I mention other possibilities because we know that the skull was reconstructed, and that the morticians used a rubber patch combined with plaster of Paris to fill in skull defects after the autopsy. Thisreview of the JFK cranial x-rays and photographsis based upon two visits to the archives in College Park, and also a visit to the Presidential Library in Boston. On the day of his funeral, John F. Kennedy's body was moved from the White House to the Capitol. Texas Governor John Connally and his wife (front) sit with President and Mrs. Kennedy in their limousine just minutes before the assassination took place. From that fateful moment to the autopsy and funeral that followed, see some of the most powerful JFK assassination pictures below, then go deeper inside the story of that tragic day. Notice that the gap in the bone on the left, now appears solid. RESPONSE TO CERTAIN QUESTIONS POSED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT FILES. This story has been shared 102,155 times. This is to show the layers of tissue between the scalp and the brain the scalp tissue has a very thick, tough base layer called the galea aponeurotica and well come back to that later. endobj HOTEL TORNI REGISTRY SHOWS OSWALD REGISTERED ON 10 OCT. OSW10 : V46 : 1993.06.14.15:49:55:680000 : SR/CI DISCUSSION WITH SLAWSON 9 JULY ON QUESTIONS OF SOVIET POLICY TOWARDS RUSSIAN WIVES OF AMERICANS AND VISA PROCEDURES. NARA never released an actual copy of the left lateral skull x-ray. The previously redacted agency document shows that a wiretap operation targeting the embassy was done with the help of the office of the Mexican president, but without the knowledge of Mexicos internal security or law enforcement officials. There has been a lot of speculation regarding the JFK Assassination, and numerous conspiracy theories abound. In addition, these images are cropped and are not as clear as the originals. by the way. Justin Newman/Associated Press/Wikimedia Commons. Abbie Rowe/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Dr. David Mantik, MD, PhD, is a respected researcher and writer on the JFK assassination. So memorable and moving was Breslin's approach that not only does his piece live on more than a half-century later, but it's also inspired what's since been called "the gravedigger school of news writing.". On November 23, 2015, authorized by Senator Paul Kirk acting for the Kennedy family, I visited the National Archives at College Park. Why are we not able to see the frontal bone at this level? In a memo in August 2017, William J. Bosanko, chief operating officer of the National Archives, protested the FBI's decision to continue to withhold the names of confidential sources from the . Just a few blocks from the assassination site, the Marsalis Street Bus 1213 travels down Elm Street with Lee Harvey Oswald aboard, on his way home just minutes after the shooting. Now I want to go back to the right lateral view, and to focus on the white patch, which Dr. Mantik has written so much about. The circle appeared raised off the surface. OSWALD INVESTIGATION APPEARING IN NEWSPAPERS SOURCED TO U.S. WORLD NEWS ON 2 AND 3 JUNE IS ERRONEOUS AND MISREPRESENTATION OF FACT. This is from Dr. McDonnels report to the HSCA dated August, 1978. ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images. ], [free-text-block title="Online Highlights " ], [free-text-block title="What's Not Online Here? " Now, going back to the AP skull x-ray, the obvious question is where does this map out? But what evidence do conspiracists have? . Karasev caught the implication, the report read, and replied that this would have been possible if Oswald had been in China but not in the Soviet Union.. The box remained locked in the White House until 1965, when JFK's brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, ordered the box to be stored in the National Archives building. %R e#9P=*1uX7!J~B"]2o!GE0AK~2)3G}e8h:[3hkR||}@e =kI`#=TMDF02:-_wJ}+G>KXElY!!9^aSRK8n5'eigUxoCUJG=$0 sK j 8601 Adelphi Road Including one of the inside of JFK's chest, showing a bruise on the top of his right lung, one of him in a seated position, and one showing metal probes inside his wounds. 8 0 obj 4dZWHFW-g"/:88_)wi74ce_bb56@z>p~>vrDi9V"u6hgfuBry@(vw>-I6%7|Kwy[A2$ubdo'TMB? Just hours after the president's death, an autopsy was performed and its findings were recorded in a report which is publicly available through the United States National Archives. Public DomainA photo taken by Mary Ann Moorman one-sixth of a second after John F. Kennedy was fatally shot. On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy's open-top limousine turned onto Dealey Plaza around 12:30 pm. 3D Photo of JFK Autopsy WARNING Graphic - YouTube 0:00 / 7:48 3D Photo of JFK Autopsy WARNING Graphic seanpatrick78 166 subscribers 399 631K views 13 years ago IMPORTANT Please read. NSAM 263, National Security Action Memorandum 263, NSAM 273. I dont believe that I would have viewed the original films without this happening. On the HSCA film and on the original AP film, these are perfectly round. The most important finding here is the proximity of these tiny metallic fragments to this bone defect. The Bethesda pathologists reported an entry wound low in the right occiput lateral to the protuberance. Photos from the JFK Assassination Records Collection November 22, 2013, commemorates 50 