The Grassy Knoll Assassination by James Francis Smith

Author:James Francis Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group
Published: 2019-11-13T15:57:59+00:00

Warren Commissioner Queries Parkland Doctors

Dr. Watson continued his dissertation by telling his listeners that the best source of what the Parkland doctors endured in their effort to save Kennedy’s life was their answers to Arlen Specter of the Warren Commission. Before he started, he remarked, “Per Sherlock’s instructions, we are concentrating on the wounds, not on the Parkland surgeons’ attempts to save his life.”

Then, nodding in Sherlock’s direction, Watson distributed a folder with paper to each team member and said, “I’ll stick with the issue of wounds. Furthermore, I’ll try not to restate the obvious, if answered fully by another doctor. And I’ll try to cover the relevant issues without repeating something adequately covered. For example, questions of examining Kennedy’s back were asked of several doctors; Dr. Carrico’s reply suffices to answer for all.

“In his questioning during the Warren Commission Hearings, in order to accomplish his objective, Specter requested several doctors to base their answers on the following scenario:

“Assume, first of all, that the president was struck by a 0.5 mm, copper-jacketed bullet fired from a gun having a muzzle velocity of about 2,000 feet per second, the weapon being approximately 160 to 250 feet from the president with the bullet striking him at an angle of declination of approximately 45 degrees, hitting the president on the upper right posterior right above the upper border of the scapula. Being 14 cm from the tip of the right acromion (the shoulder blade) process and 14 cm below the tip of the right mastoid process, passing through the president’s body, striking no bones, traversing the neck and sliding between the large muscles in the posterior position of the president’s body through a Fascia channel without violating the pleural cavity but bruising the apex of the right pleural cavity, and bruising the most apical portion of the right lung inflicting a hematoma to the right side of the larynx (voice box), which you have just described, and then exiting from the hole that you just observed in the middle of the neck. Now, assuming those facts to be true, would the hole which you just observed in the neck of the president be consistent with an exit wound under these circumstances?

“Each doctor complied as thoroughly as he could.”

Watson highlighted the non-medically educated in the room about Specter’s attempt at controlling replies from wandering in a direction such as frontal shots, which were considered a no-no by the Warren Commission. Further, Watson believed those questions should have been asked of gun experts, not doctors. Or that they should have only been asked of doctors who had experience with through-and-through wounds caused by high velocity rifles.

Larry Cowley interrupted Watson’s explanation by remarking, “‘The following’ is an old lawyer’s trick to frame the replies in the direction he desired them to go.”

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