From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,sci.skeptic,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Oswald's Photograph
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:25:12 GMT
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In article <24JUL199215302252@zeus.tamu.edu> mst4298@zeus.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd) writes:
|In article <schuck.711943601@sfu.ca|, Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes...
|
||Mitchell S Todd    | & |||
||Bruce Schuck (me) ||
|
||"Clearly identifiable pieces of metal were scattered about the head
||and brain of the deceased according to x-rays of the shattered head.
||A sizeable piece of metal was shown at the entrance wound, a fact
||strongly indicative of a lead-nosed bullet."
|
||A semi-jacketed
||bullet with a soft lead nose exposed would be more likely to produce
||the kind of head wound described at autopsy of the President than
||would a metal-jacketed military bullet similar to the undeformed slug
||that was presented as having been found on a stretcher in Parkland
||Hospital"
|
||    "Medicolegal Investigation of the President John F Kennedy Murder"
||       Charles G. Wilber , Ph.D
||       Fellow, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
|
||So thats another trained Forensic Pathologist who clearly sees the
||evidence pointing to a soft-nosed hunting bullet as hitting JFK in the
||back of the head.
|
|	Dr Wilber is *not* a forensic pathologist, he's a forensic
|	biologist, as more than one reviewer of his book has pointed
|	out. Further, Wilber is basing his opinion on written
|	descriptions of the wounds, rather than examination of
| 	the autopshy photos and x-rays.

I don't think this is correct, since Livingston showed Wilbur the photos and
xrays a few years back.

Granting this might be true, how can you say that an examination of the photos
and x-rays takes presedence over written descriptions of the wounds? The xrays
themselves had to be "re-touched", the back of the head photo disguises the
back of the head, and the other photos, according to the HSCA, were of poor
quality, wounds were diffacult if not impossible to measure, and the xrays
were incomplete. Many of the people who even assisted in taking the photos and
xrays say they are fakes, and radiologists who have looked at both the photos
and xrays find glaring inconsistencies.

The number of photos the *Clark* panel looked at is not the same number the
HSCA looked at, which means that the evidence was not secure, and we have no
way of knowing what the original set of evidence indicated.

|	It is interesting to note that the large fragments recovered
|	from the limo and attributed to the head shot, as well as 	
|	skull test bullets fired by Lattimer and the WC show the
|	same type of deformation as soft-nose and hollow-point 
|	hunting bullets, most importantly the "peeled back" jacket,
|	and full seapration of the core and the jacket.
 
Lattimer did not find metalic fragments or particles in the skull, as what
actually occured with JFK's head.

The collar shaped bullet was located near the *entrance* wound in JFK, the
seperated bullet lay on the floor of the Limo.

||||I don't think 'collar-shaped' is very different that the description
||||Roffman gives or the Clark Panel.
|| 
|||	Last time I checked Webster's, and the OED, there's a big
|||	difference between "collar shaped" and "spherical."
|| 
||I checked out the drawing of the fragment in Wilbers book.
|| 
||From the side, the fragment is spherical.
|| 
||From the front, it is collar shaped.
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What, no response?

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