The Head Wounds Revisited

[David Lifton]

If there was any good stuff in Kaleidoscope, and there was, one thing was Harry's clearing up what the stuff that Horne was trying to say about the whole Boyajian Report.

That was not JFK's coffin.

And Boyajian did not say it was. And that report was not really a report.

Because it was unsigned by anyone. IF it was JFK's coffin it would have been.

DSL REPONSE TO Jim DiEugenio's Commentary on Harrison Livingstone's Goofy Book--Kaleidoscope

These assertions are unfounded, and in fact absurd. Only in the fevered imagination of Harrison Livingstone was "another body" delivered to the Bethesda morgue.

When I interviewed James Jenkins on camera in October, 1980, I was quite aware that Jenkins was aware that there was a "second coffin" (i.e., the large bronze coffin from Dallas) just outside the main area of the morgue. I asked Jenkins what he thought that was, and he told me what he had been told--that that was an officer who was to be buried at Arlington the next day. Of course, I had already checked this out--because it came up in our 1979 telephone interview--and I told him that there were no burials at Arlington on Saturday, November 23, 1963. I then told Jenkins what was in fact the case: that that was the Dallas coffin. The camera was running, and I have his entire reaction, and some dialogue, preserved on camera. (It is a sight to see).

Now, flash forward some 10 -12 years. Along comes Harrison Livingstone and convinces Jenkins that there was a body in wnat was in fact the Dallas coffin, and the next thing we know, Jenkins is claiming that coffin was actually opened and he saw the body of some officer propped up, and in a sitting position! This is exactly why I don't trust Livingstone, as an investigator, and why I feel sorry for the very suggestible James Jenkins, who told me what he had been told, but then was somehow induced (by H.L.) to completely change his story to an account of what he had supposedly seen (!).

Remember: this is the guy that left death threats on my telephone answering machine, and sued me for $50M (in 2002) claiming I was part of a plot to kill him.

DSL
6/17/13; 3:50 AM PDT
Los Angeles, California