JFK's Tie Knot

[David Josephs]

I hope I never gave the impression that I believe a bullet went thru JFK's back and throat...

What I'm saying is the location of the hole and open wound is below the collar level.

The other thing is that the half circle wound is to the right - anatomically - of JFK's adam's apple

Any damage on the front of JFK had to be explained by shots from the rear (and Bob - Lipsey also claims there was a decoy ambulance for the casket which arrived at the front... Lipsey and Wehl arrived by helicopter which Lispey claims carried JFK's body.)

This is from MD87 in the ARRB -notes on his HSCA interview. As you say Bob... reading thru this makes it appear to me he is witnessing a different autopsy.

We next asked Lipsey to recap his description of
the wounds. He described these. as follows:
(1) one bullet entered the back of the head
and exited resulting in part of the face and
head being blown away;
(2) another bullet entered at the top of the
neck (rear) which exited in the front portion
of the neck; and
(3) another bullet entered at the bottom of the
neck (rear) or high in the back which did not
exit. (DJ: this is the O'Connor bullet found in the intercostal muscles right side of his back)

Lipsey added that if you viewed JFK from the left
side you couldn't notice any damage; from the right side,
however, part of his head was blown away.

Lipsey says he feels he knows "for a fact" that
someone shot JTK three times and that these bullets came
from behind. He states he definitely remembers the doctors
commenting that the bullets came from the same spot anddirection
and that they were "absolutely, unequivocally"convinced
that he had been shot three times


I have no doubt that these Doctors were "absolutely, unequivocally" convinced on fear of court-martial.
How can we take him at his word when he can only remember 1 other military man in that room when we know there was LeMay, Wehle, Kinney, Galloway, & Burkely at the very least.
[size=12]Telling the story is not easy for Lipsey. In fact, until 1978, it was forbidden. The night of the autopsy, a State Department official ordered him to sign a confidentiality agreement under the Official Secrets Act. He was not to reveal any detail about what he saw or heard at the autopsy for 15 years, not even to his spouse, Susan, whom he married 13 months after the assassination. He kept a confessional-like seal on details of the autopsy until Jan. 18, 1978, when a pair of congressional investigators from the House Select Committee on Assassinations showed up at his office to take his sworn deposition.


And when do you supposed the switch took place to get JFK into a decoy Ambulance in a decoy casket? Humes claims finally that JFK arrived around 6:30 and he sees him by 7pm... a full hour before the official start of the autopsy.
Q. Dr. Humes, when did you first see the body of President Kennedy?
A. I didn't look at my watch, if I even had a watch on, but I would guess it was 6:45 or 7 o'clock, something like that, approximately.
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Bob - Lipsey claims to be there when the casket is opened relaying his difficulty removing his CLOTHES due to rigor... Sheets and pillow cases removed from the body is not the same as how Lipsey describes it. Furthermore, not a soul mentions Lipsey is there when any of this occurs.


Boswell: Then the wrappings, the President arrived wrapped in sheets and a pillowcase around his head, and different stories were published about that.

After Lipsey helped lay the corpse on the tableand undress it, a task made more difficult by rigor mortis, the young officertook his seat in the middle of the first of two rows of chairs located behind abrass rail. The body was X-rayed. As he sat focused on the corpse, therewasand there remainsabsolute certainty about who was on that table.


"One of the bullets took out much of Kennedy'supper right face, but if you saw him from the left side he looked like normal,"Lipsey says.

I'm sorry Bob but Lipsey as a source without corroboration is hard for me to accept as reliable.
DJ