“The detailed autopsy of President Kennedy performed on the night of November 22 at Bethesda Naval Hospital led the three examining pathologists to conclude that the smaller hole in the rear of the President’s skull was the point of entry and that the large opening on the right side of his head was the wound of exit. ( Report, pg. 86 )

This was the Commission’s conclusion: a bullet entered the President’s skull and took a sharp right-hand turn and exited the right side of his head.

But this conclusion was not supported by the massive damage seen to the President’s skull in the Zapruder film. It was not supported by the Dealey Plaza witnesses who saw the President struck in the right side of his head and a piece of the rear of his skull blown backward. It was not supported by the observations of the Parkland doctors, who described a massive exit wound at the rear of the head and cerebella protruding from the wound, tissue that could not have been seen if the exit wound was as the Commission claimed.

And documents released by the Assassination Records Review Board in the mid-1990s showed that it was not supported by witnesses at the autopsy, a fact revealed during the House Select Committee on Assassinations interviews in 1978, but which the HSCA originally suppressed until 2028.

Establishing the truth

In any murder case, the truth is established when each piece of evidence supports another. Putting together a case is like putting together a puzzle and “when it don’t fit you must acquit”.

And here lies the problem: the Commission’s x-rays and photographs of the head wound do not fit. They do not fit the description given by the witnesses in Dealey Plaza who saw the President gunned down, the observations of Clint Hill, the Dallas doctors, or the witnesses at the autopsy. In fact the photographs and x-rays do not match each other.
And the photographs do not match the results obtained through testing of the Western-Cartridge ammuntion and its effect on a human skull.

The Dealey Plaza witnesses

There were witnesses in Dealey Plaza who either saw the last shot hit the President in the right side of his head or saw the back of his head come off.

One of those witnesses to a shot in the side of the head was Emmitt Hudson, the groundskeeper of Dealey Plaza, who testified that he saw the fatal head shot hit Kennedy “a little bit behind the ear and a little bit above the ear” on the right side of his head.” ( 7 H 560 )

Another witness to a shot on the side of the head was William Newman. Newman was probably the closest witness to the President when he was struck by the fatal bullet. He, his wife and their two children were on the north side of Elm St.. He was inteviewed shortly after the murder live on WFAA-TV in Dallas. During that interview, he said, “as the car got directly in front of us a gunshot apparently from behind us hit the President in the side of the temple”.

Because his observation did not fit the head shot coming from behind, Newman was never called to testify before the Warren Commission.

Another witness who the Commission ignored was Charles Brehm, who was standing on the south side of Elm St with his 5 year old son. Brehm told author Mark Lane in 1966 that, “I saw a piece ( of Kennedy’s skull ) fly over in the area of the curb where I was standing…it seemed as if it came left and back.”

Witness after corroborrating witness

The Commission also ignored Marilyn Willis, who described the head shot from her position on the south side of Elm St.. From her viewpoint, Kennedy was struck in the right temple because his brains “exploded out the back of his head”. Her daughter added that, “the back of his head came off.”

Corroboration for the back of Kennedy’s head coming off comes from Beverly Oliver, who many claim was the “Babushka Lady” filming the motorcade from the south side of Elm St. She said that she didn’t realize shots were being fired until she saw in the viewfinder of her camera the back of the “President Kennedy’s head come off”.

The cavalcade of witnesses who saw the President struck from the front continues with the observations of a couple of law enforcement witnesses.

Law enforcement witnesses

James Chaney, was one of the Dallas motorcycle officers who flanked the right rear of the Presidential limousine. In an interview right after the assassination, he said that he saw the President struck “in the face”.

His comments, like those of William Newman, were broadcast live on TV and, like Newman’s were the reason why the Warren Commission never called him to testify.

