To: Lalit Jain who wrote (22824 ) 11/10/1998 11:10:00 PM From: Alex Respond to of 116759
Kennedy brain examinations add to cover-up theories By Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday November 11, 1998 A new United States government report on President Kennedy's assassination has concluded that there is evidence "strongly suggesting" that the medical examination of the president's brain was deliberately falsified to disguise the nature of his gunshot wounds. The report, compiled by the Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB), suggests that the brain photographed and analysed in the official archives was not President Kennedy's, but another, more intact brain, substituted about a week after the assassination. The report, released on Monday, has reinflamed the controversy surrounding the president's death. It adds weight to conspiracy theorists' claims that the bullet which killed the president was fired from the front, not by Lee Harvey Oswald from the back, and that the evidence pointing to the presence of another gunman in Dallas was covered up. Douglas Horne, the review board's chief analyst for military records who wrote the report, said yesterday: "My overall conclusion is that it clearly looks like the president was shot from the front, and that the evidence was covered up." He said the inquiry found evidence that two brain examinations took place, one of the real brain on November 25 hours before the state funeral, the second of the substitute brain in late November or early December. The photographer at the first examination, John Stringer, testified that he did not take the photographs in the national archives. An FBI agent, Francis O'Neill, who was also present at the initial autopsy, said the relatively intact brain shown in the official photographs, which showed only a small amount of material missing from the frontal lobes, could not have been the president's which had "more than half" missing from the back - consistent with the exit wound of a bullet entering from the front.reports.guardian.co.uk