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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 25, 2019 12:49:25 GMT -5
"White House Won't Talk on Kennedy Autopsy" Discrepancies in the medical evidence began from the White House less than a week after the assassination.excerpts from [AP] Washington Evening Star, 27 Nov 1963, page A-5"The White House has so far declined to say whether an autopsy was performed on the body of President John F. Kennedy. The body was at the Bethesda Naval Hospital for approximately nine hours last Friday night and early Saturday morning. Civilian morticians were called to the hospital to prepare the body for burial. Doctors in Dallas who administered emergency treatment to the President said yesterday they do not know whether one or two bullets had hit him. However, Federal authorities seemed fairly certain it was two bullets. One Washington source said, "There is some doubt whether the fatal bullet was the second shot or third shot. The first shot is believed to have hit the President, but we're not sure about the second and third." Thus, he indicated, the first bullet to strike Mr. Kennedy might not have been fatal. One bullet struck Texas Gov. John Connally, wounding him. Dr. Kemp Clark, a brain surgeon who was summoned to the emergency room of the Dallas hospital where the President was taken after the shooting, said in Dallas yesterday that a bullet did such massive damage to the right rear of the President's head that the attending surgeons could not tell whether it had entered or come out of the head there. "A missile had gone in, or come out the back of his head, causing extensive lacerations and loss of brain tissue, " Dr. Clark said. Dr. Clark said he was unable to say whether the wound in the President's neck, below the Adam's apple, was due to the same bullet that had coursed through the President's brain. He said there could have been two bullets. Dr. Malcolm Perry of Dallas, who also treated the President after the shooting, had said on Friday that he was unable to determine whether one or two bullets were involved."
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Another early report of medical professionals that saw a large hole at the back of the president's head.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 25, 2019 15:32:23 GMT -5
WC Executive SessionSept. 10, 1964Excerpts from the minutes of the last Executive Session explains JFK's clothing (evidence) is being returned to the family. There is no mention of the unheard of giving, of the autopsy x-rays and photographs, also to the Kennedy family. "A Motion was made, seconded and carried that the General Counsel proceed to make arrangements to provide for the return of President Kennedy's clothes which are referred to in the Report to Mrs. Kennedy. It is also directed that this be done as soon as it can be accomplished after the Report: is published and still adequately protect the determinations of the Commission as set forth in the Report. Furthermore, that the return of such apparel be subject to an arrangement whereby such clothing will be available if and when necessary to support the work the Commission has done, presumably upon mutual agreement of the Chairman and the widow or members of the Kennedy family. A Motion was made, seconded and carried that as soon as all of the exhibits and other records of the Commission which are to be published have been printed and made available to the public, all of the remaining materials and records of the Commission shall be delivered to the National Archives to be held in perpetuity for the use. and benefit of the people of the United States in accordance with federal laws and regulations." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The wording is very careful, as careful as the WC was to keep the photos and x-rays out of the record. Notice the words..."which are to be published" - so any autopsy photos the WC had seen or discussed in Executive Session are out. They were held by the Kennedy family, with no reason given, and only rumored to be with them, until given back to the government three years later. Key evidence is suppressed from the WC and away from questioning of the doctors, then is returned 3 years later, masked in a procedure of "preserving the entire body of evidence." In 1966, the original doctors were asked to verify photos and x-rays they had never seen, weighted by all the other autopsies they had done in the previous 3 years. Somehow these doctors were able to honestly, and truthfully, make that verification, But over time, once again these professionals went back to the observations they originally reported. Withholding essential evidence demonstrates an obvious coverup by our government to hide the wounds, and directions, and number of shots.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 30, 2019 12:35:25 GMT -5
