Mr. Specter. Now, have you had an opportunity to read over that excerpt?
Dr. McClelland. Yes.
Mr. Specter. Did you talk to a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch about this matter?
Dr. McClelland. Yes.
Mr. Specter. And what was his name?
Dr. McClelland. Richard Dudman.
Mr. Specter. And when did you have that conversation with Mr. Dudman?
Dr. McClelland. As well as I recall, it was the day after the assassination, as nearly as I can recall, but I'm not certain about that.
Mr. Specter. Will you tell me as closely as you remember what he said to you and you said to him, please?
Dr. McClelland. The main point he seemed to be making was to attempt to define something about the wound, the nature of the wound, and as near as I can recall, I indicated to him that the wound was a small undamaged—appearing punctate area in the skin of the neck, the anterior part of the neck, which had the appearance of the usual entrance wound of a bullet, but that this certainly could not be—you couldn't make a statement to that effect with any complete degree of certainty, though we were, as I told him, experienced in seeing wounds of this nature, and usually felt that we could tell the difference between an entrance and an exit wound, and this was, I think, in essence what I told him about the nature of the wound.