JFK Assassination: Was the Zapruder film altered?

[Slav]

Do you ever think the Evil forces will ever be brought to justice, take a lookat all the recent events, the Boston Bombing and the school schootings and the Shootings at the theater, do you think or believe this happened like they say it did? I watch CNN about the Boston Bombing and the news unravels almost like Oswalds did, guilt and dead just the way they like to keep everyone they accuse of a crime except Johnson and Bush.I cant believe we live in this world today how it went this far.

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Gene Coleman Akin, March 25, 1964. Dr. Akin was an anaesthesiologist at Parkland Memorial Hospital and assissted in resuscitation attempts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - What did you observe as to the President's condition?Dr. AKIN - He looked moribund in my medical judgment.Mr. SPECTER - Did you observe any wounds on him at the time you first saw him?Dr. AKIN - There was a midline neck wound below the level of the cricoid cartilage, about 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, the lower part of this had been cut across when I saw the wound, it had been cut across with a knife in the performance of the tracheotomy. The back of the right occipitalparietal portion of his head was shattered, with brain substance extruding."

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Charles Rufus Baxter, March 24, 1964. Dr. Baxter was also in attendance at Parkland ER and assisted in resuscitation attempts performed on JFK."Dr. Baxter - During the tracheotomy, I helped with the insertion of a right anterior chest tube, and then helped Dr. Perry complete the tracheotomy. At that point none of us could hear a heartbeat present. Apparently this had ceased during the tracheotomy and the chest tube placement.We then gave him or Dr. Perry and Dr. Clark alternated giving him closed chest cardiac massage only until we could get a cardioscope hooked up to tell us if there were any detectible heartbeat electrically present, at least, and there was none, and we discussed at that moment whether we should open the chest to attempt to revive him, while the closed chest massage was going on, and we had an opportunity to look at his head wound then and saw that the damage was beyond hope, that is, in a word-- literally the right side of his head had been blown off. With this and the observation that the cerebellum was present--a large quantity of brain was present on the cart, well--we felt that such an additional heroic attempt was not warranted, and we did not pronounce him dead but ceased our efforts, and awaited the priest and last rites before we pronounced him dead."Not a very precise description of the head wound location but, once again, the cerebellum is mentioned. Just for refreshment, I have re-posted the diagram below showing the location of the cerebellum in the human skull.



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[RobertP]

ACTIVITIES OF PAT HUTTON ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963 I came back from lunch, and went to the O.B.-Gynocology section where I was working. At approximately 12:30 P.M., the triage nurse called us to bring a cart out to the entrance. We took said cart out the door, and it was then that I realized who was in the car. Several people helped put the President on the cart, and we then proceeded to the Major Surgery section of the Emergency Room to Trauma Room #1. Mr. Kennedy was bleeding profusely from a wound on the back of his head, and was lying there unresponsive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It is not stated whether this statement by Patricia B. Hutton, Registered Nurse, was taken by the DPD, FBI, Secret Service or Parkland Hospital.

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Diana Hamilton Bowron, RN, March 24, 1964. Nurse Bowron was also in attendance at Parkland ER when JFK was brought in. She was the first member of the Parkland staff to reach JFK in the limousine."Mr. SPECTER - And what, in a general way, did you observe with respect to President Kennedy's condition? Miss BOWRON - He was very pale, he was lying across Mrs. Kennedy's knee and there seemed to be blood everywhere. When I went around to the other side of the car I saw the condition of his head. Mr. SPECTER - You saw the condition of his what? Miss BOWRON - The back of his head. Mr. SPECTER - And what was that condition? Miss BOWRON - Well, it was very bad---you know. Mr. SPECTER - How many holes did you see? Miss BOWRON - I just saw one large hole. Mr. SPECTER - Did you see a small bullet hole beneath that one large hole? Miss BOWRON - No, sir. Mr. SPECTER - Did you notice any other wound on the President's body? Miss BOWRON - No, sir."

