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Introduction: This broadcast continues our visits with Jim DiEugenio–author of Destiny Betrayed and JFK Revisited–selected by Oliver Stone to write the screenplay for his latest documentary.
In these broadcasts, we are additionally privileged by the participation of Dr. Gary Aquilar, one of the experts featured in the Stone/DiEugenio documentary, as well as being one of the ground-breaking figures in the ongoing inquiry into the medical evidence in the assassination.
Dr. Aquilar highlighted the deep professional compromising of people who filled “expert” roles in the various medical examinations, the involvement of a number of them as “experts” in other, important intelligence-connected cases such as the assassination of Martin Luther King.
In particular, Dr. Aquilar parsed the inconsistencies in a review of the medical evidence in the JFK assassination case that was instituted by then Attorney General Ramsey Clark–“inconsistencies” which are difficult to ascribe to caprice or error.
In addition to his presentation of new material with which even Jim DiEugenio was unfamiliar, Gary was instrumental in discussion of the medical/forensic evidence in the JFK assassination case.
1a.—We begin with review of the Secret Service confiscating JFK’s corpse in contravention of Texas Law, thereby denying Dr. Earl Rose his obliged duty of performing an autopsy on JFK.
. . . . [Parkland physician Dr. Charles] Crenshaw recalled, “A man in a suit, leading the [federal] group, holding a submachine gun, left little doubt in my mind who was in charge. That he wasn’t smiling best describes the look on his face . . . . Kellerman took an erect stance and brought his firearm into a ready position. The other men in suits followed course by draping their coattails behind the butts of their holstered pistols.” When Dr. Rose insisted on holding the body in Dallas for autopsy, explaining, “You can’t lose the chain of evidence,” one of the men in suits screamed, “Goddamit, get your ass out of the way before you get hurt,” and another snapped, “We’re taking the body now.” . . . .
1b.—Next, we review Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s testimony about being able to see deeply into JFK’s head wound because there was no brain material in the fissure.
2.—We then synopsize the Parkland Hospital M.D’s’ views and statements about JFK’s wounds.
Topics of Discussion and Analysis Include: We begin our in-depth discussion with analysis of the medical evidence put forward by the doctors and nurses and Parkland Hospital in Dallas: Dr. Kemp Clark’s observation of a huge wound in the back of JFK’s head; Corroboration of Clark’s view by Dr. McClelland, Dr. Charles Crenshaw (a third-year resident at the time) and nurse Audrey Bell; Dr. Malcom Perry’s statement that the wound in JFK’s throat was an entrance wound; Review of the pressure put on Perry to change his testimony by Secret Service Agent Elmer Moore (who was acting at the direction of his superiors) and unnamed personnel at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland; the Secret Service’s apparent destruction of the tape of the Parkland press conference by Dr.’s Clark and Perry; The Warren Commission’s presentation of an opposite point of view by Perry following pressure on him by Arlen Specter; ARRB member Douglas Horne’s discussion of Document 1327c confirming what Perry had originally said; Perry’s colleague Dr. Donald Miller who relates that Perry stated that the throat wound was an entrance wound (following their long surgery at a Washington hospital; Dr. Gary Aquilar’s 100-page afterward to Dr. Crenshaw’s book Conspiracy of Silence; Dr. Gary Aquilar’s discovery that 26 witnesses to the Bethesda Naval Hospital autopsy did not contradict the Parkland medical personnel’s observations but confirmed and reinforced those observations! (In its 1979 report, the House Select Committee on Assassinations fallaciously stated that the Bethesda witnesses contradicted the Parkland personnel’s observations.)
3.—Next, we turn to the subject of the autopsy performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital performed on the evening of 11/22/1963
Topics of Discussion and Analysis Include: The lack of qualifications of Navy physicians Humes and Boswell; The inclusion of the under-qualified Army physician Dr. Pierre Finck; Dr. Finck’s reluctant testimony on the witness stand at Clay Shaw’s trial that an unnamed Army General had ordered him not to dissect the back wound in JFK; Dr. Humes’ destruction of his notes; The “disappearance” of Colonel Finck’s notes; Arlen Specter’s 8–10 meetings with Dr.’s Humes and Boswell prior to the Warren Commission’s construction of their testimony; Dr.’s Humes and Boswell’s shepherding of young Naval artist Harold Rydberg in which they said, in effect, “We’ll tell you what to draw;” Rydberg’s moving of the location of the back wound up, to make it consistent with the Single Bullet Theory; The fact that Rydberg’s drawings were not based on the autopsy photos; The fact that the fallacious placing of the back wound at the base of the neck empowered “the Magic Bullet Theory;” FBI agents Sibert and O’Neill’s contradiction of the Bethesda autopsy report, saying of Specter “What a Liar” and opining that he was “following orders;” The Warren Commission’s omission of Sibert and O’Neill’s information; House Select Committee on Assassinations’ 1979 report that 26 Bethesda autopsy witnesses contradicted Parkland M.D’s descriptions of wound in the back; Discovery that this is not true! The consummate significance of this!
4. Next, we review the “Harper fragment” of JFK’s skull, discovered in Dealey Plaza on 11/23/1963; the transfer of possession of the fragment to Dr. Burkley, JFK’s personal physician; the subsequent disappearance of the fragment.
