JFK Assassination: Was the Zapruder film altered?

[RobertP]

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. William Kemp Clark, March 21, 1964. Dr. Clark was also in attendance in the Parkland ER and was part of the resuscitation efforts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - What did you observe the President's condition to be on your arrival there? Dr. CLARK - The President was lying on his back on the emergency cart. Dr. Perry was performing a tracheotomy. There were chest tubes being inserted. Dr. Jenkins was assisting the President's respirations through a tube in his trachea. Dr. Jones and Dr. Carrico were administering fluids and blood intravenously. The President was making a few spasmodic respiratory efforts. I assisted. in withdrawing the endotracheal tube from the throat as Dr. Perry was then ready to insert the tracheotomy tube . I then examined the President briefly.My findings showed his pupils were widely dilated, did not react to light, and his eyes were deviated outward with a slight skew deviation.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. There was considerable blood loss evident on the carriage, the floor, and the clothing of some of the people present. I would estimate 1,500 cc. of blood being present.As I was examining the President's wound, I felt for a carotid pulse and felt none. Therefore, I began external cardiac massage and asked that a cardiotachioscope be connected. Because of my position it was difficult to administer cardiac massage. However, Dr. Jones stated that he felt a femoral pulse."

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, March 21, 1964. Dr. McClelland was also in attendance at Parkland ER and was part of the resuscitation efforts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - Before proceeding to describe what you did in connection with the tracheostomy, will you more fully describe your observation with respect to the head wound? Dr. McCLELLAND - As I took the position at the head of the table that I have already described, to help out with the tracheotomy, I was in such a position that I could very closely examine the head wound, and I noted that the right posterior portion of the skull had been extremely blasted. It had been shattered, apparently, by the force of the shot so that the parietal bone was protruded up through the scalp and seemed to be fractured almost along its right posterior half, as well as some of the occipital bone being fractured in its lateral haft, and this sprung open the bones that I mentioned in such a way that you could actually look down into the skull cavity itself and see that probably a third or so, at least, of the brain tissue, posterior cerebral tissue and some of the cerebellar tissue had been blasted out. There was a large amount of bleeding which was occurring mainly from the large venous channels in the skull which had been blasted open."

[Bob]

Excellent stuff here, Robert. To get a real insightful take on what really happened to the Zapruder film, I suggest everyone reads or gets Volume IV of Inside the ARRB by Doug Horne. Doug talks about what occurred with the film the very weekend of the assassination. Volume IV also talks about the shenanigans at Bethesda on Friday night, led by Roy Kellerman and Bill Greer.

[kenmurray]

Doug Horne talks about the switching of the films on the Real Deal with Jim Fetzer: http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2011/11/doug-horne.html

[RobertP]

Bob wrote:Excellent stuff here, Robert. To get a real insightful take on what really happened to the Zapruder film, I suggest everyone reads or gets Volume IV of Inside the ARRB by Doug Horne. Doug talks about what occurred with the film the very weekend of the assassination. Volume IV also talks about the shenanigans at Bethesda on Friday night, led by Roy Kellerman and Bill Greer.Thanks Bob. I never fail to feel a sense of amazement when I read any of the Parkland ER doctors' testimony regarding the gaping wound they all witnessed in the back of JFK's head and the total lack of a wound witnessed by them in the frontal area where the "autopsy" report claimed there was a large wound. If all the rest of the Zapruder film was proven authentic, the cartoon that is z313 would still be enough to bring down the Warren Commission house of cards.In a truly free and democratic society, with a real justice system, testimony from any one of the Parkland doctors, regarding the back of head wound, would have been sufficient to re-open the investigation of that fateful day in November.Freedom died that day, but I do not intend to let it die a quiet death. I will continue to post testimony from witnesses at Parkland ER, the Bethesda, Maryland autopsy and others until there is no doubt about the hideous travesty visited upon the American people by the forces of evil. I want the casual reader to read this thread and come away asking WTF??? And it matters not that this crime occurred fifty years ago. If anything, it is even more important now that we come to recognize evil.

