these two fragments are the remnants of the low fragment trail described in the autopsy report. The autopsy report says the low fragment trail ended near the supraorbital ridge, which is the upper part of the right orbit, so those two fragments are exactly where they should be if they're the remnant of the low fragment trail.
WC defenders, amazingly, simply ignore the fact that the current skull x-rays do not show the EOP-to-right-orbit fragment trail described in the autopsy report. The only fragment trail on the extant skull x-rays is some 4 inches higher, i.e., the high fragment trail, which includes the right-frontal cloud of about 30 tiny particles near the entry site identified by Drs. Mantik, Chesser, Henkelmann, Aguilar, Wecht, Robertson, DeSalles, and others.
Either the low fragment trail was removed from the x-rays in order to buttress the case for the 4-inch upward relocation of the rear head entry wound or Humes, Boswell, Finck, and Ebersole were so unbelievably incompetent that they mistook the high fragment trail for a trail that started some 4 inches lower and that ended at a spot well forward of the high fragment trail. It is hard to imagine a first-year medical student making such an unbelievable blunder, especially given the fact that the three autopsy doctors reviewed the autopsy materials in 1966 and reaffirmed the EOP entry location.
