From: armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Parkland 4 and other head wound witnesses
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:09:36 GMT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson


There were 4 doctors who viewed the photos and x-rays on the NOVA
program: Drs. McClelland, Peters, Jenkins, and Dulany.  9 Parkland
doctors refused to participate on the program.  McClelland has since 
denounced the show, calling it a coverup (see the Afterword to _High 
Treason_).  He testified to the Warren Commission and, more recently, 
said on KRON and British TV documentaries that the rear of the head was 
blasted out and that the cerebellum fell out onto the table.  Dr. Dulany 
earlier had told the Boston Globe that the Dox drawings of the back of the 
head autopsy photo conflicted with how he remembered it.  His account may 
be uncredible because the Warren Commission reported that he only worked 
on Governor Connally.  Peters and Jenkins are also on record as stating
that the wound in the back of the head was an exit wound.  Jenkins also
saw the cerebellum through the hole in the back of the head.  Curiously,
NOVA didn't ask the doctors about entrance and exit wounds.  Certainly,
this isn't enough to regard the NOVA program as "gospel" with respect to
the head wounds in light of the other evidence and eyewitness accounts.


These are some of the witnesses who consistently described the 
back of the head completely blown out as a fist-sized exit wound:
(additions to this list of witnesses welcome!)

	Nurse Audrey Bell	- Parkland Hospital
	Nurse Patricia Hutton	- Parkland Hospital
        Nurse Diana Bowron	- Parkland Hospital
	Nurse Doris Nelson	- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. McClelland 		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Peters 		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr.  Carrico		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Coy			- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Alcin 		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Perry 		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Clark  		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Dulany		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Jones 		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Crenshaw 		- Parkland Hospital
	Jackie Kennedy
	Phil Willis and his daughter - motorcade witnesses
	Beverly Oliver 		- motorcade witness
	Clint Hill		- Secret Service Agent
	Jerrol Custer		- Bethesda x-ray technician
        Floyd Riebe 		- Bethesda photographic technician
	Paul O'Connor		- Bethesda autposy technician

Some of those witnesses who have seen the autopsy photos and x-rays
and have found them to be completely incompatible with what they saw:

	Nurse Doris Nelson	- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Coy			- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. McClelland 		- Parkland Hospital
	Dr. Crenshaw 		- Parkland Hospital
        Floyd Riebe 		- Bethesda photographic technician
	Jerrol Custer		- Bethesda x-ray technician
	Paul O'Connor		- Bethesda autposy technician

Yes, the very same men who took the photos have since denounced
them as fakes.  In addition, there exists no witness in Dallas
who saw any wound on the top of JFK's head as those photos show.
Don't you think this warrants a little further investigation as to 
the location of the head wounds?

Sources: David Lifton, _Best Evidence_
	 Groden & Livingstone, _High Treason_
	 KRON-TV Interviews, San Francisco
	 Vincent Salandria "The Warren Report ?"


Despite the fact that the photos and x-rays seem to refute Lifton, he
brings up far too many other questions that remain unanswered to dismiss
his theory based only on these photos.   Once you begin to question the
authenticity of the photos, it becomes apparent that the evidence he 
uncovered hasn't been resolved for some 12 years now.  I'm certainly
open to reasonable explanations for the discrepancies he found.

Because it was so gruesome is why I find it hard to believe all these
witnesses were mistaken.  I can't imagine the doctors and nurses not
stealing a glance at the wound every chance they got.  I doubt that I
would be able to stop staring at it.  I also find it strange that they
could be confused as to spatial locations on the head such as "top" or 
"back" or "side", something any 4-year old can master.  This, to me, 
is far more convincing of a frontal shot than the improbability of the 
single-bullet theory or any other conspiracy theory evidence.

Much has been made of Lifton's claim that the body was switched aboard
Air Force One despite witnesses who claimed that they never left the
coffin.  That the coffin was never out of site certainly doesn't preclude
the possiblity of body-altering.  Joel Wagoner has done a considerable
amount of research examining the possiblity that JFK's body was stolen
at Parkland Hospital.  There was an enormous amount of confusion at
Parkland Hospital and this area definitely needs more research.  For
more info on this possiblity, check out articles by Wagoner and Jerry
Rose that have appeared in The Third Decade the past couple years.

Jim