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This is the list of 'over 39' people that I have mentioned now and then that saw the 'large hole' in the BOH of JFK. I have gotten the information from only the most reputable places, like mostly from the WC, HSCA or ARRB.
The number '39' is there for each name below, but you can consider that the full number of 65 includes the people that witnessed the autopsy. The HSCA lied about them and said that they all saw a small bullet hole in the BOH, but that was found to be false and subsequent interviews of many of those people showed that they all agreed with those that saw the 'large hole' on the BOH. That puts the count way over 40, up to 65. The gallery people aren't named, but their positive statements were checked and put out by David W. Mantik, MD,PhD in "Murder in Dealey Plaza" his article "Paradoxes of the JFK Assassination" pages 197-198.
There are many references to a photo that has a montage of people on it. The reason is that the people use their hand to locate the 'gaping hole' in the BOH.
Chris/mainframetech
1. James Jenkins - lab assistant at Bethesda - testimony to HSCA
"Jenkins does not recall a small hole in the head as drawn on the descriptive sheet; he said that the big hole would have covered the area where the little hole was drawn on the sheet."
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=329&relPageId=12
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2. Dennis David 1st class petty officer - Bethesda. He was shown a film by LCDR Pitzer that showed the back of JFK's head while on the morgue table and before any cutting had begun. It was clearly the Bethesda morgue. He said it showed a 'gaping wound' in the back of the president's head and that the top of the head looked intact.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=708&relPageId=4
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3. Robert L. Knudsen - photographer
Showed photos of BOH wound and forehead wound to Joe O'Donnell. From O'Donnell HSCA testimony:
"The back of the head photograph(s) showed a hole in the back of the head, about 2" above the hairline, about the size of a grapefruit; the hole clearly penetrated the skull and was very deep. Another one of the photographs showed a hole in the forehead above the right eye which was a round wound about 3/8" in diameter which he interpreted as a gunshot."
From:
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md231/html/md231_0002a.htm
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4. Ed Hoffman - deaf/mute watching from overpass. He said "The rear of his head was gone, blasted outward."
From Montage halfway down at:
Loading Image...
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5. Dr. Robert McClelland - physician in ER at Parkland hospital. Said "It was in the right back part of his head--very large...a portion of the cerebellum fell out on the table while we were doing the tracheotomy."
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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6. Dr. Charles Carrico - Physician at Parkland ER. Said "There was a large--quite a large--defect about here (pointing) on his skull. See photo where he shows the area with his hand [BOH slightly right].
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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7. Dr. Charles Crenshaw - Physician at Parkland hospital ER. Said "The wound was the size of a baseball." Demonstrates with hand on the right rear of his head (see photo).
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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8. Nurse Audrey Bell - Parkland OR supervisor. Said "There was a massive wound at the back of his head." See [photo.
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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9. Frank O'Neill - FBI agent said "...a massive wound in the right rear." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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10. Jerrol Custer - Bethesda Navy X-ray technician. Said: "From the top of his head to almost the base of the skull, you could see where that part was gone." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
Loading Image...
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11. Paul O'Connor - Bethesda Navy corpsman-morgue assistant. Said "[There was] an open areas all the way across into the rear of the brain." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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12. Floyd Reibe - Bethesda photographer at morgue. Said "...a big gaping hole in the back of the head." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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13. Nurse Diana Hamilton Bowron - Parkland ER nurse. WC testimony:
"Mr. SPECTER - You saw the condition of his what?
Miss BOWRON - The back of his head.
Mr. SPECTER - And what was that condition?
Miss BOWRON - Well, it was very bad---you know.
Mr. SPECTER - How many holes did you see?
Miss BOWRON - I just saw one large hole.
Mr. SPECTER - Did you see a small bullet hole beneath that one large hole?
Miss BOWRON - No, sir. "
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14. KEMP CLARK, MD: Professor and Director of Neurological Surgery at Parkland. Said during WC testimony:
"...in the occipital region of the skull... Through the head wound, blood and brain were extruding... There was a large wound in the right occipitoparietal region, from which profuse bleeding was occurring... There was considerable loss of scalp and bone tissue. Both cerebral and cerebellar tissue were extruding from the wound." (WC--CE#392)
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15. Dr. RICHARD BROOKS DULANY - Parkland hospital, said: " The wound was on the back of his head. On the back side" They lifted up the head and "the whole back-side was gone." (Groden R., Livingston, H., High Treason. 1989 New York, Berkley Books, p.460.)
