Secret Service Agent Clint Hill
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:46 pm
I'm not quite sure of the timeline, so I am wondering when it was that Clint Hill first expressed his observations about the back of the president's head.
The reason I ask is a very simple one. Hill, if I recall correctly, stated that he saw pretty much the back of President Kennedy's head blown away.
But from the artist's sketch that was approved by Dr McClellan of Parkland Hospital, and I believe agreed to by other witnesses, the hole in the back of the head was about the size of a man's fist, or an orange.
It seems to me an average person of average intelligence, which I believe Clint Hill was, would be able to make this crucial distinction, even under great emotional distress. There is a huge difference between a large hole and the entire back of the head, in my opinion. Of course, the answer may be fairly simple. There might have been such a mess of blood and brains and skull when Hill was on the limo that it could easily have appeared to him that, in fact, the whole back of the head was missing.
What I am wondering is this: why did agent Kellerman take agent Hill to view the body's wounds for one final time after the autopsy was over?
A worst case answer might be that at this time Kellerman might have shown Hill the back of the head wound, and suggested to him that this was what he really saw. This would suggest that Kellerman was somehow involved in the plot, and in a discussion with Hill brought him to change his mind about what he saw. Maybe he didn't even need to have a discussion. He just needed to show Hill the back of the head wound, and the rest was silence.
The reason I ask is a very simple one. Hill, if I recall correctly, stated that he saw pretty much the back of President Kennedy's head blown away.
But from the artist's sketch that was approved by Dr McClellan of Parkland Hospital, and I believe agreed to by other witnesses, the hole in the back of the head was about the size of a man's fist, or an orange.
It seems to me an average person of average intelligence, which I believe Clint Hill was, would be able to make this crucial distinction, even under great emotional distress. There is a huge difference between a large hole and the entire back of the head, in my opinion. Of course, the answer may be fairly simple. There might have been such a mess of blood and brains and skull when Hill was on the limo that it could easily have appeared to him that, in fact, the whole back of the head was missing.
What I am wondering is this: why did agent Kellerman take agent Hill to view the body's wounds for one final time after the autopsy was over?
A worst case answer might be that at this time Kellerman might have shown Hill the back of the head wound, and suggested to him that this was what he really saw. This would suggest that Kellerman was somehow involved in the plot, and in a discussion with Hill brought him to change his mind about what he saw. Maybe he didn't even need to have a discussion. He just needed to show Hill the back of the head wound, and the rest was silence.