But the witnesss who had the longest look at the President’s head wound was Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who saw the head wound on the way to Parkland Hospital. He testified that, “the right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed.” He described it as “one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.” ( 2 H 141 )

It’s no coincidence that witnesses on the north side of Elm St. saw a bullet enter the right side of the President’s head and the witnesses on the south side of Elm St. saw the rear of the President’s head come off. The observations of the Dealey Plaza witnesses of a gaping wound at the right rear of the head were exactly what the medical professionals at Parkland Hospital saw.

The Parkland Hospital witnesses

Perhaps the best witnesses to the President’s actual head wounds are the medical witnesses who observed it at Parkland Hospital.

Dr. Gene Coleman Akin, Anesthesiology:
“The back of the right occipital / parietal portion of his head was shattered, with brain substance extruding.” ( 6 H 65 )

Dr. Charles James Carrico, Surgery:
“This was a 5- by 7-cm defect in the posterior skull, the occipital region. There was an absence of the calvarium or skull in this area” ( 3 H 361 )

Dr. William Kemp Clark, Neurological Surgeon:
“This was a large, gaping wound in the right posterior part, with cerebral and cerebellar tissue being damaged and exposed.” ( 6 H 20 ) In his report of 11/22, Dr. Clark also stated that “cerebellar tissue was extruding from this wound”. ( CE 392, 17 H 3 )

Dr. Ronald Coy Jones, General Surgery:
“There was large defect in the back side of the head …some brain hanging out of this wound ..” ( 6 H 53 )

Dr. Malcolm Perry, Surgeon
“…there was a large wound of the head in the right posterior area”

Doctor after corroborating doctor

Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, General Surgery:
“…I noted that the right posterior portion of the skull had been extremely blasted….posterior cerebral tissue and some of the cerebellar tissue had been blasted out. ( 6 H 33 )

Dr. Paul Peters, Surgery
“I noticed there was a large defect in the occiput ( rear of the skull ). It seemed to me that in the right occipital/parietal area there was a large defect. There appeared to be bone loss and brain loss in the area. ( 6 H 71 )

Dr. Marion T. “Pepper” Jenkins, Anesthesiology:
“…noted that a portion of the cerebellum ( lower rear brain ) was hanging out from a hole in the right–rear of the head.” ( 7 HSCA 287 ) Dr. Jenkins also stated that “cerebellum had protruded from the wound” in his report of 11/22/63. ( CE 392, 17 H 15 )

Nurse Diana Bowron testified that she saw “one large hole” when she saw the condition of the “back of his head.” ( 6 H 136 )

What these medical witnesses were describing is easier understood by knowing the location of the cerebellum.

Their descriptions of cerebellar tissue damaged and exposed could not have come from an exit wound in the parietal area of the skull. It could have only come from an exit wound behind the right ear.
A large, gaping exit wound at the rear of the skull was not only seen by witnesses in Dallas, it was seen by witnesses in the morgue at Bethesda as well.

The morgue witnesses

Several witnesses who were present at Bethesda and saw the President’s head wound described it as a massive wound to the right rear of the skull.

Chester Boyers was a Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Pathology Department at Bethesda. He told the HSCA in 1978 that “there was a large wound to the right side and towards the rear of the head”. ( ARRB MD 62 )
Boyers was never called by the Warren Commission.

One of the autopsists, Dr. J. Thornton Boswell, told the HSCA that “the wound was fairly low in the back of the head and that the bone was completely gone above the entry wound.” ( ARRB MD 26 ) Dr. Boswell’s Warren Commission testimony covered just a single page ( 2 H 377 ) and he was never asked to describe the wounds he saw.

Tom Robinson was the mortician whose job it was to prepare the body for burial. He was present during the examination of it. He told the HSCA that it was at “the base of the head, where most of the damage was done.” Robinson described the wound in the back of the head as “ragged”, about three inches in diameter and circular. ( ARRB MD 63 )
Tom Robinson was never called before the Warren Commission.

