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Re: 1 - go experiment yourself. Tie a milk jug filled w/ water to tree, shoot it, watch which direction it swings first. It will come towards you first often (assuming you repeat the experiment) Re: 2 - almost every ballistic expert who's ever studied the evidence (photos to get location of bodies, x-rays to id the entrance & exit wounds) has produced simple diagrams showing the path is far from "magical". You can do it yourself w/ some effort - decent photos & xrays are in public domain. Re: 3 - sealed records - I have no explanation, but there are many secrets I have access to that I wonder why. If sealed because one of the rounds was an accidental fire from SS rifle, sealing them would be reasonable to protect him.

What do you think happened to Kennedy's brain, do you think it was just accidentally misplaced?

Do you have any idea why the Government refuses to declassify vast amounts of information on American POWs from WWII who were "liberated" by the Red Army from German POW camps? During the '90's, I and others had many FOIA requests concerning sightings of Americans in the Soviet GULAG turned down on National Security Grounds. We got a few reports released, but many, many thousands of pages of information remains classified. These were all specific documents we requested. It is said that many documents in the Eisenhower Library, concerning the POWs, will not be declassified during the life-time of anyone now alive. Is this the kind of thing you support?

Regarding the Parkland doctors and Dr. McClelland. I spent a number of years working at Parkland (years after the fact, none of them in the 60's). I worked closely with Dr. McClelland and have read is interrogation and re-interrogation by none other than Arlen Specter. In my opinion, a finer man and a finer physician and surgeon, you will never meet than Dr. Mac. He is universally loved and admired by all who have ever had occasion to deal with him in any capacity. He is a surgical scholar of international reknown and is known for publishing for years and years, the "Parkland papers" a monthly tour of the surgical literature.

When Specter interviews him the first time, Dr. Mac says that the neck wound was an entrance wound. The tracheostomy that was done in the ER, of course, obliterated the wound on the front of the neck, so it is only those who where there, Dr. Mac, Dr. Jones, Dr. Clark, Dr. Perry and others who were in a position to know what the neck wound was like. In particular the autopsy would provide no information. When Specter returns about a month later, he tells Dr. Mac something like "considering that we think JFK was shot from the back, with a round travelling at such and such a speed etc. etc. do you think the wound on the front was consistent with an exit wound?" Dr. Mac replies something to the effect of "with all the assumptions you stated, I guess it could be consistent". With that Specter thanks him and packs up and goes back to DC, mission accomplished. Parkland was and is a very busy trauma center and Dr. Mac would have seen hundreds if not thousands of such wounds and would have known the difference between and exit and entrance wounds, and never would have said it was one or the other if he were not sure.

For my money it's Dr. Mac's word against Arlen Specter's, and knowing Dr. Mac personally and knowing all that Arlen Specter has done since, I'll put my money with Dr. Mac and say that the neck wound was an entrance wound.

Also, if you believe the Warren Commission and the magic bullet theory, you have to believe that this most magical of all bullets, goes through JFK, hits Connolly's wrist, then his thigh, and then magically falls out and is found in pristine condition on a stretcher in the Parkland ER. I have spent many, many nights in the Parkland ER taking care of all sorts of gunshot wounds and I can assure one and all that I have never seen a bullet appear on a stretcher, pristine or otherwise after passing through folks. Things just don't work that way.