I have managed to obtain a copy of Richard Dudman's December 1, 1963 article from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. As mentioned on another thread, I began looking for it recently. I've heard of this article but never seen it. Several here offered help, which I appreciate.
I have managed to obtain a copy of Richard Dudman's December 1, 1963 article from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. As mentioned on another thread, I began looking for it recently. I've heard of this article but never seen it. Several here offered help, which I appreciate.
03-04-2013, 07:05 AM (This post was last modified: 03-04-2013, 07:51 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:Thanks John for posting this. Nice to see that some free range journalists existed.
Free range journalists :rofl: no additives, preservatives, artificial anything; 100% organic, natural, truthful. :mexican:
The MSM is 'poisoned' and packed with artificial everything - especially false facts, assumptions, defined limits of debate......and most individuals within it refuse or are not allowed to hunt for the truth of stories...and if they do, are usually shown the 'door'.
....speaking of which....has anyone looked into the path Dudman's career or life took, given his amazingly good and truth-seeking article?!
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Thank you for persisting and succeeding in your search. Have saved pdf and offer the following text transcript for use in discussion:
UNCERTAINTIES REMAIN DESPITE POLICE VIEW OF KENNEDY DEATH
Position of Wound Is PuzzlingDid Assailant Have an Accomplice?
By RICHARD DUDMAN
A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30The exact circumstances of President John F. Kennedy's assassination may never be explained, despite the several investigations into the case.
The multiplicity of investigationsby Dallas city police, the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and now, a Presidential commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren and including Senators and Representativesmay even impede rather than assist full public understanding of the killing.
Major uncertainties remain to be cleared up, in the view of this reporter, who covered the late President's Texas trip. This reporter was in a press bus a block from where the President was shot and witnessed the later fatal shooting of the alleged assassin in the basement of the Dallas City Hall and jail.
Doubtful aspects of the case include even the identification of Lee Harvey Oswald as the only killer. Officials here and in Dallas have said repeatedly they believed that Oswald alone shot the President, firing from a sixth-story window of the Texas School Book Depository building.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is expected to supply most of the information on which the seven-man presidential commission will base its findings, has indicated repeatedly that it agrees with Dallas police that the case against Oswald as the sole killer was airtight.
Position of Wound
The strangest circumstance of the shooting, in this reporter's opinion, is the position of the throat wound, thought to have been caused by the first of two shots that struck Mr. Kennedy.
Surgeons who attended him at Parkland Memorial Hospital described it as an entrance wound. They said it was in the center front, just below the Adam's apple, at about the necktie knot.
At the time of the shooting, the President's open automobile was moving almost directly away from the window from which the shots are thought to have been fired. It was on a curving stretch of Elm street that leads from Houston street down to a triple underpass, about 75 yards from the window and about the same distance from the underpass.
The question that suggests itself is: How could the President have been shot in the front from the back?
Some observers supposed that the first shot had been fired at the President when he was still on Houston street, moving toward the Book Depository building before he turned into Elm.
What Movies Show
Motion pictures of the President's car, made public after a few days' delay, made it clear that all the shots were fired after the President had made the turn and passed the building. If the shots came from the sixth-floor window they came from almost directly behind the President.
Dr. Robert N. McClelland, one of three surgeons who opened the President's throat in an effort to restore an air passage and start his breathing, said he and another doctor had arrived in the emergency room shortly after D. Malcolm Perry had begun cutting the air passage in the throat.
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.
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 entry 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. He said there had been no time to examine whether there was a wound in the back of the neck.
But we are familiar with bullet wounds," he said. "We see them every daysometimes several a day. This did appear to be an entrance wound."
He said the doctors afterward tried to explain how the shot in the neck could have been fired from the book warehouse.
"We postulated that if it was a wound of entry, as we thought it was, the President might have been turned in such a way that it could hit him there," he said. "He would have had to have been looking almost completely to the rear."
The motion pictures, however, showed the President looking forward. Mrs. John Connally, the wife of the Texas Governor, has said she had just told Mr. Kennedy, "You can't say Dallas isn't friendly to you today." Presumably he was about to reply when he was hit.
Hole in Windshield
Another unexplained circumstance is a small hole in the windshield of the presidential limousine. This correspondent and one other man saw tht 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. He declined to discuss any hole there might be in the windshield.
There have been two other reports of injury to the President's head. One of the physicians who attended him in Dallas said afterward that he had noticed a small entry wound in the left temple.
Another person, who saw the President's body a few minutes after he died,' told the Post-Dispatch he thought he had observed a wound in the President's forehead. He asked that his name not be used. Reports of the temple and forehead wounds could have referred to the same injury.
The Number of Shots
Uncertainty surrounds the number of shots that were fired. Most witnesses have said they heard three, within a space of about five seconds.
Investigators have accounted for them as the one that entered the President's throat, a second that struck Gov. Conally [sic], riding in the front seat, and a third that struck the back of the President's head and caused extensive brain damage.
The first bullet is said by the doctors in Dallas 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 Governor.
Another question is the exact whereabouts at the time of Jack Ruby, who later shot Oswald fatally in the basement of the City Hall and jail and awaits trial on a charge of murder.