Morgue witness after corroborating morgue witness

Floyd Riebe was a photographer who took pictures at the autopsy. He told the ARRB in 1997 that, “the right side in the back was gone. Just a big gaping hole with fragments of scalp and bone hanging in it.” ( ARRB interview of Floyd Riebe, 5/7/97, page 44 )
Floyd Riebe was never called before the Warren Commission.

FBI agent Frank O’Neill was present during the autopsy and told the ARRB that there was a “massive wound” in the rear of the head and there was bone missing. He stated that a portion of the skull was taken into the autopsy room as the autopsy progressed and that this piece was “found on the car floor in Dallas by one of the Secret Service agents.” ( ARRB interview of Frank O’Neill, 9/12/97, pg. 119 )

O’Neill’s recollection of a piece of skull recovered from the back of the limousine corroborates Secret Service agent Clint Hill’s description of a piece of Kennedy’s skull lying on the rear seat. ( 2 H 141 )
Frank O’Neill was never called before the Warren Commission.

More corroboration

Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman, who rode in the front seat of the limo, saw Kennedy’s head wound at Bethesda. He estimated the diameter at about 5 inches, located at the rear portion of the right side of the head. He said that it was “to the left of the ear and a little high” and testified that that part of the skull was “removed”, clarifying that by “removed” that it was “absent when I saw him.” ( 2 H 80-81 )

Jerrol Custer was the X-ray technician who took the x-rays of the President’s body. He described the head wound as a “king sized hole…I could put my hands together and place my hands in the skull”. ( ARRB interview of Jerrol Custer, 10/28/97, pg. 94 )
Jerrol Custer was never called before the Warren Commission.

Some mass hallucination that followed the body around, or the truth ?

In this essay, I’ve been able to document 20 witnesses who claimed to have seen an enormous wound at the rear of the President’s skull consistent with a wound of exit. Another three claimed to have seen the President struck either in the temple or the face.

These were different witnesses with different backgrounds at different times and locations. This was not a group of people who got together one day and conspired to lie. They were law enforcement professionals, medical professionals and just ordinary citizens who related what they saw. But the autopsy photo of the back of the head shows no such massive wound and there may have been a reason for that.

The autopsy photos: evidence of fakery

Witnesses claimed to have seen two different sets of autopsy photos after the autopsy. In one set, it is reported that there was an entry wound in the front of the head at the hairline and a massive exit wound at the rear. In the other, a small neat wound in the rear of the head and a blasted out “flap” on the right side.

The Warren Commission never published the autopsy photos. Instead, they published drawings to illlustrate the path of the bullet and its effects. For this they called on medical illustrator named Harold Rydberg, Head of Bethesda’s Medical Illustration Department.

In March 1964, Rydberg had a meeting with Captain John Stover, the Commanding Officer of the Navy Medical School. Stover explained that Drs. Humes and Boswell were about to testify before the Warren Commission. Rydberg was ordered to prepare medical illustrations of the wounds sustained by John F. Kennedy. When he asked Humes why they were not using the photographs taken at the autopsy, he was told they were considered to be “too shocking” and had been sealed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and were therefore not available for testimony.

Not allowed to see photographs

Over the weekend of 14th/15th March 1964, Rydberg worked in a small office at Bethesda with Humes and Boswell. Rydberg was not allowed to take in any photographs of John F. Kennedy.
Boswell told him: “that they had no photographs, no X-rays, that I was going to have to do this one verbally… We’ll tell you what to draw.”

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKrydbergH.htm

By March, 1964 they DID have the photographs and x-rays for reference so the only reason for not using them was because the autopsists sought to control what the drawings depicted.
Having confidence that the autopsy photos would never be seen by the public, the autopsists then had free reign to depict the wounds however they wanted.

Commission exhibits 385, 386 and 388 are the drawings Rydberg did according to the “memories” of Humes and Boswell.

The drawings, however, do not match the autopsy photos. They show a bullet wound at the base of the neck above the top of the shoulders. The autopsy photo of the back shows a bullet hole below the top of the shoulders.

