Post by Herbert Blenner on Feb 11, 2019 15:29:25 GMT -5
Evidence of the Sanitized Zapruder Film
by Herbert Blenner | Posted September 7, 2014
James W. Altgens(1) was standing on the South side of Elm Street when Kennedy was shot in the head. He saw "that his head was covered with blood, the hairline included, on the left side all the way down, with no blood on his forehead or face". From the North side of Elm, Jack Franzen(2) heard a shot and " noticed blood appearing at the top and sides of the head of President Kennedy." Mrs. Jack Franzen(3) heard a shot like sound and "noticed blood appearing on the side of President Kennedy's head." From a few feet behind the limousine Paul E. Landis, Jr.(4) heard the bullet strike Kennedy and saw "pieces of flesh and blood flying through the air." Gayle Newman(5) heard another shot ring out and "saw blood all over the side of his head." The senior agent in the Secret Service followup car, Emory P. Roberts,(6) observed "a small explosion on the right side of the President's head, saw blood, at which time the President fell further to his left." Abraham Zapruder filmed such a gruesome scene of "blood and everything" that recalling the event caused him to break down and cry during his Warren Commission testimony.(7)
However, viewing our copy of the Zapruder film fails to show any blood on the head of President Kennedy.
President Kennedy's heart continued beating after the head shot. He arrived a few minutes later at Parkland in the terminal stage of bleeding to death.
Doctor Carrico as the first physician to examine Kennedy noted a few heart beats without a detectable pulse and no blood pressure.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Charles James Carrico on March 25, 1964 - 6H, 2
Mr. SPECTER. Would you continue to describe your observations of the President?
Dr. CARRICO. His-the President's color-I don't believe I said-he was an ashen, bluish, grey, cyanotic, he was making no spontaneous movements, I mean, no voluntary movements at all. We opened his shirt and coat and tie and observed a small wound in the anterior lower third of the neck, listened very briefly, heard a few cardiac beats, felt the President's back, and detected no large or sucking chest wounds, and then proceeded to the examination of his head. The large skull and scalp wound had been previously observed and was inspected a little more closely. There seemed to be a 4-5 cm. area of avulsion of the scalp and the skull was fragmented and bleeding cerebral and cerebellar tissue. The pupils were inspected and seemed to be bilaterally dilated and fixed. No pulse was present, and at that time, because of the inadequate respirations and the apparent airway injury, a cuffed endotracheal tube was introduced, employing a larynzo scope. Through the larynzo scope there seemed to be some hematoma around the larynx and immediately below the larynx was seen the ragged tracheal injury. The endotracheal tube was inserted past this injury, the cuff inflated, and the tube was connected to a respirator to assist the inadequate respiration. At about this point the nurse reported that no blood pressure was obtained.
These symptoms evidence collapse of the circulatory system.
Following the infusion of liquids into Kennedy, the Parkland doctors observed more profuse bleeding which evidenced the catastrophic damage to his circulatory system in the head.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Charles James Carrico on March 30, 1964 - 3H, 361
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe as specifically as you can the head wound which you have already mentioned briefly?
Dr. CARRICO. Sure. This was a 5- by 71 [sic]-cm defect in the posterior skull, the occipital region. There was an absence of the calvarium or skull in this area, with shredded tissue, brain tissue present and initially considerable slow oozing. Then after we established some circulation there was more profuse bleeding from this wound.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Marion Thomas Jenkins on March 25, 1964 - 6H, 48
Mr. SPECTER. Now, will you now describe the wound which you observed in the head?
Dr. JENKINS. Almost by the time I was-had the time to pay more attention to the wound in the head, all of these other activities were under way. I was busy connecting up an apparatus to respire for the patient, exerting manual pressure on the breathing bag or anesthesia apparatus, trying to feel for a pulse in the neck, and then reaching up and feeling for one in the temporal area, seeing about connecting the cardioscope or directing its being connected, and then turned attention to the wound in the head.
Now, Dr. Clark had begun closed chest cardiac massage at this time and I was aware of the magnitude of the wound, because with each compression of the chest, there was a great rush of blood from the skull wound. Part of the brain was herniated; I really think part of the cerebellum, as I recognized it, was herniated from the wound; there was part of the brain tissue, broken fragments of the brain tissue on the drapes of the cart on which the President lay.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Ronald Coy Jones on March 24, 1964 - 6H, 53
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe as precisely as you can the nature of the head wound?
