John F. Kennedy Forensic Autopsy

It showed that he did not have on his face but his hands, (“Oswald’s Rifle and Paraffin Tests”). Oswald did not have any the gun’s residue on his cheek. This test showed that he had handled the bullets, but did not look down the scope to fire the weapon. Instead, someone else could have been up there with Oswald which could be the one who shot the president. This would explain why Oswald did not have any of the gun residue on his cheek. Due to an inaccurate gun, Oswald could not have it his mark. A quote from Oswald’s Rifle and Paraffin Tests stated that, “The experts from the US Army and the FBI who had tested the rifle discovered that it is actually not usable in its original state” (“Oswald’s Rifle and Paraffin Tests”). The quote above is stating that it would be extremely hard to get a good shot with this rifle.What it could tell us then is that Oswald is the first to shoot, but his gun was inaccurate, which would cause the other suspects to make up due to Oswald only hitting the chest of JFK. That would clearly state how and why there are other shooters and most likely at the Grassy Knoll. The

The throat wound was found to be an inch lower than Kennedy’s adams apple, and the Warren Commission had it an inch lower than that. The location was not where the Warren Commission said it was at because there was no bullet hole there, and there was no bullet damage to his tie (“Who Killed president Kennedy”). There was damage to his tie, but that couldn’t have been caused by the bullet. It was caused by a surgical instrument. The reason it couldn’t have been caused by a bullet is because there was copper found around the bullet hole in his shirt, but none on the tie (“Who Killed president Kennedy”). Another big problem was the location of the back wound. It is identified to be between four and six inches below the top of the shirt collar. Therefore, the bullet hole in Kennedy’s back was lower than the one that exited his throat (Flynn). If Oswald did shoot from the sixth-floor window, there is no way that the bullet could have entered four to six inches below the shirt collar as described in the autopsy and exited through his throat. The bullet would have been following a downward path and, therefore, would have exited lower than it entered (Flynn). This means that the two wounds were either caused by separate bullets, or that the bullet was fired from somewhere other than the sixth-floor window. There should also be at least one more bullet to account for the wounds

It was believed in the “Oswald lone shooting” theory that he shot one bullet. From educated background knowledge about rifles, the rifle believed to be used in the assassination might have been accurate enough to get the job done, but at the angle and height it would have been almost impossible to make the shot. That bullet was believed to have traveled from the sixth floor of the book depository on a downward slant. It had to be timed perfectly considering the target was moving at fourteen miles an hour. While this seems like a hard shot to make already, the bullet entered Kennedy's back and then moved upward on an apparent ricochet, out his throat and into John Connelly’s chest, where it created seven wounds all together (“JFK Assassination”). “There is no way that one bullet was shot. In the video Kennedy moves more than once” (Bradford). Many people have doubted the one bullet

A close analysis of the Zapruder film, which shows the entire assassination, proves that the shots came from the grassy knoll. The knoll, at the time of the fatal headshot, was to the right and slightly in front of the limousine. The Zapruder film shows the presidents head snap back and to the left, thus showing that the headshot must have been fired from the grassy knoll. This is backed up with medical evidence. Witness after witness who saw President Kennedy’s head – from doctors, to federal agents, to trained emergency room nurses, to medical technicians who assisted with the autopsy, to highly trained and specialised neurosurgeons – all said they saw a large wound in the rear portion of the skull. This is a signature wound associated with the exit of a bullet.

There are many theories that have been introduced to people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, occurred on November 22, 1963. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in the presidential limousine through the streets of Dallas, Texas. The projectile that struck his head shattered the right side of his skull. During an interview with the Detroit Free Press (2013), a former secret service agent named Clint Hill recalled his actions moments after the shooting. He tells the reporter that he covered the presidents head because, "She didn't want anybody to see the condition he

On November 22nd, 1963, President Kennedy had traveled to Dallas, Texas to participate in a motorcade that was traveling to Dealy Plaza. He was sitting with his wife, Jacqueline on the back of a convertible followed by his Vice President, Lyndon Johnson behind him. While he passed the Texas School Book Depository, Lee Harvey Oswald set up a sniper post on the 6th story of the building. Oswald allegedly fired three shots at Kennedy, one missing him and two striking him in the neck and head. Sadly, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy passed away from his gunshot wounds and his Vice President, Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office right away.

