Subject: Aguilar's "Back of the Head" Witnesses - 11 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 01:34:19 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 ------------------------------------ 17) DORIS NELSON, RN was a supervising nurse at Parkland. She was interviewed by Arlen Specter for the Warren Commission and she was neither asked or volunteered information regarding the nature of JFK's wounds. (WC-V6:143-147) As Groden and Livingstone reported, however, journalist Ben Bradlee, Jr. asked her, "Did you get a good look at his head injuries?" Nelson: "A very good look...When we wrapped him up and put him in the coffin. I saw his whole head." Asked about the accuracy of the HSCA autopsy photographs she reacted: "No. It's not true. Because there was no hair back there. There wasn't even hair back there. (Emphasis added) It was blown away. Some of his head was blown away and his brains were fallen down on the stretcher." (High Treason I. p. 454) ---------------------------------------- This is quite interesting, since only a couple of years after Livingstone was going around eliciting these interviews, a LIFE MAGAZINE photographer asked Nelson to show him where the wound was. The following is what she showed him: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/nelson.jpg Jerry Organ deserves credit for finding this. So either she has been inconsistent in her statements, or Groden and Livingstone have misreported what she said. What Groden and Livingstone report is consistent with the BOSTON GLOBE article, so maybe Nelson has told different versions of her story. .John The Kennedy Assassination Home Page http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm