The Head Wounds Revisited

[David Josephs]

If Sibert and ONeil were outside in the cooling room how did they know that discussions as to the protocol for the autopsy were going on? It would seem to me that they would have to enter the autopsy room to know that. And if they did so wouldn't they have noticed the body on the examining table, if it indeed were there? I miss the import of the whole body alteration thing. The purpose of it would be, one would suppose to alter the body so as to X Ray and photograph wounds supporting the LN theory. Well we know those X Rays and photo's have been tampered with in a number of ways. If they altered the body why did they need to alter the X Rays and photos? And whether or not they did, what does that prove in terms of the general conspiracy? We don't need a pre autopsy body alteration to prove multiple shooters. And we don't need body alteration to prove a massive cover up involving elements of the military. All of the evidence for a body alteration to me, involves a great deal of cherry picking of evidence, supposition, and conjecture to what purpose?. The one possible alteration IMO, is that of the throat wound. The best explanation for the difference between it's description in Dallas, and in Bethesda, would be the probing for and removal of a bullet, IMO.

and reading Robinson's ARRB again... He remembers a fragment of bullet or piece of metal taken from the thorax... the chest area where others have claimed a bullet was removed... the bullet that entered the throat....

Well we know those X Rays and photo's have been tampered with in a number of ways. If they altered the body why did they need to alter the X Rays and photos?

According to Horne... who has seen these images with much greater clarity than any of us... the photos are of the altered head... they are NOT ALTERED PHOTOS, but they are indeed fraudulent.... and that makes sense... an altered photo can be uncovered... Authentic photos of an altered head, much more difficult. The XRAYS on the other hand needed to show a huge defect in the top, middle right of the head... and remove evidence of the right rear blow out seen by everyone from Hill until DC... now you tell me Gordon... are these compatible?

Are you aware of Mantik's measurements and that the spot where everyone saw a hole is represented by 5 inches of solid bone on this xray? and furthermore does not match Boswell's drawing or description of a HUGE loss of skull...

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All of the evidence for a body alteration to me, involves a great deal of cherry picking of evidence, supposition, and conjecture to what purpose?.

To explain what the FBI wrote which Humes said... that there was surgery performed to the top of the head. and then to explain what occurred at Bethesda starting with Andrews... starting with the pieces of dialogue that mentions a "black hearse" on the AF1 tapes.

If Rose had done an autopsy as he did for both Tippit and Oswald - he would have found what competent doctors looking at an unaltered body in DC would have... a 3 inches avulsed opening in the right rear of JFK's skull as a result of a shot thru the head from the front... and the rest of his head intact...

OR

much more complicated wounds underneath that showed evidence of two shots from different directions...

AND

Rose would have opened up the throat and back to trace the wound... and he would have found it just as impossible for a bullet entering at T3 to exit HIGHER than it entered yet shot from above... he would have found what Humes found... what Finck found... a non-transiting wound.

To this point you offer nothing to refute the following graphic... regardless of whether you cherry-pick, suppose or conject... to a person, not ONE puts a wound to the front of JFK's ears...

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THE CIVILIANS, SECRET SERVICE AND ER PERSONNEL see one wound in Dallas... and for some reason are not allowed to see ANY of the autopsy materials FOR YEARS....
they are then made to sign a fraudulent HSCA document claiming the exact opposite of what they saw and said... that the wounds and photos and xrays do NOT depict the injury as seen in Dallas...

WHILE THE AUTOPSY IS ATTENDED BY NO CIVILIANS AND CONTROLLED BY SENIOR MILITARY STAFF UNDER PENALTY OF COURT MARTIAL TO ANYONE THERE SAYING ANYTHING TO ANYONE ABOUT WHAT THEY SAW...

Sorry Gordon... but I'm going with the unimpeachable accounts of those NOT under direct order to withhold information...

Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe as to President Kennedy's condition on arrival at the hospital?
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you have any opportunity to observe the front part of his body, to see whether there was any tear or rip in the clothing on the front?
Mr. HILL. I saw him lying there in the back of the car, when I was immediately above him. I cannot recall noticing anything that was ripped in the forward portion of his body.

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Mr. KELLERMAN. I am going to say that I have, from the firecracker report and the two other shots that I know, those were three shots. But, Mr. Specter, if President Kennedy had from all reports four wounds, Governor Connally three, there have got to be more than three shots, gentlemen.

Senator COOPER. The President?
Mr. KELLERMAN. The President; I am sorry. I did not see any wounds in that man's face.

Mr. SPECTER - Before proceeding to describe what you did in connection with the tracheostomy, will you more fully describe your observation with respect to the head wound?
Dr. McCLELLAND - As I took the position at the head of the table that I have already described, to help out with the tracheotomy, I was in such a position that I could very closely examine the head wound, and I noted that the right posterior portion of the skull had been extremely blasted. It had been shattered, apparently, by the force of the shot so that the parietal bone was protruded up through the scalp and seemed to be fractured almost along its right posterior half, as well as some of the occipital bone being fractured in its lateral haft, and this sprung open the bones that I mentioned in such a way that you could actually look down into the skull cavity itself and see that probably a third or so, at least, of the brain tissue, posterior cerebral tissue and some of the cerebellar tissue had been blasted out. There was a large amount of bleeding which was occurring mainly from the large venous channels in the skull which had been blasted open.

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From the autopsy report....
Missile Wounds
1. There is a large irregular defect of the scalp and skull on the right
involving chiefly the parietal bone but extending somewhat into the
temporal and occipital regions. In this region there is an actual
absence of scalp and bone producing a defect which measures
approximately 13 cm. in greatest diameter. (5-6 inches)