The Warren Commission finding? “The windshield was not penetrated by any bullet. A small residue of lead was found on the inside surface of the windshield; on the outside of the windshield was a very small pattern of cracks immediately in front of the lead residue on the inside. The bullet from which this lead residue came was probably one of those that struck the President and therefore came from overhead and to the rear. Experts established that the abrasion in the windshield came from impact on the inside of the glass.”
To make this clear, the windshield in the photo (on display at the National Archives today) has a small black circle on the left side. Blown up by the National Archives, the area looks like this:
It certainly doesn’t look at all like Whitaker’s bullet hole. Or what a young medical student at Parkland described. She said: “No way there’s even any cracks associated with that bullet hole, It seemed like a high velocity bullet that had penetrated from front to back in that glass pane” A
St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter saw it and said: ““A few of us noted the hole in the windshield when the limousine was standing at the emergency entrance after the President had been carried inside.”
Even a Secret Service agent reported to his boss after inspecting the limousine in the White House Garage, after it had been flown back from Dallas on the day of the assassination: “In addition, of particular note was the small hole just left of center in the windshield from which what appeared to be bullet fragments were removed.”
Most tellingly, some of the first photos taken during the assassination by professionals like Ike Altgens of the Associated Press and even amateurs like Muchmore have this common disfigurement on the same place on the windshield that doesn’t look at all like the cracks on the windshield in the National Archive. In fact they look more like — a bullet hole.
Here are two of Altgens’ photos taken about a second and a half after the first bullet hit President Kennedy. Notice the circle.
All factions to the never-ending argument about who killed Kennedy agree that the first shot hit the President as his limousine passed behind a Stemmons Freeway sign, which temporarily obscured it from the Zapruder film.
But in Zapruder frame 230, the limo emerges with Kennedy clutching his throat from the effects of the first shot. He’s been hit. The Warren Report details Oswald’s two hits for his three shots. All of them came from behind the limousine from Oswald’s “sniper’s nest” up on the 6th floor of the Dallas School Book Depository.
The first shot missed and nicked a bystander with a piece of the bullet or pavement. The first shot that hit Kennedy where he is clutching his throat, shown in frame 230, is the one the Commission claims was “the magic bullet.” This bullet, we were assured, entered Kennedy’s back, exited his throat and went into Governor John Connelly’s back then down his arm, shattering his wrist, and ended up in his thigh. The final bullet fired was the fatal headshot.
But there in frame 230, in the Zapruder film as well as the Altgens, is that white spec on the left side of the windshield, in exactly the same place in all photos. It doesn’t take a ballistics genius to see, just looking at the Zapruder frame, that if one draws a straight line to the place Kennedy is clutching his throat to the white spec on the windshield — and it IS a bullet hole, just as so many witnesses have said, the line of fire extends to the FRONT of the limousine. And that means the first shot to hit Kennedy came from in front of him.
And in that one discovery it becomes clear why the windshield with the bullet hole was destroyed, why the witnesses were disregarded, and why the phony windshield was put on exhibit in the Archives. The Federal Government was destroying evidence that would impeach the findings it wanted produced and faking the evidence it wanted seen. It claimed only two bullets hit Kennedy, both from the rear from Oswald on the 6th floor. But if the first bullet came from the front, what about the second bullet? And Whitaker was ordered to destroy the windshield on the day of Kennedy’s funeral. The Warren Commission hadn’t even been created yet.
Ten years ago a privately printed book came out by a remarkable Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst named Sherry Feister. She had been working in crime scene investigation and crime scene reconstruction for 30 years. The Federal Government could destroy the original windshield with the bullet hole, but it couldn’t destroy those photos and records of witnesses, and Feister knew just what to look for and what to do with them when she found them. She had done it all her life with many a crime scene.