A History of the Medical Evidence
Stewart Galanor
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When President Kennedy was gunned down in Dealey Plaza, he was taken to Parkland Hospital where the doctors observed an entrance wound in his throat. An entrance wound in the throat meant a shot from the front, but Oswald was supposedly shooting at the President from the rear. A question immediately arose that later taxed all the prosecutorial skills of the Warren Commission: "How did Oswald shoot President Kennedy in the front from behind?"
A History of the Medical Evidence covers how our government misrepresented the nature and locations of the President wounds in an effort to prove all the shots came from above and behind the President.
The Warren Commission never examined the autopsy X-rays and photographs. Instead, three drawings of the President’s wounds, made under the supervision of the chief autopsy doctor, were introduced into evidence. Something so drastically wrong in these drawings, however, makes it impossible for them to be accurate depictions of the President’s wounds.
In a murder trial, evidence is examined and conclusions are drawn from that evidence. But, in this case, the government started with the conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin and supported that conclusion by misrepresenting the evidence. Consequently, as Professor of American History William Pencak has observed, "The Government’s version of the Kennedy assassination is filled with contradictions and impossibilities."