The Burkley Hand Off Under the date of November 26, 1963, on the letterhead of the office of the chief US Secret Service Special Agent Robert I Bouck, acknowledge receipt of the number of items from the presidential physician George Burkley. The fifth item on this list is one receipt dated November 22, 1963 Re: a carton of photographic film undeveloped except for x-rays and delivered to the Protective Research Section of the Secret Service. When Dr. Humes admitted in testimony that he had recreated the notes he had burned neither Specter nor any other council member made a single comment or asked a single question instead Specter merely asked that the records show that Exhibit 397 is the identical document which has been previously identified as commission file 371 for our internal purposes.These two items are not identicalThere is not a single note made by Dr. Humes during his examination of the Pres. in file 371 in the National Archives. Also Exhibit 397 also does not contain a single one of Dr. Humes' notes made during the examination of the President's body
And there are two documents in file 371 that are not printed as part of Spectors identical Exhibit 397
One is special agent Bouck's receipt itemizing 11 articles and papers received from the White House Physician. In his receipt Special Agent Bouck acknowledge possession Adm. Galloway's memorandum with one copy of the autopsy report and "notes from the examining doctor and transmittal letter" and seven copies of the above item (autopsy report)The other is a memorandum on the letterhead of the National Naval Medical Center dated November 25, 1963 subject is autopsy protocol. It is addressed to the White House position and signed by Adm. CB Galloway commanding officer of the National Naval Medical Center. "Attached are the work papers used by the Prosector and his assistants. This command holds no additional documents in connection with this case"
So all the working papers of whatever character not burned by Dr. Humes' fireplace can be traced from the Naval Hospital to the White House from the White House to the Secret Service from the Secret Service (and in the form of xerox copies) to the Commission but all are not in volume 17 of the hearings and exhibits... ..and all are not in file 371 at the National Archives. The Secret Service had some of Dr. Humes original handwritten notes from Dr Burkley and there are still questions about the Commission's copy or copies.[Source: Harold Weisberg]
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 30, 2019 12:36:09 GMT -5
Inventory Controlled
FBI Agents Francis O'Neil Jr and James Silbert, were at the autopsy from before it's beginning, until after it's end. On the film page of their report, they list the photographs and x-rays that were given to the Secret Service. These picture were undeveloped and not seen by the doctors.
11 X-rays 22 4x5 color photographs 18 4x5 black and white photographs 1 roll of 120 film containing five exposures
The Los Angeles Times: 14 X-rays 25 black and white negatives 26 4x5 color transparencies
65 different pictures in all. The Associated Press provided the same totals.
The Washington Post: 14 X-Rays 25 Black and white negatives 26 color transparencies
The NY Times and the Washington Star listed the same items as the Washington Post. The Washington Star added it's source as the United Sates Justice Dept. What is incredible, is that throughout the 26 volumes, there is NO INVENTORY of films and x-rays taken of the president.
[source: Post Mortem, Harold Weisberg]
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 3, 2019 10:36:19 GMT -5
AW Geiselberg | The Baltimore SunNovember 11, 1966 The author of a book criticizing the Warren Commission said today that serious scholars on the topic of of the Kennedy assassination should be permitted to study x-rays and photographs of the late President's autopsy. Harold Weisberg, author of "Whitewash" said that, otherwise the announcement Tuesday that the Kennedy family had released the x-rays, negatives, and transparencies to the National Archives is meaningless. He described the the announcement as an effort by the Government under pressure "to give the impression it has nothing to hide while it is hiding things. He said he has gone to the National Archives in Washington to protest the decision to limit or five years access to the x-rays and photographs to the official Government investigative bodies except with specific approval of the Kennedy family. Mr. Weisberg's