Commander Humes. I believe them to be roughly comparable, sir.
Mr. Specter. Could you state for the record an approximation of the angle of decline?
Commander Humes. Mathematics is not my forte. Approximately 45 degrees from the horizontal.
Mr. Specter. Would you elaborate somewhat, Doctor Humes, on why the angle would change by virtue of a tilting of the head of the President since the basis of the computation of angle is with respect to the ground?
Commander Humes. I find the question a little difficult of answering right off, forgive me, sir.
Mr. Specter. I will try to rephrase it. Stated more simply, why would the tilting of the President's head affect the angle of the decline? You stated that was——
Commander Humes. The angle that I am making an observation most about is the angle made that we envisioned having been made by the impingement of the bullet in its flight at the point of entry. This angle we see by the difference of the measurement of the two wounds.
Therefore, this is—we have several angles we are talking about here, unfortunately, this is—the angle of which we speak in this location, "A" to "B", and it is difficult.
I have to retract. Since we feel from their physical configurations, wounds 385 "C" and 388 "A" are entrance wounds, if there wasn't some significant change in the angulation of the President's head with respect to the line of flight from these missiles, the physical measurements of 385 "C" and this 388 "A" should be similar. They aren't, in fact, dissimilar in that there is a greater angulation in 388 "A". Therefore, there has to be either a change in the position of the vehicle in which the President is riding with respect to the horizontal or a change in the situation of the President's head. I believe that the exhibits submitted earlier, the photograph——
Mr. Specter. I believe the ones were given to you so far—excuse me, you are right, 389.