Medical Evidence

President Kennedy's back brace and ace bandage

President Kennedy's jacket showing bullet hole. 19.2KB

President Kennedy's shirt showing bullet hole 24.9KB

Color photo of President Kennedy's shirt 76.1KB

More JFK Assassination Medical Photos and Illustrations here and here

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Researcher Joe Backes chronicles the "November In Dallas" presentation by ARRB Staff Member, Doug Horne, on November 20, 1998, in Dallas. This presentation gives us a window into the inner workings of the ARRB, the statements of the Parkland Hospital and Bethesda doctors, and true readings of the photos of the president's body in the National Archives today. Backes, an expert on the workings of the ARRB, presents this comprehensive chronicle including many photos and drawings to illustrate the points Horne made at the Lancer Conference. Some of these drawings are being shown here for the first time. Begin your journey through the medical evidence here: Doug Horne's presentation at JFK Lancer 1998 Conference
Horne Review by Joe Backes, Part One http://www.jfklancer.com/Backes.html

Order the CD/DVD of Doug Horne's presentation from JFK Lancer.

Where was the President's head wound? Read the statement of Patricia Hutton, Parkland Hospital nurse that removed JFK from the limousine and assisted in Trauma Room One.

Three Patients At Parkland, article from State Journal of Medicine, dated January, 1964. It was written in late November/early December, 1963 before the 'OFFICIAL' story was set in stone.

Trauma Room One Revisited, article by Russell Kent from the Winter '95 Assassination Chronicles 

What Did the Parkland Doctors Really Say? article by Russell Kent from the Spring '96 Assassination Chronicle

The closest witnesses: Mrs. Kennedy and Agent Clint Hill

Witnesses to the president's wound - rear of the head

Ford-Rankin Document: Commission member Gerald Ford changes description of the president's wounds to support the false "Single Bullet" theory.

Reasonable Doubts: The McCloy-Rankin Document Doubts of the single bullet theory, documents, with commentary and newsclippings, from the Summer '97 Kennedy Assassination Chronicles.

On Saturday November 23, 1963 a fragment of bone was found in Dealey Plaza on the South side of Elm St. in the grass by a medical student, Billy Harper, who gave it to his uncle Jack Harper, who then gave it to a Dr. Cairns, Chief of Pathology at Methodist Hospital near Dallas, Texas. It has since disappeared.

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Harper fragment

Bethesda Naval Hospital

The transcript of the phone conversation between Acting Attorney General Ramsey Clark and President Lyndon Johnson Re: Autopsy Photos. Besides the transcript, there is background information on the autopsy photos, Humes' testimony, the dates/possession of the autopsy materials and more. Former ARRB Analyst Doug Horne contributed to this information.

Humes, Boswell and Finck at National Archives The autopsy physicians were requested by the Department of Justice to examine the x-rays and photographs for the purpose of determining whether they are consistent with the autopsy report. According to Dr. Humes, photos were missing but the doctors's signed off of the photos anyway. Read transcript above.

President Kennedy's Autopsy Photos "Fox" Set

Note: On November 23, 1963, James K. Fox, the Secret Service photographic expert, was given the autopsy film holders by JFK's personal physician, Admiral George Burkley, and told to develop them. At that time he made three sets of black and white autopsy photo prints at the Secret Service lab. On November 27, 1963, additional official copies were made at the Naval Processing Center. Copies of these photos were later given to JFK assassination researcher Mark Crouch who then made them available to JFK researchers. After Crouch’s death, JFK researcher Walt Brown, PHD., was given the original copies of the Fox set. He continues to make them available for study.

In 1992, the autopsy photos were specifically exempted from the JFK Records Act. ARRB Senior Staffer Doug Horne stated at the JFK Lancer 1998 Conference that these unofficial photos are cropped differently and are not as clear as the originals in the National Archives. Viewing the "Fox Set" is the only way this evidence available to the public.

Autopsy Report:

• text from Warren Commission
• Autopsy descriptive sheet  [1]  [2]
• Autopsy Protocol  [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

FBI Report on the autopsy by FBI Agents' Sibert and O'Neill

House Select Committee on Assassinations Interview With FBI Agent O'Neill [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Witness drawings of the president's wounds.

History of the Autopsy Materials from the HSCA

Articles on Lancer Independent News Exchange:

• New JFK Autopsy Photos Found The Washington, DC based Assassination Records Review Board identified additional latent autopsy photographs on a roll of film in the National Archives that had (inaccurately) been described as "exposed."
• Two Brains Examined - Archive Photos Not of JFK's Brain by Doug Horne
• Medical evidence on the assassination of President John F.Kennedy released The Assassination Records Review Board made available information that it has collected relevant to the medical evidence on the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. The information to be made available includes deposition transcripts of 11 witnesses and one Master Set of Exhibits.

Dr. Burkley Memo, what other suppressed documents have yet to reveal to all but "responsible" officials? from Gary Aguilar, M.D.

Autopsy Photos Handled by CIA Agent during HSCA furnished by AMKW. What happened here? Was the CIA interfering with the House Investigation?"

History Matters Medical Cover-up

JOHN F. KENNEDY'S FATAL WOUNDS: THE WITNESSES AND THE INTERPRETATIONS FROM 1963 TO THE PRESENT by Gary L. Aguilar, MD August, 1994. Despite the disparate sources, the many descriptions of JFK's skull wound are in surprising and overwhelming agreement. These descriptions, however, are quite inconsistent with the autopsy photographs and X- rays.

ARRB Final Report