years since JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. And I also think that if present day technology could be used to make good digital copies of the original x-rays, that the images could then be analyzed and we could obtain much more information and we could possibly identify the entrance wound on this AP x-ray. A Dallas policeman holds up the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly used to kill President Kennedy. Dr. Mantik has written extensively about the technique of double exposure and how this could have been accomplished with these films. In that call, recorded Oct. 1, 1963, Oswald asked an embassy guard if there was anything new about a telegram a Soviet diplomat had promised to send to Washington on Oswalds behalf. produced the famous moving images of the assassinations, Notice: Withheld JFK Assassination Records are undergoing processing for release on October 26, 2017. Only recently did I read Gary Aguilars essay of the various description of the wounds made by medical personnel at Parkland and Bethesda, and most of the observers described a skull defect of the occipital region. After Albert Einstein's death in 1955, his brain was removed and studied by pathologist Thomas Harvey, much of it sliced and mounted on hundreds of slides, many of which have been lost. President's limousine, the camera belonging to Abraham Zapruder that In one of the most indelible JFK assassination photos, Jackie Kennedy stands frozen at Johnson's side while he was sworn in. The sniper's perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy, as seen within a few hours of the assassination. An initial review by The Post found few new revelations about the events of Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas. After seeing these photos of the JFK assassination and autopsy, learn a little about what's inside the secret Kennedy assassination files released by the U.S. government. By Dave O'Brien, author of Through The 'Oswald' Window and JFK Case NOT Closed! This does not exclude a shot being fired from the knoll area, but only suggests that a shot from the knoll was not responsible for this right frontal entry wound. This is what were going to talk about in a nutshell Im going to tell you why I believe that there is in fact, evidence, of a shot from the front, with entry in the upper right forehead. Dr. Mantik described emulsion over the T shaped wax mark, which was attributed to Ed Reed marking the film. However, a National Archives inventory of medical evidence from the JFK autopsy conducted in 1966 showed no record of the box or the brain. The president was then raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital but doctors were unable to save his life. On the left lateral x-ray, the OD reading was much more dense than the petrous bone and again, this is not possible. % was probably five or six inches in diameter. I also took optical density measurements of this film, and the left posterior temporal/occipital skull was more dense than the petrous ridge. One document appeared to shed light on how the CIA intercepted assassin Lee Harvey Oswalds communications with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City a few weeks before the murder. It was the moment, in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963, when American history changed forever. AND MRS. CARL RAY JACKSON REPORT OSWALD PRESENCE IN TANGIER. We know that the pathologists and morticians had to reconstruct the skull, and the right forehead appeared sunken, the right eye was bulging out. %PDF-1.4 March 22, 1994 WASHINGTON, D.C. The family of the late President John F. Kennedy can control the access to his autopsy photographs now held by the National Archives, a federal district court in Washington ruled in late February. I didnt realize that so few had actually seen the original x-rays and photos, and approval to view these materials is difficult to obtain. At the meal, Felix Karasev, a KGB general, stated that he thought Jack Ruby the Dallas nightclub owner who shot and killed Oswald two days after the Kennedy assassination was a tool of reactionary forces and that he had help from some US officials.. Im fascinated with the different ways that people are brought into this journey to find the truth and Id like to tell you a little bit about my journey. The president's limousine travels down Elm Street immediately after the first shot was fired. The autopsy doctors who examined JFK's body on the night of November 23, 1963 concluded the fatal shot had struck Kennedy from behind in the middle rear of his head. The autopsy materials were turned over to the archives in 1965 it was mandated by public law 89-318, passed by congress in Nov 1965, that these materials were placed in the custody of the federal government up to that point they were kept by Robert Kennedy. Jerroll Custer stated that the reason the left lateral skull x-ray was cut off at the back was due to the lack of room between the autopsy table and the gallery, and he could not lower the portable x-ray machine low enough to include the entire skull in the image. In the upper circle, fracture line 1 terminates at fracture line 2. Then, have a look at some of the most incredible John F. Kennedy photos ever taken. I was oblivious to the House Select committee investigation too busy in med school and then of course