"Lower neck" was innocent verbiage used on the night of the body examination, but the proof for this is also proof the pathologists fabricated their "throat wound ignorance" story.
From BEST EVIDENCE (free ebook: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsyco7pb7zpml9z/BEST EVIDENCE - Disguise and deception in the assassination of JFK by David S. Lifton.pdf?dl=0)
In his November 29, 1963 account, Coast Guardsman George Barnum wrote that as the men were having sandwiches and coffee sometime after midnight, Admiral Burkley came in and talked to them, and said three shots had been fired, that the President had been hit by the first and third, and he described the trajectories of the two that struck:
"The first striking him in the lower neck and coming out near the throat. The second shot striking him above and to the rear of the right ear, this shot not coming out...."61
Although Barnum's report was incorrect on the head shot not exiting, both points of entry are those shown in the autopsy photographs, and the neck trajectory was the "transiting" conclusion to be found in the official autopsy report Humes wrote later that weekend.*
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*Barnum's account also raises this question: why Burkley, speaking informally, described a transiting trajectory, yet in filing his medical report on November 22, omitted any mention of the throat wound.