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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Dr. Baden Refuted the Single-Bullet Theory
« Last post by Mitch Todd on Today at 04:12:32 AM »The focus of this one-page article is Dr. Michael Baden's demonstration in the 1988 NOVA documentary Who Shot President Kennedy? of how far forward JFK would have had to be leaning to make the HSCA FPP's trajectory through the neck align with the sixth-floor window.The back wound abrasion collar does indeed show that the bullet entered at an angle slightly upward with respect to the surface of the skin at that location. IIRC, someone many years ago determined that the the upward angle was about 7 degrees from perpendicular to the surface. However, it is important to remember that the wound was located in the trapezius muscle above the top of the scapula, and when upright, the body surface in this area has a considerable forward slant. A normal vector drawn from any point in this area perpendicular to the surface of the body will then point upwards more than seven degrees. That is, the bullet can be travelling downwards in the cardinal axes and still be travelling "upwards" when it hits am angles surface.
"Dr. Baden Refuted the Single-Bullet Theory"
Dr. Wecht mocked the FPP majority's assumption about JFK's forward lean with the joking remark that they were assuming that JFK was bent over tying his shoe laces when the bullet struck. This humorous exaggeration perfectly captures the demonstrably false nature of the FPP's assumption, which Dr. Baden was nice enough to demonstrate in front of TV cameras.
Of course, Baden had no idea he was driving a huge nail in the SBT's coffin with his demonstration.
Keep in mind that Dr. Humes's wound diagram for the WC (i.e., CE 385) puts the wound at C3 or C4. Humes put the wound noticeably above the throat wound, as we see in CE 385. Humes had to put the back wound above the throat wound because he and the WC claimed the bullet traveled a "downward path" through the neck, a piece of pure fiction that even the HSCA FPP rejected and debunked.
True to form, SBT believers shrug off this enormous conflict between the autopsy doctors and the HSCA FPP experts. No matter what, for them the SBT still works, never mind that Humes put the wound at least 2.5 inches higher in CE 385 than where the FPP located it. One WC apologist here, apparently clueless about basic geometry, has even claimed that it makes no difference whatsoever if Humes was wrong and the FPP was right about the wound's location! By golly, the SBT still works! Amazing!
Finally, surely no objective person can look at the autopsy photo of the back wound and conclude that it shows the wound where Humes placed it in CE 385. The HSCA FPP concluded the photo puts the wound at T1, which is at least 2.5 inches lower than where CE 385 places it. Indeed, the FPP said they placed the wound "in the back area" and "a few inches lower" than where Humes placed it in his drawing:
The panel also places the entrance perforation on the lower, in the back area, a few inches lower than illustrated in this drawing. (1 HSCA 256)
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