Employes [sic] of the Dallas Morning News say they saw Ruby in the News building five blocks from where the President was shot. He went there to help lay out an advertisement for his strip-tease establishment, the Carousel Club.
News employes [sic] expressed certainty that he was In the building until 12:15 p.m., and he was seen there again at 12:45 p.m. Some had a vague recollection of seeing him sitting at a desk between those times. The President was shot at 12:30 p.m.
If the President was shot from the front as well as from behind, or instead of from behind, the firing could have come from the railroad overpass his automobile was approaching.
The overpass has a gravel walkway between the tracks and a three-foot concrete balustrade that faced the President's approaching car. At each end is a length of wooden fencing about five feet high.
Silence of Officials
Officials of the Justice Department and the Secret Service declined to say what inspection was made of the overpass before and during the President's approach toward it.
If there were two snipers, and Mr. Kennedy's car was caught I the crossfire, the rapid-fire shooting would be more easily explained.
Tests have shown, however, that a single sniper, using the bolt-action Italian rifle with telescopic sight found in the warehouse, could have fired three shots easily in five seconds. One shell would have been in the chamber, so that the bold would have had to be moved only twice. The weapon could have been rested on a box, so that it would not have been necessary to aim again for the subsequent shots.
All questions about the evidence were answered with a request to wait until President Lyndon B. Johnson has received the report on the full-scale federal investigation he has ordered. He has said that all facts will be made public.
Thank you for persisting and succeeding in your search. Have saved pdf and offer the following text transcript for use in discussion:
UNCERTAINTIES REMAIN DESPITE POLICE VIEW OF KENNEDY DEATH
Position of Wound Is PuzzlingDid Assailant Have an Accomplice?
By RICHARD DUDMAN
[etc]
Well, I'm impressed. I began transcribing this article not long after getting it (yesterday, at this writing). I've transcribed a hell of a lot of stuff over the years and I'm totally sick of it, so I was taking the piecemeal approach of a column or so at a time. You've saved me some work.
Richard Dudman is apparently still alive. According to an item I found via Google he just retired last summer, at the age of 94.
This article makes only a passing reference to the assassination.
According to the linked article, Dudman was held captive in Cambodia for 40 days in 1970 and later wrote a book about the experience. Wrote a few others, too.
(BTW, I previewed this post and the above link isn't "live." Maybe it will be when I post this. Otherwise...copy and paste...)
There are only a couple of references to Dudman in the WC 26 volumes the same set of volumes that included reams of barely relevant stuff, and some completely irrelevant, like the dental records of Jack Ruby's mother.
Mark Lane described Dudman's article in testimony appearing on two pages of Volume II:
Quote.......''There have been two other reports of injury to the President's head. One of the physicians who attended him in Dallas said afterward that he had noticed a small entry wound in the left temple.
Another person, who saw the President's body a few minutes after he died,' told the Post-Dispatch he thought he had observed a wound in the President's forehead. He asked that his name not be used. Reports of the temple and forehead wounds could have referred to the same injury..''
How Five Investigations into JFK's Medical/Autopsy Evidence Got it Wrong
Some Parkland Doctors were concerned about a wound on the left side of the President's head....Dr.Jenkins saw blood on the left temporal area...right above the zygomatic bone...( cheek bone )....in the hairline..1..clark panel page 16....Dr.McClelland recorded in his medical report , the day of the assassination...''....cause of deathwas due to massive head and brain injury...from a gunshot wound of the left temple...commission document no.7 page 3...others were Father Huber and a reference by Dr.Perry..at the Parkland news conference nov.22.63...''.the entrance wound which is the medical description, ''was in the front of the head'''...commission document...no.7..page 7....
DR. MCCLELLAND: Let me just tell you that Paul brought it up.
Dr. Jenkins, when I came in the room, told me as I walked by to come up to the head of the table and he said , Bob, there's a wound in the left temple there. And so I went to the table and I thought, you know, knowing nothing else about any of the circumstances, that's like that (indicating).
MR. GUNN: Just for the record, you're pointing in with your -
DR. MCCLELLAND: Yeah, the left temple -
MR. GUNN: -- finger at the left temple and now the back o the head.
DR. MCCLELLAND: -- came out the back. And there was a lot of blood on the left temple. There was blood everywhere, but there
was a lot of blood on the left temple, so I didn't question that. And in fact, in something else -- Pepper testified somewhere else, he denied that he said that to me in the Warren Commission. And I told him -- I said Pepper, don't you remember? No, I never said that, Bob, and I never said the cerebellum fell out. Well, yes, you did, too, but I didn't argue with him.
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A comment by Dr. Jones alleged that a doctor named Lito Puerto, neurosurgeon, had said there was a wound to JFK's left temple -- but it is certainly not clear..imo..
DR. JONES: I have two comments relating to this, what's just been said and my comment. The afternoon of the assassination we were up in the OR and Lito Puerto -- I think it's L-i-t-o, Puerto, P-u-e-r-t-o -- was in the OR -
DR. PETERS: Neurosurgeon..
DR. JONES: -- and he said he was -- that he referred to the President -- because he had been down there and he said, I put my -- he was shot in the leg. I said, he was shot in the left temple. He said, I put my finger in the hole, and I think that was part of --
