Subject: Aguilar's "Back of the Head" Witnesses - 3
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 00:58:14 GMT
From: jmcadams@primenet.com (John McAdams)
Organization: Marquette University
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk
Followup-To: alt.assassination.jfk

Gary Aguilar claims to have examined the testimony of 46 witnesses to
Kennedy's head wound, at both Parkland and Bethesda, and found that 44
of the 46 described the head wound as contradicting the photos and
x-rays of the autopsy as they exist in the National Archives.

So does Gary have 44 "back of the head" witnesses?  And are his 46
witnesses selected so as to avoid witnesses who placed the wound at
the top of the head, or the side of the head?

Let's take one example:

The following quotes from Aguilar are taken from:

http://www.assassinationweb.com/ag6.htm

>>>>>>>>>>>>

16) DAVID P. OSBORNE, MD - a military physician present at the autopsy
who was not questioned by the Warren Commission or the HSCA, he wrote
researcher Joanne Braun on 4-5-90 that, "...a second (bullet) hit in
the occipital region of the posterior skull which blew off the
posterior top of his skull and impacted and disintegrated against the
interior surface of the frontal bone just above the level of the eyes.
I know this for a fact because I was the one who worked on
his head, removing his brain and closed the skull so that he could
have had an open casket funeral if so desired." (Copy of letter
furnished to author by Joanne Braun.)

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Even as Gary reports it, this Osborne appears to be a "top of the
head" witness, since he says the bullet "blew off the posterior top of
the skull . . . "  Nothing whatsoever about blowning out the back of
the skull.  The "posterior top of the skull" is exactly what the
autopsy photos and x-rays show to be missing.

But Aguilar does not mention -- perhaps because he's not aware of --
Osborne's interview with the HSCA.  It's Record Number
180-10102-10415, Agency File Number 013623.

The document reports "In regard to the head wound Osborne said that
there was no question that the bullet entered the back of the head and
blew the top off of the head."

Why Aguilar would list so clear at "top of the head" witness as being
a "back of the head" witness is puzzling.

.John


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