Undeniable Proof of Fraud: The Impossible JFK Autopsy Brain Photos

[Jack Nessan]

The bits of brain that were splattered or fell onto 16 surfaces undoubtedly added up to more than 2 ounces, and this is not counting the "large chunk of brain" that Jackie gave to Dr. Jenkins in the Parkland ER. There is simply no way that the brain seen in the autopsy brain photos could be the same brain that was blasted during the assassination.

“undoubtedly added up to more than 2 ounces

"Undoubtedly" ---Incredible, finally admitting you have no idea how much was missing. Just making grandiose claims and wild unfounded statements with absolutely no knowledge of there being any sufficient amount other than what you believe sounds like the proper amount.

“There is simply no way that the brain seen in the autopsy brain photos could be the same brain that was blasted during the assassination.”


"Was Blasted During the Assassination"

But yet you persist in making all these claims about what the damage should be, and the top of the brain is intact and all the nonsense about high fragment trail and low fragment trail and different entrance sites because you are certain the damage has to look a certain way. Now you finally admit the damage was extensive and beyond description.

What happened to your make-believe experts and all that nonsense? Like your proof of a third shot, just faded away?

[Michael T. Griffith]

Consider how the evidence of fraud in the autopsy brain photos comes together and mutually corroborates:

-- None other than former HSCA FPP chairman Dr. Michael Baden acknowledged to devout WC defender Vincent Bugliosi that the autopsy brain photos show "less than" 1-2 ounces of brain tissue missing. Not realizing he was providing devastating evidence against the autopsy brain photos, Bugliosi trumpeted Baden's disclosure to "refute" the eyewitnesses who said a large amount of JFK's brain was gone.

-- 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.

-- We 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.

-- The autopsy skull x-rays show at least 2/3 of the right brain to be missing. 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.

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."

-- 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.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Jerrol Custer, an x-ray technician at the autopsy, provided clear evidence that there was an effort to produce altered autopsy skull x-rays. Custer informed the ARRB that the morning after the assassination, he was called into the radiology suite by Dr. Ebersole, the autopsy radiologist, and was told to tape some metallic fragments to skull bones. These, explained Custer, were then to be taken to a private room and x-rayed with the same machine, at the same distance, that he used the night before during the autopsy. Custer added that Ebersole said these x-rays would be used to make a bust of JFK:

I was told by Dr. Ebersole that they were to be taken to make measurements, to make a bust of President Kennedy. . . . He gave me three or four different metal fragments, varying in size. And he asked me to tape them to the bone. . . .

Obviously, taping bullet fragments to skull bones and then x-raying the bones had nothing to do with making a bust of JFK. The only skull x-rays that would be used to help create a bust of a gunshot victim would be x-rays taken before the murder, before the skull was damaged, and there would be no conceivable reason to tape metal fragments to skull bones to make a bust.

Ultimately, the plotters opted not to use these x-rays because they realized the skull x-rays could be altered via darkroom techniques that would be extremely hard to detect at the time. Dr. Mantik was able to duplicate how the x-rays were altered.

BTW, Ebersole told the HSCA that one of the skull fragments that arrived late at the autopsy was “a large fragment of the occipital bone." This confirms the numerous accounts that JFK had a large wound in the back of his head.

I discuss these facts in chapter 11 of A Comforting Lie: The Myth that a Lone Gunman Killed President Kennedy.