Case Closed- Conspiracy: The Dallas Doctors vs. JFK’s Autopsy Photographs

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Here it is: Proof JFK was shot in the front. And how the HSCA mistated the testimony of the Dallas doctors.

Read this and weep for our once great nation. As I have been weeping for 40 years.

Did ABC show you this? Of course not. How could they? No one would ever believe their resurrected Warren Commission, Posner, McAdam drivel.

HSCA...The (H)ouse's (S)econd (C)overup of the (A)ssassination, perpetuating the Oswald myth, but throwing out a few crumbs to the conspiracy "buffs", by claiming yes, there was a second gunman..who MISSED! These guys had their own Bushit crew way back in 1978!

OK, all you Oswald Lone Nutters, you naysayers, you coincidence buffs...

REFUTE THIS!

http://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/How5Investigations/How5InvestigationsGotItWrong_5.htm

The Dallas Doctors vs. JFK’s Autopsy Photographs
As previously mentioned, multiple independent and contemporaneous accounts from credible witnesses, especially the treating Dallas doctors, said JFK’s fatal injury was a gaping right-rearward skull wound. The HSCA’s forensic experts took special note of Dallas accounts. Then, as now, Parkland Hospital was a highly regarded trauma center, its physicians thoroughly trained and experienced trauma experts.

Though perhaps it should have, it apparently never occurred to the Warren Commission that both the Parkland witnesses and JFK’s pathologists had described JFK’s rearward skull wounds in much the same way, but in a manner that was difficult to reconcile with an assassin firing from above and behind. Only after the autopsists had examined the photographs, and after the Clark Panel had noted an apparent, huge discrepancy between the photographs and the autopsy report, did a crack begin to appear in the medical case for Oswald’s sole guilt. The Clark Panel simply closed that crack by dismissing the rearward location of the skull injuries on the grounds that the autopsy doctors, who were teaching professors, had made a mistake. They were insensitive to the peculiarity that if it was indeed an error, it was a huge one that had also been made in Dallas by a team of seasoned trauma experts that included a professor of brain surgery. It was the kind of mistake for which a guilty first year resident physician-pathologist, to say nothing of professors, would have been seriously faulted.



Drawing of rear head wound made under the direction of Dr. McClelland of Parkland Hospital.
(see ARRB MD #264)



For their parts, the Parkland witnesses virtually unanimously described JFK’s skull injuries in a way that echoed the description of the senior treating physician, Neurosurgery professor Kemp Clark, MD. On the day of the murder, after examining JFK’s head wound, Dr. Clark wrote that, “There was a large wound beginning in the right occiput extending into the parietal region,” he wrote, “Much of the skull appeared gone at the brief examination....”<271> (Emphasis added.) Clark’s claim of a rearward skull defect was also repeated by Parkland witnesses Drs. Marion Thomas Jenkins, Malcolm Perry, Robert McClelland, Charles Carrico, Ronald Coy Jones, Gene Aiken, Paul Peters, Charles Rufus Baxter, Robert Grossman, Richard Brooks Dulaney, Fouad Bashour, and others.<272> (See Table 1) Intriguingly, Dr. Clark’s account is a reasonable match to the autopsy report’s description of a ‘parietal-temporal-occipital’ skull defect. It does not, however, match the autopsy photographs. They show an “antero-lateral” defect – a defect in front of JFK’s right ear involving the top of his head, but with no visible defect behind the ear. (See Figure 7) Thus, it is nowhere near the occipital area specified in the autopsy report or by the Parkland doctors. Admitting that the conflict was a problem, the HSCA boasted that it had solved it.

HSCA Refutes Dallas Doctors on JFK’s Head Wound
The HSCA devoted considerable attention to resolving the conflict between the autopsy photographs and the Dallas doctors. Summarizing its solution to the paradox, the HSCA wrote, “Critics of the Warren Commission’s medical evidence findings have found (sic) on the observations recorded by the Parkland Hospital doctors. They believe it is unlikely that trained medical personnel could be so consistently in error regarding the nature of the wound, even though their recollections were not based on careful examinations of the wounds ... In disagreement with the observations of the Parkland doctors are the 26 people present at the autopsy. All of those interviewed who attended the autopsy corroborated the general location of the wounds as depicted in the photographs; none had differing accounts … it appears more probable that the observations of the Parkland doctors are incorrect.”<273> (Emphasis added.) The HSCA said that its conclusion was supported by, “Staff interviews with persons present at the autopsy.” Unfortunately, none of those interviews were released with the release of the report in 1979.

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Excerpt from page 37 of the Forensic Pathology Panel's report, citing interviews with autopsy witnesses which were purported to contradict the Dallas physicians. This assertion is completely false - in fact, now-declassified interview records show, autopsy witnesses generally corroborated the Dallas accounts.
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Once-secret documents, made public in the 1990s, show that the HSCA misrepresented both what the autopsy witnesses told the Warren Commission as well as what they had told the HSCA. Rather than contradicting Parkland witnesses that there was a rear defect in JFK's skull, the suppressed interviews reveal that the Bethesda witnesses corroborated them. They not only described a rear defect to HSCA in writing and verbally, they also drew diagrams of a defect in the rear of Kennedy’s skull, which the HSCA had also suppressed. By falsely representing the data, including its own interviews, HSCA writers inaccurately portrayed autopsy witnesses as refuting the Dallas witnesses who in fact they had corroborated. (See Table 2) Had it not been for the Oliver Stone-inspired JFK Review Board, public access to these inconvenient interviews and diagrams, which had no national security value whatsoever, was to have been restricted for 50 years, until 2028.

This stunning suppression of contradictory evidence, which as we shall see included withholding it from the very medical experts responsible for conducting the HSCA’s analyses of autopsy and other medical evidence, is by itself sufficient reason to call into question the HSCA’s entire medical position. But misstating and suppressing the nonsensitive assertions of its own witnesses was not all the HSCA did to impeach witness accounts of a gaping rearward wound in JFK’ skull.

The HSCA also said it had validated compelling autopsy photographs that show no defect where myriad credible witnesses, both in Dallas and in the morgue, say they saw one. The images show a gaping wound in front of JFK’s right ear and toward the top of the front of his skull. The back of the skull is virtually pristine. The authenticated autopsy images gave the HSCA powerful ammunition to shoot down witnesses who said JFK’s skull gaping skull wound was in the rear. But the HSCA was apparently shooting blanks, a fact the HSCA apparently preferred to leave hidden until the required declassification date in 2028.

For, whereas the HSCA boasted of the authenticity of JFK’s autopsy photographs, a new document reveals that in fact those images flunked a key HSCA authentication test: the pictures failed a test intended to link them to the camera in the Navy morgue that was supposed to have taken them. The images never were, therefore, authenticated. Nor, apparently, will they ever be. The morgue camera that the Navy sent to the HSCA for the tests disappeared sometime after the examination.

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