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16. Nurse Patricia ( HUTTON) Gustafson - Parkland ER staff. While helping with resuscitation efforts a physician asked her to apply a pressure dressing to the head wound, she observed, however, that, "This was no use, however, because of the massive opening in the back of the head."
http://www.paulseaton.com/jfk/boh/parkland_boh/parkland_wound.htm
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17. Dr. MARION THOMAS JENKINS Parkland staff. WC testimony "...a great laceration on the right side of the head (temporal and occipital) (sic), causing a great defect in the skull plate so that there was herniation and laceration of great areas of the brain, even to the extent that the cerebellum had protruded from the wound." (WC--Exhibit #392)
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18. Dr. RONALD COY JONES Parkland staff. WC testimony "He had a large wound in the right posterior side of the head... There was a large defect in the back side of the head as the President lay on the cart with what appeared to be some brain hanging out of this wound with multiple pieces of skull noted next with the brain and with a tremendous amount of clot and blood." (WC-V6:53-54)
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19. Dr. MALCOLM PERRY Parkland staff said "I looked at the head wound briefly by leaning over the table and noticed that the parietal occipital head wound was largely avulsive and there was visible brain tissue in the macard and some cerebellum seen..." (HSCA-V7:302-interview with Purdy 1-11-78.
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20. Dr. PAUL PETERS Parkland staff - WC testimony - "...I noticed that there was a large defect in the occiput...It seemed to me that in the right occipitalparietal area that there was a large defect." (WC-V6:71)
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21. Tom Robinson mortician with Gawler's. At Bethesda after autopsy enumerating head wounds, he "described a large, open head wound in the back of the president's head, centrally located right between the ears, where the bone was gone, as well as some scalp.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=711&relPageId=3
Robinson's drawing of the wound is here:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=350&relPageId=4
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22. Clinton Hill - Secret Service presidential detail. As kill shot rang out Hill was on the limo and covering the Kennedys. His WC testimony said "As I lay over the top of the back seat I noticed a portion of the President's head on the right rear side was missing and he was bleeding profusely. Part of his brain was gone. I saw a part of his skull with hair on it lying in the seat."
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23. Joe O'Donnell photographer. Spoke with Knudsen about photos of autopsy and saw head wound photo. Said "The back of the head photograph(s) showed a hole in the back of the head, about 2" above the hairline, about the size of a grapefruit; the hole clearly penetrated the skull and was very deep. Another one of the photographs showed a hole in the forehead above the right eye which was a round wound about 3/8" in diameter which he interpreted as a gunshot."
"The second occasion occurred a few days later, when Knudsen showed him a second set of photograph(s) once again about 12 ea 5" by 7" B&W prints. On this second occasion, the back-of-head photograph(s) was intact, and showed no hole in the back of the head. Instead of a hole, he remembers seeing neatly combed hair which looked slightly wet, or damp in appearance."
From:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=753&relPageId=2
While the nutter contingent has done all it can to discredit O'Donnell, Knudsen's family (wife and 2 of his kids) went to the ARRB and made corroborating statements as to the faking of some autopsy photos.
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24. Dr. Charles Baxter - Professor Of Surgery; Director Of Emergency Room. - Said "The right temporal and occipital bones were missing and the brain was lying on the table".
http://www.jfklancer.com/ParklandDrs.html
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25. Dr. John Ebersole - Acting Chief of Radiology and head of the Radiology Division - Bethesda. Said "The back of the head was missing...".
WC testimony.
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26. Saundra Key Spencer - Navy E-6 Photographer's Mate at Naval Photographic Center at Anacostia. ARRB testimony summary. Spencer was given a set of autopsy photos that were completely diferent than the ones we are all familiar with. They were cleaned up and showed the correct BOH wound. Most of her work was for the White House. Said: "She remembers a wound in the back of the president's head Which she described as a "Blown out chunk" about 2 to 2.5 inches wide located in about the center of the back of the president's head about 3 or 5 inches above the hairline at the back of his head.
