James Curtis Jenkins - At The Cold Shoulder of History: The Chilling Story of a 21-year old Navy Hospital Corpsman Who Stood at the Shoulder of JFK during the Bethesda Autopsy

At The Cold Shoulder of History: The Chilling Story of a 21-year-old Hospital Corpsman Who Stood at the Shoulder of JFK During the Bethesda Autopsy

Copyright 2018 James C. Jenkins. All Rights Reserved.

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Jenkins, James C.

At The Cold Shoulder of History1st ed.

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Epub (ISBN-13) 978-1-63424-212-7

Kindle (ISBN-13) 978-1-63424-213-4

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1. Jenkins, James C. -- 1942- 2. Kennedy, John F. -- (John Fitzgerald) -- 1917-1963 -- Autopsy. 3. Kennedy, John F. -- (John Fitzgerald) -- 1917-1963 -- Assassination. 4. United States -- Politics and government -- History. 5. Conspiracies -- United States -- History. I. Title

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Thats a valiant flea that dares to eat its breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Shakespeare

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Which way did he go, George?

John Steinbeck

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

J ust what will it take? There has been so much water under the bridge. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was our 35th president. We are now up to number 45. Where has the time gone? Where has our country gone?

Many of us find it hard to recognize our world today. There was so much hope in our youth. JFK used the slogans A time for greatness 1960 and We Can Do Better. He presented a New Frontier, asked what we could do for our country, created the Peace Corps, signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, said We choose to go to the Moon, gave us a A Strategy of Peace, and vibrantly lived in Camelot with his beautiful family.

Todays discourse seems so far away, yet so painfully near. Decorum appears to have been left behind, while appeals to our lowest base instincts are standard fare. We are long way from JFKs inauguration words: civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Yes, those words were spoken about US/Russia relations in the Cold War, but I feel that they speak directly to us today.

TrineDay is honored to bring to you James Jenkins personal testimony of what he saw and experienced as he stood by a murdered President. At The Cold Shoulder of History: The Chilling Story of a 21-year-old Hospital Corpsman Who Stood at the Shoulder of JFK During the Bethesda Autopsy is an amazing story that all Americans should read.

Jim Jenkins, with Paul OConner, prepared the morgue in anticipation of receiving the body. Jim stood at JFKs right shoulder assisting Dr. Boswell during the autopsy, moving the Presidents body, removing and examining internal organs, helping infuse the brain and positioning the body for x-rays. He and Paul helped the mortician dress a dead John F. Kennedy, and then were given the job of cleaning up the morgue. Jim was in the morgue from 3:30 in the afternoon until 9:00 the next morning. He was there.

Can you imagine?

Jenkins wasnt called to testify before the Warren Commission. He was interviewed in 1977 for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but these were to be hidden from the public until 2029. While working for the Assassination Records Review Board Douglas Horne was told directly to not interview either Jim Jenkins or Paul OConner. The interview was finally released because of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

In 2015 at a JFK conference in Dallas, speaking about one of the most famous JFK autopsy pictures, I heard Jim say something earth-shaking: We didnt use that type of head rest in Bethesda. I got in the question line and asked him to confirm what he had said. He did, and also confirmed that the Bethesda Morgue didnt have a phone on the wall where the same picture showed one to be. I was floored and flabbergasted. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Does this mean that photographic lie is ?

Here we have the personal testimony of what a 21-year saw and participated in November 1963, and the travails that it brought.

I want to thank James Jenkins for his service to our country and his courage to stand and deliver his recollections of this most unfortunate affair. And a huge thanks to William Matson Law for his continued steady hand and thoughtful inquiry. We are so lucky!

Onward to the Utmost of Futures!

Peace,

Kris Millegan

Publisher

TrineDay

Sepember 6, 2018

This book is dedicated to the memories of Paul Kelly OConnor
and Dennis Duane David.

James Jienkins as a young Naval Corpsman.

I n 1963 had the eyewitness information in this book of the non-autopsy, but actual alteration of the head wounds to President Kennedys corpse been made public, more than a dozen of the major perpetrators might also be corpses, hung or shot for treason for the crime that changed America and the world for the worse like no other in history. Also, we may have seen arrested scores more including some of our most revered names in the Media.

But sadly, like the truths of District Attorney Jim Garrisons provable case that: Elements of our CIA murdered our President, these too were ruthlessly crushed by every facet of Government and Media hungry for war in Asia and the Fake Wars that plague us to this day. Crushed till this book. Jim Garrison is dead; but fortunately for history his amazing American story is alive in two documentaries. Now, just as fortunately for us, and history, James C. Jenkins, who as a 21-year-old medical technician stood at the shoulder of the Presidents naked bloody body, finally tells of the horrors he witnessed, perpetrated by Drs. Humes and Boswell. And fortunately for us, the readers, James found the perfect investigative journalist and writer to help him tell his totally riveting, terrifying tale, William Matson Law.

To me, At The Cold Shoulder Of History is not a strong enough title for the rage I felt in what James was recalling and reporting about what his superiors were actually doing to the body, and the heartbreak I felt for this young man who suffered in silence, not just in that room, but for years. Imagine what it must have been like for this young southern boy. As a young man wanting to be a doctor to help humanity. Wanting to be in the Navy to help his country. Then quite by accident ends up at Bethesda Naval Hospital and is called in to assist in what he thought was going to be a real medical autopsy of the President. His first shock comes when he sees the body removed from an ordinary casket, not the one the body was placed in at Parkland. A bucket is placed under the autopsy table for the convenience of Dr. Humes. Imagine young James shock when he sees Dr. Humes pull the blood-soaked towel from off of the presidents head and just toss it on the floor, ignoring the bucket. Then also ignoring his medical oaths, treating the body as so much trash to be simply discarded. The possibility of two brains!! A gaping frontal neck wound. And a small bullet hole in the right temple, which they try to conceal. Well, you do not have to imagine it. You will see it in this riveting read. It is more than At The Cold Shoulder Of History . It is: A Stab In The Back Of Justice. And for James, A Stab In the Heart of Truth: The death of his American Dream.