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...doctors rule out shots from ahead of Kennedy's car because they can find no exit wounds on X rays and photos of his back or the rear or left side of his head. A small hole in the rear of Kennedy's skull, they say, is clearly an entrance wound; part of the bone is pushed inward. Discoloration of flesh and the lack of jagged skin edges similarly identify the back wound as one of entrance...
...autopsy reviews confirm irrefutably that Kennedy was hit in the back of his neck. They ought to still the argument raised by a rough autopsy sketch in the Warren Commission report; prepared by Commander James J. Humes, it placed Kennedy's back wound too low to be consistent with the exit wound in his throat (partially obscured by a tracheotomy incision). The hole in Kennedy's suit jacket also had seemed too low. Since Kennedy was seen in the Zapruder film to be waving before he was first struck in the back of the neck, the experts believe...
...time is Mardi Gras. The place is an undertaker's parlor that looks rather like a medieval cloister. The hero is an undertaker named Herman Starr (Pat Hingle) who jests at death as if he never felt the wound. Actually, he feels it very deeply since his 15-year-old daughter Monica (Deborah Offner) may die at any moment. She was born a blue baby with "a hole in her heart...
There are two orbs high in the sky. Over on the side, the moon. It is full, bright, and irrelevant. And in the center, 120 feet above the diamond, the ball is frozen. Sweep down to the plate. Carl Yastrzemski is wound up in an arc, his face etched in a wide, silent scream. Sweep around in a dizzy circle. Thirty thousand necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh...
...coach said the Sox "wound up, I guess you would say, the second greatest team in baseball...