On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 4:58:33 PM UTC-7, Bud wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 6:54:36 PM UTC-4, David Von Pein wrote:
> > BUD SAID:
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> > Humes said the neck was dissected.
> > DAVID VON PEIN NOW SAYS:
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> > Point me to his testimony where he says that. I can't find any such testimony where he uses the word "dissected" in connection with his examination of the neck.
> He describes dissection. I hate to go back over ground I covered two months back but I`ll try to get you up to speed on my position. Here is the testimony where Humes talks about dissection, as soon as he says "Y shaped incision he is taking about dissection, that is what an autopsy does....
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> "To complete the examination of the area of the neck and the chest, I will do that together, we made the customary incision which we use in a routine postmortem examination which is a Y-shaped incision from the shoulders over the lower portion of the breastbone and over to the opposite shoulder and reflected the skin and tissues from the anterior portion of the chest.
> We examined in the region of this incised surgical wound which was the tracheotomy wound and we saw that there was some bruising of the muscles of the neck in the depths of this wound as well as laceration or defect in the trachea.
> At this point, of course, I am unable to say how much of the defect in the trachea was made by the knife of the surgeon, and how much of the defect was made by the missile wound. That would have to be ascertained from the surgeon who actually did the tracheotomy.
> There was, however, some ecchymosis or contusion, of the muscles of the right anterior neck inferiorly, without, however, any disruption of the muscles or any significant tearing of the muscles.
> The muscles in this area of the body run roughly, as you see as he depicted them here. We have removed some of them for a point I will make in a moment, but it is our opinion that the missile traversed the neck and slid between these muscles and other vital structures with a course in the neck such as the carotid artery, the jugular vein and other structures because there was no massive hemmorhage or other massive injury in this portion of the neck.
> In attempting to relate findings within the President's body to this wound which we had observed low in his neck, we then opened his chest cavity, and we very carefully examined the lining of his chest cavity and both of his lungs. We found that there was, in fact. no defect in the pleural lining of the President's chest.
> It was completely intact.
> However, over the apex of the right pleural cavity, and the pleura now has two layers. It has a parietal or a layer which lines the chest cavity and it has a visceral layer which is intimately in association with the lung.
> As depicted in figure 385, in the apex of the right pleural cavity there was a bruise or contusion or eccmymosis of the parietal pleura as well as a bruise of the upper portion, the most apical portion of the right lung.
> It, therefore, was our opinion that the missile while not penetrating physically the pleural cavity, as it passed that point bruised either the missile itself, or the force of its passage through the tissues, bruised both the parietal and the visceral pleura."
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> He is talking about opening up the body to examine the neck. A 'y" incision looks like this...
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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Y-shaped-incision-for-evisceration-Courtesy-of-T-Hansen_fig2_278319248
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> I quoted a source that said that often the top part of the "y" is pulled up over the face. That would expose the neck area for examination.
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> Look, I don`t conduct autopsies, you don`t and Ben doesn`t. My understanding is they open up the body and look for damage. This was done. The problem here is that we end up arguing against an argument that Ben refuses to make. It is up to him to make the argument that the autopsy wasn`t done correctly, and he can`t, so he plays these games, where he throws out some vague concept and tries to make it all about that.
> > In Humes' WC testimony, he definitely does get into a good amount of detail about the "bruising of the muscles of the neck in the depths of this wound". Is this the testimony you mean when you said "Humes said the neck was dissected"?
of course, by your own admission you don't conduct autopsies. Perhaps others here know more than you concerning this very subject. Heaven forbid...
Are you saying Ben Holmes is playing a game? If so, why play a game. There is no need to "play a game." Were autopsies of the day negligent if they did not track bullet wounds.If tracking wounds was the practice of the day, why wasn't tracking done done at Bethesda?
Ben Holmes has been making arguments here for over 15 years, and your excuse is?