Kennedy Assassination

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The doctors who performed the autopsy and the Warren Commission which had to reach conclusions based on the medical evidence, blundered in substantial ways. These blunders can be presented as evidence of some sinister conspiracy, rather than the result of haste and an excessive concern for the feelings of the Kennedy Family. The Warren Commission published two inaccurate drawings of Kennedy’s wounds. At a news conference on the afternoon of the assassination, the doctors who attended to Kennedy in the Parkland ER discussed the President’s wounds. Although the parkland staff did a highly competent hob of treating Kennedy and Connally, their statements about the nature of the wounds were confused, contradictory, and often mistaken. With possible exception of the Single Bullet Theory, nothing about the assassination has been as controversial as the nature of Kennedy’s head wound. Many witnesses have testified that the back of Kennedy’s head was blown out, suggesting a shot from !
the Grassy Knoll. Lone assassin theorists have stressed the photographic evidence and the autopsy x-rays, which show the back of the head intact. Randy Robertson claims to have found, in the x-rays of Kennedy’s skull, evidence of two bullet hits to Kennedy’s head. Robertson believes that there is an entrance wound on the back of Kennedy’s head. He also believes that there is a higher wound in the rear of the head. He located this wound in the cowlick area, but unlike the HSCA be believes this wound to be an exit wound rather than an entrance wound. Actually, he apparently believes that a fragment from a shot penetrated Kennedy’s skull from the inside, failed to penetrate the scalp and remained embedded in the skull. There are some problems with this testimony. The HSCA interpreted the cowlick wound as an entrance wound on the basis of beveling on the inner table of the skull. This beveling was visible on photos taken of the inside of the skull ...