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27. James Sibert - FBI agent stayed with bronze casket and was at the autopsy. Gave ARRB testimony. Drawing of wound is here:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=719
Testimony about his drawing:
"Q. ...That is the drawing you made earlier today showing the size of the wound, which, by my very rough estimate, the wound you drew seems much smaller.
A. Much smaller, yes, it's larger than that. I should have made that larger, but I'm not much of an artist.
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28. Dr. Gene Akin - Parkland hospital. WC testimony. Said "The back of the right occipital-parietal portion of his head was shattered, with brain substance extruding."
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29. Jacqueline Kennedy - Wife of JFK - held JFK in her arms and had very close view of head wounds. Testimony of the head wounds was suppressed in the WC. She said ""I was trying to hold his hair on. From the front there was nothing --
I suppose there must have been. But from the back you could see,
you know, you were trying to hold his hair on, and his skull on...". If she was trying to hold his hair and skull on at the back or his head, then it was a big wound.
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/09/jackie-kennedy-testimony.html
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30. John Stringer - photographer - Bethesda. Worked around the autopsy. In interview with David Lifton on 8/26/72:
Lifton: Was the main damage to the skull on the top, or in the back?
Stringer: In the back.
Lifton: ...High In the back, or lower In the back?
Stringer: Oh, the occipital part in the back there (garbled) up above the neck.
Lifton: …In other words, the main part of his head that was blasted away was in the occipital part of the skull?
Stringer: Yes. the back part. [Tape played for Stringer in 1996, p78]
From:
http://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/TracesOfWitnessTampering/TracesOfWitnessTampering.htm
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31. Jan Gail Rudnicki - Assistant to Boswell at Bethesda on night of autopsy. Interviewed by Flanagan for HSCA. Said: "the back-right quadrant of the head was missing."
http://www.paulseaton.com/jfk/boh/beth/beth.htm
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32. James Metzler - Hospital Corpsman at Bethesda, helped put body from shipping casket to table. HSCA interview 4/21/78. "Metzler recalled a wound situated in the "right side of the head behind the right ear, extending down to the center of the back of the skull."
http://www.paulseaton.com/jfk/boh/beth/beth.htm
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33. Roy Kellerman - Secret Service agent - rode in limousine in passenger seat. Gave WC testimony as follows:
"Mr. KELLERMAN. OK. This all transpired in the morgue of the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, sir. He had a large wound this size.
Mr. SPECTER. Indicating a circle with your finger of the diameter of 5 inches; would that be approximately correct?
Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes, circular; yes, on this part of the head.
Mr. SPECTER. Indicating the rear portion of the head.
Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. More to the right side of the head?
Mr. KELLERMAN. Right. This was removed.
Mr. SPECTER. When you say, "This was removed," what do you mean by this?
Mr. KELLERMAN. The skull part was removed."
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34. Aubrey Rike - Ambulance Driver - at Parkland hospital - interviewed by Vince Palamara on 11/22/97. Described the BOH wound with right hand circling the back of his head about the size of a baseball:
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35. Chester Boyers - Chief Petty Officer Bethesda - head of pathology dept. - helped during autopsy with various functions. Interviewed for HSCA. "Concerning the wounds of President Kennedy, Mr. Boyers stated that there was a large wound to the right side and towards the rear of the head."
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/pdf/md62.pdf
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36. Joseph Hagan - Gawler's embalming team - did their work at Bethesda after autopsy. Hagan was in charge of the team. His ARRB interview said: "However, he did state that "all of this was open in the back", while holding his two hands about 6 inches away from his upper posterior skull, gesturing to the area between both of his own ears on the back of his head."
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37. J. Thornton Boswell - Bethesda prosector at autopsy - the record said "Q. When you say the left posterior, what do you mean?
A. The left occipital area, and that wound extends to the right frontal area." An awfully large wound!
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38. Phyllis Hall - Parkland nurse - brought in to work in the ER when JFK brought in - Said in video "There was a huge hole in head" while using her right hand to hold over head area:
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39. Dr. Don Teal Curtis - Resident at Parkland hospital - Spoke to interviewer for Canyon News.com said: "Curtis also looked, and he told the audience “the posterior part of his head was blown out.”
