Clint Hill on JFK's Wounds
Vern Pascal
the nature and location of the president's head and back wounds. Hill is
hardly a CT, but his remarks are very explicit, and reveal major
discrepancies with the official story of the wounds.
Recall that after Mrs. Kennedy, he was the first to see JFK's massive
head wound. On the head wound he says:
"The right rear portion of his head was missing.
It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There
was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car.
Mrs. Kennedy was entirely covered with blood. There was so much blood
you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for
the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head."
Pretty straightforward. Nothing about the antero-lateral wound seen in
the Z film. He repeated his statement that the wound was in the right
rear of the head, i.e. behind the ear, not in front of it, or he would
have described it as such.
On the back wound (at Bethesda):
"I was requested to come to the morgue to view the president's body. I
saw an opening in the back, about six inches below the neckline to the
right-hand side of the spinal column."
Since he was "requested" to view the body, it must have been so that his
observations should becommitted to memory. Although he gave a layman's
description of the location of the wound in the upper back, "about six
inches below the neckline, etc.", there is no way that this can be
construed as meaning in the base of the neck. He saw the same wound
consistent with the reports of all the medical personnel at Bethesda as
being to the right of the third thoracic vertebra, or T3.
I don't believe Clint Hill is lying or mistaken in his explicit
observations. His testimony alone destroys the lone gunman
hypothesis.----Vern
JMH
Vern Pascal wrote in message
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It doesn't hurt to re-emphasize SS agent, Clint Hill's Wc testimony on
the nature and location of the president's head and back wounds. Hill is
hardly a CT, but his remarks are very explicit, and reveal major
discrepancies with the official story of the wounds.
Recall that after Mrs. Kennedy, he was the first to see JFK's massive
head wound. On the head wound he says:
"The right rear portion of his head was missing.
It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There
was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car.
Mrs. Kennedy was entirely covered with blood. There was so much blood
you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for
the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head."
Pretty straightforward. Nothing about the antero-lateral wound seen in
the Z film. He repeated his statement that the wound was in the right
rear of the head, i.e. behind the ear, not in front of it, or he would
have described it as such.
On the back wound (at Bethesda):
"I was requested to come to the morgue to view the president's body. I
saw an opening in the back, about six inches below the neckline to the
right-hand side of the spinal column."
Since he was "requested" to view the body, it must have been so that his
observations should becommitted to memory. Although he gave a layman's
description of the location of the wound in the upper back, "about six
inches below the neckline, etc.",
"about"=?
"neckline starts at....=?
Vern Pascal
this to be vague. If he meant where the neck joins the head, he would
have said "about six inches below the head, or even at the "base of the
neck" or maybe "shoulder line", or "even with the top of the shoulders".
He said nothing about the "opening" being in the neck itself.
He viewed JFK's nude body, so he was also not referring to the
collarline of his shirt. He clearly
meant, "below the neckline", which can only be interpreted as below the
neck, and "neckline", although not an anatomical term,must designate
something other than some nebulous area within the neck itself, so if
neckline doesn't refer to the topmost part of the neck, it must
therefore refer to the bottom, or base, of the neck, where C7 joins T1.
Six inches below that point would actually be an inch or so lower than
the site of record at T3, but there is no way that Clint Hill was
describing a location as being near C7/T1, the mythical location
required by the SBT, a location unsupported by any of the autopsy or
eyewitness evidence. This location was made up later by people who were
not present at the autopsy, and had a vested interest in trying to
preserve the fraudulent SBT--------Vern