Mr. Specter. On the reconstruction of the three portions of the scalp which you described——
Commander Humes. Skull, sir.
Mr. Specter. Skull, which enabled you to reconstruct a point of exit of the bullet, will you state at this point of the record that size of opening or exit path of the bullet?
Commander Humes. As I mentioned previously, at one angle of this largest pyramidal shaped fragments of bone which came as a separate specimen, we had the portion of the perimeter of a roughly what we would judge to have been a roughly circular wound of exit. Judging from that portion of the perimeter which was available to us, we would have judged the diameter of that wound to be between 2.5 and 3 cm.
Mr. Specter. Doctor Humes, have you now described the major characteristics and features of the wounds to the late President's head?
Commander Humes. I believe that I have, sir.
Mr. Specter. All right. Will you now turn your attention, please to the wound which is noted on 385 and 386 being at the——
Mr. McCloy. Before we leave that, could I ask a question?
When you talk about dumdum bullets, do you include the ordinary type of soft nose sporting bullets, maybe this is something that Colonel Finck would be more expert on, but was that, was the bullet, could it possibly have been a sporting type of hunting bullet that has a soft nose but is still somewhat firm?
Commander Humes. From the characteristics of this wound, Mr. McCloy, I would believe that it must have had a very firm head rather than a soft head.