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The Assassination of President Kennedy – Part 4

2026-06-23

At a press conference at Parkland Hospital after Kennedy had been pronounced dead, one of the reporters asked Dr. Malcolm Perry to describe the wound in Kennedy’s throat:

“Doctor, describe the entry wound. You believe it came from the front, in the throat?”

Dr. Perry replied:

“The wound appeared to be an entry wound on the front of the throat, yes, that is correct.”

One of the journalists who interviewed Perry was Connie Kritzberg of the Dallas Times Herald. When Kritzberg’s article was published the following day, she was surprised to discover that someone had added a sentence to her story.

Kritzberg herself had written:

“The hole in the front of the throat was described as an entry wound. The wound in the back of the head, the major one, was either an exit wound or a tangential exit wound.”¹

Immediately after those lines, someone else had inserted an additional sentence, which read:

“One doctor conceded that it was possible that there was only one wound.”²

This claim directly contradicted what Perry and two other doctors, Kemp and Clark, had told her.

When Connie demanded to know who had added the lines, the editor informed her that it had been the Federal Bureau of Investigation.³ She was later able to confirm that FBI agents had indeed visited the newspaper.

It is therefore not surprising that Connie later remarked:

“Now I believe that the addition to the story was the beginning of the cover-up for the public in Dallas. A shot from the front was not going to be allowed.”⁴

Dr. Perry was later questioned by Arlen Specter, a member of the Warren Commission staff, who was notably eager to challenge whether the wound had in fact been an entry wound.

Perry explained that he could not state categorically that it was, but that he had observed that the wound was only about 3.5 to 4 millimeters in diameter.

Such a small wound would, of course, argue against it being an exit wound. Ballistics experts at Edgewood Arsenal also conducted experiments which indicated that bullets fired from Oswald’s rifle would have produced an exit wound two to three times larger.

Dr. Perry’s observations were supported by Ronald C. Jones, who testified before the Warren Commission in 1964 that Kennedy:

“had a small wound in the middle of the throat.”⁵

Jones further testified that the President had:

“a large wound in the right rear portion of the head.”⁶

Specter then probed whether Jones had experience treating gunshot wounds, to which Jones replied that they frequently treated shooting victims and sometimes received four or five such patients in a single night.⁷

In an interview with author David Lifton in 1983, Jones additionally stated:

“If they brought him (JFK) in here today, I would still say he was shot from the front.”⁸

In an interview on the Larry King Live in 2003, Jones also described his observations when Kennedy was wheeled into the emergency room:

“He was staring. His eyes were open. And I never saw any sign of life. But I saw a small hole in the midline of the neck, just below the larynx, and I knew that he had an injury to the back of his head.”⁹

In an interview on the Larry King Live in 2003, Jones also described his observations when Kennedy was wheeled into the emergency room:

The Autopsy at Bethesda Hospital
The Warren Commission now faced a dilemma. According to the author, all of the medical reports from Parkland Memorial Hospital indicated that Kennedy had been struck by one or more shots from the front, and the physicians could support this conclusion with descriptions of a large gaping wound in the back of his head, which they believed suggested a shot from the front.

According to this account, it therefore became important for those in power to ensure that the doctors conducting the autopsy would present a more “suitable” version of events.

To that end, they selected Dr. James Humes, who, according to the author, had never previously performed an autopsy on a gunshot victim. What followed, the author argues, was an extraordinary and highly bizarre series of events.

Humes not only concluded that the bullet had entered the back of Kennedy’s head and exited through the right side of his skull; he also allegedly failed to identify one of the gunshot wounds and later burned his original autopsy notes.

However, this was only a small part of the unusual events that allegedly took place.

Richard Lipsey served in 1963 as an aide to General Chester V. Clifton Wehle, who commanded the Military District of Washington.

Following the assassination, Lipsey was assigned the task of transporting Kennedy’s body from Andrews Air Force Base to Bethesda Naval Hospital for the autopsy.

When Lipsey later testified, he made what the author describes as a sensational revelation that was “incredibly” overlooked by the committee. Lipsey recounted that a “decoy casket” had been brought to the front entrance of the hospital along with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, while the casket containing JFK’s body had been transported separately to the rear of the morgue.

