From: mst4298@rigel.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,sci.skeptic,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Oswald's Photograph
Date: 23 Jul 92 01:24:00 GMT
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Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes...
>Mitchell S Todd    > 
>Bruce Schuck (me) >>

>>>I should have said that Roffman quotes Forensic Pathologist Halpert
>>>Fillinger:

>>>    You can appreciate the fact that a jacketed projectile is going to
>>>    leave very little on the bone margins because it is basically a
>>>    hardened jacket, and it's designed so that it will not scrape off
>>>    when it goes through a steel barrel. One can appreciate the fact 
>>>    that going through bone, which is not as hard as steel, may etch
>>>    or scratch it, but it's not going to peel off much metal. In
>>>    contrast to this a softer projectile might very well leave little
>>>    metallic residues around the margins.

>>	Actually, even hunting bullets are jacketed. In the case of a
>>	soft-nose, the jacket extends from the base to just a few
>>	millimeters behind the head, exposing the core at the tip of the
>>	bullet. A hollow point is fully jacketed, save for a small hole
>>	in the very tip of the bullet. Unjacketed ammunition is quite
>>	rare, and I've never fired any, nor can I find anyone who has.

>I take it then you are claiming to be an expert on ammunition types in
>use in the early 1960's. What qualifications do you hold?

	More than you do. I know people who've been hunters since the
	'40s, and they don't remember solid lead ammunition, unless
	you're talking about small caliber pistol ammounition.
	

>>	The size and shape of the fragment in question --roughly, a 6.5mm
>>	sphere-- represents something far more than the small shavings
>>	that Fillinger indicates. 

>Lattimer assumed it was shaved off a bullet. 

	Yes he does.

>So does Roffman.

 	Of course.


>It's too bad none of the other so-called "Panel of Experts" addressed
>the issue. They just assumed it was LHO firing copper jacketed rounds
>from the TSBD.

	...Or they believe/know that FMJ ammunition can and will leave
	pieces of metal in the skull. Dr Chase notes the fragment and
	it's location in the skull, and then explicitly claims that
	his belief is that the skull wound and fragment pattern was
	caused by an FMJ projectile. So far, I've been trying to check
	primary	sources of wounds ballistics, so far without much luck.
	


>>>He also quotes Rowland Long from his book "Physician and the Law"

>>>    Not infrequently a collar shaped fragment of lead is shaved off
>>>    around the wound of entrance and is found embedded in the
>>>    surrounding scalp tissues.

>>	This, however, does not apply to the problem. The fragment is
>>	not "collar-shaped" in any way.

>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."


>The fragment is in the right location to be from a lead bullet.

	It may also be in the right location to be part of an FMJ
	bullet.

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