From john.mcadams@marquette.edu Thu Jan 08 18:45:37 2004
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk
Subject: Aguilar's "Back of the Head" Witnesses - 21
From: john.mcadams@marquette.edu (John McAdams)
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 00:45:37 GMT

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

Let me warn the reader that Aguilar includes a lot of extraneous
material, but I'm including it all so as not to be accused of
"selectivity."

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13) JERROL CUSTER: the other X-ray technician told David Lifton that
the wound in the skull was posterior in the skull and said that "he
exposed, and returned to the morgue, X- rays showing that the rear of
the President's head was blown off." ( Best Evidence , p. 620) The
extant X-rays show no such thing. In May 29, 1992 and November 18,
1993 press conferences Custer repeated his consistent claim that the
current X-rays are forgeries. (Reuters wire service, reported in:
Duffy JP, Ricci VL, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, New York,
1992, Thunder's Mouth Press, p. 142.) 

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Of course, Aguilar doesn't report what the basis is of his claim that
the "current X-rays are forgeries."  This may well be yet another case
of conspiracist "researchers" showing a witness the digitally enhanced
x-rays from the House Select Committee, and not explaining that these
*are* digitally enhanced and look very different from unenhanced
x-rays.

But the key point is that vague oral descriptions of a wound are
inherently less precise that a drawing.

The ARRB asked Custer to draw a picture of the wound, and Douglas
Horne (an ARRB staffer) showed the results at JFK Lancer.

http://www.jfklancer.com/Backes.html

Note that Custer puts the wound on the right side above the ear, and
*explicitly* excludes any blown-out occipital bone.


http://jfklancer.com/pub/md/MD207.JPG

http://www.jfklancer.com/pub/md/MD206.JPG

.John

 
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