The back wound was inferior to the first thoracic vertebra and did not penetrate more than the first joint of the finger.
The throat wound was a wound of entry.
The Connallys have both maintained from day one that the governor was not hit by the same bullet that struck the president.
And it would have to do all that without losing almost any of its mass and with almost no deformation! An identical bullet was fired through a cadaver's arm and came out as smashed as a toadstool. The 'magic' bullet supposedly passed through five times as much bone and tissue but came out looking almost new.
Specter admitted none of the test bullets duplicated the feat of his Magic Bullet, which he concocted never having seen the X-rays.
The first outsider to see the X-rays was Lattimore the urologist who pronounced Kennedy's adrenals normal--
--this despite the fact they would only appear with special dye. The autopsists make no reference to special dye so--
--Lattimore was hallucinating or looking at someone else's X-ray.
For the Warren Commission's version of events to be true,that same pristine or 'magic' bullet not only had to be invulnerable to damage, it had to be able to change course in mid-air and hover. The entry wound on JFK's back was about three inches below the shoulder, but the exit wound was in his throat, almost six inches higher. Somehow, once it entered JFK's back, the bullet did an instant 90 degree turn upwards without deflecting off anything, then another 90 degree turn back toward the same direction it had originally been going as it exited Kennedy's throat. Then, as shown by the Zapruder film, the bullet had to wait in the air almost two seconds before taking off again to put all those wounds in Connaly.
Connally's wounds present fragments which could not have originated from the Magic Bullet.
Arlen Specter asked the President's autopsist, Dr. Humes, whether the "magic bullet" could have been the same one that was embedded in the Governor's thigh. Humes replied, "I think that extremely unlikely. The reports [from Parkland] tell of an entrance wound on the lower mid-thigh of the Governor, and X-rays taken there are described as showing metallic fragments in the bone, which apparently by this report were not removed from . . . Governor Connally's thigh. I can't conceive of where they came from this missile." Drs. Pierre Finck and J. Thornton Boswell, also present at the autopsy, concurred with this statement.
That's what I thought I had read. And you answered an earlier question of mine, Phil!