JFK & the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters (128 page)

[
528
]. Thomas J. Hamilton, “Nations Get Thant Appeal To Hold Talks on Vietnam,”
New York Times
(March 9, 1965), p. 4. I first came across this article, and the next four sources, through Peter Dale Scott’s essay “The Death of Kennedy and the Vietnam War,” in
Government by Gunplay: Assassination Conspiracy Theories from Dallas to Today,
edited by Sid Blumenthal and Harvey Yazijian (New York: Signet, 1976), pp. 157, 183.

[
529
]. Ibid.

[
530
]. Richard P. Stebbins,
The United States in World Affairs 1963
(New York: published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 193-94.

[
531
].
Manchester Guardian
(August 9, 1965), cited by Franz Schurmann, Peter Dale Scott, and Reginald Zelnik in
The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), p. 28.

[
532
]. National Liberation Front broadcast on November 8, 1963, cited by Jean Lacouture,
Vietnam: Between
Two Truces
(New York: Random House, 1966), p. 170.

[
533
]. U Thant on February 24, 1965. Cited by Schurmann, Scott, and Zelnik,
Politics of Escalation,
p. 28.

[
534
]. Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrieff,
Many Reasons Why
(New York: Hill & Wang, 1978), p. 84.

[
535
]. Crenshaw,
Trauma Room One
, pp. 61-62.

[
536
]. Ibid., p. 61.

[
537
]. Ibid., p. 62.

[
538
]. Ibid.

[
539
]. Ibid., p. 67.

[
540
]. Ibid., p. 285, table 1.

[
541
]. Ibid., p. 67.

[
542
]. “Mr. Kennedy was hit by a bullet in the throat, just below the Adam’s apple, [Dr. Malcolm Perry and Dr. Kemp Clark] said. This wound had the appearance of a bullet’s entry.” “Kennedy Is Killed by Sniper as He Rides in Car in Dallas,”
New York Times
(November 23, 1963), p. 2.

A United Press International report, datelined Dallas, November 22, 1963, stated: “Dr. Malcolm Perry, 34 years old, said ‘there was an entrance wound below his Adam’s apple.’”

[
543
]. Malcolm Perry’s press conference statements from White House transcript 1327-C, November 22, 1963, 3:16 p.m. CST, Dallas, Texas, pp. 5-6. LBJ Library.

[
544
]. Jack Minnis and Staughton Lynd, “Seeds of Doubt: Some Questions about the Assassination,”
New Republic
(December 21, 1963), p. 20.

[
545
]. Manchester,
Death of a President
, pp. 338-46.

[
546
].
WCH
, vol. 6, p. 42 (emphasis added). Arlen Specter repeated his hypothetical question, which contradicted the doctors’ own earliest testimony, as a way of putting on record their apparent retractions. See also
WCH
, vol. 3, pp. 362, 373; vol. 6, pp. 25-26.

[
547
]. Dr. Charles Crenshaw, “Let’s Set the Record Straight” (unpublished manuscript), p. 22.

[
548
].
WCH
, vol. 3, p. 376. In his testimony to the Warren Commission, Kemp Clark joined Malcolm Perry in backing away from newspaper reports of their first statements on the hole in the president’s throat. Clark said, “I do not recall ever specifically stating that this was an entrance wound . . .”
WCH
, vol. 6, p. 28.

[
549
].
WCH
, vol. 3, p. 379.

[
550
]. House Select Committee witness Jim Gochenaur to interviewer Bob Kelley on Gochenaur’s conversations with Secret Service agent Elmer Moore. Notes by Bob Kelley on June 6, 1975; pp. 3-4. JFK Record Number 157-10005-10280.

[
551
]. From transcribed copy by House Select Committee on Assassinations of tape-recorded conversation with James Gochenaur, May 10, 1977, p. 22. JFK Record Number 180-10086-10438.

[
552
]. Author’s interview with Jim Gochenaur, April 28, 2007.