comments followed the announcement by the Justice Dept. that the autopsy data was being released to custody of the Government by the by the Kennedy family at the Government's request. "The transfer of the x-rays and photographs is meaningless because of the conditions surrounding them," Mr Weisberg said today, "The Government from the very beginning had access to the evidence in the pictures and has not used them." "What is needed now is access to the x-rays and photographs of the autopsy by those intimately familiar with the evidence not beginning five years hence access to uninformed pathologists who know nothing about the case." The x-rays and photographs in themselves can add little to the knowledge of the case except to confirm testimony of doctors at the time of the commission hearings, he said. But he said, in the hands of persons such as himself and others with intricate knowledge of the assassination such data can be placed in the proper context and can be quite valuable. A look at the x-rays and photographs, Mr Weisberg said, might clear up what he described as the unresolved conflict of testimony of pathologists appearing before the commission as to the entrance point of the first of the two bullets to hitting the President. He pointed out that a chart apparently made at the time of the autopsy showed the first bullet hit the president in the back. Yet, he noted, doctors also presented the commission with an artists drawing showing the bullet entered the neck. The point of entrance is important, Mr. Weisberg said, because it could, when compared with what some experts believe was the exit hole just at the knot of the President's tie, indicates the height from which the gun shooting the bullet was fired. The lower the entrance wound in the President's body the less likely was the possibility that he same bullet also hit Texas Governor John B Connally, Mr. Weisberg said. He pointed out that the slug which hit the Governor apparently was moving at a downward angle, hitting him in the back, exiting through the chest, passing through his wrist and striking his thigh. The matter of how many bullets were fired at the presidential car has been a major question raised by Mr. Weisberg. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ All valid question and doubts are raised in the handling of this very important evidence. Photographs and x-rays from the autopsy, and the clothing of the president, are crucial in the examination of evidence. It is unacceptable that this evidence be put out of the hands of researchers in a charade of preservation. It is proof of a coverup by the authorities on the locations, severity, as well as number of wounds, and shooting locations.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 8, 2019 8:33:46 GMT -5
Dr Boswell to Richard H LevineBaltimore Sun | November 1966There were microscopic slides made of tissue "which indicated...foreign substances.." in the neck wound and that there is no mention of these slides in the report, even though he said, they confirm it. "All marks and scars were noted," although there is no such chart in the printed record or files. When the body arrived, "The pathologists (himself and Humes) had already been told of the probable extent of the injuries and had what had been done by the physicians in Dallas," thus destroying the entirely the flimsy excuse that they did not know the tracheotomy had been performed, as an FBI report does. Later that day Nov 23 rd, Dr. Humes and Dr. Boswell went over draft and completed the protocol in its final form." When the autopsy examination was performed - but before Humes finished the final draft by revising what he had written - "Oswald was still alive, and it was believed the autopsy information would later be called upon in court proceedings." "Dr Boswell destroyed" the draft. "In the privacy of my own home, early in the morning of Nov 24 th, I made a draft of this report which I later revised and of which this (part CE 397) represents the revision. That draft I personally burned in the fireplace of my recreation room" (2H373). "Not until they could not probe the rear, non-fatal wound did the doctors order complete x-rays of the entire body." Levine's words are, "at this point or when the wound in the back of the neck was discovered and probed, by finger and by metal surgical probe, no bullet could be found." [from Post Mortem; Harold Weisberg]Richard Levine, was a very public early defender of the Warren Commission Report and Government's conclusions.
In late 1966, there was a sudden surge of interest in the assassination, brought on by books from Harold Weisberg, Mark Lane, and Sylvia Meagher, among others.
