Back, and to the Left


For conspiracists, including forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, the fact that Kennedy's head snapped sharply back and to the left when he was hit in the head in Dealey Plaza shows that he was hit by a shot from the Grassy Knoll, which was located to his right front.

Supposedly, it's simple Newtonian physics.

The following is from Wecht's testimony at the Menendez retrial. See:

http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/menendez/transcripts/dec95/


         24         Q    OKAY.  IF THE ARM WERE AS YOU WERE
 
         25  INDICATING, THAT IS, JUST LOOSE AT THE SIDE, AND THE
 
         26  SHOT WERE TO GO FROM THE BACK OF THE ARM IN THROUGH
 
         27  THE FRONT OF THE ARM, WOULDN'T THAT HAVE A TENDENCY
 
         28  TO PUSH THE ARM IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SHOT RATHER
 
 
 
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          1  THAN AWAY FROM THE SHOT AND INTO THE CHEST?
 
          2         A    NO.  I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW THE PERSON
 
          3  WOULD MOVE.  THERE'S NO WAY TO KNOW THAT.  THE ARM
 
          4  WOULD MOST LIKELY MOVE WHETHER THE PERSON WOULD MOVE
 
          5  THE WHOLE ARM OR WHETHER THERE WOULD BE SOME FLEXION
 
          6  OF THE ELBOW.  I DON'T THINK ANYBODY KNOWS THAT AND
 
          7  THERE'S NO WAY TO DO AN EXPERIMENT ON THAT.
 
          8         Q    ISN'T IT YOUR UNDERSTANDING, THOUGH, AS
 
          9  A MATTER OF PHYSICS -- I KNOW YOU'RE NOT AN
 
         10  ENGINEER, BUT AS A MATTER OF PHYSICS, WOULDN'T -- IF
 
         11  YOU IMPART A FORCE IN A SPECIFIC DIRECTION, ISN'T
 
         12  THERE A TENDENCY TO MAKE THE OBJECT THAT IS STRUCK
 
         13  TRAVEL IN THE SAME DIRECTION UNLESS THERE'S A REASON
 
         14  TO BE THROWN IN A DIFFERENT OBJECTION?
 
         15         A    SURE.
 
         16         MS. ABRAMSON:  OBJECTION.  WELL, I'M GOING TO
 
         17  OBJECT TO THAT AS IRRELEVANT UNLESS THE OBJECT WE'RE
 
         18  TALKING ABOUT IS PART OF THE HUMAN BODY.
 
         19         THE COURT:  OVERRULED.
 
         20         THE WITNESS:  THAT'S ONE, I THINK, OF THE
 
         21  BASIC NEWTONIAN PRINCIPLES OF LAWS OF PHYSICS;
 
         22  HOWEVER, YOU SEE, WHEN YOU DEAL WITH THESE THINGS ON
 
         23  A PURELY ENGINEERING BASIS, YOU'RE FORGETTING THAT
 
         24  THE HUMAN BODY HAS MOVEMENT AT JOINTS AND YOU'RE
 
         25  FORGETTING THAT THE HUMAN BODY HAS MOVEMENT THAT IS
 
         26  CONTROLLED VOLUNTARILY OR EVEN INVOLUNTARILY BY THE
 
         27  PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM.
 
         28              SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE PROBLEM IN
 
 

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          1  TRYING TO DEAL WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS FROM A
 
          2  PURELY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OR PHYSICIST
 
          3  STANDPOINT.  SOME OF THE CONCEPTS, INDEED, ARE
 
          4  APPLICABLE AND RELEVANT, BUT YOU HAVE TO THEN FACTOR
 
          5  IN THE BIOLOGICAL ELEMENT, THE ENTIRE NEUROMUSCULAR
 
          6  SYSTEM AND SO ON, ALL OF THE VOLUNTARY AND
 
          7  INVOLUNTARILY REFLEXIVE ASPECTS OF IT, AS WELL AS
 
          8  WHAT SOMEBODY SETS OUT TO DO IN THIS KIND OF A
 
          9  SITUATION.
 
         10              AND HERE, YOU KNOW, SIR NEWTON AND
 
         11  OTHERS JUST NEVER DEALT WITH THOSE THINGS.  THEY
 
         12  DEALT WITH STATIONARY OBJECTS MOVING IN A CERTAIN
 
         13  FASHION WHEN OTHER OBJECTS STRIKE THEM OR ARE STRUCK
 
         14  BY A MOVING OBJECT, AND THAT'S JUST A VERY DIFFERENT
 
         15  SITUATION.


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