09-05-2012, 09:26 PM
I found that the two NPIC events was one of the most dramatic developments of Horne's five volumes.
Paralleling that is his two-brain solution as presented in this online interview with Dick Russell:
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He looked at me and said, "I also think there were two brain exams." I was stunned, and asked how he'd come to the same conclusion. "By reading the descriptions of the damage," he said, "and comparing those descriptions to the pattern of damage evident in the brain photographs in the archives. In my opinion, they don't match."
So when we deposed Finck a few days later, we focused in on this one subject, and this is where we got our one big answer from him. The examination of the president's brain clearly took place on November 25, 1963, based upon the consistent testimony of Dr. Boswell and autopsy photographer John Stringer over the years, furthermore, a lab technician at Bethesda, Leland Benson, told the HSCA that he processed brain tissue on Monday, November 25, on the dame date identified independently by both Boswell and Stringer as the date of the brain exam. (Humes' answers on this were all over the map, and veried, when he was pressed on the subject.) Finck was known to have been at a brain exam, and wrote in a 1965 report to his boss that he was first contacted about a brain exam by Humes on November 29. When we asked Finck at his ARRB deposition whether the exam he attended had transpired two or three days after the autopsy, or about a week later, he was emphatic in his belief that it occurred at least a week after the autopsy, and as I recall it was just about the only answer he was adamant about. This was consistent with the memorandum he'd written to Brigadier General J. M. Blumberg, his military superior, in February 1965.
We called the Navy photographer, John Stringer, to testify. To our amazement, he disowned the brain photographs in the Archives, for three reasons. First, they were taken on a type of film that he did not use. They also depicted "inferior" views of the underside of the brain that he was certain he did not shoot. And, finally, the photographs of several individual sections of brain tissue that he did photograph brain tissue that he insisted had been serially sectioned were not present.
FBI agent O'Neill also swore to us that the brain photos in the Archives could not possibly be of the president's brain, because there was too much tissue present. O'Neill remembered clearly that more than half of President Kennedy's brain was missing when he saw it at the autopsy, following its removal from the cranium. Both O'Niell and Tom Robinson, one of the morticians, told us that they recalled that a large portion of the rear of the president's brain was missing, when they saw it outside the body at the morgue during the autopsy. And each man unequivocally demonstrated the location of the absent brain tissue in my presence, by dramatically placing his right hand on the back of the right side of his own head, behind the right ear. By contrast, in the brain depicted in the archives photographs, the right cerebellum is completely intact. Both John Stringer and many of the Dallas treating physicians recalled severe damage to the cerebellum, the structure low in the rear of the human brain.
There is absolutely no doubt that the second brain exam on a brain not belonging to John F. Kennedy occurred sometime between November 29 (when Humes contacted Finck) and December 2, because a Navy chief hospital corpsman named Chester Boyers told the HSCA that he prepared brain tissue slides on December 2. It's also my firm belief that Dr. Finck who had arrived late at the autopsy on November 22 was used as a "dupe" so that he could "authenticate" the photographs of the second brain specimen, in the event that was ever required. I think Finck knew something was wrong by this time, because he engaged in very clever "CYA" by writing, in his report to Brigadier General Blumberg in February 1965, that the brain he subsequently examined looked different than it had looked at the autopsy although he benignly attributed the change in its appearance in his written report to an arcane "fixation artifact."
Summarizing, the photographs of President Kennedy's brain, exposed by John Stringer on November 25, were never introduced into the official record because they showed a pattern of damage missing tissue from the rear of the brain consistent with a fatal shot form the front, and that evidence had to be suppressed. The photographs of a second brain, taken sometime between November 29 December 2, 1963 by an unknown Navy photographer, were introduced into the official record because the brain employed in that exercise exhibited a pattern of damage to the top-right-side of the brain generally consistent with a shot from above and behind.
So where did that brain come from? I can only remind you that Bethesda was a teaching facility with a medical school alongside the treatment hospital, and specimens would have been on hand at the medical school for teaching purposes; furthermore, there were regular "brain cuttings" about once per week in the D.C. area that were attended by both Navy personnel at Bethesda and Army personnel stationed at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, or AFIP. So fixed brains would have been available, one way or another.
An accomplished forensic pathologist who viewed the brain photos in the archives at the request of the ARRB told us in 1996 that the brain in these photographs, which appears very gray in the color transparencies, was "very well fixed," and that it had been in a formalin solution for at least 2 weeks before being photographed, since it showed no traces whatsoever of pink coloration. That ensures it cannot possibly be President Kennedy's brain, which was examined only 3 days after his death.
Finally, the supplementary autopsy report indicates that the brain depicted in the photographs in the archives weighted 1,500 grams when weighted at the brain exam, which exceeds the weight of an average, normal male brain. This is completely incompatible with a brain that was missing over half its tissue when observed at the autopsy by FBI agent O'Neill, or a brain that was missing most of the right occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex and much of the right cerebellum, as observed by Dr. McClennand at Parkland hospital.
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http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2009/...horne.html
As Charles notes with the Chicago and Florida preverberations, and we see in two Sirhans (oh yes, witnesses describe a similar man), and the Oswalds from Sorcerer's Apprentice, the double-vision confuses.
Quick! How many fingers am I holding up!
