15-06-2013, 05:18 PM
David Josephs Wrote:all we have left is the coroborrated word of those who were there... and THEY tell us that JFK was worked upon prior to his official arrival...David , could you be more specific here? It's hard to respond to nameless witnesses without citations.
DJ
In the meantime, I'd like to point out something. You mentioned before, if I understood you correctly, that Tom Robinson and Ed Reed were witnesses to the enlarging of the head wound at some pre-autopsy event. Well, that's not what Reed said in his ARRB testimony. In fact, he made it clear that all of the X-rays had been taken before Dr. Humes made his first incision into the scalp:
Q. Okay. You've described the sequence of the taking of the X-ray films. Can you tell me whether there were any incisions that were performed on the body between the time of the first X-ray and the time of the last X-ray that you took?
A. As Far as I know,no.
Q. When you brought the last of the X-rays that you had developed back to the morgue, had there been any incisions performed on the body at that time?
A. No.
Q. Were you present during the time of the first incision?
A. Yes.
Q. What was the first incision?
A. The Cranium. The scalp, right here. (p. 57)
As for Tom Robinson, his ARRB interview simply says that he arrived "early in the autopsy" as "gross examination of the head was just beginning".(ARRB MD180) He doesn't say anything about witnessing the taking of X-rays at any point, or being removed while this happened, so it can be logically inferred that he arrived after they were taken. Which means his statement corroborates that of Reed. And neither of them gave testimony that in any way corroborates illicit pre-autopsy enlargement of the head wound.