I watched Oliver Stones JFK, and read a couple of books over the next year but I cant even tell you which books I read. The autopsy determined that JFK had been shot twice, from above and behind. The interior of the presidential limousine, as seen soon after JFK's assassination. Mrs. Kennedy leans over the dying president as a Secret Service agent climbs onto the back of the car just after the shooting. The actual original x-rays are in excellent condition, showing only minor aging, and this blurred copy doesnt represent the original film well. And again, the exit location according to the HSCA, at the coronal suture. Dr. David Mantik explains a JFK autopsy mystery image. Evidence of Autopsy Photo Tampering Housed at the National Archives? In these photos, JFK's body is just a mere shell of the young, charismatic president that had captivated the nation. The standard angle of the x-ray beam for an AP skull x-ray is shown on the in red, and the approximate angle from the autopsy AP skull x-ray is shown on the right, in green. I agree with Dr. Mantik that this is artifactual, and it was most likely added by double exposure. The National Archives on Thursday released thousands of secret documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.. Driving the news: In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full." The decision came after a "comprehensive effort to review" the files over the last year, Biden stated. This blurred image is very misleading the purported reason for the need to enhance the x-rays was the poor image quality that simply isnt true. According to Puppes rule, fracture line 2 occurred first. The choice of autopsy hospital in the Washington, D.C. area was made by his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. Gruesome photographs of the interior of President John F. Kennedy's limousine were released Tuesday by the National Archives, but nearly 50,000 documents also made public . [free-text-block title="What's New Online?" The intersecting lines appear to be drawn onto the film they are not due to any natural phenomenon or film processing. Sunlight streams through the columns of the The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol and onto the coffin of the late President Kennedy, lying in state before funeral services. His work also supports the findings of Dr. David Mantik. Thank You.\r\r*Thanks to Eddie for getting me on Coast to Coast A.M. with George Knapp!! But a panel of doctors convened by Attorney General Ramsey Clark in 1968 concluded that X-rays revealed the entry to be as high as the area of the president's cowlick, or . Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). James William "Ike" Altgens/Associated Press/Wikimedia. There is low density, or missing bone behind the nasal bones and at the lower edge of the left orbit and I agree with Dr. Mantik that this suggests missing occipital bone, extending over to the left side. OSW9 : V35B : 1993.06.04.11:54:31:430000 : NO ATTACHMENTS TO MEMO, HOWEVER, MEMO WAS ATTACHED TO 29 APR 64 MFR. MINNEAPOLIS - The man who placed the body of John F. Kennedy in a casket - dressed him, tied his tie and put a rosary in his hands - says the memory of that long night remains burned into his memory. Earlier in the conversation, the Americans questioned what really happened to Oswald during his stay in the USSR after he defected in 1959. John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The previously redacted document shows that a wiretap operation targeting the embassy was done with the help of the office of the Mexican president, but without the knowledge of Mexicos security or law enforcement officials. This is the autopsy photos, casket photos & 1981 exhumation photos of Lee Harvey Oswald! President Kennedy slumps over just after being shot. They sobbed on the streets and stared at newspaper headlines. One was the fatal shot to the skull, while the other . OSW10 : V46 : 20031125-1016925 : THIS IS A 37 PAGE DOCUMENT VICES 38 PAGES. OSW10 : V46B : 1993.06.12.11:36:25:030000 : (DELETION) HAS RECEIVED (DELETION) REQUEST FOR HELP IN GETTING EARLY COPY OF WARREN COMMITTEE REPORT ON KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. Photography Revisit the Harrowing Pictures From the JFK Assassination BY Kacy Burdette and Alex Scimecca October 26, 2017, 1:06 PM PDT It has been more than 50 years since the public and horrific. I think that one of the primary reasons that the entry location was changed was because of the appearance of the x-rays, and because the time was approaching for the autopsy x-rays to be made available for viewing to other physicians. On the contrary, the assassination from the hours before the shooting to the arrest and murder of the suspect to the president's funeral is filled with little moments, people, places, and things that illustrate the event's gravitas in ways that a straightforward document of the actual shooting itself (such as, say, the Zapruder film) just can't. One problem when youre looking at the lateral skull x-ray copies is that the orbital rim isnt clearly visible this was blacked out when they obscured the facial bones in this copy. There are no reviews yet. The existence of additional photographs - believed taken by White House photographer Robert L. Knudsen during or after the autopsy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.