Analysis of JFK's Head Wound Evidence

The location of the head wound is key evidence.

Since a bullet almost always makes a small wound when it enters and a large wound

when it exits, a big wound at the back of JFK's head

would indicate a

shot from the front and more than one shooter.

Most of the doctors and nurses who treated the president at

Parkland did see a

large wound at the rear of the head. Dr. Robert McClelland.

It was in the right back part of

the head, very large.

Nurse Audrey Bell.

And, uh, there was a massive wound at the back of

his head.

Dr. Charles Carrico.

There was a, uh, a, a large, a quite large

defect

about here on his, on his skull.

Dr. Ronald Jones.

Well, my impression was that, that there was a wound in, in this

area of the head, right in, right in this area.

The Dallas doctor's recollections about an exit wound in the back of the

president's head are confirmed by witnesses at the Bethesda

Hospital autopsy.

I mean, a big gaping hole

in the back of the head.

Lloyd Riebe, a photographer on duty, talked with Wayne Friedman.

It was like somebody put a piece of dynamite in a tin can and light it off.

There was nothing there.

Open area all the way across into the rear of the,

the brain like that.

From the top of the head, almost back to the,

near the base of the skull.

You could see where that part was gone.

So eyewitnesses in Dallas and Bethesda describe a wound extending

all the

way to the back of the head. What about the official photos and X-rays?

We showed them to the three eyewitnesses to JFK's autopsy.

Photos and X-rays not available to the public since the assassination,

but recently obtained by the press.

Gerald Custer took the X-rays that night.

Is this

the X-ray picture that you took, and is this the wound that you saw on

the president?

This area here-

Mm-hmm

... was gone.

Not this area here?

Not this area.

Floyd Riebe assisted with the autopsy photos.

The two pictures that I've seen that you showed me are

supposedly from the archives are not what I saw that night.

Now, I don't know where those pictures came

from.

The back of the head looked like that? What did the back of the head look like?

It had a big hole in it. This whole area was gone.

Does that look like what you saw?

No. No, it doesn't look like what I saw.

This-

Some of it?

This would be,

uh,

a lesser of a wound than what I saw. I saw a,

a lot worse wound, uh, that extended way back into this area

here.

Was the president's hair and scalp like that?

No.

What was it like?

This part of the head was gone. There was no scalp there.

Are you telling me that this is not-

I don't believe so.

You, you don't think this is a-

No

... honest to God autopsy photo?

No, I don't.

What do you think it is?

I don't know.

It's being phonied someplace.

It's make believe.

Before each doctor looked at the photos, he described the wounds he had seen back

in 1963.

I could see the president's, uh, head wound quite well,

and, um, I was probably looking into a

wound that was on the

lateral or the side part of the head and the back part of the head.

It would be this portion of the head right here.

And that wound was-

As I remember, it's like this.

However, a surviving clip of Dr. Perry recorded

not long after the press conference.

Arriving at the emergency room, uh, Dr.

Carrico had placed a tube

in the president's trachea to assist his breathing.

But there was a neck wound anteriorly and a large wound in his head in the right

posterior area.