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THE BATTAUO;
New Inconsistencies Found In Warren Report
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part
I of a two-part article concern
ing new inconsistencies found by
Cyril Wecht of Duquesne Univer
sity in the Warren Commission
Report.
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BY JOHN COVERT
Alternative Features Service
You’d think people would lis
ten to a man like Cyril Wecht.
He’s a forensic pathologist—a
person with degrees in both law
and medicine. He’s Research Pro
fessor of Law and Director, In
stitute of Forensic Sciences, at
Duquesne University in Pitts
burgh; and a Clinical Assistant
Professor of Pathology at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical
School. He’s also a recent past
president of both the American
Academy of Forensic Sciences
and of the American College of
Legal Medicine. Besides that, he’s
the Coroner of Allegheny County
(Pittsburgh).
But when the discussion turns
to the charges by Wecht of dis
crepancies in the Warren Com
mission Report on the assassina
tion of President John Kennedy,
persistent silence is the official
response.
This August, Wecht became the
second non-governmental medical
expert allowed to view the items
from the autopsy of President
Kennedy stored at the National
Archives in Washington.
In a recent interview, Wecht
said he questioned the Warren
Commission’s findings even be
fore his two days of research at
the Archives. But when he came
out his conclusion was that “the
Warren Commission Report is to
tally untenable, unacceptable and
absolutely incorrect as far as its
findings on Lee Harvey Oswald
and the single assassin theory.”
The Kennedy family turned
over numerous items from the
autopsy to the Archives in Octo
ber, 1966, with the stipulation
that none of the material be re
leased to the public during the
lifetime of Kennedy family mem
bers, and that after five years
“recognized experts in pathology
or related sciences” be allowed to
view them.
The first “expert” granted per
mission to view the items was
Dr. John Lattimer of New York.
Lattimer is a urologist—a kidney
and bladder specialist — whose
only qualification seems to have
been that he has been a consist
ent defender of the Commission’s
findings. Lattimer spent just
three hours in the Archives last
January and immediately after
wards released his conclusion that
the autopsy items supported the
Warren Commission’s findings.
Wecht, then, was the first critic
of the Warren Commission Re
port to be allowed entrance, and
this only after he spent nearly
a year attempting to get permis
sion from Burke Marshall, a law
professor at Yale Law School
who acts as an official represent
ative for the Kennedy family.
Wecht says he probably wouldn’t
have gotten permission at all if
Marshall hadn’t been prodded by
others interested in the autopsy
items.
When Wecht finally did make
it to the Archives, on August 23
and 24, he said he discovered a
number of autopsy items were in
explicably missing — most nota
bly the preserved brain of the
President and a number of micro
scopic slides of tissues removed
from the bullet wounds. So far,
no one has explained the disap
pearances. But what remained at
the Archives was enough for
Wecht to confirm his doubts.
In our interview, Wecht recre
ated the scene at Dealey Plaza
and Parkland Hospital in Dallas
and at the Bethesda Naval Hos
pital, where the autopsy was per
formed the evening of the assas
sination.
In Dealey Plaza, the President’s
car “had just made a right hand
turn and was proceeding to an
underpass when shots rang out.
President Kennedy clutched his
throat, Governor John Connally
was struck, then Kennedy was
struck in the head.” By the time
the President was brought to
Parkland Hospital nearly 30 min
utes later, he was already dead
with the basics of “life” being
preserved only by machine.
“Under Texas law the autopsy
would have been performed in
Dallas,” said Wecht. “But there
was much confusion, a lot of
shouting and ordering going on,
and eventually through ruse and
other tactics the body was taken
out a private door and put aboard
Air Force One for the flight to
Washington.”
“Now, the autopsy at Bethesda
Naval Hospital should not have
been any cause for confusion.
Unfortunately, instead of the
time lapse being used to get the
most qualified pathologists for
the autopsy, the situation got
worse.”
Wecht said three staff doctors
were given the task, only one of
whom had experience with foren
sic pathology. “It was essentially
a military undertaking. Admirals,
generals, FBI and Secret Service
personnel were present in the
room to oversee the autopsy. The
doctors acted as military subordi
nates.”
pressure to the President’s ctjj
to revive his heart.” And, ii
a bullet had been found
stretcher by a janitor at Pa^
land during the early evening
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not even examined at Parldaj 11
because doctors had, in tl
haste, used the bullet hole tos
sert a breathing device into
President’s throat. Thus,
Bethesda physicians noted
“an incision” in their report,
one there had enough forensics
perience to realize the
was actually a bullet woim), 1
said Wecht.
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According to records made at
Parkland Hospital, Wecht said,
doctors there noted two wounds:
one, a huge gaping hole, on the
right side of Kennedy’s head, and
the other a round circular hole in
the middle front of his throat.
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Doctors performing the autopsy
in Washington, however, noted
these wounds: the huge gaping
hole in his head, a smaller hole
in the upper back of his head,
and a hole in his back six inches
below shoulder level. This latter
wound was puzzling because no
exit wound was found for it, yet
the bullet was not in the body.
“They concluded,” said Wecht,
“that the bullet which had en
tered his back fell out of the
same hole onto a stretcher when
doctors at Parkland administered
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doctors at Bethesda released It
body for burial and gave thj
results: Kennedy had been
twice, once in the back (the
let of which fell out later fi
the same hole), and once in awj
head (the bullet of which ^
men ted). Nothing was said akp Ua t (
the smaller wound on the lea;
and, of course, nothing was st flavin
about the throat wound. e f e nsive
Wecht said the embamjsi ^ secon(
part of the autopsy camethete ^ & p er
day—after the body was alreai] p(
gone—when the doctors lean
for the first time that therein
also been a wound in the thru!
Rather than admit their miihi
and re-examine the body,
said the doctors made a "despto
ble” choice and “chose to
about it.”
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