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They are not "my" facts but statements about the head wound made by one of the men who worked on JFK's body preparing it for the casket. I don't have the name with me at the moment. He also described a small entrance hole in the front of the head. Part of the back of his head was found on the street. The shot that hit him from the front blew it out and sprayed blood, and head fragments all over the back of the car and the people behind it. It is possible what you refer to in Z is the scalp overlaying the bone, I can't really picture exactly what you are referring to.

The position of the back shot is too low to line up with a throat exit. This is shown by the shirt and coat holes and even the autopsy notes, if I am not mistaken.

Look at Zapruder frame 313 here (Warning: not for the squeamish):

http://www.jmasland.com/z_color/z-313.jpg

This is right after the fatal shot. All the damage and ejecta are to the right front of Kennedy's head. The back of his head, which all the conspiracy folks say was blown away, is intact and undamaged. It couldn't be any clearer.

A substantial list of credible witnesses to the large wound at the back of the head appears above at 180.

Floyd Riebe, a medical photographic technician who took the pictures of the body at Bethesda, said that the President had "a big gaping hole in the back of the head." This is more damage than could have been done by a military jacketed bullet; the bullet was probably the explosive, or frangible, type. Riebe was shown the official autopsy photographs, and strongly disagreeing with them, he said, "The two pictures you showed me are not what I saw that night." With regard to the X-rays, which show the face shot away, Riebe said, "It's being phonied someplace. It's make believe." The evidence that could corroborate Riebe's statement--the President's brain--is missing. [Robert J. Groden, The Killing of a President, Viking, 1993, page 82.]

Tom Robinson of Gawler's Funeral Home drew these diagrams:

What Robinson has circled corresponds with the Harper Fragment deemed occipital.