From: wb9omc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Subject: Re: Extra Bullet hits on limo?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:02:34 GMT

schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck) writes:
>6489mcadamsj@vms.csd.mu.edu (John McAdams) writes:

>>I'm looking at the picture section between pages 126 and 127 (the pages are
>>themselves unnumbered).  Groden shows a picture of a crack in the windshield
>>glass.  It is about what you would expect if a small stone hit the windshield.
>>I can easily believe it is the result of a bullet, but only a bullet fragment,
>>and one that has been slowed down, at that.  A whole bullet, or a large
>>fragment with any velocity, would have certainly shattered the windshield.
>>The other photo, from *inside* the limo, shows what looks to be a whole bullet
>>or large fragment impacted in the chrome above the windshield.  Again, the
>>velocity had to be rather low, because it merely dented (rather than
>>penetrating) the chrome.
>>This is *zero* evidence of hits from the right front.  It is also zero evidence
>>in *independent* hits from behind.  Neither strike is what a bullet from a
>>high-powered rifle would look like, unless it was slowed down by hitting
>>something else.
>>That "something else" was doubtless Kennedy's head.  And the windshield strike
>>was doubtless just a fragment (just get the book and see how little damage it
>>did).

>Please explain to me how a bullet travelling at 2100 feet per second
>can impact the back of JFK's head from the right rear, and then go on
>to dent the chrome and crack the windshield *without* leaving an exit
>wound in JFK's face???????
>JFK's face, according to the autopsy, was unmarked!!!!

	I have seen in numerous books and articles photos that (supposedly)
show his head during the autopsy.  I have NOT seen anything to suggest
an exit wound in the face.  I agree, Bruce, such an exit wound would
have been most noticeable.

>How did the bullet fragments hit the windshield? Osmosis?????

	Just for the sake of argument - were these marks (windshield hit
and chrome hit) ever analysed to determine a rough directional bearing?
It seems logical that the nature of the hits might point to both a
general direction of arrival and departure, i.e., where the bullet OR
fragment came from, and where it WENT after the fact....

	Also for the sake of argument - suppose the "magic bullet" was a
plant and a bullet or bullets which hit the Governor had fragged.  Did
any of his wounds suggest outward fragmentation that could account for
this?  Was there perhaps no reasonable line of travel between his
wounds and the car "hits"?

	IFFFFFF JFK was hit from the right front - for arguments sake -
could such a bullet(s) have fragmented in a way that would account for
these car "hits"?  Given JFK's position in the back of the car, would
such fragments have a clear path past both the Gov. and the driver to
hit where hits are indicated?

	And one last thought - could flying bone fragments have been
propelled at a high enough speed to account for these car "hits"?  Perhaps
that sounds silly, but I have seen car windshields cracked by bird strikes
at 55 to 65 MPH.  Given the nature of the power of a strike that could
do as much damage to JFK's head as happened, is it possible that the
"hits" were caused by flying bone chunks?

Duane