Mr. Specter. Did that complete your operative procedure?
Dr. Gregory. That completed my operative procedure for that day for Governor Connally—yes.
Mr. Specter. What other wounds, if any, did you notice on the Governor at that time?
Dr. Gregory. In addition to the chest wound and the wound just described in his right forearm there was a wound in the medical aspect of his left thigh. This was almost round and did not seem to have disturbed the tissues badly, but did definitely penetrate and pass through the skin and to the fascia beneath. I could not tell from the superficial inspection whether it had passed through the fascia. An X-ray was made of his thigh at that time and there was not present in his thigh any missile of sufficient magnitude, in my opinion, to have produced the wound observed on his medial aspect. Repeat X-rays failed to reveal any such missile and an additional examination failed to reveal any wound of exit.
Mr. Specter. What did the X-rays reveal with respect to the presence of a missile?
Dr. Gregory. In the thigh there was a very small shadow, perhaps 1 mm. by 2 mm. in dimension, lying close to the medial aspect of the femur, that is, the thigh bone, but was in my opinion much too small to have accounted for the dimensions of the wound on the medial aspect of his thigh or a wound of that character.
Mr. Specter. What were the dimensions of the wound on the medial aspect of his thigh.
Dr. Gregory. I would say that that wound was about a centimeter in diameter, much larger than the identifiable fragment of metal in the thigh. I might add that this prompted some speculation on our part, my part, which was voiced to someone that some search ought to be made in the Governor's clothing or perhaps in the auto or some place, wherever he may have been, for the missile which had produced this much damage but which was not resident in him.
Mr. Specter. Approximately what type of a missile would it have taken to produce a wound which you have described on his thigh?
Dr. Gregory. Well, it would take a fragment of metal of approximately the same diameter—a centimeter, and in general—round.