It took almost 3 years, but these early authors brought forward many of the questions that remain in conflict today. It was these books and public interest that prompted our government to masquerade an action of obfuscation, as a "sudden need for preservation."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HOW FIVE INVESTIGATIONS INTO JFK’S MEDICAL/AUTOPSY EVIDENCE GOT IT WRONGGary L. Aguilar, MD and Kathy Cunningham May 2003 In 1966 even Dr. Boswell himself weighed in, echoing Manchester by apparently disgorging to a stringer for the Baltimore Sun, who reported that, “before the autopsy had began, the pathologists had been apprised of JFK's wounds and what had been done to him at Parkland. In particular, Boswell said: ‘We concluded that night that the bullet had, in fact, entered the back of the neck, traversed the neck and exited anteriorly.’”[45] (author’s emphasis) Under oath in 1996, Boswell told the ARRB much the same thing. “Did you reach the conclusion that there had been a transit wound through the neck during the course of the autopsy itself?”, he was asked. “Oh, yes,” Boswell answered.[46] On the other hand, Pierre Finck told the ARRB that at the end of the evening they had not concluded a throat transit. [47] **uh oh, pants on fire.**
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 11, 2019 20:13:44 GMT -5
Letter to the Editor | Washington Star Nov 13 1966 - by John Nasou MD"As a physician and medical administrator, I was more than puzzled by the recent article concerning the "donation" by the Kennedy family by the photographs and x-rays made by the US Naval Hospital at Bethesda in the course of performing an autopsy on the late President Kennedy. Such records are customarily the property of the hospital or medical organization performing the medical procedure and each hospital must retain the originals of some such records in it's file except as it may be directed to do otherwise by court action. In this case, there is the additional complication that these records were the property of the United States Government and should have been available to the Warren Commission in its investigation. I cannot see that there is any excuse for the release of these records by the Naval authorities to the Kennedy or for that family to place a restrictions on their use by the Federal Government. The records of medical procedures conducted at a hospital under no circumstances, Government or otherwise, belong to the family nor dies any hospital administrator have the right to authorize such release." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In late 1966, it was announced that Jacqueline Kennedy had authorized William Manchester, to write a book about the assassination. "The Death of a President." was released in early 1967, it detailed the assassination, and defended the Warren Commissions conclusions. The announcement was timed with the autopsy return, and gave the public impression, the Kennedy family agreed with the government's conclusions. There was no official reason given why the evidence of the autopsy was suppressed from the investigators. The Warren Commission references the photos in executive session, yet only hypothetical questions are asked of the doctors. No pictures or x-rays were shown to the doctors during testimony. Some members said they were not given the opportunity to view them. Three years after the murder, the Kennedy family gave this essential evidence back to the government. Many questions come to mind... Did the Kennedy family request the autopsy materials? - why? The above editorial makes it very clear they have no authorization to possess them. Or, were the autopsy materials put upon them? How is it better that they be withheld by the family? At the time of the assassination Robert Kennedy was the nation's Attorney General. Documents released in 2017 show that the CIA was working with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro. RFK was aware of this thru memos to the CIA, asking them to stop. The FBI was watching. Lee Oswald, was in New Orleans in the summer of '63, associating with Guy Bannister and David Ferrie (both intelligence). Those two are involved with the CRC (Cuban Revolutionary Council), that was CIA under David Atlee Phillips. Friends of a Democratic Cuba, also run by Phillips, had purchased trucks in the name of Oswald. A researcher has to ask the question: Does Robert Kennedy know the name, Lee Harvey Oswald, before November 22, 1963?
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 11, 2019 20:58:06 GMT -5
Secret Service - John RiceJohn Rice - upper left
Credit to Arjan Hut, he posted this on the old forum. I'll post it here, as it relates directly to the above."...(Adrian) Alba's lot was where the local members of the Secret Service, whose office was just across the street, parked their cars, working their counterfeit and protection details. At this point, Jack Kennedy and Lee Oswald had just three months to live, and after their deaths, Alba would become a prime witness to relevant comments made by John Rice, an agent who parked there." "It was Rice, who supposedly had struck up a friendship with Alba, who would tell Alba that before the Amigos de Roberto had gotten a wiff that Lee was a rat, they had considered him for the assassination team against Fidel. He must have been peddling himself as such, and apparently his application went as far as Bobby Kennedy's desk at Justice before Lee was exiled from the exiles." "According to Rice and an unidentified New Orleans political writer known to Alba only as 'Fitz," when Bobby first saw Oswald's name come up after Jack's death and traced it back to the CRC dossiers, he was heard to yell out in his office, 'I've killed my own brother!'" "Rice's comments cannot be confirmed, but they attest to the impressions some had of Lee, that he was angling to learn more about the CRC's plans against Castro and did so by trying to be hired as an assassin. Thus he may have been known to Bobby (whether by name or not) well before Lee struck at the president. Alba's testimony also amounted to the first hint, shortly after the assassination, that Bobby considered himself complicit in his brother's death." From Brothers in Arms , by Gus Russo, Stephen Molton, p. 285 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Therefore, It would be better if the autopsy materials were in the hands of the Kennedy family throughout the Warren Commission proceedings.