Dr. JONES. There was large defect in the back side of the head as the President lay on the cart with what appeared to be some brain hanging out of this wound with multiple pieces of skull noted next with the brain and with a tremendous amount of clot and blood.
Three attending physicians explicitly cited massive blood loss or severe hemorrhage among the causes of death.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. William Kemp Clark on March 21, 1964 - 6H, 22
Mr. SPECTER - And what else did you state at the press conference at 2:30 on November 22?
Dr. CLARK - I stated that the President had lost considerable blood, that one of the contributing causes of death was this massive blood loss . . .
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland on March 21, 1964 - 6H, 34
Mr. SPECTER - What was the cause of death in your opinion?
Dr. McCLELLAND - The cause of death, I would say, would be massive head injuries with loss of large amounts of cerebral and cerebellar tissues and massive blood loss.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry on March 25, 1964 - 6H, 12
Mr. SPECTER - Well, what questions were asked of you and what responses did you give at that press conference?
Dr. PERRY - . . . As regards the cause of death, Dr. Clark and I concurred that massive brain trauma with attendant severe hemorrhage was the underlying cause of death, . . .
The Zapruder film shot from an elevated perch shows Kennedy's head for about two heart beats after the head shot. During this interval, a true Zapruder film would have shown much bleeding from his head.
Footnotes
1. Warren Commission Testimony of James W. Altgens on July 22, 1964 - 7H, 518
Mr. Altgens - Yes. What made me almost certain that the shot came from behind was because at the time I was looking at the President, just as he was struck, it caused him to move a bit forward. He seemed as if at the time--well, he was in a position-- sort of immobile. He wasn't upright. He was at an angle but when it hit him, it seemed to have just lodged--it seemed as if he were hung up on a seat button or something like that. It knocked him just enough forward that he came right on down. There was flesh particles that flew out of the side of his head in my direction from where I was standing, so much so that it indicated to me that the shot came out of the left side of his head. Also, the fact that his head was covered with blood, the hairline included, on the left side all the way down, with no blood on his forehead or face--- suggested to me, too, that the shot came from the opposite side, meaning in the direction of this Depository Building, but at no time did I know for certain where the shot came from.
2. CE 1428 - FBI Interview of Jack Franzen on November 22, 1963 - 22H, 840
Mr. FRANZEN advised he and his wife and small son were standing in the grass area west of Houston Street and south of Elm Street at the time the President's motorcade arrived at that location at approximately 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963. He said he heard the sound of an explosion which appeared to him to come from the President's car and noticed small fragments flying inside the President's car and immediately assumed that someone had tossed a firecracker inside the automobile. He heard a second and third and possibly a fourth explosion and recognized these sounds as being shots fired from some firearm. At the same time he noticed blood appearing at the top and sides of the head of President Kennedy.
3. CE 2090 - FBI Interview of Mrs. Jack Franzen on November 22, 1963 - 24H, 525
She advised shortly after the President's automobile passed by on Elm Street near where she and her family were standing, she heard a noise which sounded to her as if someone had thrown a firecracker into the President's automobile. She advised at approximately the same time she noticed dust or small pieces of debris flying from the President's automobile.
She advised she heard two other sounds which sounded like shots from a firearm and noticed blood appearing on the side of President KENNEDY's head.
4. Warren Commission Statement of Paul E. Landis, Jr. on November 30, 1963 - 18H, 755
I glanced towards the President and he still appeared to be fairly upright in his seat, leaning slightly toward Mrs. Kennedy with his head tilted lightly back. I think Mrs. Kennedy had her right arm around the President's shoulders at this time. I also remember Special Agent Clinton Hill attempting to climb onto the back of the President's car.
It was at this moment that I heard a second report and it appeared that the President's head split open with a muffled exploding sound. I can best describe the sound as I heard it, as the sound you would get by shooting a high powered bullet into a five gallon can of water or shooting into a melon. I saw pieces of flesh and blood flying through the air and the President slumped out of sight towards Mrs. Kennedy.
