[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]


POSNER:p.289:     "That surgical procedure cut directly over the exit 
wound on the throat, and therefore, within minutes of the President's arrival,
that wound was obliterated by Dr. Perry's larger incision."p. 305:   
"Moreover, the tracheotomy done by Dr. Perry at Parkland had obliterated
the neck wound..."Dr. Perry's accounts: Dr. Perry's handwritten admission
note (CE 392, WC XVII pp. 6-7) doesn't address the issue one way or
another. Dr. Perry briefly mentioned the issue in his Warren Commission
testimony (WC III p. 369):   "I then began the tracheotomy making a
transverse incision right through the wound in the neck." The
semi-circular margins of the original wound are clearly visible at the
top and bottom center of the tracheotomy wound in the autopsy photos
designated Fox 1 and Fox 2, and in the HSCA's enlargement of the wound
(HSCA VII p. 92, Figure 9). Photographically, or with a computer (as was
done below), they can easily be rejoined to provide an image of the
original, "unobliterated" wound.