Micah Mileto

Somewhere here: Nov. 2013 interview of Lifton by Jon Martinson [video, part 1] [link 2]

One day I'll post a master list of every purported bone fragment. In the meantime, I have this: Neither Drs. Humes nor Boswell were experienced in gunshot wounds. Dr. Finck was experienced (Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 2007, Book One: Matters of Fact: What Happened, Kennedy's Autopsy and the Gunshot Wounds to Kennedy and Connally), but he only arrived at the autopsy AFTER the brain had been removed through the skull (ARRB MD 28, 1/25/1965 and 2/1/1965 Reports From Dr. Finck to Gen. Blumberg; Finck's Shaw trial testimony, 2/24-2/25/1969 [text]; ARRB MD 30, Finck's HSCA testimony, 3/11/1978 [text] [audio]). While the autopsy was in progress, the pathologists were given a portion of skull bone which was reportedly found in the Limousine (HSCA Vol. 7, p. 23, 3/29/1979, Medical Panel Report, Section II. Performance of Autopsy). According to the official autopsy protocol and Humes' testimony, there were three late-arriving skull fragments (WC D 77, p. 4 [text]; WC Vol. 2, p. 347, 3/16/1964 WC testimony [text]). There is an x-ray in the official record showing three skull fragments, one large and two small (HSCA Vol. 7, p. 121). The pathologists said a large skull fragment they received showed external beveling which suggested it was a part of a bullet exit (WC D 77, p. 4, autopsy protocol [text]; WC D 7, p. 280, Sibert and O'Neill FBI report, 11/26/1963; WC Vol. 2, p. 347, Humes WC testimony, 3/16/1964 [text]; WC Vol. 2, p. 377, Finck's WC testimony, 3/16/1964 [text]), as well as dense particles resembling metal (ARRB MD 149, 11/23/1963 FBI teletype from James Sibert and Francis X. O'Neill; WC D 77, p. 4, autopsy protocol [text]; WC D 7, p. 280, Sibert and O'Neill FBI report, 11/26/1963; WC Vol. 2, p. 347, Humes WC testimony, 3/16/1964 [text]). Dr. Humes told the Warren Commission “I would estimate that approximately one-quarter of that defect was unaccounted for by adding these three fragments together and seeing what was left” (WC Vol. 2, p. 347, 3/16/1964 testimony [text]). When the body was being prepared for burial, a type of plaster was used to fill the empty voids in the skull (ARRB MD 65, HSCA report on 8/24/1977 interview with James Curtis Jenkins; ARRB MD 64, HSCA interview of Paul O'Connor, 8/29/1977; O’Connor, 4/20/1990 and 5/9/1990 interviews by Harrison Livingstone, High Treason 2, 1992, p. 256-257, Chapter 12. The Recollections of Paul O’Connor; O’Connor, 6/11/1990 interview by Harrison Livingstone, Killing The Truth, 1993, p. 729, Appendix J, Encyclopedia of Medical Events And Witness Testimony, PREPARING THE BODY FOR BURIAL; Jenkins, 4/6/1991 Dallas conference [video, part 1, 14:17] [video, part 2, 35:33, 57:20]; Joe Hagen, 8/15/1991 interview by Livingstone and Kathlee Fitzgerald, Killing the Truth, 1993, p. 728-729, Appendix J, Encyclopedia of Medical Events And Witness Testimony, PREPARING THE BODY FOR BURIAL; Tom Robinson, 8/17/1991 interview by Harrison Livingstone, High Treason 2, 1992, p. 580-581, Chapter 28. What Really Happened, Who Benefited?; Notes on 5/26/1992 interview with Tom Robinson by Joe West [Link] [link 2] [link 3, Journal News, 12/28/2013]; ARRB MD 182, ARRB report on 5/17/1996 interview with Joseph E. Hagan; Humes ARRB deposition, 2/13/1996 [text]; ARRB MD 180, ARRB report on 6/21/1996 interview with Robinson; Jenkins, A Meeting Of The Minds, Nov. 2017 [video, 49:30]; At the Cold Shoulder Of History by William Law and James Jenkins, 2018 [link]), and a piece of rubber was used to cover the area of missing scalp (ARRB MD 63, HSCA interview of Tom Robinson, 1/12/1977; ARRB MD 64, HSCA interview of Paul O'Connor, 8/29/1977; HSCA Vol. 7, p. 243, HSCA interview with Humes and Boswell, 9/16/1977 [text] [audio]; O’Connor, 4/20/1990 and 5/9/1990 interviews by Harrison Livingstone, High Treason 2, 1992, p. 256-257, Chapter 12. The Recollections of Paul O’Connor; O’Connor, 6/11/1990 interview by Harrison Livingstone, Killing The Truth, 1993, p. 729; 8/17/1991 interview of Robinson by Livingstone, High Treason 2, 1992, p. 580-581, Chapter 28. What Really Happened, Who Benefited?; Notes by Joe West on 5/26/1992 interview with Robinson [link 2] [link 3, Journal News, 12/28/2013]; Humes ARRB deposition, 2/13/1996 [text]; ARRB MD 180, ARRB report on 6/21/1996 interview with Robinson; In The Eye Of History by William Law, 2004, Paul K. O’Connor, James C. Jenkins; Jenkins, A Meeting Of The Minds, Nov. 2017 [video, 49:30]; Jenkins and Law, At the Cold Shoulder Of History, 2018 [link]). - More bone fragments were either reported but never recovered or recovered but later lost. These fragments could have held valuable evidence. We know of a fragment reportedly found on 11/23/1963 by William Allen “Billy” Harper, lying on the ground in Dealey Plaza. Billy Harper gave the fragment to his uncle, Dr. Jack C. Harper, who then brought it to Methodist Hospital in Dallas. By 11/25/1963, it was examined and photographed along with Dr. A.B. Cairns and M. Wayne Balleter. (HSCA Vol. 7, p. 122, Medical Panel Report, Section V. Report of the Forensic Pathology