Undeniable Proof of Fraud: The Impossible JFK Autopsy Brain Photos

[John Corbett]

It's always amusing to see amateur sleuths try to apply their limited knowledge to a highly technical field. I prefer to go with what actual experts in the field have to say on the subject. The FPP, composed of some of the most respected medical examiners of their day including WC critic Cyril Wecht, UNANIMOUSLY concurred with the original finding that JFK was struck by two shots fired from above and behind although they did reposition where they thought the entry wound in the back of the head was.

We have a choice here. We can go with the FPP or we can go with MTG? Not a tough call for me.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Since we have some new participants in the forum, I'm bumping this thread. I think objective readers will see that the evidence proves that the JFK autopsy brain photos are fraudulent and cannot be photos of JFK's brain. I think objective readers will also see that lone-gunman theorists have no rational, credible explanation for this crucial evidence.

Here is a summary of the evidence:

-- Former HSCA FPP chairman Dr. Michael Baden acknowledged to famous WC defender Vincent Bugliosi that the autopsy brain photos show "less than" 1-2 ounces of brain tissue missing. Bugliosi did not realize that Baden's disclosure was devastating evidence against the autopsy brain photos. Indeed, Bugliosi trumpeted Baden's disclosure to "refute" the eyewitnesses who said a large amount of JFK's brain was gone.

-- But those eyewitnesses were surely correct. Why? Because we know that bits of JFK's brain were blown or fell onto 16 surfaces. Significantly, several witnesses said the tissue was gray or white. About 40% of brain tissue is gray and about 60% is white. Those 16 bits of brain tissue alone certainly added up to more than 2 ounces, not to mention that it exceeded "less than 1-2 ounces."

We also know that Jackie Kennedy brought a "large chunk of brain" into the Parkland ER and handed it to Dr. Jenkins, who then handed it to a Secret Service agent. That chunk of brain surely weighed at least 2 ounces. 2 ounces of brain tissue is about the size of a golf ball.

-- The autopsy report impossibly says JFK's brain weighed 1,500 grams. The average male brain weighs about 1,350 grams. 1,500 grams equals 53 ounces. 1,350 grams equals 47 ounces.

There is no way that JFK's brain weighed anything close to 1,500, not only because so much brain matter was blown from his skull but because the autopsy skull x-rays show at least 2/3 of the right brain to be missing, and multiple optical-density (OD) measurements of the skull x-rays confirm that only about 30% of the right brain is present in the x-rays.

This is hard scientific evidence that the brain photos are fraudulent.

In addition, it should be noted that in 1992, before any OD measurements had been done on the skull x-rays, none other than Dr. James Humes, the chief JFK autopsy doctor, admitted to JAMA that "two thirds of the right cerebrum had been blown away" (Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], May 27, 1992, p. 2798).

When Humes revealed this, he was unaware that in 1975, Dr. Fred Hodges, the then-chief of neuro-radiology at the John Hopkins medical school, examined the skull x-rays and found they showed a "goodly portion" of the right brain to be "missing."

BTW, the term "goodly portion" is a common and recognized idiom that means "substantial," "considerable," "sizeable." One can find the term "goodly portion" used in medical journals, including JAMA. Google AI says, "The phrase 'goodly portion' is used throughout the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and its network journals as an idiom representing a large or substantial amount."

-- A number of eyewitnesses who got good looks at the damage to JFK's head said that a substantial part of the brain was blown away. These witnesses included mortician Tom Robinson, assistant autopsy photographer Floyd Riebe, Secret Service agent Clint Hill (who stared into the large hole in JFK's head for several minutes from 3-4 feet away), and FBI agent Francis O'Neill (one of the two FBI agents who observed the autopsy, and observed it from close range most of the time).

-- The autopsy photographer, John Stringer, told the ARRB he was certain he did not take the extant autopsy brain photos.

My posts in this thread present a detailed review of this evidence, including sources. The above is just a summary. To gain a better understanding of this crucial evidence, and to see the vacuous attempts of WC apologists to explain it, I recommend going back and reading the rest of the thread.

To follow up on these points for those who have not seen any of the JFK autopsy brain photos, we should understand that the photos show a large laceration (cut) on the right side of the brain, as if someone took a knife and made a nearly straight cut from back to front/front to back just to the right of the midline of the brain, but they show virtually no missing brain tissue.

Dr. Baden's admission that the autopsy brain photos show "less than 1-2 ounces" of missing tissue may even be something of an overstatement. When neurologist Dr. Michael Chesser examined the autopsy brain photos, he could discern virtually no missing tissue.

Crucially, Dr. Chesser also saw (1) no damage whatsoever to the cerebellum except for a “tiny sliver hanging loose” from the bottom of the cerebellum, and (2) no damage to the rear area of the right occipital lobe, yet the rear head entry wound described in the autopsy report would have required the bullet to tear through the top part of the cerebellum and through the rear part of the right occipital lobe.

If one assumes a somewhat upward trajectory for the bullet that hit slightly above the EOP, it could have barely missed the cerebellum, but it could not have missed the rear section of the right occipital lobe. The HSCA forensic experts cited this fact as "incontrovertible" evidence against the autopsy report's placement of the rear head entry wound.

Another powerful point of evidence against the autopsy brain photos, and it's a point I haven't mentioned yet, is that if the righthand temporal-parietal explosion seen in the Zapruder film is authentic, there should be a sizable defect, a sizable area of missing brain tissue, in the right side of the temporal and parietal lobes in the brain photos, but no such defect is there.

[John Corbett]

To follow up on these points for those who have not seen any of the JFK autopsy brain photos, we should understand that the photos show a large laceration (cut) on the right side of the brain, as if someone took a knife and made a nearly straight cut from back to front/front to back just to the right of the midline of the brain, but they show virtually no missing brain tissue.

Dr. Baden's admission that the autopsy brain photos show "less than 1-2 ounces" of missing tissue may even be something of an overstatement. When neurologist Dr. Michael Chesser examined the autopsy brain photos, he could discern virtually no missing tissue.

Crucially, Dr. Chesser also saw (1) no damage whatsoever to the cerebellum except for a “tiny sliver hanging loose” from the bottom of the cerebellum, and (2) no damage to the rear area of the right occipital lobe, yet the rear head entry wound described in the autopsy report would have required the bullet to tear through the top part of the cerebellum and through the rear part of the right occipital lobe.

If one assumes a somewhat upward trajectory for the bullet that hit slightly above the EOP, it could have barely missed the cerebellum, but it could not have missed the rear section of the right occipital lobe. The HSCA forensic experts cited this fact as "incontrovertible" evidence against the autopsy report's placement of the rear head entry wound.

Another powerful point of evidence against the autopsy brain photos, and it's a point I haven't mentioned yet, is that if the righthand temporal-parietal explosion seen in the Zapruder film is authentic, there should be a sizable defect, a sizable area of missing brain tissue, in the right side of the temporal and parietal lobes in the brain photos, but no such defect is there.

It's truly amazing how an amateur such as yourself looking at just the few autopsy photos that were leaked to the public is able to see things that were missed by a panel of some of the most highly regarded forensic medical examiners in the country who had access to all the autopsy photos and x-rays and which were of much higher quality than those that you have seen.