Anonymous
2013-11-22 19:08:40 UTC
•The fragment is supposedly a piece of occipital bone — bone from the very back of Kennedy's head. This would prove that the back of his head was blown out, and imply a shot from the front.
•The fragment was supposedly discovered behind the position of the limo at the moment of the head shot. This would imply the bone was blown backwards, and that the head shot was from the front.
Was the Fragment Occipital Bone?
Billy Harper, who discovered the piece of bone when he was in Dealey Plaza on November 23rd taking pictures, took the fragment to his uncle, a Dr. Jack C. Harper, and Dr. Harper took the bone to Methodist Hospital where is was examined by Dr. A. B. Cairns, who was chief pathologist. Cairns opinion was that "the bone specimen looked like it came from the occipital region of the skull." Conspiracy interpretation of source of Harper fragment
Conspiracy books ever since have quoted Cairns, and used his assessment as evidence of a frontal shot exiting the rear of the head. Author Josiah Thompson, in Six Seconds in Dallas, after citing Cairns, notes that:
It is difficult to understand how a shot from the rear could drive a piece of the occipital bone 25 feet to the left of the vehicles's path. It is not so difficult to understand how a shot from the right front exploding through the rear of the skull could produce precisely that effect. (p. 101)