Dr. David Meagher is or was a pediatric surgeon of distinction, and he does some JFKing.  He and I have interacted some, contentiously.  But, I am glad he’s here because being a doctor and a surgeon, he has the ability to assess JFK’s condition in an educated way, unlike most people. And now, I want him to address the Single Bullet Theory because it is my contention, having been a chiropractor for almost 50 years, that the Zapruder film tells us that JFK could NOT have been struck with a bullet that traversed his neck from back to front.

I’ll begin by pointing out that Dr. David Mantik informed me that he did a precise anatomical analysis and determined that if a bullet had entered JFK’s neck just to the right of the spine and exited in the midline of his throat, that it would have hit the spinal cord.

Now, the word “midline” was used by Dr. Malcolm Perry at Parkland Hospital, and that was the only place that JFK’s throat wound was seen by doctors. The autopsy doctors didn’t see it until after the tracheotomy obliterated the wound.

So, all we can go by is Dr. Perry saying it was in the midline.

So, how far from the spine was the presumed entrance wound in his back? Since the Parkland doctors didn’t see that wound, all we have to go by is what the autopsy doctors said.

The autopsy report doesn’t state how far from the spine the entrance wound was. In fact, it doesn’t reference the spine at all. Instead, they located the wound by citing its distance from the mastoid process of the occiput and the acromion process of the scapula. For both, they said it was 14 cm.  But, I say that was duplicitous. There is no excuse for not referencing it to the spine. That’s because it was closer to the spine than those other landmarks, and because the spinous processes in your back are like a ruler.

And that’s the reason why the other doctors DID reference it to the spine. Most of them, including JFK’s own doctor, Admiral George Burkley, said that the wound was adjacent to T3, AND HE INCLUDED THAT ON JFK’S DEATH CERTIFICATE. Other doctors also said T3, except for Dr. Robert Karnei, who said it was at the level of T4.

Humes said it was slightly above the superior border of the scapula, which is usually at T2. So, if it was slightly above that, then it was between T1 and T2, according to him.  He called it a “posterior thorax wound,” but on Google AI and Chat GPT they say the wound was adjacent to C7, and that is absurd. It’s pure fiat.

But, let’s return to Dr. David Mantik who said that the bullet would have hit the spinal cord. Even if he’s wrong, it would have had to be awfully close, and it would have blown through the nerve roots, and that, in itself, would have been catastrophic.

When we look at JFK in the Zapruder film, we see a man who is seriously impaired, both physically and mentally. He had no ability to communicate, not verbally, nor in any other way. He was incapable of taking any action. He showed no indication of being aware of what was happening to him and understanding it. And he lost control of his muscles, where after bringing his hands up, WHICH WAS NOT A REFLEX, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH REFLEX, he was unable to put his arms down. We can see that he was in spasm, and the spasticity spread and worsened as he sat there.

However, he shows no sign of paralysis at all. NOT ONE OF HIS MUSCLES LOST ITS NERVE SUPPLY. Despite a big, fat bullet boring through his neck, from back to front, and exiting in the midline?  That is impossible. JFK was able to sit upright with all his postural reflexes working, and that tells you that that didn’t happen. There was no nerve/muscle interruption in his body.

And make no mistake: the effect of such a shot would have been paralyzing. Even if the bullet missed the cord, the damage to his nerve roots from the trauma, the cavitation, and the inflammation, would have been devastating.  He would not have been able to sit there, as he did. He would have gone down.  And don’t tell me his back brace held him up. And don’t tell me it was upper motor neuron because it wasn’t. The effect would have been paralysis; not hypertonicity.

So, the clinical picture that we see of JFK in the Zapruder film does not support the claim of a bullet that tunneled through his neck from back to front.   

Here he is in 253 all contracted, unable to put his arms down. He is in serious trouble, but he has no nerve/muscle disconnections. Everything is working. The communication between his nervous system and his muscles is intact. After a bullet bore all the way through his neck from back to front? No way!

And, his spasms were NOT due to trauma. All he had suffered was a shallow wound in his back that affected no vital tissue, and a puncture wound in his throat that did not affect his brain or spinal cord.  His spasticity was due to a nerve agent that was delivered in the back shot with a frozen dart.

A bullet traversing him in the manner described, if true, would have instantly paralyzed him, put him in shock; and unless he got immediate surgical intervention, and massive steroids like Christopher Reeves got, he would have died.

We need to stop kidding ourselves. If the Single Bullet had happened, the gravity of that trauma would have been catastrophic and life-threatening, and there is no way it fits his presentation in the Zapruder film. Every doctor on Earth should be able to see that. That includes you, Dr. Meagher. You are free to write-up your own appraisal of JFK’s condition, as seen in the Zapruder film, but be aware that I am going to respond to it; every word.  