Curtis, who had become very familiar with entrance and exit wounds during his trauma room work at Parkland, said that there was no doubt in his mind that the exit wound on the president’s head was at the back."
http://www.myplainview.com/canyon/news/article_f6555d0a-48c4-11e3-bbd1-001a4bcf887a.html
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The number '39' is there for each name below, but you can consider that the full number of 65 includes the people that witnessed the autopsy. The HSCA lied about them and said that they all saw a small bullet hole in the BOH, but that was found to be false and subsequent interviews of many of those people showed that they all agreed with those that saw the 'large hole' on the BOH. That puts the count way over 40, up to 65. The gallery people aren't named, but their positive statements were checked and put out by David W. Mantik, MD,PhD in "Murder in Dealey Plaza" his article "Paradoxes of the JFK Assassination" pages 197-198.
There are many references to a photo that has a montage of people on it. The reason is that the people use their hand to locate the 'gaping hole' in the BOH.
Chris/mainframetech
1. James Jenkins - lab assistant at Bethesda - testimony to HSCA
"Jenkins does not recall a small hole in the head as drawn on the descriptive sheet; he said that the big hole would have covered the area where the little hole was drawn on the sheet."
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=329&relPageId=12
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2. Dennis David 1st class petty officer - Bethesda. He was shown a film by LCDR Pitzer that showed the back of JFK's head while on the morgue table and before any cutting had begun. It was clearly the Bethesda morgue. He said it showed a 'gaping wound' in the back of the president's head and that the top of the head looked intact.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=708&relPageId=4
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3. Robert L. Knudsen - photographer
Showed photos of BOH wound and forehead wound to Joe O'Donnell. From O'Donnell HSCA testimony:
"The back of the head photograph(s) showed a hole in the back of the head, about 2" above the hairline, about the size of a grapefruit; the hole clearly penetrated the skull and was very deep. Another one of the photographs showed a hole in the forehead above the right eye which was a round wound about 3/8" in diameter which he interpreted as a gunshot."
From:
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md231/html/md231_0002a.htm
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4. Ed Hoffman - deaf/mute watching from overpass. He said "The rear of his head was gone, blasted outward."
From Montage halfway down at:
Loading Image...
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5. Dr. Robert McClelland - physician in ER at Parkland hospital. Said "It was in the right back part of his head--very large...a portion of the cerebellum fell out on the table while we were doing the tracheotomy."
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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6. Dr. Charles Carrico - Physician at Parkland ER. Said "There was a large--quite a large--defect about here (pointing) on his skull. See photo where he shows the area with his hand [BOH slightly right].
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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7. Dr. Charles Crenshaw - Physician at Parkland hospital ER. Said "The wound was the size of a baseball." Demonstrates with hand on the right rear of his head (see photo).
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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8. Nurse Audrey Bell - Parkland OR supervisor. Said "There was a massive wound at the back of his head." See [photo.
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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9. Frank O'Neill - FBI agent said "...a massive wound in the right rear." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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10. Jerrol Custer - Bethesda Navy X-ray technician. Said: "From the top of his head to almost the base of the skull, you could see where that part was gone." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
Loading Image...
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11. Paul O'Connor - Bethesda Navy corpsman-morgue assistant. Said "[There was] an open areas all the way across into the rear of the brain." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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12. Floyd Reibe - Bethesda photographer at morgue. Said "...a big gaping hole in the back of the head." See photo:
From Montage halfway down at:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Witness-reports-of-head-wound.jpg
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13. Nurse Diana Hamilton Bowron - Parkland ER nurse. WC testimony:
"Mr. SPECTER - You saw the condition of his what?
Miss BOWRON - The back of his head.
Mr. SPECTER - And what was that condition?
Miss BOWRON - Well, it was very bad---you know.
Mr. SPECTER - How many holes did you see?
Miss BOWRON - I just saw one large hole.
Mr. SPECTER - Did you see a small bullet hole beneath that one large hole?
Miss BOWRON - No, sir. "
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14. KEMP CLARK, MD: Professor and Director of Neurological Surgery at Parkland. Said during WC testimony:
"...in the occipital region of the skull... Through the head wound, blood and brain were extruding... There was a large wound in the right occipitoparietal region, from which profuse bleeding was occurring... There was considerable loss of scalp and bone tissue. Both cerebral and cerebellar tissue were extruding from the wound." (WC--CE#392)
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15. Dr. RICHARD BROOKS DULANY - Parkland hospital, said: " The wound was on the back of his head. On the back side" They lifted up the head and "the whole back-side was gone." (Groden R., Livingston, H., High Treason. 1989 New York, Berkley Books, p.460.)
