The Parkland Doctors, Part Three

[Jarrett Smith]

But wait: You stated that Dr. Salyer's opinion as a Craniofacial Surgeon was good enough for you. I demonstrated Rather Conclusively that Dr. Salyer's opinion was not as you described it. Now you offer YOUR opinion as a Craniofacial Internet Goofball in contravention of Dr. Salyer's opinion. This is known in the Factoid Buster community as the "True Believer Tap Dance," which is why the work of a Factoid Buster is never done.

Dr. Salyer was not a Craniofacial Surgeon in 1963. As he told the WC, he was a first-year resident assigned to neurosurgery rounds. Even in the 2008 interview, he noted that the flap he observed could have suggested a shot from the front but likewise could have been a shot from the back. He specifically declined to adopt the frontal shot hypothesis and specifically endorsed the Oswald-did-it conclusion. To my knowledge, he never voiced a shot from the front as his medical opinion.

A doctor's "opinion" is a near-sacred medical and legal term. You need to be careful about bandying it around. You also need to be careful about deriving your "knowledge" of the JFKA from things like Jim Di Eugenio's website, a/k/a The Factoid Festival.

Nice try though (well, not really, but we Factoid Busters are charitable sorts). So now we know that what you actually meant was that YOUR opinion as a Craniofacial Internet Goofball is good enough for you.

Wow, you wasted all that time writing drivel. 

[Mitch Todd]

Wow, you wasted all that time writing drivel. 

And you've wasted everyone's time talking about an interview that may not exist.

[Jarrett Smith]

Trauma room one 39:00

Autopsy 46:30

1988 autopsy photos 1:04

Really good interview