 Here's an interesting impact of my work: it forced a Philadelphia tv station to alter its work. The station had posted footage of Oswald arriving at Parkland hospital, but I pointed out that it was fake, that it was a reenactment. It included real footage of the ambulance getting there, but, the closeup of the deboarding was fake. I still have this collage that I made at the time showing the fake Jim Leavelle getting out of the ambulance, where he is younger and thinner than the real Leavelle on the right. And I recall that when he got out and stood up, that he had these long, spindly legs, unlike the real Leavelle.

But, the easiest thing to see is the age difference. Look how jowly the real Leavelle was on the right compared to the tightness of the face of the younger man on the left.

 But, after I started bellyaching about it, what the station did was keep the few seconds of real footage at the beginning, showing just the ambulance and no people, which reduced the length of the video to less than 10 seconds. And it's there to this day. So, they make you watch a 30 second commercial just to see less than 10 seconds of real footage of the ambulance. They removed all of the reenactment.

 https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/news/national-international/oswald-arrival-at-parkland_dallas-fort-worth/2188047/

 That was stupid. They should have just removed the whole thing. And maybe they will now, if word gets back to them about this.

 So, JFK was shot in the throat, and when he got to the hospital, the surgeon could find no bullet in his throat, and no exit wound for that shot. There is no chance that it was an exit wound. The wound had a diameter of 5 mm, and the Carcano bullet had a diameter of 6.5 mm. There are multiple and diverse reasons that it could not have been an exit wound, and I shan’t devote another second to it.

So, what does that compel us to believe? It compels me to believe that he must have been shot with a dissolvable missile. If you are just hearing that for the first time, I know it sounds farfetched, but you need to get over it because it is like an obligatory move in Chess- where you either make that move or you concede.

But, there is one more consideration. We can’t assume that they shot him in the throat by mistake. We can’t assume that they meant to shoot him in the face or in the chest. There is no basis to go there. Speculation is not unlimited. This isn’t Imagination Day at Kindergarten. Even speculations have to be tied to something concrete, and there is nothing to suggest that they were trying to shoot him in the face or chest.

And there is more. When your head is in its neutral position, the upper part of the throat is covered by the chin. So, it’s only the lower half of the throat that is exposed. So, place your index finger on your Adams Apple and your thumb on the suprasternal notch. Now, pull your hand out and look at the distance between the two. That was the size of the target.

I have some experience shooting, and it started in my youth. My father was a New York City policeman, and he had to go to the police range regularly and practice shooting. Sometimes, I would go with him. He was a very good shot; much better than me. But then again, I was 10 to 12 years old.

But, at what distance could someone reliably hit that tiny little target? And let’s assume it would have been a disaster for the perpetrators if JFK was shot in the face or in the chest. I say that that shot had to be taken at very close range.  The people who think it was taken from very far away and taken through curved glass are not being realistic.

I think it was taken by Umbrella Man, and we have something concrete to support it.  The mechanical engineer Charles Senseney testified to the Church Committee in 1975 that he was hired by the CIA to design an umbrella gun that would shoot dissolvable flechettes, which are darts. Here is the summary on Chat GPT:

Charles Senseney's Testimony to the Church Committee
Charles Senseney, a former CIA weapons developer, provided significant testimony during the Church Committee hearings in 1975. His statements focused on the CIA's involvement in covert operations, including the development of assassination tools.

Key Points from Senseney's Testimony

• Umbrella Poison Dart Gun: Senseney revealed that he created a specialized weapon designed to deliver poison via a dart, which was intended for covert assassinations

 Now, let’s talk about Umbrella Man. He wound up right at the Kill Zone, and it wasn’t very big; it was very small. I would tell you that it started at the freeway sign and ended at Zapruder. Maybe 30 feet. What percent of the motorcade route was the Kill Zone? The motorcade route was 10 miles, so 52, 800 feet.  Divide that by 30 and you get 176. So, the Kill Zone was only 1/176 of the motorcade route, and Umbrella Man was there. Do you think that was an accident?

Many people have said that Umbrella Man was involved, but only as a spotter and signaler.  But, don’t you think they could have come up with a way to signal without being as ostentatious as waving an umbrella on a sunny day? There’s nothing subtle about that.

The authorities admitted that the limo was moving very slowly down Elm after it completed the turn from Houston. They have admitted that it was only going 11 mph. Do you realize how slow that is? The next time you’re driving, go to an empty parking lot and try driving 11 mph and see how it feels. I go to this park to walk, and it has a long entrance road to get to it. And because it goes by a school, they set the speed limit on this road to 15 mph.

