Gun Shot Wounds Key To Deaths, Says Ford

"A lot can be learned from gun shot injuries." Richard Ford '36, acting head of the Legal Medicine Department, said yesterday in his lecture. "Death by Gun Shot." The talk was one of a series being presented in Langdell Hall. Ford backed up his statement with a sequence of colored slides of the heads and bodies of suicides and murder victims who died from gun shot.

Ford pointed out that until recently few medical schools had taught anything about gun shot wounds and that many states lack property trained coroners. Partly because of these two factors, a crime is often investigated by a person incapable of correctly interpreting a bullet wound, and the ends of justice are not served.