The assassinations of the 60s have been on my mind of late, thanks to these Beatle mysteries I'm writing (anybody interested in finding out when they're coming out should send an email to mikesnewbooks[at]gmail[dot]com). One of the most persistent canards about the JFK assassination is that it's incredibly difficult to understand, and that one must do a ton of reading to have any chance of "proving" a conspiracy. That's simply not true. While it does take a ton of reading to get some sense of the murder in a "global" sense, a conspiracy at the highest levels of government can be shown irrefutably in two photographs.
This first photograph is from the President's autopsy, performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital on the night of November 22nd, 1963. It's important to note that, at this point, the body has been solely in government hands; no mortician has touched it, and it should appear exactly as it did to the doctors at Parkland Hospital (there's considerable debate on this point, but that's not what I'm driving at). Look at the area of JFK's right temple, his forehead above his right eye, and his eye socket. Note where the wound clearly ends. While there appears to be some swelling in the eyebrow area, the structure of the President's face appears to be sound. In fact, judging from the shadow, the right eyebrow ridge seems to be quite pronounced.
This photo is an X-ray of President Kennedy's skull taken from the front. Note how far the defect in the bone extends, all the way down to the eye socket. According to this x-ray, there should be a chunk of forehead and eyebrow missing. That eyebrow ridge on the skull? Not only is it present in the photo we looked at earlier, it's actually casting a shadow.
These photos are both widely available, and I encourage you to check them out sometime in a higher resolution. More importantly, the veracity of these photos has never been questioned by the defenders of the "lone nut" theory. Unfortunately one of them has to be wrong. Wrong means "faked," and a faked autopsy photo says a lot of things. It says "coverup," and it says "inside the government." The mafia could, and perhaps was, part of the shooter team; ditto, the anti-Castro Cubans. But only the US government had access to the body and the autopsy photos.
Does this discrepancy prove a massive conspiracy to murder the President? No. It proves a massive cover-up. Who killed JFK and how is a different question. What this proves is the government's absolute unreliability as a custodian of evidence in politically sensitive crimes, which is probably worse news.
Just for good measure, here's another autopsy photo showing the same area. Note how the eyebrow and eyesocket appears normal. No part of the face shows any damage whatsoever--no hole, no sagging of flesh; the skin is taut, supported by bone. The right side casts the same shadows, in the same places, as the undamaged left.
There's more--a lot more--that I could talk about, but this discrepancy alone is enough to demonstrate that the government cannot be trusted on this matter, and that defending their conclusion is simply an act of faith.
I don't know why the government was faking photos--who or what they were trying to protect, or what the unfaked photos looked like. Evidence tampering renders that kind of precision impossible, and that's why criminals do it. In a manipulated murder, one must be content with broad conclusions, and in the case of JFK, these two or three photos say a lot.
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This first photograph is from the President's autopsy, performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital on the night of November 22nd, 1963. It's important to note that, at this point, the body has been solely in government hands; no mortician has touched it, and it should appear exactly as it did to the doctors at Parkland Hospital (there's considerable debate on this point, but that's not what I'm driving at). Look at the area of JFK's right temple, his forehead above his right eye, and his eye socket. Note where the wound clearly ends. While there appears to be some swelling in the eyebrow area, the structure of the President's face appears to be sound. In fact, judging from the shadow, the right eyebrow ridge seems to be quite pronounced.
This photo is an X-ray of President Kennedy's skull taken from the front. Note how far the defect in the bone extends, all the way down to the eye socket. According to this x-ray, there should be a chunk of forehead and eyebrow missing. That eyebrow ridge on the skull? Not only is it present in the photo we looked at earlier, it's actually casting a shadow.These photos are both widely available, and I encourage you to check them out sometime in a higher resolution. More importantly, the veracity of these photos has never been questioned by the defenders of the "lone nut" theory. Unfortunately one of them has to be wrong. Wrong means "faked," and a faked autopsy photo says a lot of things. It says "coverup," and it says "inside the government." The mafia could, and perhaps was, part of the shooter team; ditto, the anti-Castro Cubans. But only the US government had access to the body and the autopsy photos.
Does this discrepancy prove a massive conspiracy to murder the President? No. It proves a massive cover-up. Who killed JFK and how is a different question. What this proves is the government's absolute unreliability as a custodian of evidence in politically sensitive crimes, which is probably worse news.
Just for good measure, here's another autopsy photo showing the same area. Note how the eyebrow and eyesocket appears normal. No part of the face shows any damage whatsoever--no hole, no sagging of flesh; the skin is taut, supported by bone. The right side casts the same shadows, in the same places, as the undamaged left.There's more--a lot more--that I could talk about, but this discrepancy alone is enough to demonstrate that the government cannot be trusted on this matter, and that defending their conclusion is simply an act of faith.
I don't know why the government was faking photos--who or what they were trying to protect, or what the unfaked photos looked like. Evidence tampering renders that kind of precision impossible, and that's why criminals do it. In a manipulated murder, one must be content with broad conclusions, and in the case of JFK, these two or three photos say a lot.
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