5. We then take up the subject of Dr. Burkley (an Admiral, JFK’s personal physician and the only doctor present at both Parkland Hospital and the Bethesda Naval Hospital autopsy.)
Topics of Discussion and Analysis Include: Dr. Burkley placing of the back wound at roughly vertebrae T‑3 (at variance with what the Warren Commission said); The Warren Commission’s omission of JFK’s death certificate (signed by Dr. Burkley) from the volumes of testimony and exhibits; the absence of Dr. Burkley’s signature on the autopsy sketches in the testimony and exhibits; Burkley’s 1967 refusal to state how many bullets hit JFK (in an oral history compiled for the Kennedy Library); Burkley’s letter to HSCA head Richard Sprague stating that he knew others beside Oswald were involved; Sprague’s abrupt removal of Sprague two weeks later; Burkley’s statements in the early 1980’s to both Henry Hurt and Michael Kurtz that he could contradict the Warren Commission thesis, followed by Burkley’s abrupt reversal of field shortly after making the statements (probably reflecting pressure); Efforts by the ARRB to get Burkley’s daughter and the law firm that had represented him during his life to disclose information; the abrupt reversal of field by Burkley’s daughter, rather like the Admiral’s reversal of his statements to Hurt and Kurtz; Dr. Donald Miller’s account of Burkley’s son’s relating of the Admiral’s bewilderment that the Warren Commission had never called him to testify.
6. Turning to the subject of the mystery of JFK’s brain, we take stock of a number of important considerations.
Topics of Discussion and Analysis Include: In an encore, nurse Aubrey Bell notes that she saw brain matter and spinal fluid leaking from the back of JFK’s massive head wound and dripping into a bucket; Dr. McClelland also saw portions of the cerebellum portruding from the massive head wound; Humes’ autopsy report and Warren Commission report’s omission of the observations of Nurse Bell and Dr. McClelland; At Parkland, Dr. William Midgett notes copious brain material in JFK’s limousine; Secret Service cleaned back of limo before shipment; FBI agent Frank O’Neill’s statement that almost ½ of the brain was missing; the failure to section JFK’s brain–those sections could have determined the trajectory of bullets striking JFK’s head ; ARRB’s Dr. Robert Kirshner opines that JFK’s brain appears to have been in formaldehyde for 2–3 weeks; The significance of Kirshner’s observation—JFK’s brain examined right after assassination per Douglas Horne; Dr. Chessler notes for the camera that the brain was photographed after assassination; X‑Rays of JFK’s brain showed very small fragments in the front of the head wound, larger fragments farther in–this indicates a shot from the front.
7. The bulk of the discussion focuses on the autopsy photos and photos of the brain in particular.
Topics of Discussion and Analysis Include: John Stringer photographed brain autopsy 3 days after assassination; Jeremy Gunn’s presentation of photos to Stringer; Half of photos are taken from the top but others from bottom—Stringer says all pictures were from top and notes that type of film used is inconsistent with what he did; Stringer says that scalp wound was peeled back to [supposedly] show entrance wound in back of head, both interior and exterior—no pictures of that; The disappearance of tissue slides that had been taken and a large metal container apparently containing JFK’s brain; Robert Knudsen’s having been credited with taking the autopsy photos in his New York Times and Washington Post obituaries; Knudsen says he took autopsy pictures that showed probes in Kennedy’s body; Supposedly, no probes were used in the autopsy; Those photos appear to have “vanished;” Discussion of the significance of probes, and what those are; Knudsen told his wife that the Secret Service destroyed photos; ARRB member Douglas Horne’s opinion that both Stringer and Knudsen took autopsy pictures.
8. We review John Stringer’s salient observation:
Doug Horne: On November 1st, 1966, the National Archives and an official from the Department of Justice met with Humes, Boswell, photographer John Stringer, and the radiologist [John] Ebersole. And they looked at the autopsy photographs for the first time and they created a catalog, an inventory simply saying: this is what this picture describes. During the discussion the DOJ witness, Mr. Belcher, who was an attorney, noted they were discussing missing photographs. Jeremy Gunn, my boss, the general counsel, did ask why these people signed an inventory which they knew not to be true. And Stringer said, “Well, some people do object, but they don’t last very long.”. . . .
9. We then review Dr. Burkley’s dispatching of his aide James Young and his subordinates, Mr.‘s Mills and Martindale to retrieve material from JFK’s limousine.
Topics of Discussion and Analysis Include: Mills and Martindale’s retrieval of a piece of JFK’s skull; Their retrieval of a bullet with a bent tip; Their retrieval of a bullet fragment; The apparent impact of a bullet on the metal framing the windshield; The apparent passage of a bullet fragment through the windshield of JFK’s limousine; The disappearance of the skull fragment, intact bullet with the bent tip and bullet fragment; the rebuilding of JFK’s limousine, featuring replacement of the windshield and the metal framing of it–this following the Secret Service’s cleaning of JFK’s limousine.
Brilliant program!
Clearly, the military medical professionals at Bethesda Naval Hospital, US Navy CDR. Humes, US Navy CDR. Boswell & US Army Lt. Col. Finck soiled their uniforms by willingly destroying, perverting and fabricating evidence surrounding the autopsy of the President of the United States, their own Commander-In-Chief — at the very least, the Department of Defense should posthumously strip them of their honorable service records, rank and military awards.