Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination by Jerome Corsi Read Free Book Online

medicaland ballistics evidence, in the end the Warren Commission resorted to arguing it was possible the bullet entered JFK’s back, exited his throat, and then continued on its trajectory to hit Connally in the back, lungs, wrist, and thigh. The Commission had to succeed in their argument otherwise the effort to establish that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin would fail. If there were more than one shooter, that would mean there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, which would instigate a public outcry for an investigation. The Warren Commission sought to avoid that because no one knew how high up and widespread a conspiracy might go. As long as Lee Harvey Oswald remained the only viable suspect, the case could be closed as a horrible accident of history.
    No doctor at Parkland or Bethesda ever thought to postulate a single-bullet theory. That took a lawyer like Arlen Specter. And JFK was long buried at Arlington Cemetery before anyone realized the single-bullet theory would depend on medical questions the doctors at Parkland and Bethesda had never thought to ask and on ballistic evidence establishing a bullet path from the back wound to the neck wound that the doctors at Parkland and Bethesda had never thought to look for. The simple truth was the doctors examining JFK at Parkland and at Bethesda never thought to connect the bullet paths through Kennedy’s body.
    President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Justice Department used the Warren Commission to create an official government narrative explaining why and how JFK was killed. After the nearly yearlong investigation, the Commission interviewed more than 500 witnesses to document nearly 8,000 pages of testimony to produce an 888-page report. The transcripts to the testimony provide insight into the leading nature of the investigation and the desire to force a particular outcome. But if we take a look at the facts, the Warren Commission largely ignored how the doctors at Parkland Hospital, the first to see JFK’s wounds, nearly unanimously describe their findings in contradiction to the Warren Commission’s conclusions.
    According to the doctors at Parkland hospital, JFK suffered an entrance wound in his neck. At a press conference held at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963, a newsman asked Dr. Malcolm Perry, the physician who had performed the tracheotomy on JFK, whether or not the wound to JFK’s throat was an entrance wound. Perry explained:
    The wound appeared to be an entrance wound in the front of the throat; yes, that is correct. The exit wound, I don’t know. It could have been the head or there could have been a second wound of the head. There was not time to determine this at the particular instant. 58
    Tom Wicker, reporting for
The New York Times
in an article published two days after the assassination, wrote, “Mr. Kennedy was hit by a bullet in the throat, just below the Adam’s apple, [Dr. Malcolm Perry, an attending surgeon at Parkland, and Dr. Kemp Clark, chief of neurosurgery at Parkland] said. This wound had the appearance of the bullet’s entry.” 59 Wicker also reported JFK had “a massive, gaping wound” in the back and on the right side of his head and that Parkland physicians said immediately after the shooting that it was impossible to tell if JFK’s wounds were caused by one or two bullets. “According to the doctors at Parkland Hospital, the President suffered an entrance wound at the Adam’s apple and a massive wound at the head,” wrote assassination researcher Sylvia Meagher, whose 1967 book,
Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report
, is considered the definitive guide to the Warren Commission testimony. 60
    In his testimony to the Warren Commission on March 30, 1964, Dr. Charles James Carrico explained why the back wound went unnoticed at Parkland Hospital. Warren Commission counsel Arlen Specter asked Carrico about whether he had noticed a small wound on the right side of JFK’s