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Looking at a blowup of one frame of a digital rendering of a sometime in focus, sometime out of focus home movie film...and what is expected to be seen?

What I can clearly make out:

Jackie's hat, face, left shoulder and upper arm of bright pinkish/ light purple jacket.
Kennedy's upper right arm and curve of shoulder of blue jacket
Kennedy's right ear

What I can guess at:

Right side of Kennedy's head posterior of ear - would include mastoid part of temporal bone, posterior half of parietal bone, and occipital protuberance
A red and white area that appears to be avulsed tissue immediately anterior to Kennedy's right ear - possibly over the anterior squamous temporal bone, greater wing of the sphenoid bone, and zygomatic bone

What seems to be missing:

the right side of his entire face - covered in shadow?
the 'top of his head', the left and right anterior parietal bones and superior frontal bone to the eminence, or frontal tuber - either the color of Jackie's coat has washed out this area of his head (it looks like everything above the ear has been sliced off) or the shadowing is so bad that all that is really visible is his ear and the white and pink blob

That is not a facetious list. Many errors can occur if you try to see too much in a blurred image. Based on this image alone, it does look like an avulsion might have occurred and could have been a tangential shot from either direction.

Swordmaker, as to the autopsy photos that linked, you left an important one out. Does your link have the photo of the full face view, from the right and above Kennedy as he lay on the table? Reason I asked because there have been written accounts and posts on this thread about how the zygomatic process was supposedly crushed as part of the exit wounding. I can't see it but I just have a small hardcopy in a book. Also, the errors in the photo/x-ray invoices were made the night they were taken not three years later, otherwise, I could understand....maybe.

In leaving tonight, my wish list would be that Kennedy's body had stayed in Dallas for a criminal forensic pathologist team to do the autopsy, that the FBI agents assigned to remain with the body to preserve the chain of evidence hadn't been initially barred from the Bethesda autopsy and then asked to leave during for the radiographs and delayed in returning, that the autopsy, records, and testimony hadn't been so sloppy in crucial parts. If an A-1 criminal team had put together a more ordered investigation, there wouldn't have been room for doubt, misinterpretation, etc.

Other than that - it's getting late and have a happy Turkey Day all.

Swordmaker, as to the autopsy photos that linked, you left an important one out. Does your link have the photo of the full face view, from the right and above Kennedy as he lay on the table? Reason I asked because there have been written accounts and posts on this thread about how the zygomatic process was supposedly crushed as part of the exit wounding. I can't see it but I just have a small hardcopy in a book. Also, the errors in the photo/x-ray invoices were made the night they were taken not three years later, otherwise, I could understand....maybe.

Hi-Rez picture of the autopsy "death stare"

If the Zapruder film shows the damage going toward the orbit of the eye, I would expect to see some tearing of the skin on the forehead or side of the head. I don't.

Just a quick post to say thanks to both of you for your intelligent, reasoned and reasonable posts. Ophiucus, thanks especially to you for providing the clinical analysis I was trying to encourage CholeraJoe to offer. Such information is educational, adds to our greater understanding, and provides a basis to advance the dialogue.

I want to take up several of the points you and Swordmaker made, but it will have to wait until later this afternoon. It's circa 10:30am Pacific time and, although I'm off through the weekend, I have an office lunch to get to by 11:30.

I'll just conclude this post with two points: Acknowledging the truth about any point of detail regarding the assassination does not preclude a conspiracy. If you watch the Zapruder film in real time and in slow motion, as I have many times, there is no doubt whatsoever that the upper right front of Kennedy's head explodes outward toward the right front, and upward. And yes, I'm emphasizing "explodes" and "explosive" over and over again in this thread because that is exactly what happened. I posted the full sequence of Zapruder frames so people could see for themselves as much as is possible without seeing the motion.