The Head Wounds Revisited

[Albert Rossi]

There is some confusion I believe about the two military guard units and their function. Boyajian's unit was a security team who's charge was to keep out reporters, curiosity seekers, and other unauthorized personnel. Then the was the multi service Honor guard(white gloves) who did not arrive until 8:00(after chasing a decoy ambulance). I think a number of witnesses confused the two in there recollections. Some should go through a time line, listing just who was where when, and who saw what when.

Gordon,

I have some concerns about O'Neill (less so about Sibert). But it is not my intention to start a discussion here about the relative merits of each witness. What I wanted to say here is that I've been mulling over your suggestion. I think it may in fact be very useful to do this: neutrally, outside the context of the rather parti-pris reconstructions given in Horne, no matter what you believe about the events at Bethesda. I might even give it a try, if no one else more qualified wants to.

The chronology needs to be detailed, and report only what witnesses or documents report, with little, if any, authorial intervention.**

I guess what I am proposing is to take Vincent M. Palamara, The JFK Medical Reference [ASSASSINATION RESEARCH / Vol. 4 No. 2]
© Copyright 2006 as a starting point and create a chronological version for Bethesda. Palamara is pre-Horne but is recent and compendious enough.

Unless you know of other resources like this. I took a quick look again at Ira David Wood III, "22 November 1963: A Chronology", Murder in Dealey Plaza, ed. Fetzer, pp. 17-118; he deals with some of this, but not in a detailed enough way concerning what we're interested in establishing.

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** P.S. Of course, the difficulty in remaining neutral will come when the time of an observation cannot be pinpointed by explicit indications and some internal argument will have to be offered, which then becomes interpretation. This sort of deduction needs to be clearly flagged as such.