From john.mcadams@marquette.edu Sat May 27 13:14:23 2006
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk
Subject: Aguilar's "Back of the Head" Witnesses - 23
From: john.mcadams@marquette.edu (John McAdams)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:14:23 GMT

Gary Aguilar claims to have examined the testimony of 46 witnesses to
Kennedy's head wound, at both Parkland and Bethesda, and found that 44
of the 46 described the head wound as contradicting the photos and
x-rays of the autopsy as they exist in the National Archives.

So does Gary have 44 "back of the head" witnesses?  And are his 46
witnesses selected so as to avoid witnesses who placed the wound at
the top of the head, or the side of the head?

Let's take one example:

The following quotes from Aguilar are taken from:

http://www.assassinationweb.com/ag6.htm


<Quote on>------------------------------------

19) SECRET SERVICE AGENT CLINT HILL: described the wounds he saw at
Parkland as, "The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was
lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed...There was
so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or
not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion
of the head." (WC--V2:141) 

<Quote off>--------------------------------------

As is the case with all of these witnesses, this testimony is quite
vague.

But of course Aguilar wants to get the wound as far toward the back of
the head as possible.  Since he believes the "great defect" extended
into occipital bone, he classifies Hill as one of his "Back of the
Head" witnesses.

And by "back of the head," Aguilar doesn't merely mean "posterior," he
means "into occipital bone."

But given that the above description is vague, we might wonder, "did
Hill ever give any more precise description?"

The answer is "yes."

Hill appears in the National Geographic special titled "Inside the
U.S. Secret Service."

In that documentary, Hill explains that after he climbed onto the
limo:

<Quote on>-------------------------------

I could see the back of his head and there was a gaping hole above his
right ear about the size of my palm.

<Quote off>------------------------------

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ClintHill.htm

In a 2017 interview, he shows where the explosion of Kennedy's head was:

https://youtu.be/vzYwCmDDSLA?t=27m33s

These description is *inconsistent* with conspiracist depictions of the
would like this one in SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/head2.gif

But are consistent with other witnesses like nurse Doris Nelson:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/nelson.jpg

. . . and doctor Charles Carrico:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/carrico_skull.GIF

It is also consistent with the Dox drawing done for the HSCA:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dox2big.jpg

The Dox drawing places the large skull defect where the autopsy photos
and x-rays show it.

.John
 
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