Reply #21: I respect your skeptical attitude regarding this

[Time for change]

With regard to the botched up protection, I can't find at this time what I remember as extremely incriminating information on that. Lifton's book primarily dealt with the medical evidence. But I did find this from Jim Garrison's "On the Trail of Assassins". On page 328:

"The protective bubble for the President's limousine had been left off by the Secret Service. The windows and roofs of buildings along the parade route had not been secured. And the parade route had been changed at the last minute so that the motorcade would have to make a sharp turn, thus slowing it to less than ten miles per hour. All of this added up, essentially, to the withdrawal of the President's protection by the modern-day Praetorian Guard, leaving him vulnerable to the rifel fire coming at him from the grassy knoll in front of him and from at least two locations in buildings behind him."

And on page 329:

"Meanwhile, the cover-up was progressing. The Secret Service sent Governor John Conally's clothing, along with all the evidence it contained, to be laundered and then proceeded to scrub down the presidential limousine, againd washing away crucial traces of blood, bone, and bullets."

But what I find to be the most crucial part of the evidence implicating the Secret Service is what I discuss in my OP, and it is this:

1. The statements on the state of the body by physicians attending the President at Parkland Hospital are vastly different than what the official autopsy report says.

2. That means that, unless the statements of nine physicians who attended the President at Parkland Hospital are wrong, the body must have been severely altered prior to the autopsy.

3. Whichever version one accepts, the Secret Service had the body in its possess until it arrived at the morgue at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Therefore, if it was altered prior to autopsy they must have known about it and arranged for that to happen.

4. Furthermore, the Secret Service went to great extremes to ensure that it retained control of the body. In grabbing it away from the Medical Examiner at Parkland Hospitals, witnesses were afraid that the situation would become violent. Also, look at the ambulence chase scene in the OP.