Dr. Perry. No, sir; I have no knowledge even now of my own as to the cause of the wounds. All I can report on is what I saw, and the wound is that as I have described it. It could have been caused conceivably by any number of objects.
Mr. Specter. So, that the wound that you saw on the President's neck would be consistent with an exit wound under the factors that I described to you?
Dr. Perry. Yes.
Mr. Specter. Or, it might be consistent with an entry wound under a different set of factors?
Dr. Perry. That's correct, sir. I, myself, have no knowledge of that. I do not think that it is consistent, for example, with an exit wound of a large expanded bullet—voluntarily I would add that.
Mr. Specter. Well, would a jacketed 6.5-mm. bullet fit the description of a large expanded bullet?
Dr. Perry. No, sir; it would not.
Mr. Specter. Based on the information in the autopsy report about a 6- by 15-mm. hole in the lower part of the President's skull on the right side in conjunction with the large part of the skull of the President which you observed to be missing, would you have an opinion as to the source of the missile which inflicted those wounds?
Dr. Perry. Since I did not see the initial wound which you mentioned, the smaller one, and only saw the large avulsive wound of the head and the scalp, there is no way for me to determine from whence it came.
Mr. Specter. Well, if you assume the presence of the first small wound, taking as a fact that there was such a wound, now, would that present sufficient information for you to formulate an opinion as to source or trajectory?