5. Statement of Gayle Newman on November 22, 1963 - 19H, 488
When President Kennedy's car was about ten feet from us. I heard a noise like a firecracker going off. President Kennedy kind of jumped like he was startled and covered his head with his hands and then raised up.
After I heard the first shot, another shot sounded and Governor Connally kind of grabbed his chest and lay back on the seat of the car. When I first saw and heard all of this, I thought it was all of a joke. Just about the time President Kennedy was right in front of us, I heard another shot ring out, and the President put his hands up to his head. I saw blood all over the side of his head. About this time Mrs. Kennedy grabbed the President and he kind of lay over to the side kind of in her arms.
6. Statement of Emory P. Roberts on November 29, 1963 - 18H, 734
12:30 pm.
First of three shots fired, at which time I saw the President lean toward Mrs. Kennedy. I do not know if it was the next shot or third shot that hit the President in the head, but I saw what appeared to be a small explosion on the right side of the President's head, saw blood, at which time the President fell further to his left. Mrs. Kennedy was leaning toward the President, however, she immediately raised up in the seat and appeared to be getting up on back of same. About this time I saw SA Clinton Hill trying to get on left rear step of the President's car. He got aboard and climbed up over the back of the car and placed himself over the President and Mrs. Kennedy. After SA Hill got on rear step of the President's car it appeared that SA John Ready was about to follow and go for the right rear step, however, I told him not to jump, as we had picked up speed, and I was afraid he could not make it.
7. Warren Commission Testimony of Abraham Zapruder on July 22, 1964 - 7H, 571
Mr. LIEBELER - He was sitting upright in the car and you heard the shot and you saw the President slump over?
Mr. ZAPRUDER - Leaning -- leaning toward the side of Jacqueline. For a moment I thought it was, you know, like you say, "Oh, he got me," when you hear a shot -- you've heard these expressions and then I saw --- I don't believe the President is going to make jokes like this, but before I had a chance to organize my mind, I heard a second shot and then I saw his head opened up and the blood and everything came out and I started -- I can hardly talk about it [the witness crying].
by Herbert Blenner | Posted September 7, 2014
The testimonies of the doctors who attempted to resuscitate President Kennedy show that he had bled out before arrival in the emergency room of Parkland Hospital.
A few Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses reported a bloody head shot.James W. Altgens(1) was standing on the South side of Elm Street when Kennedy was shot in the head. He saw "that his head was covered with blood, the hairline included, on the left side all the way down, with no blood on his forehead or face". From the North side of Elm, Jack Franzen(2) heard a shot and " noticed blood appearing at the top and sides of the head of President Kennedy." Mrs. Jack Franzen(3) heard a shot like sound and "noticed blood appearing on the side of President Kennedy's head." From a few feet behind the limousine Paul E. Landis, Jr.(4) heard the bullet strike Kennedy and saw "pieces of flesh and blood flying through the air." Gayle Newman(5) heard another shot ring out and "saw blood all over the side of his head." The senior agent in the Secret Service followup car, Emory P. Roberts,(6) observed "a small explosion on the right side of the President's head, saw blood, at which time the President fell further to his left." Abraham Zapruder filmed such a gruesome scene of "blood and everything" that recalling the event caused him to break down and cry during his Warren Commission testimony.(7)
However, viewing our copy of the Zapruder film fails to show any blood on the head of President Kennedy.
President Kennedy's heart continued beating after the head shot. He arrived a few minutes later at Parkland in the terminal stage of bleeding to death.
Doctor Carrico as the first physician to examine Kennedy noted a few heart beats without a detectable pulse and no blood pressure.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Charles James Carrico on March 25, 1964 - 6H, 2
Mr. SPECTER. Would you continue to describe your observations of the President?