On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, John Kennedy hoped to gain support for the upcoming election. Kennedy, who was accompanied by his wife Jaqueline, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, Governor John B. Connally, and Mrs. Connally was riding in an open car in a motorcade driving from Love Field airport to the Dallas Trade Mart (“Kennedy”). At 12:30 p.m. CST, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot (“Kennedy”). The fearless John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy seemed to know that death would eventually arrive at his doorstep, as it did. Although one shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was able to slay the president, questions still remain if he was the one and only shooter. Many unanswered

Despite discrepancies such as these, for many years the American public had to be content with the Warren Commission's verdict that "Lee Harvey Oswald had been the sole assassin in the murder of John Kennedy who died as result of three shots being fired from the Texas school depository building." However since the report was published on September 24, 1964, fresh evidence keeps surfacing, as does inconsistencies on the Warren Commissions part.

On a clear sunny day in Dallas Texas, November 22, 1963 to be exact, at about 12:30pm, the President's car rounded the curve in front of the Texas School Book Depository building and proceeded on to Main Street throughout Dally plaza. Shots rang out and the President was rushed to the nearby hospital and was declared dead at 1pm. The Vice President took the oath of office and flew back to Washington with the slain leader. The accused assassin was arrested, charged and then executed on national television in front of millions. Three days latter, the Texas officials in charge of the investigation declared the case closed and the new President set up a hand picked committee to investigate. The

Another bullet struck Kennedy in the rear portion of his head, causing a massive and fatal wound, and landing him into Mrs. Kennedy’s lap (Nizer, pg.8). Secret Service Agencies began to act, shielding Kennedy and his wife as they sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital; 4 miles away. At the hospital, Kennedy was treated by a team of physicians who examined his body and fatal wounds. But sadly, Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1 p.m.

On November 22, 1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy arrived in Dallas to an excited crowd of people lining the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the President. At 12:30 in the afternoon, the President’s car made the last, fatal turn. As the car turned left onto Elm Street, past the Texas School Block Depository and headed down the slope that leads through Dealey Plaza, Governor Connally’s wife said, “Mr. President, You can’t say that Dallas doesn’t love you” (Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy 48). Immediately after that, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States was shot once in the neck and again in the head (Report of the President's Commission on the

“The car turned off main street at Dealey Pizza around 12:30p.m. As it was passing time at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president’s neck and head and he slumped over toward to Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was also hit in the chest,” added

The motorcade followed its designated route, first passing through a residential area of Dallas, and then making its way through the middle of the downtown area. The parade traveled west on Main Street and then made a right on Houston. The motorcade went one block and then made a left-turn on Elm. On the corner of Elm and Houston was the large, ominous Texas School Book Depository, where the fatal shots were later accused of being fired from. When the President's car turned west on Elm and crossed the Depository, three shots were fired at the motorcade. The President was struck by a bullet that entered at the base of his neck, just right of his spine and exited under the lower left portion of the knot in the President's tie. A second bullet struck Kennedy in the rear base of his head, causing the fatal wound. Texas Governor Connelly, riding two cars behind the President, was also hit. The bullet hit the Governor on the extreme right side of his back, just below the armpit. The bullet exited below his left

time so that they could get ahold of the body and get it on the plane to take back to Washington to have the official autopsy (Twyman 797). The body was taken from the hospital in a bronze ceremonial casket and wrapped very well, but when the body made it to the National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland the body was found in a zipped body bag and a plain green military casket (Marrs 364). The autopsy was a total disaster because the surgeons that looked at Oswald had little to no experience in bullet related injuries. The autopsy report stated that there were no fragments from shattered bullets and there was no facial damage or skull fragments missing. These reports do not match the ones at parkland so obviously one or the other is

Nevertheless, quite suspicious is how Kennedy 's body was placed in a casket and taken from Parkland Hospital and driven to Air Force One, where it was loaded aboard the airplane through the rear door, where it remained at the rear of the passenger compartment, in place of a removed row of seats. The body was removed before the Dallas County coroner Earl Rose, which violated Texas state law (the murder was a state crime and occurred under Texas legal jurisdiction), could conduct a forensic examination. At that time, it was not a federal offense to kill the President of the United States, although it was a federal crime to conspire to injure a federal officer while he was acting in the line of duty. ("Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," 2014) Why was the body not seen by the Dallas Coroner? I found this to be Puzzling. Later federal agencies such as the Assassination Records Review Board criticized the autopsy on several grounds including destruction from burning of the original draft of the autopsy report and notes taken by Commander James Humes at the time of the autopsy, and failure to maintain a proper chain of custody of all of the autopsy materials. ("John F. Kennedy autopsy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," 2014) As earlier stated, there is new data and confirmation supporting the single bullet theory, but also, a conspiracy could be likely, given the conclusion of the HSCA’s investigation.