James V. Rinnovatore - The JFK Assassination Revisited: A Synthesis

THE JFK ASSASSINATION
REVISITED

A Synthesis

James V. Rinnovatore & Allan Eaglesham

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Contents

9. The Warren Commission, the House
Select Committee on Assassinations
(HSCA) and the Assassination Records
Review Board (ARRB): Investigations
of the JFK Assassination

13. Appendix I
The Sibert and ONeill FBI Report

14. Appendix II
The Zapruder Film:
Another Altered Document

15. Appendix III
Autopsy Witnesses: Official List

To

David S. Lifton and Douglas P. Horne

who illuminated the path to the truth

Other JFK-related works by the a uthors

General Activities at the Bethesda Morgue, 22 November 1963:

Posthumous words of an eyewitness lead to a new theory

(JVR & AE, 2012)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/Mc Hugh/ )

Aftermath of the JFK Assassin ation:

Parkland Hospital to the Bethesda Morgue

(JVR & AE, 2012)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/Afte rmath/

and as an ebook from Amazo n.com)

FBI Agents James W. Sibert and Francis X. O Neill:

Analysis of their Activities at the Bethesda Morgue on November 22 , 1963

(JVR &AE, 2011)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/JWS -FXO/ )

Information on the Death of William Pitzer

(AE, 2011)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/PitzerF iles/ )

JFK 11/ 22/63:

Who Took the Pre-Autopsy Photog raphs?

(JVR & AE, 2011)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/Pre-AutopsyPhotogr aphs/ )

Deep-Throa t Dave

(AE & JVR, 2010)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/DeepTh roat/ )

JFK 11/ 22/63:

Where Was the Throat Wound Al tered?

(JVR, 2010)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/Throat-W ound/ )

JFK 11/ 22/63:

Body/Casket Chicanery at the Bethesda Morgue

(JVR, 2009)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/BNH-chica nery/ )

The Untimely Death of LCDR William B. P itzer:

Forensic Experts Examine the Ev idence

(AE, 2009)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/WBP-Resolu tion/ )

Where Were the JFK Autopsy Photographs Taken?

(AE, 2006)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/Autopsy Room/ )

The Untimely Death of William Bruce Pitzer, U S Navy

(AE, 2005)

( http://www.manuscriptservice.com/Pi tzer/ )

(See also http://www.manuscriptservice.com/DarkCor ners/ )

In a brief book published March, 2012, Aftermath of the JFK Assassination: Parkland Hospital to the Bethesda Morgue , [1] we provided a concise account, mainly of what transpired from 3:00 PM on November 22, 1963, when the body of President Kennedy left Parkland Memorial Hospital, to 8:00 PM, the starting time of the official autopsy at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), Bet hesda.

We now provide a reformatting of the evidence in Aftermath to better support the fact that a break in custody of the body occurred during that 5-hour period, for the purpose of altering the wounds the president sustained in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. Also provided are discussio ns of:

• who planned the assassin ation,
• the investigative efforts of the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) and the Assassination Records Review Board ( ARRB),
• who was responsible for taking the photographs of the presidents wounds before alteration and when,
• the activities of FBI Agents James Sibert and Francis ONeill at the Bethesda m orgue,
• the autopsy photographs and X -rays,
• the supplementary autopsy report on the presidents brai n, and
• evidence that the extant Zapruder film is an altered doc ument.

James V. Rinnovatore & Allan Eag lesham

November 22 , 2013

The authors thank Susanne Lipari, Bo Lipari, Kenneth Hersh and Mary Anne Rinnovatore for their comments and suggestions on the manus cript.

At 2:38 PM (EST) on November 22, 1963, millions of Americans learned from Walter Cronkite that President Kennedy was dead. To say the least, this was shocking news, especially since he had been shot in public view while riding in a motorcade. Was it possible that a banana-republic-style assassination had taken place in our country? Was it possible that our much-loved presidents young, vibrant life had been extinguished so horribly? Many of us found it inconcei vable.

During the early evening of the day of the assassination, citizens, transfixed to their television sets for information, observed the arrival of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, DC, at approximately 6:05 PM. The tail section opened and a bronze ornamental casket was off-loaded. Mrs. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, side-by-side, observed the lowering of the casket and its placement in a gray navy ambulance (Figure 1). Those in denial now knew for certain that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was no more, by observing his wifes blood-stained suit.

Mrs. Kennedy and her entourage entered the ambulance, which was part of a motorcade to the Bethesda Hospital, a division of the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC). Needless to say, she, as did the nationwide viewing audience, assumed that the presidents body was in the ambulance. In fact, the casket was empty and the presidents body, inside a body bag, was en route to the Bethesda morgue by helicopter. The removal of President Kennedys body from the bronze casket, while en route to Andrews Air Force Base, was necessary to clandestinely take it to the morgue early, so that bullets could be removed and the wounds altered from what was observed and described by the doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas. The president had sustained wounds caused by shots from the front, whereas, in order to implicate Lee Harvey Oswald, the wounds had to appear as having been caused by shots from the rear. This was a key component to the cover-up of President Kennedys assassin ation.

Figure 1. Air Force One at Andrews Air Force
Base. Upper: Casket about to be lo wered.
Lower: Casket placed in the navy ambulance by some members of the honor guard (HG) and o thers.

Author David Lifton made the astute observation many years ago in Best Evidence [2] that the presidents body and his woundsas observed by the doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallaswere the best evidence for a true assessment of how President Kennedy was assassinated. The doctors at Parkland observed a wound in the anterior neck and in the right occipital (rear) region of the head. The latter wound was judged to have been fatal. Descriptions of these wounds are contained in their contemporaneous reports. [3, Appendix VIII]

There was unanimity among the observations of the Parkland doctors: the president had sustained what appeared to be an entrance wound at the throat and an exit wound in the right-rear section of the skull. Wounds with these characteristics conform to frontal shots.