There is solid evidence for a very shallow wound in JFK”s back that did not traverse him.
But first, let’s name the autopsy doctors who said that the wound in JFK’s back was located at the level of T3. There was JFK’s own personal doctor, Dr. George Burkley. There was Dr. Boswell. There was Dr. Robert Canada. And then, there was Dr. Robert Karnei, who said that it was at the level of T4. I think there were more, but those come to mind.
Now, the spinous processes are the most logical landmark to use to locate the wound. That’s because they were the nearest landmark to it, and they were also the most helpful and practical landmark. The vertical row of spinous processes is like a ruler in your back. And in the upper thoracic spine, ironically, the spinous processes are an inch apart. So, it’s truly like you have a ruler in your back. So, why would you use anything else?
But, Dr. Humes, in his autopsy report, did NOT locate the wound as per the spine. Instead, he said that the wound was located 14 centimeters from the mastoid process and also 14 centimeters from the acromion process of the scapula. But, to cite those references and ignore the spine? That's ridiculous. So, why did he do it?
I believe he did it because he must have known about all those doctors saying it was at the level of T3, and he didn’t want to openly contradict them.
Humes said that the back wound was slightly above the superior border of the scapula. The superior border of the scapula is usually in line with T2. So, it appears that he was claiming that the back wound was at a level between T1 and T2.
But, he didn’t want to say that and openly contradict the others, so he said it in that other roundabout way.
You should know that they spent a long time trying to probe the back wound. Dr. Karnei said, “we worked all night with the probes.” And they put JFK’s body in different positions trying to probe it. They even sat him upright trying to get a probe into that wound. But, it didn’t work. They always hit a wall.
As a result, Dr. Robert Canada said frankly in 1968 that “the bullet did not exit.” Of course, there was no bullet in the wound or in JFK’s body, as proven by x-ray. And claiming that it fell out is stupid. How could it get through his clothes?
I tell you that JFK was not hit in the throat with a bullet. He couldn’t have been because if he had, the bullet would either have gone through him or been found. Dr. Perry did not find a bullet in him, and the Bethesda doctors x-rayed him and said there was no bullet.
JFK was hit with a flechette or dart, and the shot was taken from his right side and by Umbrella Man, just as Cutler and Sprague proposed. It damaged some tracheal coils and caused the apical contusion. It’s ridiculous to think they had separate causes.
The missile that entered his back did not enter the lungs; it only went through skin, fascia, and muscle. So, the apical contusion was definitely caused by the throat shot; not the back shot.
Dr. David Mantik told me in an email exchange that he did a detailed analysis and determined that if a bullet had traversed JFK, as per the official story, it definitely would have impacted the spinal cord. The effect of that would have been catastrophic. He would have been instantly paralyzed, but he wasn’t paralyzed at all.
But, even if it didn’t hit the spinal cord, it surely would have been close enough to it to affect the nerve roots, and that alone would have caused paralysis, at least temporarily. Here is the case of a 16 year old boy in Ukraine who was shot in the back of the neck. The bullet hit his cervical spine but not his spinal cord. It affected the nerve roots from C4 to C7 and then the bullet lodged in his skull behind the cheek bone. He suffered pain, shock, and paralysis. But, they got him in surgery right away and were able to remove the bullet, and he has been regaining some function, fortunately. Here is the abstract about it:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36928329/
And I’ll leave you with this: if the back shot didn’t even penetrate deep enough to enter JFK’s lung, how shallow was it? The lungs are, on average, 5.5 cm deep to the skin in the region of T1 to T3, which is about 2 inches. Since JFK’s lungs were not violated from that shot, it means that the depth of penetration had to be less than that. Surely a FMJ bullet that reached his skin travelling 2000 feet per second did not, and could not, stop in 2 inches. That means that it had to be something else that hit him. Ice is hard, but it is also unstable. It bursts easily, and it can be formulated to burst easily. Ice made from hard water is much more unstable than frozen distilled water. That’s because the minerals in the hard water interfere with the hydrogen bonding.
The bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in ice are different from the bonds in liquid water. Liquid water has polar covalent bonds, in which hydrogen and oxygen share electrons. In ice, there are intermolecular bonds connecting separate molecules of H2O in an open crystal lattice. But, the presence of minerals interferes with those bonds, putting the whole lattice at risk.
The ice dart that hit JFK was designed to burst as soon as it pierced his skin. CIA Director William Colby said that, to the victim, it felt like nothing more than a mosquito bite. But, the bursting process would also act like an injection, to get the nerve agent into his system fast.
Until he was shot in the head, JFK’s physical trauma was relatively minor. He had a shallow wound in his back that was rather harmless. And he had a puncture wound in his throat that damaged his trachea a little and caused a little contusion in the adjacent lung apex. That is not what caused his bizarre manifestations in the Zapruder film. Those bizarre effects- his dyskinesia, spasticity, and mental aberrations- were due to poisoning; not trauma.





















