autopsy and clothes, researchers have since noticed a saturated blood stain under the right * Parenthetical references are to sources numbered in the bibliography. A second number refers to page number(s). A single number signifies a video, lecture, or interview without pages.lip of the collar of the shirt and two small slices, which overlap when buttoned, under where the bow tie would have been. The question remains as to what might have happened to the President’s body during the plane trip from Parkland to Bethesda Hospital. What could have caused the photos from one autopsy to conflict so much with the records of another? The first suspicions came about when researchers noted that the Presidents body left Parkland hospital in a very nice casket but had arrived at Bethesda in a body bag and poor casket (7). Surgical differences too had been made to the body in that same time frame. In a comparison of autopsy records, Parkland recorded an egg-sized hole in the President's head with a majority of the brain remaining, but Bethesda recorded no brain and a hole four times the previously recorded size (7). It is evident that the body had been manipulated to look as though the assassination could have been carried out by a single shooter (7). Records of the autopsies were also manipulated. Commander James Humes, Commander in charge during President Kennedy’s autopsy, said that he had destroyed the original records of the autopsy, before the release of the Warren Report, after Oswald had died (7). Why would the government trouble themselves to manipulate the body to make the assassination look like it was performed by one shooter, when the time frame between each shot would make the accusation impossible?The Abraham Zapruder film allows 5.6 seconds from the first shot, that hit the curb throwing pieces of concrete onto a bystander, to the last shot, which broke open Kennedy’s head, also known as the red-halo effect (3). The...