On this basis alone, the value of the Rydberg drawings is worthless. They’re a deliberate attempt to relocate the back wound and hide evidence that JFK was shot from the front and that Kennedy was ambushed by more than one shooter.

Another clown show: the HSCA

The House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s gave us a number of witnesses who had not been called by the Warren Commission.
Some were Bethesda witnesses who have come forward to describe what they saw in the morgue that night. When shown the official autopsy photos, they claimed that the photos did not depict the wound they saw.

Mortician Tom Robinson told the HSCA that there was a wound in the right temple at the hairline, measuring about a quarter of an inch. ( ARRB MD 63 )
Note: this is about the same size hole ( about a quarter of an inch ) described by Dr. Ronald Jones with regard to the throat wound ( 6 H 54 ).

Corroboration for Robinson’s observation of an entry wound in the front of the head comes from autopsy attendee James Curtis Jenkins, interviewed by Patrick Bet David:

Further corroboration comes from Dennis David, who claimed that a few days after the assassination he saw slides from a video of the autopsy filmed by William Bruce Pitzer that showed an entrance wound in the front of the head and a massive exit wound at the rear.

More evidence of a frontal shot

In addition to this evidence, White House Photographer Joe O’Donnell told the ARRB in 1997 that he saw two sets of photographs in the possession of Robert Knudsen, a Chief photographer for the Navy who was assigned to the White House. ( ARRB MD 231 )

More evidence of a wound in the front of the skull comes from autopsy photo F8 showing a massive wound in the right rear and a smaller hole in the right front of the head:

Evidence of the coverup of that entrance wound in the front of the head comes in the form of one of the autopsy photos, where a “black square” was added to the photo:

Nobody walks around with a black square on their head.

Faced with all of this evidence, that at least two shots ( one to the throat and one to the head ) of the same diameter were fired from in front of the President, the House Select Committee simply buried it.

“There is no medical evidence that President Kennedy was hit from the front and to the right”.–G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel, HSCA.

Following the science: the bevelling evidence

Dr. Humes’ final autopsy report stated that “in the underlying bone is a corresponding wound through the skull which exhibits bevelling of the margins of the bone when viewed from the inner aspect of the skull.” ( 16 H 981 )

One autopsy photograph proves this was not so.

Unlike an exit wound in flesh, which leaves a ragged or jagged edge to the wound, an exit wound in the skull blasts out of the bone leaving a “bevel” at the point of exit.

A bevel on the inside table of the skull indicates a wound of entry while a bevel on the outside of the skull indicates a wound of exit.

Below is a typical gunshot wound to the skull showing the entrance wound ( A ) on the outside of the skull and the bevelling on the inside of the skull ( B ) as the bullet exited the bone.

Humes’ statement that the bevelling was seen “when viewing from the inner aspect of the skull” indicates that the wound was a wound of entry. ( CE 387, pg. 4 )
But autopsy photo BE7 – HI ( F8 ) , shows a bevelling of the wound on the OUTSIDE of the skull on the perimeter of the large exit wound.

This bevelling indicates that a bullet EXITED at the perimeter of the large head wound.

The HSCA drops the ball

The House Select Committee on Aassassinations identified F8 as a defect on the “RIGHT FRONTOPARIETAL region after reflection of the scalp”, meaning that the orientation of the skull in F8 had the REAR of the skull in the foreground. ( 7 HSCA 118-119 )

Identification of left and right side of the skull are always made from the subject’s perspective, never the viewer. So the left and right sides of JFK’s skull were identified from JFK’s perspective, not the prosectors.

Although I don’t agree with the Committee’s orientation of the F8 photo, ( I believe it shows the large hole in the occipital/parietal region ), the fact that they identified it as being on the RIGHT side of that region gives us the proper orientation of the F8 photo as the top rear of the skull.

