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...evidence is that three shots were fired, but there is disagreement about which ones hit whom. Connally believes that the first one struck Kennedy in the neck, that Connally was hit by the second, that the third caused the massive wound in the President's head...
...back of the President's neck slightly to the right of the spine, traveled slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed at which it hit; it nicked a corner of the knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right rear of his skull, "causing a massive and fatal wound" approximately five inches wide on the right side of his head. So extensive was the damage that the Parkland doctors were unsure whether the bullets had landed...
...Carrico inserted a tube in the throat wound, connecting it to a Bennett machine, which stimulates respiration. Dr. Malcolm O. Perry, the chief doctor, decided that a more radical procedure was necessary; he performed a tracheotomy, making an incision that cut away the wound in the front of the throat. Meanwhile, two doctors infused blood and fluids into the President's right leg and left arm. Dr. Carrico gave him hydrocortisone. Two others inserted chest tubes to drain off blood and air from the chest cavity...
...months. He outlined his plans in a notebook and studied them at considerable length before his attack." Before he left home on the night of April 10, Oswald left a lengthy note in Russian for Marina. It told her what to do if he didn't return, wound up saying, "If I am alive and taken prisoner, the city jail is located at the end of the bridge through which we always passed on going to the city." (Actually, Oswald had mistaken the location of the city jail for that of the county jail...
...serve is his weakest point. Two serves, and it was love-30. But then, backs to the wall, the Americans abruptly came alive. In a series of blasting volleys directly at the Aussies' feet, they reeled off four straight points to make it 4-4. Fred Stolle wound up to serve-and Ralston looped a backhand volley over his head-love-15. McKinley smashed a forehand past Emerson's futilely waving racket-love-30-pounded over a short, cross-court volley-love-40. Then, with a magnificent overhead smash straight between the two Aussies, Ralston administered the coup...