Gerald Posner re-interviewed the Dallas doctors and obtained from them new statements that support the official explanation of the head wounds. Basically, most of the doctors told Posner they had been mistaken in what they wrote on November 22, 1963, and they now confirmed that the available autopsy photographs show what they saw then. In particular, these doctors now deny they saw big pieces of the *cerebellum* [emphasis added everywhere below] sticking out a hole in the occipital bone, because the photographs show them that the hole in the back of the head was tiny and far away from the cerebellum and occipital areas. The cerebellum is a distinct part of the brain located entirely behind and below the ears. It is reasonable to question, though, whether these revised opinions 30 years after the assassination should convincingly overrule the expert, eyewitness descriptions that these doctors themselves wrote a few hours after the assassination. Carrico For example, at 4:20 on November 22, 1963, Dr. Charles Carrico.described applying packs "to control slow oozing from cerebral and *cerebellum* tissue." Now Carrico says, "We did say there was a parietal-occipital wound. We did say we saw shattered brain, cerebellum, in the cortex area, and I think we were mistaken." Perry At 4:30 on November 22, 1963, Dr. Malcolm Perry described "a large wound of the right posterior cranium." Now Perry says: "It was in the occipital-parietal area. The occipital and parietal bone join each other, so we are only talking a centimeter or so in difference. And you must remember the President had a lot of hair, and it was bloody and matted, and it was difficult to tell where that wound started or finished. I did not see any cerebellum." Baxter A written report by Dr. Charles Baxter, dated November 22, said "the right temporal and occipital bones were missing, and the brain was lying on the table." Now, Baxter says: "I have been misquoted enough on this, *some saying I claimed the whole back of his head was blown away.* That's just wrong. I never even saw the back of his head. The wound was on the right side, not the back." However, let's remember, Baxter himself had written that the "occipital bones were missing," and those bones cover the lower back part of the head. Jenkins At 4:30 on November 22, 1963,, Dr. Marion. Jenkins wrote: "There was a great laceration of the right side of the head (temporal and *occipital*), causing a great defect in the skull plate so that there was herniation and laceration of the great areas of the brain, even to the extent that the *cerebellum* had protruded from the wound." Now, Jenkins says: "The description of the cerebellum was my fault. When I read my report over, I realized there could not be any cerebellum. The autopsy photo, with the rear of the head intact and a protrusion in the parietal region, is the way I remember it. I never did say occipital." However, Jenkins did indeed say "occipital." McClelland Dr. Robert McClelland wrote in his report at 4:45 on November 22, 1963, that "The cause of death was due to massive head wound and brain injury from a gunshot wound of the left temple." Dr. McClelland still sticks to that desciption and insists there was a big, gaping hole in the lower, back, rear part of the head. To deal with McClelland, Posner managed to compile several impressive statements from colleagues questioning his judgment. Other Witnesses In addition to these surgeons, other people saw the head wound, and many of them had denounced the official depictions as faked. These statements are documented by Harrison Edward Livingstone in his High Treason books. For example: Floyd Riebe, the medical photographer who took photographs of the President's body at the autopsy, stated that some of the photographs -- those showing the back of the head are composites, forgeries, not what he photographed. Pathology assistant Jim Jenkins said, "I think there is something wrong with that photo [of the back of the head] .... There was an area [of scalp] the size of a silver dollar that was missing. .... When the official report came out, I was stunned. The things that came out of the autopsy were total fabrications." Autopsy technician Paul O'Conner was shown the autopsy photographs, and he said, "No, that doesn't look like what I saw. .... A lot worse wound extended way back here. ... I don't know where these things [photographs] come from, but they are wrong, totally wrong. .... The rear of the head, this is a composite, forged photograph masking a large defect in the very back of the head." X-ray technician Jerrol Custer stated flatly in November 1988 that "the X-rays were fake. .... These weren't the X-rays I had taken. .... There was a king-size hole. That area [in the back of the head] was torn ... but look at the autopsy photograph. There's nothing gone there." Lab technician Jan Gail Rudnicki said, "I can't imagine that somebody would put out photographs like that when there must have been at least five hundred people who saw it otherwise." Nurse Patricia (Hutton) Gustaffson had told the Waren Commission that there was a "massive opening in the back of the head," and she "strongly rejected" the official picture in an interview with Livingstone. Nurse Doris Nelson says the official picture is "not true .... There wasn't even hair back there. It was blown away. All that area was blown out." [end]