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Old 16-April-2006, 11:58 AM
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More on some of the other issues later, but for now, I'd like to address the autopsy and the back wound...

Are you claiming that because it was converted into an incision, the autopsy pathologists couldn't literally "find" it? Are you claiming that the report states that there was no exit wound (clearly incorrect)? Or are you claiming something else altogether? Please clarify your point.

I'll be happy to clarify my point. The report relies entirely on unfounded presumptions - for an alleged exit point and an alleged bullet path

As the report states...

The second wound presumably of entry is that described above in the upper right posterior thorax....The wound presumably of exit was that described by Dr. Malcolm Perry of Dallas in the low anterior cervical region.

So they are making presumptions about these two wounds. The throat wound was described at Parkland as an entry wound. The autopsists only saw the wound after it had been enlarged, and should have deferred to the Parkland doctors for an accurate description of the wound prior to any surgical procedures on it. But they presume it was an exit wound, without knowing its original size and condition. Inexcusable mistake.

Regarding the actual probe of the back wound, the autopsy report only stated that The missile path through the fascia and musculature cannot be easily proved. They do not mention that none of the many probes of the back wound found an exit point - neither at the throat, nor anywhere else.

The summary from the autopsy report, which you posted earlier to support your position, reads in part...

The other missile entered the right superior posterior thorax above the scapula and traversed the soft tissues of the supra-scapular and the supra-clavicular portions of the base of the right side of the neck. This missile produced contusions of the right apical parietal pleura and of the apical portion of the right upper lobe of the lung. The missile contused the strap muscles of the right side of the neck, damaged the trachea and made its exit through the anterior surface of the neck.

Sounds very much like they are certain in the above summary regarding the bullet path. But based on the autopsy findings and witnesses, it's completely unfounded. As the report said earlier, "the missile path...cannot be easily proved." The fact is that there was no exit point found, as the autopsists demonstrated, and as all of the witnesses stated. Dr. Robert Karnei and Navy medical technicians James Jenkins and Paul O'Connor all stated that the back wound was probed repeatedly, and that the autopsy doctors determined that it had no point of exit.