A Collection of Fine Essays on JFK

[Phil Dragoo]

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White Mat...Osw-11.pdf

[John Kelin]

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White Mat...Osw-11.pdf

Thanks for posting this. Weisberg sure saved a lot of stuff.

The link is to the same thing I posted earlier, that New Republic article. There's a search function in the HW Hood collection, and entering the name "Dudman" came back with the above and one other article not the one I'm looking for, unfortunately.

That search function is marked "beta," so maybe it has a few bugs in it. The Hood material isn't very well organized filenames don't give any clue what they hold. I don't see any folder or directory called "clippings," although there is so much stuff in the Weisberg archive, even that probably wouldn't help much.

[Jim DiEugenio]

That is a really good essay by Dudman.

It shows that not all the media was being steamrollered by the NY Times.

He brings up some really good points, even about the Secret Service and recall this is just two weeks later.

[John Kelin]

I have fiddled around some more with the "Fifty" site. Most pertinent is that I added an item called "Power," by Jim Garrison, a selection from A Heritage of Stone.

http://home.comcast.net/~johnkelin/fifty/jump.html

[Phil Dragoo]

On the day of the assassination, Dr. Kemp Clark and some of the other doctors who attended the President at Parkland Hospital had expressed a certain perplexity over the wound below the Adam's apple. They weren't sure, they said, whether this wound had been caused by the same bullet as the wound in the back of the President's head or by a different one. Dr. Clark personally explained to newsmen how the throat wound might be interpreted as the exit mark of the bullet which had penetrated the President's head from behind. Five days later, however, Dr. Clark decided that the throat wound was an entry mark. This interpretation supported the theory of the Dallas authorities that the first shot had hit Mr. Kennedy on Houston Street, and thus eased the problem of the Italian rifle. But it also left the Dallas authorities in an awkward predicament. "How," asked Richard Dudman in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 1, "could the President have been shot in the front from the back?

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/the_critics...ffair.html

Dudman wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dec. 1): "Another unexplained circumstance is a small hole in the windshield of the presidential limousine. This correspondent and one other man saw the hole, which resembled a bullet hole, as the automobile stood at the hospital emergency entrance while the President was being treated inside the building.
"The Secret Service kept possession of the automobile and flew it back to Washington. A spokesman for the agency rejected a request to inspect the vehicle here [Washington]. He declined to discuss any hole there might be in the windshield."
Undoubtedly the Secret Service has placed the auto in protective custody, "in a secret place for its own protection."
Dudman continued to present startling information. "Uncertainty surrounds the number of shots fired." (Ibid.) Although most witnesses heard three shots fired within a period of five seconds it seems that five bullets have been discovered.
"The first bullet is said by the doctors to have entered the throat, coursed downward and remained in the President's body. The second was extracted from Gov. Connally's thigh. It had lodged there after entering the right side of his back, passing through his body and through his wrist. A third, which may be the one that struck the back of Mr. Kennedy's head, was recovered from the stretcher on which he was carried into the hospital. A fourth was found in fragments in the car. Still another bullet was found by Dallas police officers after the shooting. It was in the grass opposite the point where the President was hit. They did not know whether it had anything to do with the shooting of the President and the Governor." (Ibid.)

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/the_critics...rdian.html

1/3/64 According to Dudman [12/1, St. Louis Post-Dispatch], it was very plain to the doctors that the wound in the throat was an entrance wound. The three doctors all took exactly the same position. Incision made by Dr. Perry followed the path of the bullet downward from the throat into the chest. When it was reported that the shot was fired after the car had passed the building, the three doctors said in that case Kennedy must have turned around completely to the rear of the car. Lane interview

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White Mat...ources.doc

Dr. Robert McClelland
Lifton describes Dr. McClelland's interview with Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (12):
Dr. McClelland told the Post-Dispatch: "It certainly did look like an entrance wound." He explained that a bullet from a low velocity rifle, like the one thought to have been used, characteristically makes a small entrance wound, sets up shock waves inside the body, and tears a big opening when it passes out the other side.
Dr. McClelland conceded that it was possible that the throat wound marked the exit of a bullet fired into the back of the President's neck… "but we are familiar with bullet wounds," he said. "We see them every day sometimes several a day. This did appear to be an entrance wound."
McClelland noted in the same interview, having been informed that Lee Harvey Oswald had shot the President from behind:
We postulated that if it was a wound of entry, as we thought it was… he would have to have been looking almost completely to the rear.

12) St. Louis Post Dispatch, 12-1-63, page 16

http://911blogger.com/node/20745

Surgeons who attended the President at the Parkland Memorial Hospital described the throat wound as "an entrance wound" (St. Louis PostDispatch, Dec. 1), "They said it was in the center of the front, just below the Adam's apple, at about the necktie knot." (Ibid.) Dr. Malcolm Perry began to cut an air passage in the President's throat in a effort to restore an air passage and start his breathing. The incision was made through the bullet wound, since it was in the normal place for the operation. "Dr. Perry described the bullet hole as an entrance wound." (Ibid.) Dr. Robert N. McClelland, one of three surgeons who participated in the operation, said "It certainly did look like an entrance wound." (Ibid.) Dr. McClelland said he saw bullet wounds every day, "sometimes several a day. This did appear to be an entrance wound." (Ibid.)

http://22november1963.org.uk/mark-lane-c...-the-press

Phil's footnote: Reasonable efforts undertaken have failed to produce the entire St Louis Post Dispatch article by Richard Dudman of December 1, 1963.

As the Secret Service, as well as Arlen Specter and Allen Dulles (not to mention Elmer Moore in particular) expended a great deal of effort to convince the Dallas Parkland doctors they did not see what they saw, it is determined the article which was written was not written.

Nonetheless, its essence may be gleaned from the above artifacts remaining in the sifting basket at the dig site.

Google, Bing, and Dogpile duly noted as accessories after the fact.