They also identified the bevel on the outer skull table 7 HSCA 118 after explaining that bevelling was indicative of an EXIT wound. ( HSCA diagram JFK F-16 )

Unfortunately, they never identified that bevel as an exit wound, as I have. Their cop-out was that the photo ( F8/44 ) was too blurry.

But as the reader can see, the Fox copy ( F8 ) is NOT blurry and proves it was an exit wound, and exit wound that could only have been made by a shot from the front.

A shot from the front means a second gunman and a second gunman means a conspiracy.

The photo vs. the autopsy report

In addition, the autopsy photo does not support the autopsy report.

The autopsy report indicates that Humes knew how to interpret the bevelling information. Three fragments which were blown off the skull in Dealey Plaza found their way to Bethesda and were included in the autopsy report. The largest of these had a bevelling on the outside which Humes correctly identified as an exit wound. ( 16 H 981 )

If he knew the bevelling on the outside edge of the large fragment indicated a wound of exit, he knew the bevelling on the outside edge of the large wound in the back of the skull indicated an exit wound as well.

In other words, Dr. Humes changed the exit wound he saw to an entrance wound. He deliberately lied about the head wound he saw. With Oswald positioned behind the motorcade, they had to have the official record show all shots were fired from behind.

Smelling the coverup

This is the reason why he and the Secret Service pressured the Dallas doctors, specifically Dr. Malcolm Perry, to back off his statement that the throat wound was an entry wound.

It’s the reason why Humes lied to Rydberg about the autopsy photos and x-rays being available and why he preferred dictating a description of the wounds. Rydberg could not be allowed to see the evidence that proved Humes’ autopsy report was a lie.

And it’s also the real reason why Humes burned his original autopsy notes after Lee Harvey Oswald was dead. The medical people involved in the autopsy were sworn to secrecy under penalty of court-martial.

All of these actions when combined could only serve one sinister purpose: to hide the fact that the shots that hit the President in the throat and the head came from the front.

Neither the Warren Commission, the HSCA nor the ARRB ever called Dr. Humes out on this bevelling of the bone at the rear of the head.

The non-penetrating hole in the back of the head

In fact, the “hole” in the back of the head photo shows a mark in the scalp, but no signs of a penetrating hole at all.

The final piece of evidence of a massive wound in the right rear comes from autopsy photo BE6-HI, which shows a top view of the President’s head as it sits on the chrome saddle.

As you can see, the head is tilted slightly to the right and the edge of the saddle on the right side is visible through the hair. The cause of both of those is the lack of bone at the rear of the right side of the skull.

Not frontoparietal, as the HSCA determined.

More evidence for the fallacy of the Warren Commission’s conclusion that the head shot was fired from behind comes in the form of the wounds tests.
Those tests were done in 1964 to determine the effects of the Western Cartridge 6.5 copper-jacketed ammo on the human skull.

The wounds tests

“This particular skull blew out the right side in a manner very similar to the wounds of the President…” ( Testimony of Alfred Olivier, 5 H 89 )

More lies. The right side of the test skull referred to looked nothing like JFK’s lateral xray.

It looked nothing like the right side of JFK’s head in the autopsy photos.

Dr. Olivier blamed this difference on not having the “limiting scalp” holding the bone in place or the test. ( ibid. ) But if one or any of the controls in an experiment is faulty ( i.e. the gelatin/goat skin couldn’t hold the bone in place ), the experiment itself becomes worthless and proves nothing. This was the way they tested damage on skulls.

Commission Exhibit 860 is the skull is the same skull shown in Exhibit CE 861, albeit with the goat skin attached. It appears that the whole side of the skull was blown out without any damage to the goat skin.

It also appears that the remaining cavity caused by the loss of skull bone is easily detected by the naked eye.

Tests prove JFK not shot from behind using Western Cartridge 6.5 ammo

This shows that the gelatin/goat skin combination was “limiting” enough to keep the goat skin on the skull and without any visual damage to the skin.

