Article from Washington Evening Star, 27 Nov 1963, page A-5
Excerpts:
"White House Won't Talk on Kennedy Autopsy"
By the Associated Press
"The White House has so far declined to say whether an autopsy was performed on the body of President John F. Kennedy.
The body was at the Bethesda Naval Hospital for approximately nine hours last Friday night and early Saturday morning.
Civilian morticians were called to the hospital to prepare the body for burial.
....
Doctors in Dallas who administered emergency treatment to the President said yesterday they do not know whether one or two
bullets had hit him. However, Federal authorities seemed fairly certain it was two bullets.
One Washington source said, "There is some doubt whether the fatal bullet was the second shot or third shot. The first shot is
believed to have hit the President, but we're not sure about the second and third."
Thus, he indicated, the first bullet to strike Mr. Kennedy might not have been fatal.
One bullet struck Texas Gov. John Connally, wounding him.
Dr. Kemp Clark, a brain surgeon who was summoned to the emergency room of the Dallas hospital where the President was taken after
the shooting, said in Dallas yesterday that a bullet did such massive damage to the right rear of the President's head that the
attending surgeons could not tell whether it had entered or come out of the head there.
"A missile had gone in, or come out the back of his head, causing extensive lacerations and loss of brain tissue, " Dr. Clark said.
Dr. Clark said he was unable to say whether the wound in the President's neck, below the Adam's apple, was due to the same bullet
that had coursed through the President's brain. He said there could have been two bullets.
Dr. Malcolm Perry of Dallas, who also treated the President after the shooting, had said on Friday that he was unable to determine
whether one or two bullets were involved."
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