[Allan]

I strongly recommend anyone who has been following this thread
to read this single short web page by Jim Fetzer:

THE LONE-NUTTER CHALLENGE!

I would like to see a line by line refutation of it by one of our prominent 'lone-nutters'.
because then I could feel peace of mind on this issue
and go back to thinking about other mysteries.

But:

Though I have absolutely no theories to offer for a possible conspiracy
after 40+ years of brooding about this case
I strongly feel
that amongst the partisans of various shades and denominations of theory
it is the supporters of the Warren Commission
who are the biggest kooks in this discussion.

[Peace will be here soon]

I ask you to read post 319. Now go away.

[Shooter 2.5]

The doctors who did the autopsy reported a bullet wound 5 and a half inches from his Mastoid Process and an inch to the right of his spine.

This issue is not whether or not some assassin killed off a suit jacket.

[Ditter]

The supporters of the "lone bullet theory" are so rabid in their support of the Warren Report that I have come to think there is some personal reason. Like perhaps their father/uncles/g.fathers were involved in that decision. How can you doubt Nellie Connelly, who was in the car, when she says that John Connelly & Kennedy were not hit by the same bullet? How can you doubt the doctors at Parkland Hospital when they say the wounds they saw were not the same as the photos from the Warren Commission?

[texasbluebell]

From your link, re: the other wound on the back:

The third thoracic verteba, however, is too low to have been the entry location for a bullet fired from above and behind that could possibly have exited from the President's throat at the level of the knot of his tie.

Funny how that has been overlooked, isn't it?

Thanks for posting that.

[DustyMoment]

Interesting post, Allan, thanks.

The trajectory of the "Magic" bullet has also troubled me. I have never understand how, given all of the angles involved, the bullet could have traveled upward from its presumed entry point in Kennedy's back to exit through his neck.

That just never made any sense to me.

Given the information that you and PhilDragoo have posted, I have to agree that the neck would must be an entry wound that has no relationship to the back wound.

[#3Fan]

Good link. Yeah, if the back bullet would've transited, it would've exited at around the stomach.

[PhilDragoo]

The President's personal physician, Dr. George Burkley, drafted the death certificate on November 23, 1963.

It stated the back wound was "at about the level of the third thoracic vertebra."

One of the autopsists, Pierre A. Finck, was questioned under oath February 24, 1969, in State of Louisiana v Clay L. Shaw:

Q Can you give me approximately how far this probe went?

A The first fraction of an inch.

The FBI autopsy report²³ stated the back wound entered ". . .a short distance. . .the end of the opening could be felt with the finger."

²³[Warren Commission Documents, 1964; Record Group 272, CD-7, pp. 280-285]

Hence, no transiting on to six more wounds, no Magic Bullet, no Single Bullet Theory, no Lone Gunman.