Dr. David Mantik's newly released book JFK Assassination Paradoxes, in which he proves with hard scientific evidence--optical density measurements and radiological analysis--that the JFK autopsy skull x-rays have been altered. As Dr. Greg Henkelmann says in his endorsement of this book, "to reject alteration of the JFK skull x-rays is to reject basic physics and radiology."
Cool. Mantik is wrong. He's also a CTist. If you read his "evaluation" of the x-rays, and the autopsy it is clear he knows nothing about the events of the hours from the shooting, until they boxed up JFK later at Bethesda. He doesn't discuss his methodology of applying his techniques to the x-rays. Nor does he say how he was able to do this at the National Archives with any reliability.
He also claims the Zapruder Film was altered, which already know is a lie.
Lone-gunman theorists seem to be caught in a time warp and act like we're living in the early 1990s, seemingly oblivious to the historic evidence that has come to light via the ARRB releases and new scientific research.
No, we live in 2022, a world where USSOCOM has adopted the 6.5 as its go-to caliber for long-range shooting.
And the ARRB was almost 30 years ago. Had you bothered to read through the other JFK threads you'd know their work has been extensively discussed.
Your lack, or inability to do basic research on a simple message board calls into question your capabilities to access basic information.
For example, we now know from ARRB-released files that the autopsy doctors determined for an absolute fact during the autopsy that JFK's back wound had no exit point, and that the first two drafts of the autopsy report said nothing about a bullet exiting the throat.
That's a lie, for several reasons.
1. They never probed the back would because YOU CAN'T PROBE SUCH WOUNDS. You'd know this had you actually read the ARRB interviews with Dr. Humes. You'd also know that Humes x-rayed the entire body, head to toe. So if there is a bullet in JFK's chest, why didn't the illustrious Dr. Mantik see it? Or why no evidence that the bullet was masked during the x-ray faking?
$5 says the clown never even looked.
2. As we have discussed at length, Humes didn't think to call the Parkland ER doctors regarding the throat wound until after the autopsy. He and Dr. Finck both said they would have paid closer attention. As it was, they believed it to be a tracheostomy, and focused on the head wound.
Again, had you bothered to read any of the ARRB, you'd have read Dr. Humes' deposition, wherein he said"
Q. And there was a gunshot wound to the neck, wasn't there?
A. Well, you'd better clarify that. There was a big gaping tracheotomy wound in the anterior neck. I learned later that there had been a gunshot wound in that location, but I didn't know it. That was 99 percent of my problem. There was a bullet wound in the back above the scapula, like I mentioned earlier, and there was a wound of entrance in the back of the skull and a wound of exit in the skull. Those were the wounds.
3. Drafts are not the final report. Drafts are just that, works in progress. People who fail English class think otherwise.
4. Dr. Humes was rushed. He never got to review the x-rays OR the photographs before writing the autopsy report:
Q. Were you anticipating at the time you were performing the autopsy that you would have the photographs and X-rays available for your inspection at the time you were writing the autopsy report?
A. No, I never expected to have them when I was writing the autopsy--he wanted the autopsy report in, what, 36 to 48 hours. No, I didn't anticipate I'd have them at that time.
Q. When did he--he being Dr. Burkley, I assume--when you said he wanted them in 36 to 48 hours?
A. Autopsy report.
Q. Yes.
A. Before he left the morgue. Before he left the morgue that night, he said he would like to have the report, if we could, by 6:00 p.m. on Sunday night.
Q. And that was Dr. Burkley?
A. That was Dr. Burkley.
The truth is much more complex.
The autopsy doctors, we now know, probed the back wound extensively after removing the chest organs and while positioning the body in different angles and positions.
Nope.
When they removed the organs they found one of the lungs was bruised, and wondered where the bullet went. Later, they called Parkland, and figured out the bullet had passed through the body. Also, Parkland had no idea about the back wound.
Toward the end of the probing, Dr. Finck informed the two FBI observers (Sibert and O'Neill) that the back wound had no exit point. One of the medical technicians who witnessed the probing could see the end of the probe pushing against the lining of the chest cavity--he could see that the wound was shallow and had no exit point. The HSCA medical panel was aware of this evidence but chose to suppress it by sealing it for 50 years, but the ARRB released it in the mid-1990s.
All of this is a lie. Read the ARRB.
The fact that the back wound had no exit point, of course, debunks the single-bullet theory, and without the single-bullet theory there can be no lone-gunman theory. Since the SBT is false, there must have been at least two gunmen firing at JFK.
The problem is the back wound did exit through the throat.
Look, if you want to believe in fairy tales that's you prerogative. But you can't come in here with 30 to 59 year-old lies and expect anyone to take you seriously.