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Nov 26, 2019 14:01:21 GMT -5
Those Missing Exhibits The Nation, 14 November 1966, p. 500The photographs and X-rays taken of President Kennedy's body at the autopsy after the assassination have been turned over to National Archives by the Kennedy family—fourteen X-rays, twenty-five black-and-white negatives and twenty-six 4-by-5-inch color transparencies. The mystery of the missing exhibit, first brought to public notice with careful attention to detail by Jacob Cohen in these pages ( "The Vital Documents," The Nation, July 11), has now been cleared up. The photographic material turned up, as Mr. Cohen suggested it might, in the possession of the Kennedy family. Much of the wild speculation about the assassination, and the controversy over the Warren Commission Report, might have been obviated if these exhibits (which would clearly have been offered in evidence if Oswald had been placed on trial) had been turned over to the Warren Commission. Chief Justice Warren did see them, but neither the staff nor the other members of the commission had a chance to study them. Close restrictions have been placed on the availability of the exhibits; they will be open to federal law-enforcement agencies (the FBI) but scholars and other unofficial investigators will have to secure permission before inspecting the exhibits, and first indications are that such permissions will not be granted for a period of five years. News media representatives may have to wait even longer before gaining access to the exhibits. This would seem to repeat the mistake that was made in the first instance; the restrictions will simply invite further speculation and controversy. Eventually the public may learn what if any light the exhibits shed on controversial aspects of the Warren Report but the sooner they can be inspected by responsible scholars and investigators—and the news media—the better it will be for all concerned. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Through summer of 1966As noted in the above article the autopsy materials appeared to be lost, or at least unaccounted for. By July, they were suspected to be held by the Kennedy family. no reason was given.In the fall of '66 a number of self published books on conspiracy were gaining some attention, There were articles in the NY Times, Esquire magazine, The Nation, The New Leader, all criticizing the findings of the Warren Commission Investigation. Throughout 1966, Marina tried to take possession of the gun and sell it privately by late Nov. the government took title and possession of the rifle. The governments possession was essential in that time frame, because of a law expiring at midnight Nov 1st 1966. This was then the pretext, to gather exhibits for preservation, while at the same time, restrict and suppress the access to the material.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Nov 26, 2019 14:01:48 GMT -5
Lost, never FoundOne of the most incredible conclusions in this case, comes from the HSCA. Vol 7 It is appalling to read thru this chain of custody and consider any valid investigation can be concluded.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HSCA Vol 7 page 28[Attorney General Ramsey] Clark stated that he initiated the action to acquire the materials transferred in, the October 1966 deed of gift pursuant to Public Law89-318, enacted on November 2, 1965. (77) This law provided that the acquisition by the United States of certain items of evidence pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy had to be completed within 1 year. (78) When Clark learned the time limit for obtaining the evidence was approaching, he contacted Robert Kennedy, who was not sympathetic to the Government's need to acquire the autopsy material. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Section III demonstrates the government's complete disregard for proper investigative procedure. There are major conflicts in the locations of wounds because the autopsy x rays and photos were kept out of the hands of the investigators. There is no authority for the Kennedy family to hold this material. Was it put upon them? - Did they request it? - or even demand it? I find it odd Robert Kennedy was not called to answer why the autopsy material cannot be provided for a proper investigation. Instead that was done in secret, there is no acceptable explanation for this. Given conflicts between RFK and J Edgar and his FBI, one must assume there was plenty of bad blood there. Robert Kennedy was not called before the commission. November 1966 was a crucial month in the JFK case. The rifle needed to be secured, pubic dissension needed to settle down. The people needed to know the materials are now safe in the hands of the government. They have been gifted back by the Kennedy family. God bless them.
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