Another tall tale by Lattimer

[Herbert Blenner]

Lattimer wrote:

"The wound of entry into the back of Kennedy's neck was almost round
and approximately 6.5 mm in diameter, with a black rim characteristic
of a wound of entry."

Commander Humes described the bullet hole in Kennedy's back as an oval
with dimensions of 4 mm by 7 mm and did not mention an abrasion or a
collar. The Clark Panel discussed the 7 mm by 10 mm elliptical
abrasion that surrounded the bullet hole. So neither wound was almost
round with an approximate 6.5-mm diameter.

[Anthony Marsh]

On 10/26/2012 3:48 PM, Herbert Blenner wrote:
> Lattimer wrote:
>
> "The wound of entry into the back of Kennedy's neck was almost round
> and approximately 6.5 mm in diameter, with a black rim characteristic
> of a wound of entry."
>

I don't know what the trick in logic is called, but it reminds me of the
same type of trick that was used in the Clark Panel to claim they saw a
6.5 mm object in the A-P X-ray. First of all it's just plaing lying as
absolutely no one recalled that the throat wound was 6.5 mm in diameter.
There was a wide range of guesses and some were much smaller. There is no
reason to select the number 6.5 mm out of all those guesses except to
frame Oswald. And again I have to remind the uninformed readers that the
diameter of Oswald's bullets was not 6.5 mm. The 6.5 mm figure comes from
the bore of the rifle not the size of the bullets. You can shoot a 6.5 mm
wide bullet from a Carcano, but it's an exercise in futility and
inaccuracy because the bullet it not wide enough to grab the rifling of
the barrel.

But there is something fundamentally dishonest about looking at the
evidence and picking only the piece which will frame your suspect. It's
like the Boston police finding a dead body with a bullet hole which
measures anywhere from 3 mm to 10 mm according to the witnesses who saw
it, but the Boston Police have a black man they want to frame who has
traditionally used a 9 mm pistol so they bribe the coroner to say that the
bullet wound was exactly 9 mm wide.