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Ronald Coy Jones, March 24, 1964. He was also in attendance at Parkland ER and assisted in resuscitation attempts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - Did you observe anything else with respect to the President's condition at that time? Dr. JONES - You mean as far as wounds--that he had? Mr. SPECTER - Did you observe any wounds? Dr. JONES - As we saw him the first time, we noticed that he had a small wound at the midline of the neck, just above the superasternal notch, and this was probably no greater than a quarter of an inch in greatest diameter, and that he had a large wound in the right posterior side of the head. Mr. SPECTER - When you say "we noticed," whom do you mean by that? Dr. JONES - Well, Dr. Perry and I were the two that were there at this time observing. Mr. SPECTER - Did Dr. Perry make any comment about the nature of the wound at that time? Either wound? Dr. JONES - Not that I recall. Mr. SPECTER - Will you describe as precisely as you can the nature of the head wound? Dr. JONES - There was 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." Further testimony from Dr. Jones. Carefully note Arlen Specter's attempt to lead the witness and move the exit wound to the top of the head. "Mr. SPECTER - Dr. Jones, did you have any speculative thought as to accounting for the point of wounds which you observed on the President, as you thought about it when you were treating the President that day, or shortly thereafter? Dr. JONES - With no history as to the number of times that the President had been shot or knowing the direction from which he had been shot, and seeing the wound in the midline of the neck, and what appeared to be an exit wound in the posterior portion of the skull, the only speculation that I could have as far as to how this could occur with a single wound would be that would enter the anterior neck and possibly strike a vertebral body and then change its course and exit in the region of the posterior portion of the head. However, this was--there was some doubt that a missile that appeared to be of this high velocity would suddenly change its course by striking, but at the present-at that time, if I accounted for it on the basis of one shot, that would have been the way I accounted for it. Mr. SPECTER - And would that account take into consideration the extensive damage done to the top of the President's head?"Did Dr. Jones say anything about damage to the top of JFK's head?

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Malcolm Perry. He also was in attendance at Parkland ER and took part in the resuscitation attempts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - Will you continue, then, Dr. Perry, as to what you observed of his condition? Dr. PERRY - Yes, there was blood noted on the carriage and a large avulsive wound on the right posterior cranium.I cannot state the size, I did not examine it at all. I just noted the presence of lacerated brain tissue. In the lower part of the neck below the Adams apple was a small, roughly circular wound of perhaps 5 mm. in diameter from which blood was exuding slowly.I did not see any other wounds.I examined the chest briefly, and from the anterior portion did not see any thing.I pushed up the brace on the left side very briefly to feel for his femoral pulse, but did not obtain any.I did no further examination because it was obvious that if any treatment were to be carried out with any success a secure effective airway must be obtained immediately.I asked Dr. Carrico if the wound on the neck was actually a wound or had he begun a tracheotomy and he replied in the negative, that it was a wound, and at that point-- "

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Paul Conrad Peters, March 24, 1964. Dr. Peters was also in attendance at the Parkland ER and assissted in resuscitation attempts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - What did you observe as to the nature of the President's wound? Dr. PETERS - Well, as I mentioned, the neck wound had already been interfered with by the tracheotomy at the time I got there, but I noticed the head wound, and as I remember--I noticed that there was a large defect in the occiput. Mr. SPECTER - What did you notice in the occiput? Dr. PETERS - It seemed to me that in the right occipitalparietal area that there was a large defect. There appeared to be bone loss and brain loss in the area. Mr. SPECTER - Did you notice any holes below the occiput, say, in this area below here? Dr. PETERS - No, I did not and at the time and the moments immediately following the injury, 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, and it is a known fact that high velocity missiles often have a small wound of entrance and a large wound of exit, and I'm just giving you my honest impressions at the time."Once again, the diagram showing the location of the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.



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[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Martin G. White, March 24, 1964. Dr. White was also in attendance at Parkland ER and was briefly involved in the resuscitation attempts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - Did you have an opportunity to observe any of his wounds? Dr. WHITE - I saw the wound in his head as he was brought into the trauma room where he was treated. Mr. SPECTER - Did you observe any other wounds? Dr. WHITE - No, I did not see any other. Mr. SPECTER - Did you observe specifically a wound in the neck? Dr. WHITE - I did not look and did not observe any."Do you get the feeling that Mr. Specter was trying to avoid any in depth discussions about the head wound?

[RobertP]

Summary of the ARRB interview with Audrey Bell, RN, April 14, 1997. Nurse Bell was also in attendance at Parkland ER that day and spent a brief amount of time in the ER while resuscitation attempts were performed on JFK.""-Although only in Trauma Room One for 3-5 minutes, she did see the head wound. After asking Dr.Perry “where is the wound,” she said he turned the President’s head slightly to the President’s anatomicalleft, so that she could see a right rear posterior head wound, which she described as occipital in both heroral remarks, and in her drawings;-She said she could see brain and spinal fluid coming out of the wound, but could not tell what type ofbrain tissue it was;-She said it was her recollection that the right side of the President’s head, and the top of his head,were intact, which is why she had to ask Dr. Perry where the wound was in the first place."(04/l 4/97 Summary of ARRB interview)"



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