The test also indicates that there was less fragmentation of the skull than is shown in the Xray. In the Xray, there is massive fragmentation of the rear and the top of the skull.

If the test proved anything, it proved that a shot hitting the skull from behind inflicted a wound quite different from the wound showed in the Xrays and photographs. There was no little flap of skull opened on the right side of the head as there was in the autopsy photo. Instead, the whole right side of the skull was blown off. And the fragmentation of the skull was different from that of the Xray.

But the Commission’s presentation of the xrays as evidence had its own problems.

The Xray problems

Among the problems critics had with the Xrays was that missing skull fragments showed up in the lateral Xray even though they arrived at Bethesda after the skull Xrays had been taken.

It’s documented that the skull fragments arrived “late during the autopsy”, yet the lateral xray, taken before the autopsy began, shows the missing bone intact.

Another problem was that the lateral Xray showed a massive wound in the front of the skull above the right eye, not seen on any of the autopsy photos.

The Warren Commission never published the autopsy photographs and Xrays, so the task of authenticating them fell on the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Normally, you would think, that the best person to authenticate the Xrays would have been the person responsible for taking them.

But we’re talking about the United States Government here. So what they did was to go to an outside source who compared the autopsy Xrays to Xrays in Kennedy’s medical history and determined that, yes, the Xrays were of the same person. And that person was John F. Kennedy.
The man who took them at the autopsy, Jerrol Custer, was never asked to authenticate the Xrays in evidence as the ones he took. And there’s a reason for that:

Look Ma, no teeth

Another strange tactic used by the HSCA was to publish the skull xrays with the teeth cropped out.

The HSCA published Xrays of the teeth, but separately from the skull Xrays. The expert who identified the teeth was Dr. Lowell Levine a forensic odontologist experienced in the identification of victims of unnatural death. ( 7 HSCA 39 )
His method involved comparing dental and sinus Xrays of the President taken between 1960 and 1962 and obtained from the Kennedy Library to those taken at the autopsy.

The problem I have with it is that the Committee only published photos of the dental and sinus Xrays received from the Kennedy Library.

It did not publish photos of the teeth Xrays taken at the autopsy nor did it show any side-by-side comparisons of the two. As you can imagine, this lack of transparency creates more questions then it answers.
If this was an act of deception by the HSCA, it didn’t end there.

The HSCA lies

Lying by omission is no less a lie. Among the lies that the House Select Committee withheld from the public was that the autopsy doctors agreed with the Dallas doctors that there was a massive wound at the rear of the President’s head. Not only did the Committee not publish the autopsy doctors’ location of the head wound, they did not allow the Parkland doctors to view the autopsy photographs and x-rays.

This suppression and omission of evidence is at the least troubling, at the most conspiratorial proof of a coverup.

The House Committee makes up its own head wound

The Committee also offered several drawings from professional medical artist Ida Dox, including one that depicted the President’s head being shot from behind with the top of his head blowing off and an exit in the front of his skull.

No witness who saw the President’s head wound ever described the head wound as depicted in this drawing. The autopsy photographs and xrays do not support any bone loss at the top of the head.

The Committee never went after descrepancies in the official record, like Dr. Humes’ description of an entry wound in the back of the neck and the same wound being described in the Sibert/O’Neill report as being located “below the top of the shoulders”. ( ARRB, MD 44, )

It heard from Navy photographer Robert Knudsen, ( ARRB MD 135 ) but never asked him if there had been different versions of autopsy photographs.

The Committee also heard from autopsy witnesses Boyers, Riebe and Custer. It interviewed Paul O’Connor, James Curtis Jenkins and Tom Robinson. In spite of the accounts of all these witnesses, the Committee concluded that there was no evidence that President Kennedy had been shot from the front.

In short, the HSCA avoided investigating the crime properly. Whether or not this was by design is not clear, but for all its work and time spent, it was an effort in futility.