Panel, Description of President Kennedy's Wounds, Exit (outshoot) wound of the side of the head, 4. "Harper bone fragment" [text]). On 11/26/1963, custody of the Harper fragment was given to James W. Anderton of the Dallas FBI office (WC D 5, p. 150 [scan 2] [scan 3] [scan 4] [scan 5]; FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 1, p. 99 [scan 2]). A 11/25/1963 document by Anderton discussed planning to have the Secret Service obtain the fragment, until deciding that the FBI should receive it for examination at their Laboratory in Stafford County, Virginia (FBI 89-43-479 [scan 2]). At the FBI lab, more photographs were taken, as well as x-rays (Into Evidence, presentation by John Hunt). The photos and x-rays still survive in the storage of the National Archives, even if the fragment itself has gone missing (HSCA Vol. 7, 3/29/1979, p. 24, Medical Panel Report, Section III. Chain of Custody of the Materials Acquired During the Autopsy, 2. Physical specimens retained during the autopsy or discovered at the scene of the assassination [text]). Documents from the FBI detail how the fragment was given to Dr. George Burkley, JFK’s former personal physician, on or around 11/27/1963 (FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 1, p. 99; FBI 62-109060-438; FBI HQ RN 124-10017-10014; USSS RN 179-10001-10039 [scan 2]; FBI 62-109060-990). Handwriting on the lab work sheet says the fragment was delivered to Dr. Burkley at the White House by "McWright", at "4:30 PM 11/27 by his request" (FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 1, p. 100-102 [scan 2] [scan 3]). A 11/27/1963 document from Burkley reads “11/27/63 5:15 p.m. Just received a small Neman Markus box about 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" containing material which had been discussed previously with them. A letter of the full report will be made. This material will be deposited with the Commanding Officer of the Bethesda Naval Hospital for subsequent retention with other material of similar nature. Material was received in the presence of Dr. James M. Young and me. The contact with the FBI was Roy Jevous at Code 175 x 353”. What may be the last word we have on the whereabouts of the fragment is from a HSCA report on a 8/17/1977 interview with Burkley: “Regarding the skull fragments, DR. BURKLEY said the one which was found on the street had been given to the FBI. He said he'd received a letter from the uncle (presumably DR. HARPER) and that the fragment came to him at the White House and he then gave it to the FBI”, “DR. BURKLEY does not recall who he gave the single skull fragment to (associated with the FBI), but remembers having it taken to the FBI” (ARRB MD 19, p. 4-6 [text]). A total discrepancy – the FBI said they gave the fragment to Burkley, and Burkley said he gave it to the FBI. This issue was not pursued in the Committee's medical panel report (HSCA Vol. 7, 3/29/1979, p. 24 [text]). The FBI Lab notes on the Harper fragment claim that no bullet metal was found, but that Spectrochemical Analysis was not performed, which would have proven whether or not metal was present. There is a notation saying "no report to be made" (FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 1, p. 100-102 [scan 2]). The lab findings were summarized in FBI documents, saying the fragment was "examined microscopically" for bullet metals but "none were found" (FBI HQ RN 124-10017-10014; WC D 5, p. 151 [scan 2] [scan 3]; FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 5, p. 170; USSS RN 179-10001-10039 [scan 2]). There is a lot of information contradicting this. A HSCA report on a 8/9/1977 interview with Dr. A.B. Cairns reads "DR. CAIRNS remembered a small area of the skull fragment showing grayish discoloration suggesting metal had stained the bone. He said he had had experience with lead-caused damage in the past which looked similar to this discoloration" (ARRB MD 19). In 2005, researcher John Hunt pointed out that an x-ray of the Harper fragment shows a small amount of high-density material on it's corner edge (Hunt, Into Evidence). In the same area of that dense material, Dr. David Mantik said the original photos of the Harper fragment show some dark discoloration on the outer surface of the bone (The JFK Autopsy Materials: Twenty Conclusions after Nine Visits; JFK assassination conference evidence presentation, Nov. 2018). There were more possible sightings of lost bone fragments (ARRB MD 54, Burkley receipt, 11/27/1963; HSCA Vol. 7, p. 23, 3/29/1979, Medical Panel Report, Section III. Chain of Custody of the Materials Acquired During the Autopsy, 2. Physical specimens retained during the autopsy discovered at the scene of the assassination [text]; WC D 80, Secret Service report on the Presidential Limousine, 1/6/1964, p. 4; WC Vol. 7, p. 105, WC testimony of Seymour Weitzman, 4/1/1964 [text]; Murder From Within by Fred T. Newcomb and Perry Adams, written 1974 and published 2011, Part II: The Body Snatchers, Chapter Six: Bethesda How Kennedy’s Wounds Were Altered, interview with Harry D. Holmes; No More Silence by Larry A. Sneed, 1998, interviews with Jack Faulkner, Vincent Drain, and Joe Cody).