Dr. CARRICO. His-the President's color-I don't believe I said-he was an ashen, bluish, grey, cyanotic, he was making no spontaneous movements, I mean, no voluntary movements at all. We opened his shirt and coat and tie and observed a small wound in the anterior lower third of the neck, listened very briefly, heard a few cardiac beats, felt the President's back, and detected no large or sucking chest wounds, and then proceeded to the examination of his head. The large skull and scalp wound had been previously observed and was inspected a little more closely. There seemed to be a 4-5 cm. area of avulsion of the scalp and the skull was fragmented and bleeding cerebral and cerebellar tissue. The pupils were inspected and seemed to be bilaterally dilated and fixed. No pulse was present, and at that time, because of the inadequate respirations and the apparent airway injury, a cuffed endotracheal tube was introduced, employing a larynzo scope. Through the larynzo scope there seemed to be some hematoma around the larynx and immediately below the larynx was seen the ragged tracheal injury. The endotracheal tube was inserted past this injury, the cuff inflated, and the tube was connected to a respirator to assist the inadequate respiration. At about this point the nurse reported that no blood pressure was obtained.
These symptoms evidence collapse of the circulatory system.
Following the infusion of liquids into Kennedy, the Parkland doctors observed more profuse bleeding which evidenced the catastrophic damage to his circulatory system in the head.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Charles James Carrico on March 30, 1964 - 3H, 361
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe as specifically as you can the head wound which you have already mentioned briefly?
Dr. CARRICO. Sure. This was a 5- by 71 [sic]-cm defect in the posterior skull, the occipital region. There was an absence of the calvarium or skull in this area, with shredded tissue, brain tissue present and initially considerable slow oozing. Then after we established some circulation there was more profuse bleeding from this wound.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Marion Thomas Jenkins on March 25, 1964 - 6H, 48
Mr. SPECTER. Now, will you now describe the wound which you observed in the head?
Dr. JENKINS. Almost by the time I was-had the time to pay more attention to the wound in the head, all of these other activities were under way. I was busy connecting up an apparatus to respire for the patient, exerting manual pressure on the breathing bag or anesthesia apparatus, trying to feel for a pulse in the neck, and then reaching up and feeling for one in the temporal area, seeing about connecting the cardioscope or directing its being connected, and then turned attention to the wound in the head.
Now, Dr. Clark had begun closed chest cardiac massage at this time and I was aware of the magnitude of the wound, because with each compression of the chest, there was a great rush of blood from the skull wound. Part of the brain was herniated; I really think part of the cerebellum, as I recognized it, was herniated from the wound; there was part of the brain tissue, broken fragments of the brain tissue on the drapes of the cart on which the President lay.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Ronald Coy Jones on March 24, 1964 - 6H, 53
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe as precisely as you can the nature of the head wound?
Dr. JONES. There was large defect in the back side of the head as the President lay on the cart with what appeared to be some brain hanging out of this wound with multiple pieces of skull noted next with the brain and with a tremendous amount of clot and blood.
Three attending physicians explicitly cited massive blood loss or severe hemorrhage among the causes of death.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. William Kemp Clark on March 21, 1964 - 6H, 22
Mr. SPECTER - And what else did you state at the press conference at 2:30 on November 22?
Dr. CLARK - I stated that the President had lost considerable blood, that one of the contributing causes of death was this massive blood loss . . .
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland on March 21, 1964 - 6H, 34
Mr. SPECTER - What was the cause of death in your opinion?
Dr. McCLELLAND - The cause of death, I would say, would be massive head injuries with loss of large amounts of cerebral and cerebellar tissues and massive blood loss.
Warren Commission Testimony of Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry on March 25, 1964 - 6H, 12
Mr. SPECTER - Well, what questions were asked of you and what responses did you give at that press conference?
Dr. PERRY - . . . As regards the cause of death, Dr. Clark and I concurred that massive brain trauma with attendant severe hemorrhage was the underlying cause of death, . . .
The Zapruder film shot from an elevated perch shows Kennedy's head for about two heart beats after the head shot. During this interval, a true Zapruder film would have shown much bleeding from his head.
Footnotes
1. Warren Commission Testimony of James W. Altgens on July 22, 1964 - 7H, 518
Mr. Altgens - Yes. What made me almost certain that the shot came from behind was because at the time I was looking at the President, just as he was struck, it caused him to move a bit forward. He seemed as if at the time--well, he was in a position-- sort of immobile. He wasn't upright. He was at an angle but when it hit him, it seemed to have just lodged--it seemed as if he were hung up on a seat button or something like that. It knocked him just enough forward that he came right on down. There was flesh particles that flew out of the side of his head in my direction from where I was standing, so much so that it indicated to me that the shot came out of the left side of his head. Also, the fact that his head was covered with blood, the hairline included, on the left side all the way down, with no blood on his forehead or face--- suggested to me, too, that the shot came from the opposite side, meaning in the direction of this Depository Building, but at no time did I know for certain where the shot came from.
