Post by Rob Caprio on May 17, 2021 19:58:08 GMT -5
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Richard Lipsey was a junior officer and an aide to General Wehle. Wehle was the Commanding General of the District of Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Army at the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). He was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) on January 18, 1978, and this interview was included in the files of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB).
Lipsey began the interview by stating that he was made to sign a document about a week after the assassination which forbade him from talking about the autopsy with anyone. The HSCA interviewers asked him to speak with them on a voluntary basis and assured him that they felt nothing would happen to him. Why was he made to sign this document if everything was on the up-and-up as claimed?
Lipsey said he flew with Wehle in a helicopter to Washington with JFK's body on board. He said the casket was taken in the rear of Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH) while a decoy casket was bought in the front of the hospital (ARRB MD-87, p. 2). Note for later that the casket that did NOT have the body (the decoy) went to the front door of the BNH. That was the 'Bronze' casket. The other casket that went to the back door was the 'shipping' casket. The setup of the decoy may have been at Parkland Hospital (PH), or during the plane trip to BNH, or even at Andrews AFB. Wehle ordered him to not leave the body. (Ibid.)
Lipsey stated that the autopsy lasted about “3-4 hours.” (Ibid., p. 3). He then described the wounds that he observed.
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…Lipsey said that it was obvious that a bullet “entered the back of his head and exited on the right side of his head.” The other bullets entered at the “lower part of the neck" in the rear; one then exited and one hit his chest cavity and traveled down into the body. (Ibid.)
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What was Lipsey looking at? Nobody at PH said that a bullet entered the back of the head and exited the right side of the head. Was this after surgery was performed on the head to alter the appearance of the wound? Here is a recap of the wounds that Lipsy saw.
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(1) One bullet entered the back of the head and exited resulting in part of the face and head being blown away;
(2) Another bullet entered at the top of the neck (rear) which exited in the front of the neck; and
(3) Another bullet entered at the bottom of the neck (rear) or high in the neck which did not exit. (Ibid.)
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These descriptions do not sound anything like the official conclusion. No one said that part of JFK’s face was blown away that I am aware of. Furthermore, he describes TWO wounds in the neck area. He mentions that one of the bullets exited the front of the neck, but there is no evidence supporting this. What body was he looking at?
He would later tell the HSCA interviewers that he never got closer than 12 feet to the body; that his description of the wounds was based on what he saw and HEARD; he never saw the throat wound as he just saw blood and that no real entrance in the rear of the head existed. (Ibid., p. 6) He also said that he never heard the doctors say that the throat wound was caused by a bullet.
Lipsey said that he knew “for a fact” that JFK was shot THREE times. He said that the doctors said that they were “absolutely, unequivocally” sure that he had been shot three times. (Ibid., p. 8) This is what the FBI and Secret Service (SS) said, and continue to say to this day, but the Warren Commission (WC) said that he was only shot two times! How do we balance these statements?
Lipsey also thought that JFK was hit twice in the head as he said, “that the blown away portion represents an entrance and an exit. (Ibid., pp. 8-9) I read this as meaning JFK was hit twice in the head by separate shots. He again said this.
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Lipsey again reiterated that there is no is no question in his mind that the doctors feel that there were three separate wounds and three separate bullets. (Ibid., p. 9)
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Lipsey drew a face sheet to show the wounds as he understood them to be. Here it is.
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While it was thought that the shots came from behind only, this doesn’t preclude shots originating from elsewhere. The main point is we again see testimony that does NOT agree with the final autopsy report or the WC's conclusion, therefore, their conclusion cannot be accurate.
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Richard Lipsey was a junior officer and an aide to General Wehle. Wehle was the Commanding General of the District of Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Army at the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). He was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) on January 18, 1978, and this interview was included in the files of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB).
Lipsey began the interview by stating that he was made to sign a document about a week after the assassination which forbade him from talking about the autopsy with anyone. The HSCA interviewers asked him to speak with them on a voluntary basis and assured him that they felt nothing would happen to him. Why was he made to sign this document if everything was on the up-and-up as claimed?
Lipsey said he flew with Wehle in a helicopter to Washington with JFK's body on board. He said the casket was taken in the rear of Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH) while a decoy casket was bought in the front of the hospital (ARRB MD-87, p. 2). Note for later that the casket that did NOT have the body (the decoy) went to the front door of the BNH. That was the 'Bronze' casket. The other casket that went to the back door was the 'shipping' casket. The setup of the decoy may have been at Parkland Hospital (PH), or during the plane trip to BNH, or even at Andrews AFB. Wehle ordered him to not leave the body. (Ibid.)
Lipsey stated that the autopsy lasted about “3-4 hours.” (Ibid., p. 3). He then described the wounds that he observed.
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…Lipsey said that it was obvious that a bullet “entered the back of his head and exited on the right side of his head.” The other bullets entered at the “lower part of the neck" in the rear; one then exited and one hit his chest cavity and traveled down into the body. (Ibid.)
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What was Lipsey looking at? Nobody at PH said that a bullet entered the back of the head and exited the right side of the head. Was this after surgery was performed on the head to alter the appearance of the wound? Here is a recap of the wounds that Lipsy saw.
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(1) One bullet entered the back of the head and exited resulting in part of the face and head being blown away;
(2) Another bullet entered at the top of the neck (rear) which exited in the front of the neck; and
(3) Another bullet entered at the bottom of the neck (rear) or high in the neck which did not exit. (Ibid.)
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These descriptions do not sound anything like the official conclusion. No one said that part of JFK’s face was blown away that I am aware of. Furthermore, he describes TWO wounds in the neck area. He mentions that one of the bullets exited the front of the neck, but there is no evidence supporting this. What body was he looking at?
He would later tell the HSCA interviewers that he never got closer than 12 feet to the body; that his description of the wounds was based on what he saw and HEARD; he never saw the throat wound as he just saw blood and that no real entrance in the rear of the head existed. (Ibid., p. 6) He also said that he never heard the doctors say that the throat wound was caused by a bullet.
Lipsey said that he knew “for a fact” that JFK was shot THREE times. He said that the doctors said that they were “absolutely, unequivocally” sure that he had been shot three times. (Ibid., p. 8) This is what the FBI and Secret Service (SS) said, and continue to say to this day, but the Warren Commission (WC) said that he was only shot two times! How do we balance these statements?
Lipsey also thought that JFK was hit twice in the head as he said, “that the blown away portion represents an entrance and an exit. (Ibid., pp. 8-9) I read this as meaning JFK was hit twice in the head by separate shots. He again said this.
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Lipsey again reiterated that there is no is no question in his mind that the doctors feel that there were three separate wounds and three separate bullets. (Ibid., p. 9)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=349#relPageId=10&tab=page
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Lipsey drew a face sheet to show the wounds as he understood them to be. Here it is.
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While it was thought that the shots came from behind only, this doesn’t preclude shots originating from elsewhere. The main point is we again see testimony that does NOT agree with the final autopsy report or the WC's conclusion, therefore, their conclusion cannot be accurate.