dr. humes speculated a hole in the president's throat might have come in from the front and struck a vertebrae, glanced up, and caused tremendous damage to the top of the president's head. it was practically blown off. 13 centimeters across, five and a half inches. what humes told me, testified, told me in that interview friday afternoon and later testified that the next day he called up malcolm perry, the surgeon who did the tracheotomy and it was a wound of exit not of entry. it was jagged. a wound of entry is regular and round. a wound of exit is different. of course, the wound was destroyed during the tracheotomy so nothing more could be done. when i listened to dr. humes and put two and two together that the bullet entered the neck and passed between the muscles -- went through the cavity. that tie was preserved. it was cut off by the doctors performing the tracheotomy to get it off, so the tie happened to be preserved. looking at the wounds on the governor's chest grazing the rib, tumblin

humes andtened to dr. put two and two together that neck andt entered the passed between the muscles -- that tire was preserved. it was cut off by the doctors performing the tracheotomy to get it off, so the tie happened to be preserved. wounds on the thernor's chest grazing rib, tumbling through his wrist, and lodging in his thigh. a strange path for the bulleted ttake, thelet to truth is stranger than fiction. dr. humes testified he did not think the board could have gone through connelly's wrist. at that stage, he disputed the single bullet theory as i have just outlined it. when we had dr. gregory, the andopedic surgeon testify brought the x-rays in, he testified metallic fragments were found at various levels of the wrist. as he described them as i recollect, they were postage stamp weigth. the full bullet weighed 158 grams. 100 61.e as high as that differential could have accounted for the metallic fibers in the governor's wrist. >> how was the theory received by the members of the commission? i know