No, DPD Baker is just another witness in a large group of witnesses confirming that there never was an early missed shot. The eyewitnesses correlate where the first shot occurred by relating the limousines position to where they were standing. Motorcade 63 relates the first shot to Westbrook/ Calvery statements placing it between Z204 and Z212. The Chisms, Jean Newman, and Mary Woodward also place it in the same time frame.

Given the approximate nature of that kind of estimate and correlation to the zfilm it does not exclude the possibility of a shot fitting with Phil Willis’ evidence of a first shot just before z202.

Either a tangential entry or a yawing bullet could produce an elongated entry wound. Since the medical team AT THE TIME would have had no reason to believe the bullet and struck someone or something before entering JBC's back, it is understandable why they would conclude the bullet made a tangential entry wound into JBC's back. That would indicate the bullet was traveling almost parallel to his back.

The problem with that is a bullet entering at that angle would have continued on and exited from the left side of his torso. The other possibility would be if the bullet made a tangential entry going in the opposite direction which would require the shot to have been fired from the south side of Elm St. In any case, the ER doctors were simply wrong in concluding that the elongated wound was caused by a tangential strike. It was caused by a yawing bullet. No other explanation fits the available evidence.