The four selected doctors claim what they saw of the autopsy photos on the Nova program was consistent with what they saw at Parkland. So what did they say they observed at Parkland???
MARION THOMAS JENKINS, MD: In a contemporaneous note dated 11-22-63, Jenkins described "a great laceration on the right side of the head (temporal and occipital) (sic), causing a great defect in the skull plate so that there was herniation and laceration of great areas of the brain, even to the extent that the
cerebellum had protruded from the wound." (WC--Exhibit #392) To the Warren Commission's Arlen Specter Dr. Jenkins said, "Part of the brain was herniated. I really think part of the cerebellum, as I recognized it, was herniated from the wound..." (WC--V6:48)
Jenkins told Specter that the temporal and occipital wound was a wound of exit, "...the wound with the exploded area of the scalp, as I interpreted it being exploded, I would interpret it being a wound of exit..." (WC--V6:51.)
PAUL PETERS, MD: a resident physician at Parkland described the head wound to the Warren Commission's Arlen Specter under oath as, "...I noticed that there was a l
arge defect in the occiput...It seemed to me that in the right occipitalparietal area that there was a large defect." (WC-V6:71)
When shown enlarged Zapruder film frames depicting a right-anterior wound, Peters wrote, "The wound which you marked...I never saw and I don't think there was such a wound. I think that was simply an artifact of copying Zapruder's movie... The only wound I saw on President Kennedy's head was in the
occipitoparietal area on the right side." (Personal letter to Wallace Milam 4-14-80, copy, courtesy of Wallace Milam to author Aguilar; also in Lifton, BE: 557)
When shown by author Livingstone the HSCA's Dox drawings of the rear of JFK's skull prepared to precisely replicate the photographs, Peters claimed, "Well, this is an artist's drawing, and I don't think that it's consistent with what I saw...
ROBERT McCLELLAND, MD: In testimony at Parkland taken before Arlen Specter on 3-21-64, McClelland described the head wound as, "...I could very closely examine the head wound, and I noted that the
right posterior portion of the skull had been extremely blasted. It had been shattered...so that the parietal bone was protruded up through the scalp and seemed to be fractured almost along its right posterior half, as well as some of the occipital bone being fractured in its lateral half, and this sprung open the bones that I mentioned in such a way that you could actually look down into the skull cavity itself and see that probably a third or so, at least, of the brain tissue, posterior cerebral tissue and some of the cerebellar tissue had been blasted out...." (WC--V6:33) Later he said, "...unfortunately the loss of blood and the loss of cerebral and cerebellar tissues were so great that the efforts (to save Kennedy's life) were of no avail." (Emphasis added throughout) (WC--V6:34) McClelland made clear that he thought the rear wound in the skull was an exit wound (WC-V6:35,37). McClelland ascribed the cause of death to, "...massive head injuries with loss of large amounts of cerebral and cerebellar tissues and massive blood loss." (WC--V6:34)
“Nova”, 11/15/88 (see still photo in “Killing The Truth”)---before AND after
viewing the official photos, McClelland places his hand on the right rear area
of his head where he saw the wound on JFK and “speculates” that a large
flap of skin is obscuring the large wound in the official photos
A)“Conspiracy” by Anthony Summers (paperback, 1989), pp. 484-486
(interviewed McClelland in 1989)-
--“I don’t think they were trying to cover up
the fact that there was a large hole…but that’s what they were doing…they
were covering up that great defect in the back and lateral part of the head by pulling that loose scalp flap up. You can see the hand pulling the scalp forward [in the autopsy photo; this is what McClelland said, more or less, on
“Nova”]”; “Dr. McClelland says the ‘great defect in the back’ IS visible on
some photographs amongst the FULL set of some fifty pictures he saw at the
National Archives”; B) 8/29/89 letter to Joanne Braun (“The Third Decade”,
March 1991)---sees nothing to be concerned about re: the incision(s) that
appear in the official autopsy photos;
q) “Inside Edition”, June 1989---McClelland “says the x-rays do not show the
same injuries to the President’s head that he saw in the emergency room…I
think he was shot from the front…” [see “Conspiracy”, pp. 485-486];
http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n2/v4n2part1.pdf
RICHARD BROOKS DULANEY, MD: was a first year general surgery resident at Parkland Hospital on the day of the assassination. He appeared before the Commission and claimed only, "...he had a large head wound---that was the first thing I noticed." Arlen Specter did not ask him to elaborate and Dulaney did not volunteer any additional details.(WC-V:114).
So what photos were shown? We don't really know because the public was not allowed to see them even on the Nova show. But the denials of those who actually took the alleged original autopsy photos and developed them must be weighed as evidence as well:
* Floyd Riebe, one of the two autopsy photographers, has stated that did NOT take ANY of the photos in evidence. The other photographer, James Stringer, stated in a taped interview that he did NOT take the photos of the back of the head, which show that area intact, contrary to the testimony of literally dozens of credible witnesses. Who, then, took the back-of-the-head pictures?
A sworn interview with Saundra Kay Spencer, who developed the JFK autopsy photos, in which she declared that the photos in the Archives are not the ones she developed. Autopsy photographer John Stringer similarly disavowed the supplemental autopsy brain photographs.
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/JFK_Assassination