Kudos to Lifton for towing the line of "Oswald kept his secrets from everybody, including his wife. He was a good actor". Marina did say that if she could ask Lee any question now, she wouldn't ask if he killed Kennedy because she already knows he didn't, she would ask "who are you?".

I'd be very interested in a google drive link to the uncompressed image files

In glorious 1080p

Not AJ?

See his last 3 appearances on the Night Fright show with Brent Holland.

No left temple info?

Within the first 3 pages he starts talking about Police evidence numbers. It wastes no time!

Crenshaw was included in a 11/22/1983 piece in the Philadelphia Daily News, titled Where Are They Now? by Debbie M. Price (Link): A few hours before the motorcade began, Dr. Charles Baxter and Dr. Charles Crenshaw, had joked that the only way they’d be able to see the president was if he came to the back door of Parkland Memorial Hospital. “It was very ironic. Very tragic,” recalled Crenshaw, now 50 and head of the surgical department at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. “Because that is exactly what he did.” Crenshaw, then a second-year resident, and Baxter, then the physician in charge of the emergency room, were among the dozen doctors who rushed to Trauma Room One as the motorcade sped for Parkland. The teaching hospital even then was a pioneer in emergency room technique, and the doctors threw themselves automatically into their “fire drill” – removing Kennedy’s clothes, shoes and back brace, inserting intravenous tubes into both arms and legs, a chest catheter and a trachea tube, performing heart massage and giving O-negative blood. “Even though you know what you're going to see, it’s still shocking to see the president lying there with his head shot off,” said Baxter, now 53 and chief of the Parkland Regional Burn Center and head of the hospital’s chemical organ transplant bank. The right side of Kennedy’s skull and brain were gone, a certain indication that he had been killed instantly, although there was a faint pulse when he arrived at Parkland, the doctors said. “It was a mortal wound,” Crenshaw said, “Maybe the treatment was overkill, but I think it would have been heinous to sit back and say, ‘OK, he’s dead.’ We would have done the same procedure for any patient.” Crenshaw remembers Kennedy as a huge man who filled the entire gurney. He says he still can see the flowers Mrs. Kennedy was carrying, spattered with blood and brain matter, lying in a disposal pail under the cart. Secret Service agents, some of them with their guns cocked, swarmed around the doctors. “All I thought about at the time was doing the procedures. The gravity of the matter didn’t hit us until it was all over,” Crenshaw said. “Mrs. Kennedy came in and put her ring on his finger. It was very touching.” Two days later Crenshaw would operate on Oswald.

