On The Trail Of Delusion

[Martin Weidmann]

The "eyewitness accounts" by the autopsy doctors - who spent more than four hours closely examining JFK - of the location of the head wound is corroborated by the physical evidence; that is photos, film, x-rays. And forensic pathologists who examined the x-rays, photos and other material in the National Archives said the same thing.

If we have to go with eyewitness accounts I'll go with the account of those autopsy doctors over that of amateurs or people who saw the president in a rushed, hurried, frantic environment.

It's not even a close call.

Too bad Tom Robinson, one of Kennedy's embalmers also confirmed a big hole in the back of his head. But then, what would he know, right? He and his colleagues only worked on preparing the body for funeral for several hours.

[Jon Banks]

Too bad Tom Robinson, one of Kennedy's embalmers also confirmed a big hole in the back of his head. But then, what would he know, right? He and his colleagues only worked on preparing the body for funeral for several hours.

Correct and the 44 witnesses that Aguilar referred to includes some autopsy witnesses.

Also strange how Steve refers to the Parkland doctors as “amateurs” as if they had no prior medical experience with gunshot wounds or other physical trauma.

[Jon Banks]

In reality, Eisenhower was warning American’s about the MIC’s new chief, JFK. It was JFK who campaigned on the phony missile gap with the soviets and was telling American’s to build bomb shelters. In his short tenure as POTUS, the MIC became the largest in America’s history. JFK was a staunch anti communist pillorying Harry Truman while a Senator for losing China to the communists. It would not happen on his watch he told aides.

I agree that Kennedy was no “dove” but he also wasn’t the biggest Hawk in his time.

It was perceived in Kennedy’s time that Johnson was the bigger anti-Communist.

[Martin Weidmann]

Correct and the 44 witnesses that Aguilar referred to includes some autopsy witnesses.

Also strange how Steve refers to the Parkland doctors as “amateurs” as if they had no prior medical experience with gunshot wounds or other physical trauma.

And since when does one have to be a professional to see where a hole is and how big it is?

[Jerry Organ]

Doris Nelson (1983) Nursing Supervisor, Parkland ER

[Jon Banks]

Doris Nelson (1983) Nursing Supervisor, Parkland ER

What did Doris say about Kennedy’s head wound in 1963?

Memories fade over time. Which is why it’s best to focus on what witnesses said in their earliest statements…

[Paul May]

Whoa that's a laugher

Why?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Why?

Paul, I've never read any account that Eisenhower was pointing that warning, directly or indirectly, at JFK. Do you have any source on that?

It seems to me that Eisenhower was worried about a type of Congressional/military industrial alliance where defense spending and arms programs became a type of jobs program or politically beneficial program for some groups against the interests of the country. Sort of what Madison warned about when he talked about "factions" influencing policy too much.

In the same speech, he said this: "We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily, the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment."

Not exactly a peacenik <g>.