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16. Nurse Patricia ( HUTTON) Gustafson - Parkland ER staff. While helping with resuscitation efforts a physician asked her to apply a pressure dressing to the head wound, she observed, however, that, "This was no use, however, because of the massive opening in the back of the head."
http://www.paulseaton.com/jfk/boh/parkland_boh/parkland_wound.htm
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17. Dr. MARION THOMAS JENKINS Parkland staff. WC testimony "...a great laceration on the right side of the head (temporal and occipital) (sic), causing a great defect in the skull plate so that there was herniation and laceration of great areas of the brain, even to the extent that the cerebellum had protruded from the wound." (WC--Exhibit #392)
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18. Dr. RONALD COY JONES Parkland staff. WC testimony "He had a large wound in the right posterior side of the head... There was a large defect in the back side of the head as the President lay on the cart with what appeared to be some brain hanging out of this wound with multiple pieces of skull noted next with the brain and with a tremendous amount of clot and blood." (WC-V6:53-54)
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19. Dr. MALCOLM PERRY Parkland staff said "I looked at the head wound briefly by leaning over the table and noticed that the parietal occipital head wound was largely avulsive and there was visible brain tissue in the macard and some cerebellum seen..." (HSCA-V7:302-interview with Purdy 1-11-78.
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20. Dr. PAUL PETERS Parkland staff - WC testimony - "...I noticed that there was a large defect in the occiput...It seemed to me that in the right occipitalparietal area that there was a large defect." (WC-V6:71)
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21. Tom Robinson mortician with Gawler's. At Bethesda after autopsy enumerating head wounds, he "described a large, open head wound in the back of the president's head, centrally located right between the ears, where the bone was gone, as well as some scalp.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=711&relPageId=3
Robinson's drawing of the wound is here:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=350&relPageId=4
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22. Clinton Hill - Secret Service presidential detail. As kill shot rang out Hill was on the limo and covering the Kennedys. His WC testimony said "As I lay over the top of the back seat I noticed a portion of the President's head on the right rear side was missing and he was bleeding profusely. Part of his brain was gone. I saw a part of his skull with hair on it lying in the seat."
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23. Joe O'Donnell photographer. Spoke with Knudsen about photos of autopsy and saw head wound photo. Said "The back of the head photograph(s) showed a hole in the back of the head, about 2" above the hairline, about the size of a grapefruit; the hole clearly penetrated the skull and was very deep. Another one of the photographs showed a hole in the forehead above the right eye which was a round wound about 3/8" in diameter which he interpreted as a gunshot."
"The second occasion occurred a few days later, when Knudsen showed him a second set of photograph(s) once again about 12 ea 5" by 7" B&W prints. On this second occasion, the back-of-head photograph(s) was intact, and showed no hole in the back of the head. Instead of a hole, he remembers seeing neatly combed hair which looked slightly wet, or damp in appearance."
From:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=753&relPageId=2
While the nutter contingent has done all it can to discredit O'Donnell, Knudsen's family (wife and 2 of his kids) went to the ARRB and made corroborating statements as to the faking of some autopsy photos.
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24. Dr. Charles Baxter - Professor Of Surgery; Director Of Emergency Room. - Said "The right temporal and occipital bones were missing and the brain was lying on the table".
http://www.jfklancer.com/ParklandDrs.html
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25. Dr. John Ebersole - Acting Chief of Radiology and head of the Radiology Division - Bethesda. Said "The back of the head was missing...".
WC testimony.
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26. Saundra Key Spencer - Navy E-6 Photographer's Mate at Naval Photographic Center at Anacostia. ARRB testimony summary. Spencer was given a set of autopsy photos that were completely diferent than the ones we are all familiar with. They were cleaned up and showed the correct BOH wound. Most of her work was for the White House. Said: "She remembers a wound in the back of the president's head Which she described as a "Blown out chunk" about 2 to 2.5 inches wide located in about the center of the back of the president's head about 3 or 5 inches above the hairline at the back of his head.
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27. James Sibert - FBI agent stayed with bronze casket and was at the autopsy. Gave ARRB testimony. Drawing of wound is here:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=719
Testimony about his drawing:
"Q. ...That is the drawing you made earlier today showing the size of the wound, which, by my very rough estimate, the wound you drew seems much smaller.
