The Top Secret Second Autopsy of President John F. Kennedy
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BK Gjerde (2004): Second Autopsy of JFK i The Top Secret Second Autopsy of President John F. Kennedy by Bjørn K. Gjerde Copyright 2004 Bjørn K. Gjerde CONTENTS SUMMARY ........................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................... 2 IT’S ALL DONE WITH SMOKE AND MIRRORS: HOW THE AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPHS WERE FORGED ....... 5 EVIDENCE OF A SECOND AUTOPSY ....................................................... 12 Evidence of a second autopsy from the autopsy photographs ............................. 13 Two sets of autopsy photographs ............................................ 18 Sandra Kay Spencer ................................................ 18 Dr. Humes ....................................................... 22 The Secret Service, agent Fox and photographer Knudsen ................... 23 Vince Madonia .................................................... 26 Number of photographs ............................................. 27 Who took the different sets of autopsy photographs? ............................. 31 John T. Stringer .................................................... 31 Floyd A. Riebe .................................................... 35 Robert Knudsen ................................................... 37 Evidence of a second autopsy from the testimonies ..................................... 45 Richard L. Lipsey ........................................................ 49 Robert F. Karnei ......................................................... 57 Jerrol F. Custer .......................................................... 60 Edward F. Reed .......................................................... 65 John H. Ebersole ......................................................... 67 Paul K. O’Connor ........................................................ 69 Harold A. Rydberg ....................................................... 71 Chester H. Boyers ........................................................ 73 David Osborne ........................................................... 74 The autopsy pathologists, Drs. Humes, Boswell and Finck ......................... 75 Thomas E. Robinson ...................................................... 83 RECONSTRUCTING THE TWO AUTOPSIES .................................................. 85 The first autopsy on November 23nd ................................................ 85 Photographs and x-rays .................................................... 86 The first incision, the removal of the brain, and the arrival of Dr. Finck .............. 87 Examination of wounds and looking for bullets ................................. 94 The second autopsy on November 23rd .............................................. 99 The fabricated head wounds ............................................... 105 What happened to JFK’s body at the completion of the second autopsy? ............ 116 THE TRUE WOUNDS ON PRESIDENT KENNEDY ............................................. 117 THE SHOOTING IN DEALEY PLAZA ...................................................... 122 KENNEDY WAS KILLED IN A COUP D’ETAT ................................................ 124 BK Gjerde (2004): Second Autopsy of JFK 1 SUMMARY A careful examination of the autopsy photographs of President Kennedy has revealed that the views depicting the top of the head, the rear of the head and his back, represent images that have been reversed left-right (flipped horizontally). This is particularly evident in the views showing the top of the head where a characteristic Y shaped scar on the right side of President Kennedy’s nose is seen on the left side of the nose. The objective of the left-right reversal was to show an intact right rear of the head (by means of the intact left side), where many witnesses in Dallas and Bethesda had seen a large defect in the scalp and skull. The wound in the rear of the head suggested that President Kennedy hat been hit by a bullet fired from in front of him. When the images are oriented correctly, large defects can be seen to have been inflicted in the skull on the left side of the head in order to give the impression that there was a large exit wound in the top of the head on the right side (after reversing the images). The large defect seen on the true right side of the head has clearly also been fabricated, since there are discrepancies between the images concerning the location, size and nature of that wound. The wound in the back depicted in the autopsy photographs have been created on the left side of the spine, whereas the original wound on the right side is probably hidden beneath a ruler. The artificially created wounds could not have been inflicted on JFK’s body prior to or during the known autopsy at Bethesda on the evening of the assassination, November 22nd, 1963. Based on available autopsy photographs and x-rays and testimonies from personnel involved with the post mortem examinations of President Kennedy, it is concluded that there was a second autopsy on the night of November 23rd. In order to perform the second autopsy, the body of President Kennedy, which had been embalmed, reconstructed and dressed at the completion of the first autopsy, had to be taken from the casket in the East Room of the White House and brought back to Bethesda. Other than the medical personnel performing the autopsy, there were few persons present in the morgue. After having removed the sutures and other traces of the procedures performed during the first autopsy, a new set of photographs and x-rays were taken in order to show wounds in the head consistent with shots fired (by Lee Harvey Oswald) from the 6th floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository. The photographer seems to have been White House photographer Robert Knudsen. All the extant general autopsy photographs and the majority of the x-rays originate from the second autopsy. During the second autopsy, it was determined that the bullet that hit Kennedy in the back below the shoulder, had not exited. A complete bullet was apparently not recovered within the body. Moreover, there seems to have been a bullet path between an entry wound obscured by the tracheotomy incision in the front of the neck and a wound in the back of the neck, immediately below the skull. The fact that the latter bullet path existed was suppressed. The huge defect in the top of the skull, as depicted in the extant autopsy photographs, was created by reflecting the scalp toward the rear and removing portions of frontal and parietal bone. After the second autopsy, the body was probably brought back to the casket at the White House and subsequently buried on November 25th. President Kennedy seems to have had an entry wound in the front of the neck, obliterated by the tracheotomy incision performed in Dallas. A fragments of that bullet seems to have exited in the back of the neck. There was another entry wound in his back, below the right shoulder with no exit. The large wound in the right rear of the head, mainly in the occipital bone, was an exit wound, which suggests that there was an entry wound in the left temple, as described by a few witnesses at Parkland Hospital. President Kennedy seems to have been hit by three bullets, two from shots fired from in front of him and one from a shot fired from the rear. Governor Connally was hit by a separate shot fired from the rear. The front shooter seems to have been located on the Southern Knoll in the southwestern corner of Dealey Plaza. The rear shooter may have been located in either the TSBD or Dal-Tex building. The first shot from the front shooter hit President Kennedy in the front of his neck; the second shot from this shooter hit Kennedy in the head and was the fatal head shot. The first shot from the rear shooter hit President Kennedy in his back; the second shot from the rear hit Governor Connally. The shooters probably fired their first shot almost simultaneously, hitting Kennedy in the back and throat. Then the rear shooter hit Connally, and finally the front shooter hit Kennnedy in the head. There were only three audible shots. The fact that there were two autopsies in order to create false medical evidence implicating Oswald as the assassin, and the subsequent handling of that evidence, show that the assassination of President Kennedy was a coup d’etat organized by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his associates within the Secret Service, the military, particularly the Navy, and the FBI. Other agencies may also have been involved. President Kennedy’s personal physician, Admiral George C. Burkley, seems to have played a central role in organizing the medical cover-up. Numerous people must have known the truth about the Kennedy assassination in the ensuing years. Most of them have remained silent; the remainder have been silenced. But silent evidence may also speak. BK Gjerde (2004): Second Autopsy of JFK 2 INTRODUCTION Prior to November 2003 I had a fairly limited knowledge of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. I had never read any books about the assassination, and several years had passed since the previous time I had read anything about the subject. My main source of information had been different articles published on the Internet in the mid 1990s. However, in November 2003 I remembered that 40 years had passed since President Kennedy had been killed, so I checked in on the Internet again to see if there were any new developments in the case. The most interesting thing to me was