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droogoy
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vidor1 re-redux
[Read the article: Chris Matthews gets it wrong -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]vidor 1 wrote:
"As to the poster above with all the silly physics formulas, that hardly bears answering, except to note that this is not a physics problem, because Kennedy's head was not a free-floating object but WAS ATTATCHED TO HIS BODY at the time.'
Do you even know how to freaking read? Or analyze? Of course the head was attaced to the body, bozo! If you will kindly re-examine the analysis you will see the head-upper torso is defined as a single movable mass about a pivot at center of gravity CG. A moment arm R connects head to CG.
These aren't "silly physics formulas" but a self-consistent analysis set up by considering the body as able to rotate about that point (and it is easily verified in everyday experience, besides). The magnitudes also, e.g. whjen one reckons in the velocity caused by the displacement, is also verified in numerous reports.
Thus, it IS A PHYSICS PROBLEM, because the dynamics can be witnessed and examined via two distinct films. The motions can be seen as well as in video of a model mass on a accelerator track in a lab.
That you comment in such an inept way, only discloses how unqualified you are to say anything.
"As such, there would be other factors involved, such as the neuromuscular impulse caused by massive brain trauma "
Sorry, but the neuromuscular spasm tripe was disposed of in an AMA Journal piece back in 1994. In the study it was reported that the phenomenon "had never been reported in humans, only in felines".
The neuromuscular claptrap was invoked (I believe by George Lundberg) after the "jet effect" foolishness was dispensed with. I myself was one of the people that shot down that latter crappola in another extensive analysis of Alvarez' ballistic pendulum experiments that tried to prove it.
What I showed is that the magnitude of jet effect needed was about twenty time more than presumed. It would have required half all the blood content of JFK's body shunted out in less than 0.0001s.
"and the force of Kennedy's brain exploding out of the right side of his head."
More horse manure. The entry point was at that side, the egress point was in the back.
Dr. Crenshaw’s assessment of the head wounds (more massive in the rear) was fully supported by other Parkland surgeons. Dr. James Carrico, for example, referred to “shredded, macerated cerebellar tissue” in his WC testimony. In his 1979 House Select Committee testimony he noted “one could see blood and brains, both cerebrum and cerebellum fragments in that tissue"
Dr. Charles Baxter, in his account, noted “the rt(sic) temporal and occipital lobes were missing”
The Harper bone fragment itself (found 25' behind the limo) was later identified as a piece of the rear skull.
Or "occipital region" bone.
The report of the "occipital bone" missing would comport with the statements of Drs. Carrico and Crenshaw (in his book) and also with the finding of the occipital bone fragment - which had clearly been dislodged.
We now come to the central issue of wound location and placement. If one accepts the autopsy report (written) as accurate (**) it is placed:
"in the upper right posterior thorax just above the upper border of the scapula there is a 7 x 4 millimeter oval wound. This wound is measured to be 14 cm from the tip of the right acromion process and 14 cm below the tip of the right mastoid process."
** HSCA, Vol. 7, pp. 228-29, 223, 218,
This is the only "rear" shot, but it could not have been the "kill shot" - since we know the kill shot took out most of his brains(entering from the front) and dislodged the occipital bone.
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Neck
! x !_______
!Shoulder
C * !
The above simplified view (rear view) shows how far off this places the correct bullet entry site (C)from the site which is not correct (x) - but which was referenced(WCT, p73) by the Warren Commission Report. The actual bullet wound in the back can be seen clearly in photos (ibid.). It can also be referenced with respect to the bullet wound in the back, and the puncture made by the bullet in the jacket JFK was wearing ('Killing of a President', p78).
This wound placement - as described in the autopsy report reference(above) and shown in the photographs, is also clearly deduced by reference to the detailed anatomical diagrams in Gray's Anatomy (cf. Mastoid process, p. 31 -top, p. 216; and Acromion Process, p. 88, p.91).
The Mastoid Process is the concave bone structure just behind the ear. The Acromion Process is the peak or summit of the triangular shaped bone overlying the scapula, and is "flattened from behind outwards, directed at first a little upwards, ,so as to overhang the glenoid cavity. Its upper surface, directed upwards, backwards and outwards, is convex,
rough and gives attachment to some fibers of the deltoid."
"The bit about David Lifton's madness also hardly bears answering, except to note that at no time was Kennedy's body left unaccompanied so that it could be "altered"."
William Pitzer (a Bethesda physician) had originally reported, the body was altered - by the military appointed autopsists (Humes & Boswell)under the inspection and instructions of military officers present.
Some days later, Pitzer's body was found - dead, shot in cold blood. He had been prepared to testify how the changes were made and why he suspected they were made.
Later work by Dr. Randolph Robertson, reported in Advance for Radiological Science Professionals, May 16, 1994, essentially confirmed all of Pitzer's suspicions in showing a major discrepancy between the wounds, placement as the Parkland Drs. reported them (and as on the original x-rays) and what appeared in the subsequent WC provided x-rays. (Refer to page 7 and his detailed anatomical charts, analysis).
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