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The only bullet photos I have seen are of one intact bullet that was found on JFK's stretcher.

Er, Cholera, the bullet in question was found on Connely's gurney, not Kennedy's. No other bullets were retrieved, as far as I know. The head wound bullet(s) were not recovered, nor was the bullet that hit the pavement.

AS for the X-rays, here they are:

I am curious if anyone has measure the angle of the trajectory from the vertebral damage on the right side of the vertebra to the exit/entrance wound on the neck and compared in both XY axes it to the wound on the back, the location of the sixth floor window, etc. The source of this picture thinks they would not match...

High Resolution Autopsy Photo of the head wound Definately NOT for the squeamish...

Good luck. There are more than one reported locations for the entrance wound on the back. Measurements have been made from the occipital protuberance, the collar, and the base of the skull. The Warren Report shows a disagreement or confusion about the back wound. I have seen accounts that it was either 4 inches below the occipital protuberance and about 1-2 inches to the right of the spine, approximately two inches below the collar line and adjacent to the spine, 6 or 7 inches below the base of the skull and slightly left of the spine, and 6 inches from the collar line and 3 - 4 inches to the left of the spine.

The wound at the front was described as an entrance wound at Parkland as a centimeter in diameter and directly above the clavicular notch (about a figure width below the larynx. However, this was described as a 1 inch latitudinal incision at the beginning of the autopsy but a 3-4 inch gaping exit wound in the autopsy report.

I think that Kennedy must have been slumped over forwards for the back shot to transit through the neck - which is definitely possible.