On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:49:26 -0700 (PDT), Bud <
sirs...@fast.net>
wrote:
>On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 2:45:31?PM UTC-4, Ben Holmes wrote:
>> 3. Another fact that, all by itself, is virtually conclusive evidence
>> proving the single-bullet theory is that the entrance wound in
>> Governor Connally’s back was not circular, but oval. Drs. Charles
>> Gregory and Robert Shaw, who attended Connally at Parkland Hospital,
>> described the wound as “linear” and “elliptical” in shape, indicating
>> that the bullet was out of alignment with its trajectory just before
>> striking Connally’s body. The HSCA said that a factor which
>> “significantly” influenced its conclusion that the bullet that struck
>> Connally had first struck and passed through Kennedy “was the ovoid
>> shape of the wound in the Governor’s back, indicating that the bullet
>> had begun to tumble or yaw before entering. An ovoid wound is
>> characteristic of one caused by a bullet that has passed through or
>> glanced off an intervening object…The forensic pathology panel’s
>> conclusions were consistent with the so-called single bullet theory
>> advanced by the Warren Commission,” to wit, that one bullet had passed
>> “through both President Kennedy and Governor Connally.”
>>
>> My firearms expert at the London trial, Monty Lutz, told me that “no
>> bullet traveling at 2,000 feet per second is going to start to tumble
>> or yaw on its own until around 200 yards. When Connally was struck he
>> was around 60 yards from the window, so the bullet had to have hit
>> something before it hit him, and other than Kennedy’s body, there was
>> nothing between the sixth-floor window and him. Not the oak tree, or
>> its leaves. Nothing.”
>>
>> It has to be emphasized that at the time Connally was struck by a
>> bullet (somewhere between Z frames 210 and 222),* the oak tree to the
>> north of Elm close to the Depository Building was no longer in the
>> line of fire from the sniper’s nest to Connally’s body.
>>
>> So Kennedy’s body was the only intervening object that the Connally
>> bullet could have first hit. HSCA physical scientist Larry M.
>> Sturdivan told the committee that the Carcano bullet was a “very
>> stable bullet, perhaps one of the most stable bullets that we have
>> ever done experimentation with.” He said that it would only start
>> yawing—and then very little, “perhaps less than a degree”—at “about
>> 100 meters” (about 110 yards) and “if it had struck [Connally] without
>> having previously encountered another object, it [Connally’s back
>> wound] would never have been elongated. This bullet is too stable. It
>> would have had to be a nice round hole.”
>>
>> Here's the quesition that Chickenshit will refuse to answer: What is
>> the "virtually conclusive evidence" that Bugs was talking about?
>
> The shape of the wound.
What was the shape of the wound?