From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: "Film proves JFK shot from behind, scientist says"
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:10:23 GMT

swood@bnr.ca (Steve Wood) writes:

>In article <schuck.726166669@sfu.ca>, schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck) writes:
>>> bill@turing.toronto.edu (Bill Monhemius) writes:
>> >The forward snap was
>> >then followed by the backward lurch about a 1/10 of a second after the
>> >bullet passed through the head and can be attributed to a reflex of the
>> >body.  This apparently proves that there was an assasin firing from behind,
>> >namely, LHO.
>> 
>> Really? 
>> 
>> Then explain the shower of blood and brain matter that hit the
>> motorcycle cops to the *left* and *rear* of JFK and didn't touch the
>> motorcycle cops to his right and rear.
>> 
>> How would that explain a shot from Kennedy's right and rear....

>I think many people may have seen a particular "photo-essay" 
>(forgive me - I cannot
>remember the name of the book) of high speed photographs of bullets, 
>milk drops and other projectiles in freeze-frame.

>One of the pictures clearly shows an Apple and a Bullet, the bullet 
>having just passed through
>the center of the apple.  The ejecta from the apple clearly explodes 
>in the opposite
>direction of the bullet trajectory (i.e. backwards).  It is clear
>from this picture that none
>of the ejecta from the bullet entry is thrown forward.  This is the 
>phenomenon that makes
>the photograph interesting -- it defies common sense!

You are talking about backsplash, something I have talked about in
previous posts.

Let me point out:

1. If you have seen the Nix or Muchmore film taken from JFK's left and
rear, you would notice the cone of ejecta splashing towards the right
front of JFK [ie the grassy knoll]. 

2.The ejecta certainly does not splash
towards JFK' right rear, which is where Oswalds supposedly fired from.

3. Since you claim a backsplash of apple fragment travelling towards
the entrance point of the bullet is indicative of the bullet path,
then a clear look at the Nix/Muchmore films will certainly convince
you the fatal shot was fired from JFK's right front and entered just
near his right ear.

>> 
>> Explain the Harper fragment, a piece of occipital bone [rear of the
>> head] that was found to the left and rear of JFK's location at the
>> time of the head shot.

>The ejecta in this particular picture appeared to explode backwards and had
>a conical distribution.  Thus I would expect some material to be found on both sides
>of JFK (actually, in a triangular region with apex at the entry wound).

As I pointed out, the *other* films do show such a cone, pointing
towards the grassy knoll.

It is also clear that the exit wound of such an entrance would produce
a smaller amount of ejecta travelling to JFK's left and rear, which is
where the Harper fragment was found and the motorcycle cops were hit
by ejecta.

If you look clearly at a good copy of the Zapruder film frame 313, it
is clear that the area near JFK was the *centre* of a conical spray of
ejecta, emanating as a circle towards the right front.

That cone certainly did *not* drench the motorcycle cops to JFK's left
rear.


>> 
>> A shot from the right front would explain it, not one from the right rear.
>> 

>I don't think so.

You aren't thinking clearly then.

Explain how a shot from the right rear of JFK would produce ejcta to
JFK's left rear and right front if, as claimed by the WC and HSCA, JFK
was hit in the back of the head one inch to the right of the
centreline and was travelling from right to left.


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