Conclusion

These many years later, the Crime of the 20th Century has still not been satisfactorily closed. The Warren Commission’s investigation of the crime began with a forgone conclusion and as such, was actually not an investigation at all but a gathering of evidence to prove only one individual was guilty.

In order to achieve that narrative, it had to ignore witnesses who had evidence to the contrary.

It had to falsely report what witnesses said and physical evidence that proved the suspect was innocent simply vanished into thin air.

The House Select Committee’s investigation was no more a success in finding the truth. Like the Warren Commission, it too started with a forgone conclusion that organized crime was behind the assassination. Sadly, it was less an investigation than it was a stage show.

In the end, it concluded that the President was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy that involved Oswald. But it failed to name his co-conspirators and to bring indictments against them.

And while the House Select Committee acknowledged the fact that bevelling of bone on the outside indicated a wound of exit and that there was bevelling on the outer table of the rear of the skull on the perimeter of the large gaping wound, it failed to connect the two by identifying that bevelling on the rear of the skull as a wound of exit.

The release of records by the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s revealed that, like the Warren Commission, the HSCA suppressed testimony and failed to pursue evidence that was presented to it.

Not the photographs she processed

Perhaps the most damaging testimony to the authenticity of the autopsy photos was that of Saundra Kay Spencer, the Naval Photographic Center technician who developed the autopsy photos. She told the ARRB that the autopsy photos in the National Archives were not the autopsy photos she processed. She testified that the images in the photos were not the same, the backgrounds were different, there were no photos of the autopsists taking measurements and the paper used for the Archives’ photos is not the same paper she used at NPC in 1963. ( ARRB testimony of Saundra Kay Spencer, 6-5-97 )

Equally interesting was the revelation by Xray tech Jerrol Custer that his superior, Dr. John Ebersol told him that a “bust” was being prepared of JFK. ( ARRB testimony of Jerrol Custer, 10.28.97 ) Was this “bust” superimposed on the real autopsy photo to create the “Superior” photos ?

There’s an old saying that, “the government cannot investigate itself”. Two Federal “investigations” into the assassination of President Kennedy have produced no level of satisfactory closure.

There were many tragedies that came from this assassination. The President was dead and his family destroyed. His wife was a widow and his kids fatherless. His brother never recovered from his loss.

Similar tragedies

There was the tragedy of the loss of Officer J.D. Tippit, leaving a wife and three kids.

There was the similar tragedy of the Oswald family, leaving Marina Oswald a widow and her kids growing up in someone else’s house. And the stigma of being related to a man who history says killed the President of the United States.

Then there are the tragedies of the 58,000 American families who lost a loved one in Vietnam, a war Kennedy was preparing to pull out of.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is that something else died that Friday afternoon in November : the truth.

Over the years, many Americans have lost trust in what their government says. And the government has earned that distrust. It all began here, with the lie that one man, firing from behind, killed a President he admired for no apparent reason.

We may never know for sure WHO was behind the assassination. People have their theories, of course.

A final word

But what we CAN do is to expose the original “investigation” for what it was— a fraud.
An attempt to satisfy the public that “Oswald was the sole assassin, that he had no confederates who are still at large, and the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.”

To this end, the government institutions which we trusted failed us. The FBI never conducted a normal homicide investigation but rather collected evidence against one man.

The Secret Service, who was responsible for the President’s life, played a major role in the coverup of his assassination. It removed the President’s body from Texas illegally. It harassed the Parkland witnesses and controlled evidence like the President’s limo, the President’s corpse and the autopsy photos and Xrays.

The US Military played a role in the coverup as well, choosing inexperienced administrators it could control to perform the most important autopsy of the 20th century.

Only when we have the courage to look into the darkness and expose its evil can we be sure that this will never ever happen again. And while there are some who are afraid to look into that darkness for fear of what they may see, there are still those of us brave enough to to bring to light how the hate of the security apparatus for President Kennedy allowed the assassination and the lies they perpetrated in order to cover up their complicity.