WCR Appendix VIII - The Parkland Doctors' Medical Reports

[Bob Prudhomme]

But Drew, the doctors did not yield to the pressure of the WC and change their stories. I'm going to be posting excerpts from the WC testimony of these doctors (the ones that were called to testify - Charles Crenshaw being the most notable of these that wasn't called) and it will be quite apparent that most of these doctors were still placing the large head wound in the right rear of JFK's head. Following that, I will show HSCA and ARRB interviews and testimony that once again shows Parkland doctors describing a large wound in the right rear of JFK's head.

If you are having trouble connecting an entrance wound in the right temple with a blowout in the right rear, I invite you to come deer hunting with me some time. With the right kind of bullet, in a head shot, you'll see that it is anybody's guess just where the blowout is going to be, and it is not necessarily going to be in a straight line with the trajectory of the bullet.

Here is just a quick example of what I am saying about the doctors' testimony. This is Dr. Robert McClelland testifying at an ARRB hearing on August 27, 1998:

"DR. McCLELLAND: And I think as testimony that this wound looked like everybody else has described it here. It was a very large wound and I would
agree that it was at least seven or eight centimeters in diameter and was mostly really in the occipital part of the skull. And as I was looking at it, a fairly large portion of the cerebellum fell out of the skull, There was already some brain there, but during the tracheostomy more fell out and that was clearly cerebellum. I mean, there was no doubt about it, and I was that far from it (indicating).
MR. GUNN: When you say "that far," you're putting your hands about twelve
inches apart.
DR. McCLELLAND: Twelve to 18 inches.
MR. GUNN: About how long were you at the head of the table?
DR. McCLELLAND: Oh, till they finished up the tracheostomy. I don't know exactly how long that would be, but I guess, you know, it had to be an absolute minimum of five minutes & probably somewhere between five & ten, but that's just a rough guess. But it was certainly more than just a, you know, transient view of it. It was a concentrated view."

This is just the tip of the iceberg, and there is much more of this to come. Does this sound like a man who "yielded to the pressure of the WC and changed his story"? I think not.