Dr. Shires. They would—really.
Mr. Specter. What did you observe at the time you arrived at the hospital as to the condition of his wrist, if anything?
Dr. Shires. At that point his wrist was being prepared for surgery, and although I did not examine this in detail, since I was concerned with the thigh wound, there appeared to be a through and through wound of the wrist which looked like a missile wound.
Mr. Specter. Were you able to formulate any opinion as to the point of entry or the point of exit?
Dr. Shires. No; since I didn't examine it in detail; no, not really.
Mr. Specter. And what did you observe as to the wound on the thigh?
Dr. Shires. The wound on the thigh was a peculiar one. There was a 1 cm. puncate missile wound over the junction of the middle and lower third of the leg and the medial aspect of the thigh. The peculiarity came in that the X-rays of the left leg showed only a very small 1 mm. bullet fragment imbedded in the femur of the left leg. Upon exploration of this wound, the other peculiarity was that there was very little soft tissue damage, less than one would expect from an entrance wound of a centimeter in diameter, which was seen on the skin. So, it appeared, therefore, that the skin wound was either a tangential wound or that a larger fragment had penetrated or stopped in the skin and had subsequently fallen out of the entrance wound.
Mr. Specter. What size fragment was there in the Governor's leg at that time?
Dr. Shires. We recovered none. The small one that was seen was on X-ray and it was still in the femur and being that small, with no tissue damage after the debridement, it was thought inadvisable to remove this small fragment.
Mr. Specter. Is that fragment in the bone itself at the present time?