The "Other" Zapruder Film

[Joe Bauer]

There are so many conflicting accounts of JFK's skull bone injuries and their types, location and size and even with conflicting photos and re-creation drawings this is just one tough area for debate. 

Starting with SS agent Clint Hill's initial JFK head wound eye witness WC testimony through dozens of Parkland staff, Bethesda staff including medical corps aides, Humes and Boswell and Finck and their photographers, X Ray techs and hand drawing recorders and future research interpretations it's just a mess imo.

Just read some of Bethesda Chief Of Pathology and JFK autopsy attendant J. Thornton Boswell's AARB testimony.

His and Hume's JFK autopsy and skull and brain injury recollection testimonies conflict sometimes in debatably important ways. Which just adds to the JFK skull and brain injuries debate.

Two things stand out though in my brief read just now of Boswell's AARB testimony.

He mentions Humes having to lower his first record location of the back skull wound.

On orders from someone else?  Curious indeed.

Also, how JFK's brain weight was never recorded.

Boswell and Humes stated the same thing in response to questions about JFK's brain. Both of them seemed " gee...I uh...dunno " stumped when asked about this hugely important missing procedure.

JFK's kidneys, lungs, liver, spleen and heart were all weighed upon their removal.

But not his brain? Big red flag there.

Especially when in the final official autopsy report a JFK brain weight "was" listed. And it was stated that his brain weighed more than the average adult male one!

Boswell testified that "half of one of the two lobes" of JFK's brain was missing -blown away.

That's a quarter of JFK's brain! 

Also, Boswell testified that the missile ( bullet) that entered JFK's head "exploded" inside of his skull. 

Gun experts here, is that what Carcano Model 38 ammo does? I'm oblivious to this area of knowledge but certainly curious.

 

A portion of Bethesda autopsy pathologist J. Thornton Boswell's AARB testimony:

A Okay. The covering of the brain attaches in the center of the skull from front to back or back to front, but all along the top. And that's where the dura comes together on both sides and comes down around the brain. And that was loose all the way from front to back.

The two lobes of the brain are encased in a fibrous connective tissue membrane, and there's an external and internal one, and they come together and are attached all along the surface in the center, midline.

Q. And so down that sinus that goes down from the frontal bone to the back, all of that was loose?

A. Yes.

Q. What was it in your understanding that caused that to become loose?

A. Well, there was actually an explosion in his cranial cavity, and half of the right lobe of his brain disappeared through that cavity and loosened the surface of the membrane there.

Also, most of the Dealey Plaza JFK wounding sequence eye witnesses were at a straight ground level position which imo might very well have contributed to such varying accounts of things like JFK's upper body and head movements during and after both shots as well as the speed of JFK's limo changing during the shooting.

If brakes lights went on...only a few people with a rear view of the limo could have seen this but even then there was lots of obscuring with close up motorcycle police, the SS follow up car etc. ... just not great eyewitness angles to accurately see what was truly going on inside the Presidential limo.

Someone like Zapruder standing high above the scene would have a much better angle to clearly see JFK's and everyone else's body and head movements during the shooting.

Just some thoughts. Hope our esteemed members here work out their views and different takes okay.

Remember the words of conciliatory wisdom our former president said to the nation during the heated political protests in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, 2017 which resulted in a woman being murdered.

"There are very fine people on both sides."

 

Edited March 2, 2022 by Joe Bauer

[John Butler]

3 hours ago, Sean Coleman said:

John tried this trick almost exactly three years ago. On that occasion it was 50 witnesses who, according to John, said that JFK wasn't shot where all the films and photos show he was shot.

That's right.  Now the number as expanded to over 105+.  The reason I say 105+ is because the next 8 totaling to about 114  or so are maybe so or maybe not so.

[Sean Coleman]

Whoa-I never said that!

[Sean Coleman]

I said….