2. CE 1428 - FBI Interview of Jack Franzen on November 22, 1963 - 22H, 840
Mr. FRANZEN advised he and his wife and small son were standing in the grass area west of Houston Street and south of Elm Street at the time the President's motorcade arrived at that location at approximately 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963. He said he heard the sound of an explosion which appeared to him to come from the President's car and noticed small fragments flying inside the President's car and immediately assumed that someone had tossed a firecracker inside the automobile. He heard a second and third and possibly a fourth explosion and recognized these sounds as being shots fired from some firearm. At the same time he noticed blood appearing at the top and sides of the head of President Kennedy.
3. CE 2090 - FBI Interview of Mrs. Jack Franzen on November 22, 1963 - 24H, 525
She advised shortly after the President's automobile passed by on Elm Street near where she and her family were standing, she heard a noise which sounded to her as if someone had thrown a firecracker into the President's automobile. She advised at approximately the same time she noticed dust or small pieces of debris flying from the President's automobile.
She advised she heard two other sounds which sounded like shots from a firearm and noticed blood appearing on the side of President KENNEDY's head.
4. Warren Commission Statement of Paul E. Landis, Jr. on November 30, 1963 - 18H, 755
I glanced towards the President and he still appeared to be fairly upright in his seat, leaning slightly toward Mrs. Kennedy with his head tilted lightly back. I think Mrs. Kennedy had her right arm around the President's shoulders at this time. I also remember Special Agent Clinton Hill attempting to climb onto the back of the President's car.
It was at this moment that I heard a second report and it appeared that the President's head split open with a muffled exploding sound. I can best describe the sound as I heard it, as the sound you would get by shooting a high powered bullet into a five gallon can of water or shooting into a melon. I saw pieces of flesh and blood flying through the air and the President slumped out of sight towards Mrs. Kennedy.
5. Statement of Gayle Newman on November 22, 1963 - 19H, 488
When President Kennedy's car was about ten feet from us. I heard a noise like a firecracker going off. President Kennedy kind of jumped like he was startled and covered his head with his hands and then raised up.
After I heard the first shot, another shot sounded and Governor Connally kind of grabbed his chest and lay back on the seat of the car. When I first saw and heard all of this, I thought it was all of a joke. Just about the time President Kennedy was right in front of us, I heard another shot ring out, and the President put his hands up to his head. I saw blood all over the side of his head. About this time Mrs. Kennedy grabbed the President and he kind of lay over to the side kind of in her arms.
6. Statement of Emory P. Roberts on November 29, 1963 - 18H, 734
12:30 pm.
First of three shots fired, at which time I saw the President lean toward Mrs. Kennedy. I do not know if it was the next shot or third shot that hit the President in the head, but I saw what appeared to be a small explosion on the right side of the President's head, saw blood, at which time the President fell further to his left. Mrs. Kennedy was leaning toward the President, however, she immediately raised up in the seat and appeared to be getting up on back of same. About this time I saw SA Clinton Hill trying to get on left rear step of the President's car. He got aboard and climbed up over the back of the car and placed himself over the President and Mrs. Kennedy. After SA Hill got on rear step of the President's car it appeared that SA John Ready was about to follow and go for the right rear step, however, I told him not to jump, as we had picked up speed, and I was afraid he could not make it.
7. Warren Commission Testimony of Abraham Zapruder on July 22, 1964 - 7H, 571
Mr. LIEBELER - He was sitting upright in the car and you heard the shot and you saw the President slump over?
Mr. ZAPRUDER - Leaning -- leaning toward the side of Jacqueline. For a moment I thought it was, you know, like you say, "Oh, he got me," when you hear a shot -- you've heard these expressions and then I saw --- I don't believe the President is going to make jokes like this, but before I had a chance to organize my mind, I heard a second shot and then I saw his head opened up and the blood and everything came out and I started -- I can hardly talk about it [the witness crying].