{"id":2221,"date":"2019-04-11T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2023-02-05T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:25:22","slug":"the-shot-from-the-front-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merdist.com\/wp\/2019\/04\/11\/the-shot-from-the-front-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The shot from the front, part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend at the JFK Historical Group Conference<\/a>, I had the pleasure of meeting ballistics and weapons expert David Knight<\/a>.\u00a0 As oftentimes happens during JFK conferences, researchers and authors have the opportunity to meet and compare notes on areas of research that overlap. In this case, David gave a wonderful presentation where he presented a complete study on the weapons that could have been used to execute the frontal shot which penetrated the windshield of JFK’s limousine, striking him right below the Adam’s apple as described in our post “The shot from the front, part one”<\/a> .<\/p>\n

David correctly analyzed that the size of the hole of entry reported by the Parkland doctors was only 3-5mm in diameter. For example:<\/p>\n

Dr. <\/span>Charles Rufus Baxter<\/span>, general surgeon:<\/span>
“The wound on the neck was approximately an inch and a haft above the manubrium of the sternum, the sternal notch. This wound <\/strong><\/span> <\/span> was in my estimation, 4 to 5 mm. in widest diameter<\/span><\/strong><\/span> and was a spherical wound. The edges of it–the size of the wound is measured by the hole plus the damaged skin around the area, so that it was a very small wound.”<\/span><\/p>\n

David ran a complete inventory of rifles mentioned on 22 November 1963, and determined that all of them were of a greater bore than that which caused this “4-5 mm wound”.\u00a0 Besides the Manlicher Carcano 6.5mm rifle, David posited the following weapons:<\/p>\n