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Paul O'Connor worked at the Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH) in the morgue area. He was interviewed by Andy Purdy of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) on August 29, 1977, and was included in the work of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB).
The first interesting thing that he says in the interview is this comment.
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O’Connor said that the casket was a pink shipping casket and it arrived at approximately eight o'clock. (ARRB MD-64, P. 2)
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Why is this interesting you may ask? Because if we look at Dr. Robert Karnei's August 23, 1977, HSCA interview we will see this statement by him.
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Dr. Karnei does not recall how late into the autopsy Dr. Finck arrived, but recalls the other doctors wanted someone with ballistics experience. He believes he came in around 8 o'clock…”a while after they were into the autopsy.” (ARRB MD-61, p. 4)
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How could the body arrive at 8 o’clock according to O’Connor and be well under way according to Dr. Karnei? Something is off here. Lets look at the man in charge of the autopsy, Dr. James Humes, and what he said about the start time.
Mr. SPECTER - What time did the autopsy start approximately?
Commander HUMES - The president's body was received at 25 minutes before 8, and the autopsy began at approximately 8 p.m. on that evening. You must include the fact that certain X-rays and other examinations were made before the actual beginning of the routine type autopsy examination.
This matches Dr. Karnei's statement. What body arrived at 8 o’clock then? Or was the “autopsy" started at around 8 o’clock tied to this interesting tidbit?
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A man named Clarence Israel (deceased) of Rockville, MD told [Janie] Taylor that his brother (deceased and no name given) was one of two African-American orderlies present in the autopsy room of the Medical Center the day of the autopsy. Israel said that his brother had not mentioned the story to anyone…[but] wanted to ensure that his story was known because he was verbally threatened by a guard at the time of the autopsy.
Israel told her the orderlies saw one doctor was in the autopsy room at the Medical Center who was waiting for some time prior to the arrival of the body and other physicians. When the body arrived, many people were forced out of the room and the doctor performed some type of mutilation of three bullet punctures to the head area. The doctor was working at a very “hurried" pace and was done within a few minutes, at which he left the autopsy room. (ARRB MD-45, p. 1)
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Who was this man? Was he even a doctor? Was this why they were saying that the autopsy began at 8 o’clock to cover for this? Three bullet punctures? I thought the Warren Commission (WC) said that JFK was shot just once in the head? Where did the other two punctures come from then?
These questions most likely will never be answered.
O’Connor tells us what the body of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) looked like.
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…He said the body was in a body bag and the head was was wrapped in a sheet. O’Connor said he helped unwrap the sheet. He recalls seeing ”…massive head wound…” and a “…gaping wound in the neck…” as well as two chest incisions.”
…He said that the head “…nothing left in the cranium but splattered brain matter.” (ARRB MD-64, p. 2)
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The head was not wrapped at Parkland Hospital (PH), so who did this? O’Connor said there was a large gaping wound in the head, but didn’t note the location of the wound at this point. Later on he describes the location for us.
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Regarding the head wound…O’Connor described the defect as being in the region from the “…Occipital around the temporal and parietal regions.” (ARRB MD-64, pp. 5-6)
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There should have been no damage to the occipital area IF the bullet entered there as the WC claimed. Damage to this area of the head, the rear portion, is proof of a shot from the front.
O’Connor made this comment about the autopsy during the interview.
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…O’Connor added that he didn’t think the doctors were trying to establish anything by the autopsy, saying they were “…just glanced at the throat wound…” and later found the hole in the back.
It did not seem to O’Connor that the doctors ever considered the possibility that the bullet had exited through the front of the neck. (ARRB MD-64, pp. 8-9)
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Sounds like a banner autopsy, huh? They left no stone unturned -- not. What kind of autopsy was this for the President of the United States?
O’Connor said that he saw no small entry wound in the rear of the head as Commission Exhibit (CE) 386 depicts. (Ibid., p. 8)
CE 386:
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Every thing you read on the JFK assassination can teach you, but it also raises more questions that all too often have no answers for. Keep looking for them.
