They Killed Our President
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• NURSE DIANA BOWRON: There was a gaping wound in the back of his head. It was gone. Gone. There was nothing there. Just a big gaping hole. There might have been little clumps of scalp, but most of the bone over the hole, there was no bone there. There was no damage to the front of his face, only wound in the back of his head and the entry wound in his throat. The wound was so large I could almost put my whole fist into it.
• NURSE DORIS NELSON (when shown the rear of head autopsy photo): There wasn’t even hair back there. It was blown away. All that area was blown out.
• NURSE PAT HUTTON: A doctor asked me to place a pressure dressing on the head wound. This was of no use, however, because of the massive opening on the back of the head.
• DR. MALCOLM PERRY: There was blood noted on the carriage and a large avulsive wound on the right posterior cranium.
• DR. RONALD JONES: There was a large defect in the back side of the head as the President lay on the cart with what appeared to be some brain hanging out of this wound with multiple pieces of skull noted next with the brain and with a tremendous amount of clot and blood.
• DR. PAUL PETERS: I noticed the head wound, and as I remember—I noticed that there was a large defect in the occiput. It seemed to me that in the right occipital parietal area that there was a large defect. There appeared to be bone loss and brain loss in the area . . . we speculated as to whether he had been shot once or twice because we saw the wound of entry in the throat and noted the large occipital wound.
• DR. KEMP CLARK: I then examined the wound in the back of the President’s head. This was a large, gaping wound in the right posterior part, with cerebral and cerebellar tissue being damaged and exposed.
• NURSE MARGARET HINCHCLIFF: The President had a gaping wound in the back of his head and an entrance wound in his throat.
• BETHESDA PHOTOGRAPHER FLOYD RIEBE: A big gaping hole in the back of the head.
• FBI SPECIAL AGENT FRANK O’NEILL: A massive wound in the right rear.342
So—here’s the huge question: What happened to the rear head wound that all those witnesses saw but isn’t in the autopsy photos?
You obviously can’t miss a thing like that, especially when you’re taking official autopsy photographs for the specific purpose of wound documentation. But in the official autopsy photos, there’s no rear exit wound. That simply isn’t possible. Unless the photos were altered, the wounds were altered, or all those emergency doctors and other personnel were lying.
Well, the doctors weren’t lying. They know what they saw. They also documented it in a highly adequate and thoroughly professional manner.
I should point out that not only did they document the massive exit wound, they also documented the entry wound in the front that caused that huge exit at the back:
Multiple witnesses, who were medically and otherwise credible, confirmed that they clearly saw an entry wound in the FRONT of President Kennedy’s head, in his upper right forehead at the hairline.343
So this is a no-brainer from a medical standpoint. Those doctors were there and they saw a small entry wound at the front and the big exit wound at the right rear. So how did that massive wound magically disappear?
As wild as it sounds—in the official U.S. government autopsy photos and X-rays, there were different wounds on the body of the President. And I emphasize that point because it’s a point that bears emphasis. Imagine such a thing: The wounds were changed.
Well, there was further eyewitness testimony that indicated that what took place after the autopsy was—they basically patched that hole in the back the President’s head:
• MORTICIAN THOMAS ROBINSON: About the size of a small orange . . . circular . . . ragged . . . directly behind the back of his head . . . they brought a piece of heavy duty rubber, again to fill this area in the back of the head . . . it had to be all dried out, packed, and the rubber placed in the hair and the skin pulled back over . . . and stitched into that piece of rubber.
• QUESTION: Can you give me some information on the head wound?
• FBI SPECIAL AGENT JAMES SIBERT: Oh, it was a good size, in the back part of the head there. Well, I think about three and a half inches one way, then quite a bit the other . . . now those two (Dr. Boswell and Dr. Humes, who performed the autopsy) stayed there till about 5:30 in the morning as I recall. That was their admission—that they stayed and helped the morticians. In other words, they must have taken some other pictures too, because they showed the pictures at that deposition that were neat in appearance, and boy, I don’t remember anything like that . . . but my recollection of the way the head looked is nothing that would appear as this photograph shows. This photograph is too neat. Right back here is where you would have had that massive wound, right in here, and you see that’s neat. My thought was that that was probably taken after reconstruction was done . . .344
Some of the Navy personnel also seemed to have viewed photos from the “original” or “real” autopsy before the wounds were changed. Because the wounds they described in those photos did not exist in the official photos and the photos they referred to have completely disappeared:
Petty Officer Saundra Spencer: They had one [autopsy photo] showing the back of the head with the wound at the back of the head. It was just a ragged hole.345
When the official version of the autopsy photos were shown to people who had viewed the body in Dallas or at Bethesda prior to the autopsy—solid eyewitnesses who saw the wounds—they said things like, “Those are not the wounds I saw.”346
Douglas Horne was Chief Analyst for the Military Records Team of the Assassination Records Review Board in Washington, D.C. and oversaw the disposition of mountains of records related to the JFK assassination from 1995 to 1998. Horne then spent the next several years of his life writing his epic compilation of that project, a five-volume study totaling 1,807 pages, entitled Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK. That book, released in 2010, is the most thorough and exhaustive study of the evidence in the JFK assassination in existence, particularly as it relates to the medical evidence in the case.
