re: Do you think JFK was murdered by the government?

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Autopsy info of yours is BS.


Chicago Tribune 1992:

Breaking a silence of almost 29 years, the two Navy pathologists who performed the autopsy on slain President John F. Kennedy denounced as hoaxes the various conspiracy theories about Kennedy`s assasination.

Kennedy was killed by two bullets fired from behind and above that struck him in the back of the head and neck-just as the Warren Commission concluded in 1964-the doctors said in lengthy interviews to be published in the May 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

''I am tired of being beaten upon by people who are supremely ignorant of the scientific facts of the president`s death,'' said Dr. James Humes, who was in charge of the autopsy performed on the night of Nov. 22, 1963, at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He was assisted by Dr. J. Thornton Boswell.

In an accompanying JAMA article, four of the doctors who vainly tried to save Kennedy`s life at Parkland Hospital in Dallas also spoke publicly for the first time, saying nothing they saw in the emergency room refutes the Warren Commission`s report.

The four-Drs. Malcolm Perry, who tried to aid Kennedy`s breathing by cutting an airway in his throat, Jim Carrico, M.T. Jenkins and Charles Baxter- were especially critical of Crenshaw, who was a junior resident at Parkland at the time Kennedy was brought in.

Although Crenshaw claimed he played a major role in treating Kennedy, none of the four doctors who worked on the president recalled Crenshaw even being in the emergency room. Crenshaw said that based on his vantage point he was able to conclude that Kennedy was shot from the front and that autopsy evidence later was altered.

''His (Crenshaw`s) claims are ridiculous,'' Baxter said. ''The only motive I can see is a desire for personal recognition and monetary gain.''

JAMA editor Dr. George Lundberg said he has been urging the two Navy pathologists to tell their story for seven years to counter the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy`s assasination.

''We would hope the interviews with the pathologists and doctors would put an end to the Kennedy assasination theories,'' Lundberg said. ''But it would be naive to think that there won`t still be people imagining. conspirators here and there. In a free country anybody can say what they want.''

Humes said he was totally in charge of the autopsy and that no one interfered with his work. He denied that the military or FBI was in control, as well as other accounts of what went on in the autopsy room that are used to bolster conspiracy theories.

The most important part of the autopsy was the examination of Kennedy`s skull, which proved that the fatal bullet came from above and behind the president, he said.

When a BB hits a window it creates a small hole on the outside and a beveled crater on the inside as broken glass follows the path of the projectile, Humes noted.

The same pattern was found in Kennedy`s skull, he said. There was a small hole on the skull`s outside where the bullet entered, and a crater on the inside of the skull produced by bone that was knocked loose, he said. This pattern was repeated as the bullet exited through the right side of Kennedy`s head.

''This is a law of physics and it is foolproof-absolutely, unequivocally, and without question,'' Humes said. ''The conspiracy buffs have totally ignored this central scientific fact, and everything is hogwash.