(Stop waving them aroundwait: that's the point.)
Paralleling that is his two-brain solution as presented in this online interview with Dick Russell:
BEGIN EXCERPT
He looked at me and said, "I also think there were two brain exams." I was stunned, and asked how he'd come to the same conclusion. "By reading the descriptions of the damage," he said, "and comparing those descriptions to the pattern of damage evident in the brain photographs in the archives. In my opinion, they don't match."
So when we deposed Finck a few days later, we focused in on this one subject, and this is where we got our one big answer from him. The examination of the president's brain clearly took place on November 25, 1963, based upon the consistent testimony of Dr. Boswell and autopsy photographer John Stringer over the years, furthermore, a lab technician at Bethesda, Leland Benson, told the HSCA that he processed brain tissue on Monday, November 25, on the dame date identified independently by both Boswell and Stringer as the date of the brain exam. (Humes' answers on this were all over the map, and veried, when he was pressed on the subject.) Finck was known to have been at a brain exam, and wrote in a 1965 report to his boss that he was first contacted about a brain exam by Humes on November 29. When we asked Finck at his ARRB deposition whether the exam he attended had transpired two or three days after the autopsy, or about a week later, he was emphatic in his belief that it occurred at least a week after the autopsy, and as I recall it was just about the only answer he was adamant about. This was consistent with the memorandum he'd written to Brigadier General J. M. Blumberg, his military superior, in February 1965.
We called the Navy photographer, John Stringer, to testify. To our amazement, he disowned the brain photographs in the Archives, for three reasons. First, they were taken on a type of film that he did not use. They also depicted "inferior" views of the underside of the brain that he was certain he did not shoot. And, finally, the photographs of several individual sections of brain tissue that he did photograph brain tissue that he insisted had been serially sectioned were not present.
FBI agent O'Neill also swore to us that the brain photos in the Archives could not possibly be of the president's brain, because there was too much tissue present. O'Neill remembered clearly that more than half of President Kennedy's brain was missing when he saw it at the autopsy, following its removal from the cranium. Both O'Niell and Tom Robinson, one of the morticians, told us that they recalled that a large portion of the rear of the president's brain was missing, when they saw it outside the body at the morgue during the autopsy. And each man unequivocally demonstrated the location of the absent brain tissue in my presence, by dramatically placing his right hand on the back of the right side of his own head, behind the right ear. By contrast, in the brain depicted in the archives photographs, the right cerebellum is completely intact. Both John Stringer and many of the Dallas treating physicians recalled severe damage to the cerebellum, the structure low in the rear of the human brain.
There is absolutely no doubt that the second brain exam on a brain not belonging to John F. Kennedy occurred sometime between November 29 (when Humes contacted Finck) and December 2, because a Navy chief hospital corpsman named Chester Boyers told the HSCA that he prepared brain tissue slides on December 2. It's also my firm belief that Dr. Finck who had arrived late at the autopsy on November 22 was used as a "dupe" so that he could "authenticate" the photographs of the second brain specimen, in the event that was ever required. I think Finck knew something was wrong by this time, because he engaged in very clever "CYA" by writing, in his report to Brigadier General Blumberg in February 1965, that the brain he subsequently examined looked different than it had looked at the autopsy although he benignly attributed the change in its appearance in his written report to an arcane "fixation artifact."
Summarizing, the photographs of President Kennedy's brain, exposed by John Stringer on November 25, were never introduced into the official record because they showed a pattern of damage missing tissue from the rear of the brain consistent with a fatal shot form the front, and that evidence had to be suppressed. The photographs of a second brain, taken sometime between November 29 December 2, 1963 by an unknown Navy photographer, were introduced into the official record because the brain employed in that exercise exhibited a pattern of damage to the top-right-side of the brain generally consistent with a shot from above and behind.
So where did that brain come from? I can only remind you that Bethesda was a teaching facility with a medical school alongside the treatment hospital, and specimens would have been on hand at the medical school for teaching purposes; furthermore, there were regular "brain cuttings" about once per week in the D.C. area that were attended by both Navy personnel at Bethesda and Army personnel stationed at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, or AFIP. So fixed brains would have been available, one way or another.
An accomplished forensic pathologist who viewed the brain photos in the archives at the request of the ARRB told us in 1996 that the brain in these photographs, which appears very gray in the color transparencies, was "very well fixed," and that it had been in a formalin solution for at least 2 weeks before being photographed, since it showed no traces whatsoever of pink coloration. That ensures it cannot possibly be President Kennedy's brain, which was examined only 3 days after his death.
Finally, the supplementary autopsy report indicates that the brain depicted in the photographs in the archives weighted 1,500 grams when weighted at the brain exam, which exceeds the weight of an average, normal male brain. This is completely incompatible with a brain that was missing over half its tissue when observed at the autopsy by FBI agent O'Neill, or a brain that was missing most of the right occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex and much of the right cerebellum, as observed by Dr. McClennand at Parkland hospital.
END EXCERPT
http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2009/...horne.html
As Charles notes with the Chicago and Florida preverberations, and we see in two Sirhans (oh yes, witnesses describe a similar man), and the Oswalds from Sorcerer's Apprentice, the double-vision confuses.
Quick! How many fingers am I holding up!
(Stop waving them aroundwait: that's the point.)