[
553
]. Moore cited by Gochenaur. HSCA conversation with Gochenaur, May 10, 1977, p. 23. Also Jim Gochenaur’s letter to the author, October 23, 2007.

[
554
]. Crenshaw,
Trauma Room One
, p. 109.

[
555
]. Crenshaw,
JFK: Conspiracy of Silence
, pp. 153-54.

[
556
].
Dallas Morning News
interview on April 8, 1992, with Oliver “Buck” Revell, director of the Dallas FBI Office. Cited in Crenshaw,
Trauma Room One
, p. 151.

[
557
].
Dallas Morning News
interview on May 17, 1992, with David W. Belin, counsel for the Warren Commission in 1964. Cited in Crenshaw,
Trauma Room One
, p. 152.

[
558
]. Dennis L. Breo, “JFK’s death—the plain truth from the MDs who did the autopsy,” pp. 2794-2803; Dennis L. Breo, “JFK’s death, part II—Dallas MDs recall their memories,” pp. 2804-2807; both in
Journal
of the American Medical Association
, vol. 267, no. 20 (May 27, 1992).

[
559
]. Dr. Charles Rufus Baxter,
WCH
, vol. 6, p. 40. Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, ibid., p. 32. Dr. Don Teel Curtis, ibid., p. 60. Nurse Margaret Hinchcliffe, ibid., p. 141. Dr. Kenneth Everett Salyer, ibid., pp. 80-81.

[
560
]. Crenshaw, “Let’s Set the Record Straight,” p. 3.

[
561
]. Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D., J. Gary Shaw, “Commentary on JFK Autopsy Articles,”
JAMA
, vol. 273, no. 20 (May 24/31, 1995), p. 1632.

[
562
]. “Dennis L. Breo’s Reply,” ibid., p. 1633.

[
563
]. D. Bradley Kizzia, “On the Trial of the Character Assassins,” in Crenshaw,
Trauma Room One
, p. 169. Kizzia adds: “It is also of note that in 1998, Dr. [George] Lundberg was fired as editor-in-chief of
JAMA
, allegedly due to a series of controversial publications. He was preceded in leaving
JAMA
by his writer, Breo, who was discharged not long after the Crenshaw litigation was settled. Also, the Chicago Headline Club determined in 1999 that its award for exemplary journalism probably should not have been given to Breo in 1992 for the articles in
JAMA
on the JFK assassination because fairly clear-cut “evidence now available proves that the journalist who wrote the award-winning story purposefully did not report it fairly at the time.” Ibid.

[
564
]. Robert B. Livingston, M.D., “Statement of November 18, 1993,” in James H. Fetzer,
Assassination
Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK
(Chicago: Catfeet Press, 1998), p. 162.

[
565
]. Ibid.

[
566
]. Ibid.

[
567
]. “Testimony of Dr. Pierre Finck,” February 24, 1969, in the trial of Clay Shaw; Appendix A in James DiEugenio,
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case
(New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992), p. 291.

[
568
]. Ibid., pp. 291-92.

[
569
]. Ibid., pp. 301-302.

[
570
]. William Matson Law with Allan Eaglesham,
In the Eye of History
(Southlake, Tex.: JFK Lancer Productions & Publications, 2005), p. 45.

[
571
]. Ibid., p. 39. Paul O’Connor stated that, in addition to Admiral Galloway, head of the hospital command, Admiral George Burkley, the president’s physician, also blocked the doctors from probing the neck wound and a back wound. Admiral Burkley claimed he was acting in the name of the Kennedy family, none of whom were present at the autopsy. Ibid., p. 43.

[
572
]. Ibid., pp. 75, 83.

[
573
]. Ibid., p. 106.

[
574
]. Ibid., p. 65.

[
575
]. Crenshaw,
JFK: Conspiracy of Silence
, pp. 153-54.

[
576
]. Kent Heiner,
Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William B. Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-up Conspiracy?
(Watterville, Ore.: Trine Day, 2004), p. 68.