Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still some frail hope that Kennedy would live. It was known that he had been hit twice. One of the .22-caliber "long rifle," hollow-nosed slugs* had entered the right armpit and worked its way up to the neck; it was relatively harmless. The other had penetrated his skull and passed into the brain, scattering fragments of lead and bone. It was these that the surgeons had to probe for in their 3-hr. 40-min. operation (see MEDICINE...
Disregarding the relatively harmless bullet in the neck, the surgeons turned their attention to uncovering the damage to Kennedy's brain. The head was shaved. Overlying skin and muscle were then cut and laid back. An air-powered drill bored through the skull, and a segment of bone was removed. Then, while Reid helped control bleeding, Cuneo probed the wound. Softened and bruised brain tissue, bone fragments and clotted blood were removed by suction...
...removed the blood, irrigated out bits of destroyed brain tissue, explored the occipital lobe and the right cerebellar hemisphere. The cerebellum was bruised and damaged all along one side. There were more bone and bullet fragments in it. The draining of the blood and the opening of the skull relieved the pressure in his head, and a third of the way through the operation he started to breathe on his own again, but we kept the respirator going...
Williams' eyes were black, and there was clotted blood on his face, on his scalp and inside his mouth. Dr. Fournier, thinking the blood covered abrasions caused by a blackjack or brass knuckles, sent his patient to be X-rayed for possible skull fractures. The radiologist took one look at the X-ray print and gasped: "This man has a head full of lead." He had found five low-caliber, low-velocity bullets. Beneath the clotted blood were wounds that could hardly have been caused by anything but bullets...
...diagram), said Fournier, entered the top of Williams' skull, bounced off a bone near the pituitary gland and stopped in the temporal lobe of the brain. Another (No. 2) entered below the left eye and came to rest between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. One centimeter's deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof...