Reply #80: Thank you Octafish -- I'm not that familiar with McCloy

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Another interesting member of the Warren Commission was Arlen Specter. He was one of the lawyer/interrogators. He was interviewing a physician witness who treated JFK at the hospital and testified that the throat wound entered the throat from the front. Specter kept trying to get hime to change his mind, and he wouldn't. So specter came up with this:

Permit me to add some facts which I shall ask you to assume as being true for the purposes of having you express an opinion. First of all, assume that the President was struck… from the rear at a downward angle… then exiting precisely at the point where you observed the puncture wound to exist. Now based on those facts was the appearance of the wound in your opinion consistent with being an exit wound?

And the doctor, who had consistently maintained that the wound was an entrance wound, answered, “With those facts … this would be … I believe … an exit wound.”

That's from "Best Evidence", by David Lifton, which centered mostly on the medical evidence.