Horne’s work—as well as that of Dr. David Mantik and others—have established that a lot of awful shenanigans took place during the autopsy of President Kennedy.347 That was established by extensive scientific comparison of the official X-rays and photographs, with the placement of the wounds clearly substantiated by the doctors in Dallas. And they do not match.
Dr. Mantik examined the official materials many times and also found a number of other anomalies in the medical evidence which he explains in detail, complete with slides, in a study online called, “The JFK Autopsy Materials: Twenty Conclusions after Nine Visits” at: assassinationresearch.com/v2n2/pittsburgh.pdf.
First, the official skull X-rays do not show the condition of the skull or the brain as seen at Parkland.348
Stop and think about that for a second. The wounds in the official X-rays did not match the wounds documented by the emergency room doctors. They were dramatically different. They reflect an entry wound from the rear, whereas the wounds that were seen in Dallas clearly reflected an entry wound from the front.
Now read the following entry very carefully. It’s written by a doctor, so it’s in medical lingo, but play close attention to what he concludes:
Instead, they [the official autopsy photos and X-rays] were taken after tampering by H&B [Dr. Humes and Dr. Boswell, the two physicians who performed the autopsy of President Kennedy], perhaps even after significant tampering, especially if Robinson and Reed are correct. Furthermore, the massive damage seen in the photographs and X-rays was not caused just by a bullet or even by multiple bullets, but instead by pathological hands. In particular, for a single, full metal-jacketed bullet—the Warren Commission’s inevitable scenario—to generate such an enormous defect has always defied credibility. Likewise, Boswell’s sketch [for the ARRB; Assassination
Records Review Board] on a skull of this enormous defect only shows the condition of the skull after tampering by H&B—and does not reflect the skull as seen at Parkland [Hospital in Dallas]. The Parkland witnesses fully concur with this. On the other hand, many witnesses at Bethesda saw the condition of the skull before such tampering began. These witnesses, both physicians and paraprofessionals uniformly describe a right occipital blowout [right rear of skull], consistent with a shot from the front.349
In other words, the wounds didn’t change by themselves. What that means in plain English is that they were altered and the massive exit wound at the rear was disguised medically so that it could be represented in the official autopsy photos and X-rays as displaying the effects of a shot from the rear.
At this point, Dr. Humes performed clandestine surgery on the head to enlarge the head wound to create ‘evidence’ of a temporal/ parietal exit and an incision was made to remove evidence of a right forehead entry. The scalp and skull were manipulated to conceal the size and location of the occipital ‘blowout’ and a ‘wound’ was created to simulate a small entrance wound on the back of the head.350
So, in even plainer English, there was illicit surgery at the Bethesda morgue.351 They had to change the physical evidence to fit their lone gunman scenario of one shooter and a head shot from the rear. So, incredible as it sounds: Even though it was the body of the President of the United States, that’s what they did. Gruesome, horrifying, outrageous, and also, by logical deduction, as Mr. Horne and Dr. Mantik have proved, necessarily true.
Chew on that one for awhile.
341 Kent Heiner, Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lieutenant Commander William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up Conspiracy? (TrineDay: 2004).
342 Brad Parker, First on the Scene: Interviews with Parkland Doctors (JFK Lancer: 2005): jfklancer.com/parkland_drs.html
343 Douglas P. Horne, Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK (Douglas P. Horne: 2009).
344 Parker, First on the Scene: Interviews with Parkland Doctors.
345 Ibid.
346 Horne, Inside the Assassination Records Review Board.
347 David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., “The JFK Autopsy Materials: Twenty Conclusions after Nine Visits,” November 20—23, 2003: assassinationresearch.com/v2n2/pittsburgh.pdf
348 David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., “Inside the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) by Douglas Horne: A Nearly-Entirely-Positive Review,” 26 Feb. 2010. assassinationscience.com/HorneReview.pdf (accessed 6 May 2013).
349 Ibid.
350 Brian Rooney, “Burying The Truth—book review of Doug Horne’s epic effort,” April, 2010, JFK: Deep Politics Quarterly.
351 Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., “Inside the Assassination Records Review Board.”
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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Navy Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer
A person who was very close to that bizarre autopsy of President Kennedy died a very “untimely” death; just as he was reportedly ready to go public about the altered autopsy materials.
They tried to say that United States Navy Lieutenant Commander William B. Pitzer committed suicide, but he didn’t: he was murdered. The evidence of that case indicates that he was “eliminated” because of his impending intentions. An experienced U.S. Special Forces assassin even came forward and documented that the CIA had requested him to assassinate Pitzer due to a matter regarding classified national security materials. We’ll get to that in a minute.
Lt. Commander Pitzer was the acknowledged “Head of the Navy TV Unit” at the National Naval Medical Center and was in charge of the Audio-Visual department at Bethesda.352 He was called into work at the time of the Kennedy autopsy, and he handled film materials of that autopsy.353
His Navy retirement was only days away and he had expressed excitement about his upcoming well-paying job running the educational television department at a college.
