Reply #8: Dr. Carrico, who was a member of the team, was on the Oral History

[Gloria]

thing on CSpan....He said that they should have described the wound as being more toward the side and front....temporal area and side, rather than occipital.....

He also revealed that they never looked at the back of Kennedy's head...they never rolled the body over. They ran their hands up his back to see if there was anything noticeable there, but didn't find anything.
So, they missed the small wounds on his back AND the small hole at the base of his neck. The only wounds they dealt with were on the head and at the throat.

Carrico said that their job was to try to save the patient, not do a forensic exam. They also expected the autopsy to be done in Dallas...but the body was whisked away.

He said that now things are done differently. They know now that medical notes can also be used as if they are forensic reports...