Buried in Plain Sight by John Hunt is also an excellent RFK book. Totally worth the Kindle price.

Is this the only time this quote has been uttered on this forum? Where does this quote come from?

We already know from basic geometry that the HSCA's interpretation of the empty-cranium photographs cannot be true - the entry and exit in the bone could not only be 5 inches apart, because you cannot pull a brain out of a 5-inch skull cavity - the HSCA's interpretation could only be true if pieces of the rear parts of the skull were somehow replaced after having already been taken out.

I am still interested in your theory that the wooden fence, beside the storm drain on the grassy knoll, was rebuilt on the day of the assassination to make the drain be behind the fence rather than in front. Aren't there any better photographs of that area from the time? Shouldn't there be very many clear photos showing the fence?

The autopsy photos have a comically bad chain of custody. That would be true even if the photos were genuine.

Is it just my own biases, or is the age of BOH-wound broke? Or course, that doesn't necessarily mean the end of criticism of the medical evidence - on the contrary, I'm currently creeping up on 600 pages for a project on wounds that aren't the large head wound. And besides those issues, I've previously talked about the chest tubes, the witness evidence for neck organs being removed at the autopsy, and the feigned ignorance of the throat wound during the autopsy. Maybe the temple wounds and torso wounds are the new "woke". So maybe those issues cannot be proven scientifically - the lack of decent explanation for the witness evidence is enough to make a probably-permanent stain on history. There's already a lot of witness evidence on extra weapons, bullet holes, shells, slugs, and other evidence at the scene which does not fit the official story.

Are we sure now that the "air pocket" isn't an artifact like the HSCA said?

After Kennedy is done waving his hand in the late z170's, his body language in the film becomes ambiguous. There was about 2.3 seconds between that z180 and z222.

@David Von Pein

Do you have any thoughts on the physical possibility of a separate Oswald shot to Connally? It seems to me like with such a theory, the government's biggest problem would just be explaining why nobody reported finding a round in the limo if it barely dropped out of Kennedy's throat/back... unless one wanted to argue that it somehow got lost on the street.

https://youtu.be/GkQyYgr_aqY?feature=shared&t=81 With the Knott laboratories model looking as if Connally's shoulder could've been available to be shot from the Sixth Floor at Zapruder frame 225, what would prevent the government from just coming out with a new theory that Oswald shot JFK at about z180 with a 6.5 round, modified to have less charge and barely exiting the throat, followed about 2.3 seconds later by another round shot into Connally at around z224? Would it be possible to physically disprove this theory? They could even try theorizing that the witnesses mistook the first two shots as a single shot because of how the first one was undercharged, and that the next two shots described by the witnesses were actually a single shot followed by the skull exploding.

I have already posted the most important statements from McClelland on the left temple wound. His final version of the story (post 1980s) is that there was a spot of blood on the left temple that looked like a wound. I have decided to combine my two-years-late "Case for an Altered Throat Wound" with the temple wound information, under the basic theme of information suggesting the coercion of Parkland witnesses

There is no such thing as unbiased, there is only a question of which side you are biased against, and for what reasons.

With all due respect, what is your extraordinary evidence for the extraordinary claim that mental healthcare workers know more about the human mind than the average person? The human mind is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the universe that "we" know of, so it must follow that somebody claiming to understand the human mind better than most will need to provide some very extraordinary evidence to corroborate them. Virtually all of what modern mental healthcare claims to be science is just witness evidence. Witness evidence is notoriously unreliable. On it's face, it is obvious how psychology is just another cult, albiet one that has convinced virtually every government in the world of it's importance. Those papers are just pretentious and circular - not worth the paper they are (sometimes) printed on. Just try reading a random new paper from a mainstream psychology journal, and notice how any truly skeptical reader will understand how truly stupid and hollow the research is. This is the circus that decides prison sentences and executions.

Professional Psychology is equally as stupid as armchair psychology. You shouldn't listen to anything these "professionals" claim. Weren't they doing labotomies then?