The Parkland Doctors, Part One

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Among other things, Fred quotes the doctors themselves - in press interviews, in their testimony, in speeches, in their own writings (!) - where they admit to being confused or where they give confusing and contradictory accounts. It's all there.

The "back of the head" proponents love to cite McClelland. The Thompson drawing (which he didn't make), et cetera. But McClelland wrote three hours after the assassination that the cause of death was a wound to the *left* side of JFK's head. He wrote that. A few days later he's interviewed by a medical journal and says the wound was on the *right* side of the head. Then later he says back/rear of the head. So what account should we believe? If any?

But this is all dismissed as Bugliosi and Posner hearsay?

In any case, no reasonably intelligent person is going to accept the judgments about wounds on a person from ER doctors who spent 20 minutes trying to save the patient's life versus the judgments of autopsy doctors who examined that same patient for four hours. Especially when the latter have the physical evidence supporting them. Who thinks the ER doctors would be better, more accurate? Conspiracy world is another universe, another realm where up is down and down is up as long as it support a conspiracy.

[Royell Storing]

  I believe what I actually see/hear or the "signed off" written word/diagram of a Dr. I do NOT Cavalierly accept whatever Bugliosi and Posner WRITE. They're motivation is the selling of books. And they're both lawyers, so there's that too.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Is it the conspiracy view on the location of the head wound that if 45 witnesses said "back of the head", another 10 said "back and side of the head", and another 8 witnesses said "side of the head" that the correct location of the head wound is determined by the most number of witnesses? The 45?

So 45 is more than 18 therefore it's back of the head? It's the most number? Really? Is this how you look at this question?

[Royell Storing]

  Depends on the witness/witnesses. Put yourself inna jury box. NOT every alleged witness you hear/see holds the same level of credibility. This is Not a "numbers" game.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

One conspiracist cites the numbers and another says it's not the numbers. They need to get their stories straight.

Once again the key point isn't addressed: Fred cites the original sources, the statements by the doctors on this question. He includes interviews, public statements, speeches and their own writings. They are contradictory, confusing, inconsistent, vague and, *as they admit*, based on a rushed, hurried examination of JFK. Shorter: they couldn't know about the wounds; they were too busy with saving his life. The response is to dismiss all of this as mere hearsay.

In order to answer this confusion an autopsy was performed. X-rays and photos taken. They show with no doubt that the wound was not in the back of the head but the top and right side of the head. Just as Zapruder said and just as his film shows. Problem solved.

But if the response is this was all altered and then covered up for decades; that Democrats and Republicans, who hate each other and can't agree on what to have for lunch, all got together to carry this cover up out all of these years then never mind. Because you are living in a fantasy world.

[John Mytton]

One conspiracist cites the numbers and another says it's not the numbers. They need to get their stories straight.

Once again the key point isn't addressed: Fred cites the original sources, the statements by the doctors on this question. He includes interviews, public statements, speeches and their own writings. They are contradictory, confusing, inconsistent, vague and, *as they admit*, based on a rushed, hurried examination of JFK. Shorter: they couldn't know about the wounds; they were too busy with saving his life. The response is to dismiss all of this as mere hearsay.

In order to answer this confusion an autopsy was performed. X-rays and photos taken. They show with no doubt that the wound was not in the back of the head but the top and right side of the head. Just as Zapruder said and just as his film shows. Problem solved.

But if the response is this was all altered and then covered up for decades; that Democrats and Republicans, who hate each other and can't agree on what to have for lunch, all got together to carry this cover up out all of these years then never mind. Because you are living in a fantasy world.

Just as Zapruder said and just as his film shows. Problem solved.

JohnM