Keywords: JFK posterior head wound.jpg en <nowiki/> Drawing depicting the posterior head wound of U S President John F Kennedy The hand at the top is holding a portion of his scalp in place Made by medical illustrator Ida G Dox from an autopsy photograph and published as Figure 13 on page 104 of volume 7 Medical and Firearms Evidence of the Appendix to Hearings Before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U S House of Representatives 1979 Vincent Bugliosi writes in Reclaiming History Endnote pp 258 “259 In order for the entrance wound photograph to be taken the autopsy surgeons lifted the president ™s right shoulder from the autopsy table and rolled him onto his left shoulder Then per his own testimony Dr Boswell gathered together these loose strands of scalp between his thumb and index finger and drew them forward across the gaping hole in the right front of the skull thereby making the entrance wound on the back of the president ™s head clearly visible to the photographer ™s camera ARRB Transcript of Proceedings http //www maryferrell org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc do docId 786 relPageId 99 Deposition of Dr J Thornton Boswell February 26 1996 pp 97 149 “150 164 Though the act of pulling the loose scalp forward across the top right of the head made the entrance wound visible it also briefly covered the large exit defect on the right front side of the president ™s head English version of Wikipedia http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image JFK_posterior_head_wound jpg work of the United States Federal Government 02 47 31 July 2007 PD-USGov Photos of the autopsy of John F Kennedy Black and white photographs |