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re: New JFK Assaination Records Released
Posted on 12/15/21 at 12:36 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 12/15/21 at 12:36 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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I’m just venturing a guess, but is it really that surprising that a bullet that both entered and exited the cranium (so it hit two bones on its path) disintegrated completely while another bullet that just glanced off of one rib on its path didn’t disintegrate?
(Even the bones of the wrist have got nothing on the thickness of the occipital and frontal bones of the skull.)
There is an autopsy xray of Kennedy's head with hundreds of fragments, so the bullet had to fragment upon entry. I don't know about the thickness of bones, but it just seems crazy to me that one stays relatively intact, while the other fragments like a bomb.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 12:38 pm to troyt37
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I don't know about the thickness of bones,
An adult occipital bone (bone on the back of the skull) is an average of 11.5 mm thick.
An adult rib is on average 0.5-2 mm thick.
A wrist bone is somewhere in between.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 12:58 pm to troyt37
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There is an autopsy xray of Kennedy's head with hundreds of fragments, so the bullet had to fragment upon entry.
Bullet fragments or bone fragments?
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