So Hank, your contended pieces of evidence are as follows:
1. The Gawler's Funeral Home "First Call Sheet" which records events of November 22-23,1963
2. The Gawler's "Arrangements File" which records arrangements for President John F. Kennedy's Funeral
3. Gawler's after-action report titled: "Funeral Arrangements for John Fitzgerald Kennedy"--events of November 22,23,24, and 25 are recounted.
4. Dr. Humes' testimony
There's nothing 'contended' about it. Those four pieces of evidence are contemporaneous (within a few days, except for Humes testimony to the Warren Commission, which came less than four months later on March 16th, 1964) accounts of what transpired at the autopsy.
Reminder that
you introduced them all into this discussion, arguing for their importance at the time. I am only reading them and pointing out how they conflict with your weak attempts at post-hoc explanations.
The Sibert and O'Neil report can not be used as evidence because my argument is that they misunderstood the arrival of the Gawler's team with the conclusion of the autopsy, and left early.
Oh, sure - wait, what?
Just because you come up with a silly argument supported by no evidence whatsoever, doesn't mean you get to exclude the evidence you don't like and we have to honor that exclusion. Your argument is nothing more than a post-hoc rationalization.
Words have meaning. We all know what the words "
At the termination of the autopsy" mean. Except you, who wants to argue that the autopsy didn't really end there, but went on for another three and a half hours.
Furthermore, the original copy1 of the Sibert and O'Neil report lists Joe Hagan's presence as only "MR. HAGEN". The only person listed with a prefix replacing the first name.
False. On the prior page, "Major General Wehle" [Philip C. Wehle] is listed as entering the autopsy room during the autopsy, and no name is given other than his surname. "Adm. Berkley" [George G. Burkley] is also listed as attending the autopsy on the same page with only his surname.
Your claim is false, as is your reasoning below from that false claim.
In my view, this leaves open the possibility that they were just told about Joe Hagan and did not actually see him at the Bethesda morgue.
Nobody cares about your view. Your evidence doesn't support your view. Remember the document was typed up on 11/26/63, and they were undoubtedly relying on their notes taken on 11/22/63 to type that document. Clearly, there were some people whose first names they didn't take down (Wehle, Burkley, and Hagen), and they simply typed it up that way.
Or they were only told about those men and didn't see any of them.
Of course, on page 4, Dr. James Humes is referred to only as "Dr. Humes". So perhaps the real Doctor Humes left in the middle of the autopsy, and somebody else finished up?
Your argument is nonsense. Don't let that stop you. In my 25 years arguing with conspiracy theorists online, I've yet to see one conspiracy argument that makes sense when carried to its natural conclusion.
But even assuming your argument is true, let me point out
you're now arguing for removing your chief witness for an alternative solution from your list of witnesses. Earlier, you were quoting Hagen's recollections extensively. Now you're arguing he wasn't even there "at the termination of the autopsy".
You may not care about history at all, but I am interested in reconciling every available piece of evidence.
No, your sole interest, as shown by your posting history here, is in wrenching every phrase you can out of context in pushing a conspiratorial alternative to the known solution of the President's assassination. You flit from argument to argument, never alighting on the most reasonable solution, to push this agenda. So "Hagen entered the autopsy room during the autopsy with the other morticians" and "Hagen wasn't there and the FBI agents were only told about him" are your alternate solutions.
Instead of the most reasonable, that the FBI agents knew how to read and write English, and wrote down exactly what happened:
At the termination of the autopsy, the following personnel from Gawler’s Funeral Home entered the autopsy room to prepare the President’s body for burial:
JOHN VAN HAESEN
EDWIN STROBLE
THOMAS ROBINSON
Mr. HAGEN
Period.
Only that your logic is appallingly bad.
Hank
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1 The "original copy"? Is it an original or a copy? Or both? Does the non-copy original or the copies of the original copy contain different language? What do you even mean? Do you even know?
