WCR Appendix VIII - The Parkland Doctors' Medical Reports

[Bob Prudhomme]

TABLE 1.
Location of JFK's skull wound according to the earliest statements of witnesses at Parkland Hospital.
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[TD="width: 360"]1. WILLIAM KEMP CLARK, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]2. ROBERT McCLELLAND, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]3 MARION T. JENKINS, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]4. CHARLES J. CARRICO, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]5. MALCOLM PERRY, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]6. RONALD COY JONES, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]7. GENE AKIN, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]8. PAUL PETERS, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]9. CHARLES CRENSHAW, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]10. CHARLES R. BAXTER, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]11. ROBERT GROSSMAN, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]12. RICHARD B. DULANY, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]13. ADOLPHE GIESECKE, MD*[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]14. FOUAD BASHOUR, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]15. KENNETH E. SALYER, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]16. PAT HUTTON, RN[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]17. DORIS NELSON, RN[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]18. WILLIAM GREER[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]19. CLINTON J. HILL[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]20. DIANA HAMILTON BOWRON, RN[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]21. WILLIAM MIDGETT, MD[/TD]
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[TD="width: 360"]22. PATRICIA GUSTAFSON[/TD]
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*Giesecke claimed JFK's skull damage occipital to frontal, he said was on the left side, the only witness to mistake the side of JFK's skull injuries.

[Drew Phipps]

A comprehensive survey. It's a pity that most of those doctors yielded their opinions to the pressures of the Warren Commission.

I just cannot connect the dots between a rear exit "blowout" wound, JFK's "probable" head position (unfortunately based on the Zapruder film) and any reported shooter's location. Unless the fatal headshot occurs very early in the sequence, when JFK is looking to his right (left from zapruder's vantage), and well before he stops visibly struggling, there is simply no way to line up a shot from the grassy knoll, the picket fence, the sewer grate, or any location on the north or west side of the road to a (slightly higher) right temple entry and a (slightly lower) right rear exit.

Possibility A: A head shot shooter under these circumstances would have had to have been standing on the Triple Overpass, which had 2 DPD officers posted there (Foster and White?).

Possibility B: JFK's head was turned to the side (his left), and bowed forward enough, for the driver Greer to make the headshot.

Possibility C: The Zapruder film had JFK's head position significantly wrong, and the shooter could be anywhere.

[Dawn Meredith]

A comprehensive survey. It's a pity that most of those doctors yielded their opinions to the pressures of the Warren Commission.

I just cannot connect the dots between a rear exit "blowout" wound, JFK's "probable" head position (unfortunately based on the Zapruder film) and any reported shooter's location. Unless the fatal headshot occurs very early in the sequence, when JFK is looking to his right (left from zapruder's vantage), and well before he stops visibly struggling, there is simply no way to line up a shot from the grassy knoll, the picket fence, the sewer grate, or any location on the north or west side of the road to a (slightly higher) right temple entry and a (slightly lower) right rear exit.

Possibility A: A head shot shooter under these circumstances would have had to have been standing on the Triple Overpass, which had 2 DPD officers posted there (Foster and White?).

Possibility B: JFK's head was turned to the side (his left), and bowed forward enough, for the driver Greer to make the headshot.

Possibility C: The Zapruder film had JFK's head position significantly wrong, and the shooter could be anywhere.

Greer did not shoot the president. And you cannot locate a shooter based on a film that has been tampered with. I trust all the witnesses who heard shots from the knoll. Besides EXACTLY where the kill shot came from is not relevant to me. It did not come from the 6th floor.
Dawn

[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.

[Herbert Blenner]

A comprehensive survey. It's a pity that most of those doctors yielded their opinions to the pressures of the Warren Commission.

I just cannot connect the dots between a rear exit "blowout" wound, JFK's "probable" head position (unfortunately based on the Zapruder film) and any reported shooter's location. Unless the fatal headshot occurs very early in the sequence, when JFK is looking to his right (left from zapruder's vantage), and well before he stops visibly struggling, there is simply no way to line up a shot from the grassy knoll, the picket fence, the sewer grate, or any location on the north or west side of the road to a (slightly higher) right temple entry and a (slightly lower) right rear exit.

Possibility A: A head shot shooter under these circumstances would have had to have been standing on the Triple Overpass, which had 2 DPD officers posted there (Foster and White?).

Possibility B: JFK's head was turned to the side (his left), and bowed forward enough, for the driver Greer to make the headshot.

Possibility C: The Zapruder film had JFK's head position significantly wrong, and the shooter could be anywhere.

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