being straight on his back that would all exacerbate an injury. it could be. i think one of the things that we need to know first of all is where in the spinal column was the injury. was it a thoracic vertebrae, cervical vertebrae? which one? another thing that s interesting to me when i looked at the video, as he s being placed into the van, he does stand up for a moment on either the bumper or rear platform. i can t quite tell which. so he is able to support his weight. then he goes as you indicated into more of a prone position. we have to look at that carefully. it s going to to be up to medical experts to tell us what type of injury it is and when in the sequence of events it could have occurred. maybe it could have occurred only prior to going into the van. maybe only subsequent. we have to wait and see. a lot of maybes. we need that full autopsy report. we need more information from law enforcement. david, thank you so much in st. louis for me this afternoon. thank you.
if those injuries had been present before he went into the van, he would not have been able to walk. if the fractures are of the thoracic vertebrae, then he would have been paralyzed from the chest or waist down. if they are higher up in the cervical vertebrae he would not even have had use of his arms. so if he was indeed intact, so to speak, although somewhat hesitant about getting into the van, and he was able to walk and talk in that van, then either one of two or two things happened. there would have been some significant compression on his back and on his neck. i mean great force remember a 25-year-old man. somebody with strong bones, this is not a brittle osteoporodic 75 or 80-year-old woman. that pressure would have been significant to compress the vocal cords. the other thing that could have happened by itself or could have been a sequel to some initial
bullet that has a circular disk at its base which can then become detached upon impact with the skull. the presence of the circular disk rules out any doubt this orr found another piece of evidence that points to a second shooter, a bone fracture in the president s back. dr. wect who had never considered a bone fracture agrees. you can see a clear defect there at the level of the first thoracic vertebrae. orr says after the bullet hit kennedy s back it hit bone and traveled upwards. the warren commission the panel s measurements were wrong. instead he used the hsca s dimensions, which placed the wound about four inches lower. the only thing that s going to cause it to be defect tiff would be something firm and here that means bone.
bullet that has such a circular disk at its base which can then become detached upon impact with the skull. the presence of this circular disk removes any doubt as to whether this key about that bullet. all the evidence shows it was a soft nosed or hol o point bullet. orr found another piece of evidence that leads to a second shooter. a bone fragment in the president s back. dr. wecht who had never considered a bone fracture agrees. you can see a clear defect there at the level of the first thoracic vertebrae. orr says after the bullet entered kennedy s back it traveled downward, then hit bone and ricocheted upward. the warren commission said it was always moving downward and never hit bone. but orr says the panel s measurements were wrong. instead he used the dimensions that placed the wound about four ich inches lower. the only thing that would deflect it would be something firm and that means the bone.