[RobertP]

Just a quick look at the "official" autopsy photo of the back of JFK's head:



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[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Dr. Marion Thomas Jenkins, March 25, 1964. Dr. Jenkins was also in attendance at Parkland ER and was part of the resuscitation efforts performed on JFK."Mr. SPECTER - Now, will you now describe the wound which you observed in the head? Dr. JENKINS - Almost by the time I was--had the time to pay more attention to the wound in the head, all of these other activities were under way. I was busy connecting up an apparatus to respire for the patient, exerting manual pressure on the breathing bag or anesthesia apparatus, trying to feel for a pulse in the neck, and then reaching up and feeling for one in the temporal area, seeing about connecting the cardioscope or directing its being connected, and then turned attention to the wound in the head.Now, Dr. Clark had begun closed chest cardiac massage at this time and I was aware of the magnitude of the wound, because with each compression of the chest, there was a great rush of blood from the skull wound. Part of the brain was herniated; I really think part of the cerebellum, as I recognized it, was herniated from the wound; there was part of the brain tissue, broken fragments of the brain tissue on the drapes of the cart on which the President lay."Once again, cerebellar tissue was observed being herniated from the wound in the right rear of JFK's head.

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Clinton J. Hill, Special Agent, Secret Service. Hill was the Secret Service agent who left the followup car and climbed onto the back of the presidential limousine to provide protection to Jackie and JFK on the trip from Dealey Plaza to Parkland Hospital. It goes without saying that Agent Hill would have likely gotten a very good look at the large gaping wound in the right rear of JFK's head."Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe as to President Kennedy's condition on arrival at the hospital? Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head."

[RobertP]

From the Warren Commission testimony of Roy H. Kellerman, Special Agent, Secret Service. Agent Kellerman was riding in the front passenger seat of JFK's limousine on Nov. 22, 1963 and he was the agent in charge of the JFK trip to Dallas, Texas."Mr. SPECTER. All right. The topic we are on now, Mr. Kellerman, is your own way of relating the description of the wounds, starting with four wounds on President Kennedy. Mr. KELLERMAN. Right; OK. Mr. SPECTER. Proceed, then. Mr. KELLERMAN. I can eclipse an awful lot here and get into the morgue here in Bethesda, because that is where I looked him over. Mr. SPECTER. I will come back and pick up some of the other detail. Mr. KELLERMAN. Fine. Mr. SPECTER. But for the sequence at the moment, as it relates to your conclusions on the shots which you have already testified about-- Mr. KELLERMAN. OK. Mr. SPECTER. I would like to develop your understanding and your observations of the four wounds on President Kennedy. Mr. KELLERMAN. OK. This all transpired in the morgue of the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, sir. He had a large wound this size. Mr. SPECTER. Indicating a circle with your finger of the diameter of 5 inches; would that be approximately correct? Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes, circular; yes, on this part of the head. Mr. SPECTER. Indicating the rear portion of the head. Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes. Mr. SPECTER. More to the right side of the head? Mr. KELLERMAN. Right. This was removed. Mr. SPECTER. When you say, "This was removed," what do you mean by this? Mr. KELLERMAN. The skull part was removed. Mr. SPECTER. All right. Representative FORD. Above the ear and back? Mr. KELLERMAN. To the left of the ear, sir, and a little high; yes. About right in here. Mr. SPECTER. When you say "removed," by that do you mean that it was absent when you saw him, or taken off by the doctor? Mr. KELLERMAN. It was absent when I saw him. Mr. SPECTER. Fine. Proceed. Mr. KELLERMAN. Entry into this man's head was right below that wound, right here. Mr. SPECTER. Indicating the bottom of the hairline immediately to the right of the ear about the lower third of the ear? Mr. KELLERMAN. Right. But it was in the hairline, sir. Mr. SPECTER. In his hairline? Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes, sir. Mr. SPECTER. Near the end of his hairline? Mr. KELLERMAN. Yes, sir. Mr. SPECTER. What was the size of that aperture? Mr. KELLERMAN. The little finger. Mr. SPECTER. Indicating the diameter of the little finger. Mr. KELLERMAN. Right. Mr. SPECTER. Now, what was the position of that opening with respect to the portion of the skull which you have described as being removed or absent? Mr. KELLERMAN. Well, I am going to have to describe it similar to this. Let's say part of your skull is removed here; this is below. Mr. SPECTER. You have described a distance of approximately an inch and a half, 2 inches, below. Mr. KELLERMAN. That is correct; about that, sir. Mr. SPECTER. All right. What other wounds, if any, did you notice on the President? Mr. KELLERMAN. The other wound that I noticed was on his shoulder."Carefully note two things about SA Kellerman's testimony regarding JFK's wounds. He notes only a single large wound in JFK's head in the right rear portion of JFK's head. He also notes a small wound of entry just below this large wound opening. As it is highly unlikely that an exit wound in a skull is going to be directly beside an entry wound, this makes a good case for two bullets entering JFK's head, from front and back, within a fraction of a second.