A. Much smaller, yes, it's larger than that. I should have made that larger, but I'm not much of an artist.
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28. Dr. Gene Akin - Parkland hospital. WC testimony. Said "The back of the right occipital-parietal portion of his head was shattered, with brain substance extruding."
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29. Jacqueline Kennedy - Wife of JFK - held JFK in her arms and had very close view of head wounds. Testimony of the head wounds was suppressed in the WC. She said ""I was trying to hold his hair on. From the front there was nothing --
I suppose there must have been. But from the back you could see,
you know, you were trying to hold his hair on, and his skull on...". If she was trying to hold his hair and skull on at the back or his head, then it was a big wound.
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/09/jackie-kennedy-testimony.html
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30. John Stringer - photographer - Bethesda. Worked around the autopsy. In interview with David Lifton on 8/26/72:
Lifton: Was the main damage to the skull on the top, or in the back?
Stringer: In the back.
Lifton: ...High In the back, or lower In the back?
Stringer: Oh, the occipital part in the back there (garbled) up above the neck.
Lifton: …In other words, the main part of his head that was blasted away was in the occipital part of the skull?
Stringer: Yes. the back part. [Tape played for Stringer in 1996, p78]
From:
http://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/TracesOfWitnessTampering/TracesOfWitnessTampering.htm
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31. Jan Gail Rudnicki - Assistant to Boswell at Bethesda on night of autopsy. Interviewed by Flanagan for HSCA. Said: "the back-right quadrant of the head was missing."
http://www.paulseaton.com/jfk/boh/beth/beth.htm
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32. James Metzler - Hospital Corpsman at Bethesda, helped put body from shipping casket to table. HSCA interview 4/21/78. "Metzler recalled a wound situated in the "right side of the head behind the right ear, extending down to the center of the back of the skull."
http://www.paulseaton.com/jfk/boh/beth/beth.htm
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33. Roy Kellerman - Secret Service agent - rode in limousine in passenger seat. Gave WC testimony as follows:
"Mr. KELLERMAN. OK. This all transpired in the morgue of the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, sir. He had a large wound this size.
Mr. SPECTER. Indicating a circle with your finger of the diameter of 5 inches; would that be approximately correct?
Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes, circular; yes, on this part of the head.
Mr. SPECTER. Indicating the rear portion of the head.
Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. More to the right side of the head?
Mr. KELLERMAN. Right. This was removed.
Mr. SPECTER. When you say, "This was removed," what do you mean by this?
Mr. KELLERMAN. The skull part was removed."
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34. Aubrey Rike - Ambulance Driver - at Parkland hospital - interviewed by Vince Palamara on 11/22/97. Described the BOH wound with right hand circling the back of his head about the size of a baseball:
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35. Chester Boyers - Chief Petty Officer Bethesda - head of pathology dept. - helped during autopsy with various functions. Interviewed for HSCA. "Concerning the wounds of President Kennedy, Mr. Boyers stated that there was a large wound to the right side and towards the rear of the head."
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/pdf/md62.pdf
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36. Joseph Hagan - Gawler's embalming team - did their work at Bethesda after autopsy. Hagan was in charge of the team. His ARRB interview said: "However, he did state that "all of this was open in the back", while holding his two hands about 6 inches away from his upper posterior skull, gesturing to the area between both of his own ears on the back of his head."
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37. J. Thornton Boswell - Bethesda prosector at autopsy - the record said "Q. When you say the left posterior, what do you mean?
A. The left occipital area, and that wound extends to the right frontal area." An awfully large wound!
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38. Phyllis Hall - Parkland nurse - brought in to work in the ER when JFK brought in - Said in video "There was a huge hole in head" while using her right hand to hold over head area:
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39. Dr. Don Teal Curtis - Resident at Parkland hospital - Spoke to interviewer for Canyon News.com said: "Curtis also looked, and he told the audience “the posterior part of his head was blown out.”
Curtis, who had become very familiar with entrance and exit wounds during his trauma room work at Parkland, said that there was no doubt in his mind that the exit wound on the president’s head was at the back."
http://www.myplainview.com/canyon/news/article_f6555d0a-48c4-11e3-bbd1-001a4bcf887a.html
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