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Paul O'Connor worked at the Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH) in the morgue area. He was interviewed by Andy Purdy of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) on August 29, 1977, and was included in the work of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB).
The first interesting thing that he says in the interview is this comment.
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O’Connor said that the casket was a pink shipping casket and it arrived at approximately eight o'clock. (ARRB MD-64, P. 2)
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Why is this interesting you may ask? Because if we look at Dr. Robert Karnei's August 23, 1977, HSCA interview we will see this statement by him.
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Dr. Karnei does not recall how late into the autopsy Dr. Finck arrived, but recalls the other doctors wanted someone with ballistics experience. He believes he came in around 8 o'clock…”a while after they were into the autopsy.” (ARRB MD-61, p. 4)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md61/html/Image3.htm
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How could the body arrive at 8 o’clock according to O’Connor and be well under way according to Dr. Karnei? Something is off here. Lets look at the man in charge of the autopsy, Dr. James Humes, and what he said about the start time.
Mr. SPECTER - What time did the autopsy start approximately?
Commander HUMES - The president's body was received at 25 minutes before 8, and the autopsy began at approximately 8 p.m. on that evening. You must include the fact that certain X-rays and other examinations were made before the actual beginning of the routine type autopsy examination.
This matches Dr. Karnei's statement. What body arrived at 8 o’clock then? Or was the “autopsy" started at around 8 o’clock tied to this interesting tidbit?
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A man named Clarence Israel (deceased) of Rockville, MD told [Janie] Taylor that his brother (deceased and no name given) was one of two African-American orderlies present in the autopsy room of the Medical Center the day of the autopsy. Israel said that his brother had not mentioned the story to anyone…[but] wanted to ensure that his story was known because he was verbally threatened by a guard at the time of the autopsy.
Israel told her the orderlies saw one doctor was in the autopsy room at the Medical Center who was waiting for some time prior to the arrival of the body and other physicians. When the body arrived, many people were forced out of the room and the doctor performed some type of mutilation of three bullet punctures to the head area. The doctor was working at a very “hurried" pace and was done within a few minutes, at which he left the autopsy room. (ARRB MD-45, p. 1)
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Who was this man? Was he even a doctor? Was this why they were saying that the autopsy began at 8 o’clock to cover for this? Three bullet punctures? I thought the Warren Commission (WC) said that JFK was shot just once in the head? Where did the other two punctures come from then?
These questions most likely will never be answered.
O’Connor tells us what the body of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) looked like.
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…He said the body was in a body bag and the head was was wrapped in a sheet. O’Connor said he helped unwrap the sheet. He recalls seeing ”…massive head wound…” and a “…gaping wound in the neck…” as well as two chest incisions.”
…He said that the head “…nothing left in the cranium but splattered brain matter.” (ARRB MD-64, p. 2)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md64/html/Image1.htm
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The head was not wrapped at Parkland Hospital (PH), so who did this? O’Connor said there was a large gaping wound in the head, but didn’t note the location of the wound at this point. Later on he describes the location for us.
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Regarding the head wound…O’Connor described the defect as being in the region from the “…Occipital around the temporal and parietal regions.” (ARRB MD-64, pp. 5-6)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md64/html/Image4.htm
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There should have been no damage to the occipital area IF the bullet entered there as the WC claimed. Damage to this area of the head, the rear portion, is proof of a shot from the front.
O’Connor made this comment about the autopsy during the interview.
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…O’Connor added that he didn’t think the doctors were trying to establish anything by the autopsy, saying they were “…just glanced at the throat wound…” and later found the hole in the back.
It did not seem to O’Connor that the doctors ever considered the possibility that the bullet had exited through the front of the neck. (ARRB MD-64, pp. 8-9)
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Sounds like a banner autopsy, huh? They left no stone unturned -- not. What kind of autopsy was this for the President of the United States?
O’Connor said that he saw no small entry wound in the rear of the head as Commission Exhibit (CE) 386 depicts. (Ibid., p. 8)
CE 386:
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Every thing you read on the JFK assassination can teach you, but it also raises more questions that all too often have no answers for. Keep looking for them.