Author David Lifton discussed this in his 1981 book Best Evidence, in which he argued that Kennedy’s body had been altered before it was brought to Washington.

At the time of Kennedy’s death, Lifton was a 24-year-old student at University of California, Los Angeles, studying engineering. His ambition was to contribute to Kennedy’s goal of putting a man on the Moon, and at night he worked as a computer engineer for North American Aviation, then the principal contractor for the Apollo program.

After attending a lecture on the Kennedy assassination by Mark Lane, Lifton devoted decades to researching what had actually happened in Dallas and, in particular, what had happened to Kennedy’s body.

Lifton knew that the photographs of Kennedy published in Life magazine had been presented in the wrong sequence. When he attended a lecture by former CIA director Allen Dulles in 1967, he pointed this out. Dulles dismissively replied:

“No, the head did not go backward.”

“Yes, it did,” Lifton responded.

But Dulles persisted:

“No, young man, the head did not go backward.”¹⁰

This was despite the fact that Dulles had seen the Zapruder film and knew very well that Kennedy’s head appeared to move backward.

After obtaining and reading a report written by FBI agents Francis X. O’Neill and James W. Sibert, who were present during Kennedy’s autopsy and recorded their observations, Lifton concluded that their report demonstrated that surgical procedures had been performed on Kennedy’s body before it arrived at Bethesda.

Sibert and O’Neill had not only written that:

“it was obvious that a tracheotomy had been performed,”

which was known to have taken place at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, but they also noted that there had been:

“surgery of the head area, namely, in the top of the skull,”¹¹

which, according to the author, definitely had not occurred at Parkland Hospital.

Because Lifton knew that no cranial surgery had been performed on Kennedy in Dallas, he concluded that a “medical alteration”¹² of Kennedy’s body must have occurred sometime between its departure from Parkland Hospital and its arrival at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Lifton also concluded that Kennedy had been shot in the head from the front and not from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, as the Warren Commission maintained.

The casket carried aboard Air Force One with Jackie Kennedy was a heavy bronze casket with handles, whereas the casket in which Kennedy’s body allegedly arrived at Bethesda was a simple gray shipping casket.

Lifton theorized that Kennedy’s body had been removed from the casket aboard Air Force One and likely placed in the aircraft’s baggage compartment for the flight to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. From there, he believed it had been loaded onto a helicopter and flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, located about five minutes away.¹³

According to Lifton, the body was then surgically altered before arriving at Bethesda in order to conceal the true nature of Kennedy’s wounds. He argued that bullets had been removed and wounds added or modified to create the impression that Kennedy had been shot from behind.

After Lifton obtained a job working for former Warren Commission staff member Wesley Liebeler, he went into Liebeler’s office and showed him the Sibert and O’Neill report.

Liebeler examined it and then turned to Lifton, saying:

“You realize what you have here, don’t you? This is new evidence.”¹⁴

After being rejected by more than twenty publishers, Lifton finally found a publisher in Macmillan Publishing willing to release his book. Before doing so, however, the company hired a law firm, a forensic pathologist, and a neurosurgeon to review the book’s controversial claims.

According to the author, because none of these experts could refute the new evidence, the book was published and went on to become a major bestseller, despite what the author describes as the press doing its best to discredit it.

Newspapers were filled with reviews calling it:

“a shocking hodgepodge,”

“absurd,”

and

“an offense against every law and all common sense.”¹⁵

Television programs such as 60 Minutes, 20/20, and NBC’s First Camera reportedly investigated Lifton’s thesis but ultimately chose not to broadcast their findings.¹⁶

The attentive reader has, of course, already guessed why:

They could not disprove Lifton’s claims.

The review of Lifton’s book in the Los Angeles Times Book Review section was, according to the author, almost comically simplistic:

“Who really cares? Revealing the truth will not bring JFK back to life.”¹⁷

Fortunately, there were exceptions.

Lester Bernstein, then an editor at Newsweek, reportedly stated:

“Everything we found seemed to confirm the thesis.”¹⁸

Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel compared Lifton’s book to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the landmark work by William L. Shirer.

Other reviewers described Lifton’s work as:

“meticulously detailed, methodical, and thoroughly documented.”¹⁹

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