02-04-2014, 11:10 PM
Jim Hargrove Wrote:Dawn,
This whole debate probably is overblown. After all, the whole thing is about four paragraphs long in John's 1,000+ page book.
But I would point out that there is no evidence whatsoever that a phony Marguerite existed in 1945. If the FBI report is accurate (always a question) it probably referred to the real mother of the real Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jim
Given that JA only had 4 paras on it, and did admit that tonsils can grow back, the only thing I could really nitpick is his failure to look into Dr Philben and his mistake in assuming that because tonsils rarely grow back now, that this was always the case. It's not. As I have been saying all along, they were only partially removed in 1945 and this meant they could grow back quite easily for those under 8 years old when tonsil growth ceases.
Added to that, Philben advertised his services as pediatrics only. No surgery and there is a complete lack of documentary evidence suggesting any such surgery was ever done.
If this is overblown, it is because the claims about it on the web have been overblown. "Magic Tonsillectomy" is hyperbolic in the extreme as is asking rhetorically if the medics in the Marines "were hallucinating". Those comments go well beyond what was in the book and it is to those comments that I have been fulminating. You have further fueled the fire by claiming you going to put the "Magic Tonsillectomy" piece back up.