On October 29, 1966, Pitzer was found in a pool of blood of the floor of his office at the TV studio in Bethesda, dead from a gunshot wound to the head that authorities quickly ruled was self-inflicted, stating that he was depressed and had committed suicide.
But a new book, Hit List, details the many reasons that Pitzer’s death was actually a “national security assassination” and not a suicide. The CIA even requested Daniel Marvin—an assassin with U.S. Army Special Forces—to “terminate” Pitzer for the stated reason that he was preparing to release “State secrets.” Marvin refused to volunteer for that mission, but later realized that Pitzer had indeed been assassinated by a fellow member of Marvin’s Special Forces team.354 I’ll show you the specific forensic evidence in a minute, but first, here’s the case in a nutshell:
Pitzer had a prime role in the documentation of records from President Kennedy’s autopsy, was reportedly well aware that the wounds had been altered and was said to be planning to expose the problems with the JFK autopsy. He was also not suicidal according to reputable accounts. U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin was requested by the CIA to assassinate Pitzer for national security purposes:
‘He was getting close to retirement and it was his plan that when he retired was when that information would be released to the public, ’cause they’d prove that the President was hit with more than one bullet in the head and he was hit from a different direction than they said.’355
Pitzer had been privy to a lot of classified materials regarding what he had witnessed during that autopsy. Pitzer was sworn to secrecy about those events, like most of the people involved in the autopsy, because the U.S. government had invoked “National Security”:
After the completion of the autopsy report, Admiral Burkley, the late President’s personal physician, requested written confirmation from Dr. Humes that he had burned his original notes. All Naval hospital staff who had been involved in the autopsy were called into the commanding officer’s office several days after and required to sign orders acknowledging their obligation to remain silent about what they had seen and heard, under penalty of court-martial.356
Lt. Colonel Dan Marvin was an amazing man of much integrity—I have tremendous respect for the guy. When you talk about a true patriot, I think of somebody like him. This is a guy who led Special Forces teams in Laos when we weren’t even technically in Laos. He saved a lot of soldiers’ lives, performed complex duties with valor, and was awarded for them. Marvin was even requested to do a special mission at one time; the assassination of Cambodia’s Crown Prince Sihanouk. He accepted that mission, but when President Johnson didn’t hold up his end of the deal and announce the elimination of allowing safe havens for the enemy in Cambodia, Dan Marvin told the CIA that the deal was off.357
So that’s the league this guy was in. He wasn’t just the kind of guy that you could trust with his testimony; he was the type of guy that you could trust with your life! Dan passed away a short time ago and if you want to know what I think of him, it’s the same thing Babe Ruth supposedly said: “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” He’s still with us in his books, though. There are also some clips online that convey the heroic humanity of this man. He was featured in “The Truth Shall Set You Free” episode of The Men Who Killed Kennedy. There’s a long segment on his story, starting at about 17:50 and you owe it to yourself to watch him:358 youtube.com/watch?v=iqpW89lhnE0.
LTC Marvin goes into great detail—in that video clip and in his books and articles—about the specifics of that assassination.359 He refused to volunteer for that mission, but he thought that a fellow assassin on his team, who went missing, was the one who killed Pitzer. But he remembered the name, and he remembered the mission and was positive that the assassination was requested by the CIA. As soon as he heard that Pitzer was shot, he knew it was an assassination—and that was a surety that he maintained till the day he died. He had nothing to gain by coming f
orward—and a lot to lose—but he did it anyway because that’s the kind of man he was.
Here are some of the many reasons why the evidence also shows it was not a suicide.
• GSR testing for gunshot residue on the victim showed that he had not fired a weapon.360
• You can see why the government withheld the paraffin results for so long—even from Pitzer’s family, by the way.361 Once you read those results, it shows he had not fired a gun!
• “The paraffin tests of Pitzer’s right palm and back of hand were negative, indicating the absence of nitrate, therefore no exposure to gunpowder. While false positives are not uncommon with this test due to contact with tobacco, cosmetics, certain foodstuffs etc., a negative result (as on Pitzer) is usually accepted as evidence of no recent contact with a discharged firearm.”362
• The FBI paraffin tests also showed something else that proved he didn’t shoot himself. They showed that the revolver was held at a distance of over 3 feet away from his head.363 Think about it. That alone shows that he was murdered!
Check out this point too:
If we view all of Lieutenant Commander Pitzer’s actions on his final day as a ‘timeline’ to discern his frame of mind, they are dramatically opposite to a troubled person contemplating suicide. Quite to the contrary, in fact, his final day was typical, even mundane. He was described as ‘very cheerful.’ He made breakfast, raked leaves, got a haircut, stopped at the store, checked things at the office—and was then shot in the head.364
And this one’s my favorite. He wrote himself a note to remember to return the revolver to the security office.365 Now, if he was going to shoot himself in the frigging head with that gun then why in hell would he have written that