l. Why did the autopsy doctors go along with a lie?
"I really believe honestly that if you go to where the Warren Commission started, LBJ started the Warren Commission, Hoover fed the Warren Commission every bit of information, and Dr. Humes and Dr. Boswell, Dr. Perry all the rest of them who might know what really happened, know that the evidence that was saved could not be backed up by anybody. And Dr. Humes and Dr. Boswell were facing retirement. They didn't want to lose their retirement. They both gained another rank, too....I think it was a chess game and they were checkmated. I think that always sat wrong with Dr. Humes, that he had to knuckle under....But playing a game of chess, sometimes, one gets checkmated. The better part of valor is to do what he did."
2. Who put them up to it?
LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover
"They only got the information that Hoover wanted them to have. And they also knew, by the time the Select Committee started, that all of all the evidence was missing, including the brain. Humes would say: "Let me review the evidence." And they would have stated, "We no longer know where it is." In other words, you're on a floating boat on thin ice. So they had to go in just about like I did. Verbally reconstruct it."
3. Was Dr.Humes really just a pencil pusher with no clue as to what he was doing?
"Well, Dr. Humes was the head of pathology and would be the one who would do the autopsy on Kennedy, because he was the department head. He was basically in the administrative part, but he was a doctor."
4. Who scripted the autopsy conclusions?
LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover
5. Did Harold Rydberg knowingly concoct a lie with his fictional drawings?
Not at the time. But when he found out that his drawing was used to track the exit and entry wounds, he was appalled and outraged. But he couldn't say anythng under threat of court martial.
6. Where did the fatal head shot actually enter Kennedy's head?
"....when you've got a bullet coming in from the right, and you've seen that on the Zapruder film-where Kennedy flies back, his head flies back-it really fragments. The bullet-it was like a dumdum bullet..." There was nothing in that cerebral vault or the brain cavity to turn that bullet if it came in from the back and came out the right side. Brain matter has the consistency of scrambled eggs. There's nothing to turn the bullet, Why would it have come out the right side?"
"They had plenty of other evidence, but they really never saw that other evidence."
While the commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, perched in the Texas School Depository, fired the fatal shots from above and behind the President, the real killer was in a grassy area ahead of the motorcade.
8. Was the statement that Dr. Humes gave to the Warren Commission a slip of the tongue, or a clue left for posterity? What was the real meaning behind this quote:
"Scientifically, sir, it is impossible for it to have been fired from other than behind. Or to have exited from other than behind." -- Dr. Humes to WC
"So, basically, this double-speak is just that. Trying to tell you something without telling it to you...
"He (Humes) was saving his name and face for the people he knew would know what he was [doing]. If you knew Dr. Humes, you'd know that he could speak that way. And you'd know what he was saying. I talked with him that night at dinner."
"I know exactly what Dr. Humes was doing. I've read that testimony, and I know exactly what he was saying. You get a bunch of confused old men on the Warren Commission, which they all were, plus the other assistants they had -- Jerry Ford -- that would be enough to confuse anybody. And they're going to come out by not saying it..."
Humes was an honorable man and he was not going to go down quiet. He was going to leave messages for other people to see what he wanted to say but couldn't."
9. What about that so-called pristine bullet?
Read my book. I've placed everything where it belongs. First of all, that "pristine" bullet they found from the neck wound that went through Connolly -- I'll put it that way, was not a bullet fired at the time. It was part of Oswald's but it was Ruby who put the bullet on the gurney, which was even the wrong gurney.
10. Who benefitted most from the cover-up?
Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover
11. Have any of the principles retracted their findings?
Yes.