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The Review Board's charter was simply to locate and declassify assassination records, and to ensure they were placed in the new "JFK Records Collection" in the National Archives, where they would be freely available to the public. Although Congress did not want the ARRB to reinvestigate the assassination of President Kennedy, or to draw conclusions about the assassination, the staff did hope to make a contribution to future 'clarification' of the medical evidence in the assassination by conducting these neutral, non-adversarial, fact-finding depositions. All of our deposition transcripts, as well as our written reports of numerous interviews we conducted with medical witnesses, are now a part of that same collection of records open to the public. Because of the Review Board's strictly neutral role in this process, all of these materials were placed in the JFK Collection without comment.
The ARRB sought additional witnesses in an attempt to compile a more complete record of Kennedy's autopsy. In July 1998, a staff report released by the ARRB emphasized shortcomings in the original autopsy. The ARRB wrote, "One of the many tragedies of the assassination of President Kennedy has been the incompleteness of the autopsy record and the suspicion caused by the shroud of secrecy that has surrounded the records that do exist."A staff report for the Assassinations Records Review Board contended that brain photographs in the Kennedy records are not of Kennedy's brain and show much less damage than Kennedy sustained. Boswell refuted these allegations.  The Board also found that, conflicting with the photographic images showing no such defect, a number of witnesses, including at both the Autopsy and Parkland hospital, saw a large wound in the back of the president's head. The Board and board member, Jeremy Gunn, have also stressed the problems with witness testimony, asking people to weigh all of the evidence, with due concern for human error, rather than take single statements as "proof" for one theory or another.Speculation and conspiracy theories
Most historians regard the autopsy as the "most botched" segment of the government's investigation.In 1966, Kennedy's brain was found to be missing from the National Archives. Conspiracy theorists often claim that the brain may have shown a bullet from the front. It has also been suggested that Robert Kennedy destroyed the brain. Historian James Swanson theorized that he may have done so to "conceal evidence of the true extent of President Kennedy's illnesses, or perhaps to conceal evidence of the number of medications that President Kennedy was taking".Conspiracy theorists often allege that the autopsy was controlled by the military. During the 1969 trial of Clay Shaw for conspiring to assassinate Kennedy, pathologist Finck testified that when Humes asked "Who is in charge here?" an unknown army general stepped forward and said he was. However, Bugliosi notes that Finck was only referring to the "over-all" operations of the autopsy.According to Humes, he "destroyed by burning certain preliminary draft notes" about the autopsy. Mark Lane claimed that this was destruction of evidence. In a 1992 interview with JAMA, Humes explained that he had already transcribed them and, as they were splattered with Kennedy's blood, did not wish for them to become a collector's item.In 1980, David Lifton's Best Evidence was published by Macmillan. It was met with critical praise, made The New York Times Best Seller list, and was selected for the Book of the Month Club. In it, Lifton argues that Kennedy's body was tampered and altered to support the appearance of a single shooter before it arrived at Bethesda. Vincent Bugliosi noted that it may be the most "preposterous" conspiracy theory relating to the assassination. Lifton's strongest piece of evidence, according to Bugliosi, is a November 26, 1963 FBI memo that describes Kennedy's body as having had "surgery of the head area, namely in the top of the skull" before the autopsy. However, former FBI agent James W. Sibbert stated in 1999 that this claim originated from Humes, who said it upon first seeing Kennedy's body.
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