Free Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination by Jerome Corsi

difficulty from such a missile wound. I am sure he would be aware that something happened to him, but that he was shot. I am not certain.
    Representative Ford : Would that have been the potential reaction of the President when first hit, as shown in [CE] 385?
    Commander Humes : It could very easily be one of some type of an injury—I mean the awareness that he had been struck by a missile. I don’t know, but people have been drilled through with a missile and didn’t know it. 86
    Dr. Humes in his next answer blew Specter’s single-bullet theory out of the water. Humes testified it was “extremely unlikely” the nearly pristine CE399 struck Connally’s thigh because X-rays show metallic fragments in the thigh bone. “I cannot conceive of where [the fragments] came from.” The Commission conveniently overlooked that comment and focused on the possibility of a delayed reaction to a gunshot wound.
    The Warren Commission continued:
    There was, conceivably, a delayed reaction between the time the bullet struck [Connally] and the time he realized he was hit.… The Governor did not even know that he had been struck in the wrist or in the thigh until he regained consciousness in the hospital the next day. Moreover, he testified that he did not hear what he thought was the second shot, although he did hear a subsequent shot, which coincided with the shattering of the President’s head. One possibility, therefore, would be a sequence in which the Governor heard the first shot, did not immediately feel the penetration of the bullet, then felt the delayedreaction of the impact on his back, later heard the shot which shattered the President’s head, and then lost consciousness without hearing a third shot which might have occurred later. 87
    “It is frustrating and ironic that the Zapruder film does not enable the viewer to pinpoint the exact moment of impact of the bullet in the President’s back, or of the bullet (or bullets) that struck the Governor,” Sylvia Meagher wrote. “But the film does establish a definite delay between the wounding of the two men—a delay too short for the Carcano rifle to be fired twice by one man, and too long to leave the single-missile hypothesis with credibility.” 88
    A further anomaly is that to establish that CE399 traversed JFK’s back through his neck Specter would have had to concede an upward trajectory. However, to establish that the same bullet hit Connally, who was sitting in the limousine’s jump seat several inches below JFK, he would have to allow a downward trajectory.
    Commission Exhibit 385 was a drawing that showed the “magic bullet” CE399 penetrating JFK’s back at nearly the base of the neck and exiting through the throat. CE385 is inconsistent with the testimony of the doctors at both Parkland and Bethesda and with autopsy photographs that place JFK’s back wound considerably lower on the back, down at least an inch or two from the neck. The drawing was controversial because it showed the bullet trajectory on a downward angle when the natural assumption and the available medical evidence of JFK wounds suggest that a line drawn from a back entrance wound to a neck exit would be on an upward bullet trajectory. However, an upward trajectory through JFK’s body would be inconsistent with the assumption that a lone gunman firing from the far corner sixth floor window in the Texas School Book Depository shot both bullets that struck JFK, which would have been on a downward trajectory. To achieve this affect, Specter had the drawing made to show the point where the bullet entered JFK’s back higher than where it actually did enter. Specter also drew the attention of the commissioners to photographs showing JFK’s suit jacket was bunched up in the back so as to explain why the bullet holes observed in JFK’s shirt and suit coat were lower down on the back where he argued the bullet entered.
    Three important photographs taken instants before JFK was wounded the first