Rankin: 'We have an explanation there in the autopsy that probably a fragment came out the front of the neck'

"We have an explanation there in the autopsy that probably a fragment came out the front of the neck."

— Warren Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin, in an executive session of Jan. 27, 1964. The official autopsy report contains no such statement, though there are some indications in the record that an early conclusion was that JFK's throat wound was caused…