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Doctors participating in this discussion:
The physicians in the film are Dr. Donald Seldin, Dr. Robert McClelland,
Dr. Ronald Jones, Dr. Kenneth Salyer, Dr. Joe D. Goldstrich, Dr. Peter Loeb
and Dr. Lawrence Klein.
EXCERPTED FROM "JFK: The Medical Evidence Reference"
By Vincent M. Palamara
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/palamara/excerpt_book2.html
Dr. Donald W. Seldin, Chief Internist:
a) WC references by others present: WR 528; 3 H 371; 6 H 11,32,60-61,64;
17 H 13; 20 H 5; 21 H 184-185, 258, 263;
b)8/27/98 letter to Vince Palamara---"The bullet struck the President in
the forehead and literally exploded in his skull, so that the entire
frontal, parietal and temporal bones were shattered I believe that the
official story is accurate in all details." [!];
Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, Attending Surgeon:
a) WR 526-527 / 17 H 11-12 / CE 392: report written 11/22/63---" a
massive gunshot wound of the head with a fragment wound of the
trachea The cause of death was due to massive head and brain injury from
a gunshot wound of the left temple.";
b) "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", 12/1/63---"This [the neck wound] did
appear to be an entrance wound."
c)e) 6 H 33-34, 35, 37 / testimony---" I could very closely examine the
head wound, and I noted that the right posterior portion of the skull
had been extremely blasted probably a third or so, at least, of the
brain tissue, posterior cerebral tissue and some of the cerebellar
tissue had been blasted out "; " there was definitely a piece of
cerebellum that extruded from the wound "; " the loss of cerebral and
cerebellar tissues were so great massive head injuries with loss of
large amounts of cerebral and cerebellar tissues "; "The initial
impression that we had was that perhaps the wound in the neck, the
anterior part of the neck, was an entrance wound and that it had perhaps
taken a trajectory off the anterior vertebral body and again into the
skull itself, exiting out the back, to produce the massive injury in the
head.";
Dr. Ronald Coy Jones, Chief Resident Surgeon:
a) 20 H 333: handwritten report dated 11/23/63---" severe skull and
brain injury was noted as well as a small hole in anterior midline of
neck thought to be a bullet entrance wound air was bubbling through the
neck wound.";
b)a) 6 H 53-54, 56 / testimony (3/24/64)---" he had a large wound in the
right posterior side of the head There was 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
with the brain "; "what appeared to be an exit wound in the posterior
portion of the skull the only speculation that I could have as far as to
how this could occur with a single wound would be that it would enter
the anterior neck and possibly strike a vertebral body and then change
its course and exit in the region of the posterior portion of the
head."; "The hole [in the throat] was very small and relatively clean
cut, as you would see in a bullet that is entering rather than exiting
from a patient.";
Dr. Kenneth Everett Salyer, Resident Surgeon:
6 H 81 /testimony---" he did have some sucking wound of some type on his
neck ";" (JFK) had a wound of his right temporal region I came in on the
left side of him and noticed that his major wound seemed to be in his
right temporal area, at least from the point of view that I could see
him, and other than that---nothing other than he did have a gaping scalp
wound---cranial wound.";
33) Dr. Joe D. "Jody" Goldstrich:
a) "JFK: Breaking The Silence" (1993) by Bill Sloan, Chapter 4: pp.
84-97[inc. a photo]---"The first thing I saw was JFK lying on his back
on an operating table I didn't have a clear view of the back of his
head, but I have a vague recollection of seeing a portion of his brain
exposed It [the neck wound] was a small, almost perfectly
round---somewhere between the size of a nickel and a quarter [?]---and
it was right in the middle of the front of his neck, just below the
Adam's apple the wound was exactly the right size and exactly the right
spot to accommodate a tracheostomy tube."; disturbed by the photos of
JFK's neck at autopsy: "The whole front of his neck was wide open It had
simply been fileted."; " I realized how impossible it would have been
for the neck wound I saw to have been an exit wound ";
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EXCERPTED FROM "JFK: The Medical Evidence Reference"
(339 pages)] By Vincent M. Palamara
[abridged entries and excerpts from over 100 entries, out of a total of
325, from the author's 1998 book, (c) COPYRIGHT VINCENT M. PALAMARA 1998.
ALL RIGHT RESERVED