So, you have to drive at 15 mph for a mile to get to the park. And it’s hard. It’s a struggle. So, imagine 11 mph. But wait: 11 is what they claim. It may have been slower than that. It may have been less than 10.

Jean Hill said that she spoke to JFK, saying, “Mr. President, look this way.  We want to take your picture.”  How fast could he have been moving when she said that. Even if he was going 10 mph, he would have passed her before she finished speaking. I think the limo either stopped completely or nearly did. I think it definitely slowed to less than 5 mph when it reached the Kill Zone.

So, Umbrella Man was standing there, at the cusp of the Kill Zone. JFK was approaching him. The limo was going extremely slowly. And JFK was turned towards him, Umbrella Man. And that may have been the spot that the limo stopped completely, just so Umbrella Man could get off that shot from very close range.

Umbrella Man is the one who shot JFK in the throat, and he wasn’t Stephen Louis Witt.

 

 If you reject the Single Bullet Theory; if you realize that JFK was shot separately in the back and in the throat, then you have to accept what I am saying about the throat shot. That's because JFK was shot in the throat, and just a few minutes later, Dr. Malcolm Perry was in his throat, and he found no bullet there (which was later confirmed by x-ray), and there was also no exit wound.

If a bullet entered his throat, then there are only two possibilities: either the bullet stayed in him, or it exited him. Since neither of those happened, it means that something other than a bullet must have struck him in the throat; something that dissolved and vanished.

And before anyone says that the bullet was dug out of him at the "pre-autopsy," this was before the pre-autopsy. So that argument, even as a hypothetical, doesn't work.

So, the throat shot had to be something unusual and not a metal bullet. There is just no getting around it. It may be an unpleasant reality to some people, but life is full of unpleasant realities. And we need to be mature about it when they happen.

And the same goes for the back shot. If you rejet the Single Bullet Theory, then you are left with accepting that JFK was struck in the back with something that stopped very short in his back. It could not have been a metal bullet because, first, a metal bullet traveling 2000 feet per second couldn't stop that short, and second, even if it could, it would have to be there. The "bullet fell out" theory makes no sense. Once stopped, the bullet would have been inert. It couldn't do anything. The body couldn't push it out. And neither could gravity. So, what could make it fall out? The answer is: nothing.

Since the Parkland doctors didn't discover the back wound, one could suggest that that bullet was extracted at the "pre-autopsy." But, just because it's there as a hypothetical doesn't make it likely or compelling. Extracting a bullet with forceps would affect the appearance of the wound. Bullet extraction is a surgical procedure. No one at the autopsy said that the wound looked tampered with.

I have friends who think that the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler PA was faked. They think it wasn't real blood. They joke about "ketchup ear." But, I point out to them that Trump was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was examined and treated by doctors who were not under his control. And there is no reason to think those doctors were up to anything corrupt. And they confirmed that he was shot and suffered a minor injury. Apparently, it was very minor, just a graze. But, the fact is: they did establish that he was shot. And for me, that closes the door on any chance that Trump was faking it. It slams it shut.

Well, the situation with JFK was exactly the same. He was taken to a local hospital and seen by local doctors. And the plotters knew ahead of time that that was going to happen. As it turned out, the local doctors missed finding the back wound, but the plotters could not have expected that and counted on it.

And since "the bullet in the back" falls apart anyway when you consider that it couldn't stop that short in his back, I don't have any enthusiasm for the pre-autopsy extraction of the bullet.

So, the bottom line is that you have a choice: Either you accept the Single Bullet Theory or you accept that both the back shot and the throat shot were weird shots that did not involve a metal bullet.

  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?  

It states in the autopsy that the only damage to JFK’s lungs was the mild contusion in the apex of his right lung. But, that was from the throat shot, not the back shot. 

So, let’s talk about the contusion. Dr. Perry saw it, and it’s why he asked for a suction tube.  He presumed it was associated with the throat shot. He never said he thought it was from something else. The trachea is located right in-between the two lung apices. So, the tracheal damage and the apical contusion- that was all one thing.   

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/

So, in that case, there was no spinal cord damage, but there was paralysis from the nerve root damage. However, JFK incurred no paralysis at all. So, there is no way a bullet traversed his neck from back to front that close to the cord. 

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.

 To all the people who think it's so comical to suggest that JFK was shot in the back with an ice dart that contained a nerve agent, there is the indisputable and undeniable fact that the CIA contracted to have a gun that could do that produced. And stockpiles of two nerve agents were found: shellfish nerve toxin and cobra venom nerve toxin.

So, the CIA weapon to do it definitely existed, and so did the stockpiles of nerve agents. This is Senator Church holding up the gun. It was all confirmed by then CIA Director William Colby.

And that is why this claim cannot be brushed off, and it is no laughing matter.