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On May 10, 1996, The Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB) interviewed the widow of White House (WH) staff photographer Robert Knudsen. Gloria Knudsen and two of her four children, Terri and Bob, met with the staff of the ARRB to discuss what their husband/father had stated to them over the years about what he observed during the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy (JFK).
Robert Knudsen had been the WH photographer since 1958. His wife told the ARRB during a phone interview that her husband did not make the trip to Dallas with JFK because he had gotten a piece of metal in his eye while working on an antique piece of furniture. (ARRB MD 230, p. 2). He was home with his wife eating lunch when they heard news of the assassination. About 3:00 PM that afternoon his wife said that he received a call, she believed it was from the Secret Service (SS), ordering him to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Air Force One (AFO) and accompany JFK's body to Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH). (Ibid.)
Knudsen's three relatives related what he had told them over the years. He photographed the autopsy and he firmly believed that he was the only one to do so. His son, Bob, believed that he had entered BNH from the back at the loading dock and this is how a number of those who participated in the autopsy entered the hospital. (Ibid., p. 4) He also had related to them how difficult this job was as he had had a "brotherly relationship with President Kennedy." They then recounted the things he had told them. These are the interesting comments.
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- after he appeared before the HSCA in 1978, he told his family (at different times) that 4 or 5 of the pictures he was shown by the HSCA did not represent what he saw or took that night, and that one of the photographs he viewed had been altered. His son Bob said that his father had told him that "hair had been drawn in" on one photo to conceal a missing portion of the top-back of President Kennedy's head;
- Mrs. Gloria Knudsen said that her husband Robert had told her that the whole top of the President's head was gone, and that the President's brain(s) were largely missing (blown out);...
- all 3 family members agreed that Mr. Knudsen appeared before an official government body again sometime in 1988, about 6 months before he died in January 1989. They all had the impression that it was "on Capitol Hill," and that it may have been a Congressional inquiry of some kind. They were unanimous that Mr. Knudsen came away from this experience very disturbed, saying that 4 photographs were "missing," and that one was "badly altered;" Mrs. Gloria Knudsen used the phrase "severely altered" regarding the one altered photograph when recounting her husband's statement afterwards. She further elaborated that the wounds he saw in the photos shown him in 1988 did not represent what he saw or took. ..
- Mr. Knudsen expressed skepticism with his daughter Terri over the years about the conclusions of the Warren Report in regards to the President's wounds and the manner in which he was shot, because of the observations he had made the night at the autopsy;... (Ibid., p. 5)
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These observations clearly differ from what the Warren Commission (WC) and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) have told us over the years. If what they told us was the truth, why was there a need to alter photographs or draw-in things that were not there? Mr. Knudsen had first-hand experience with the autopsy so if anyone is going to claim that he was "mistaken" they better bring some hard evidence to support that accusation.
He said the people he met in 1988 already "had their minds made up" about the matter. It was the official mantra or nothing. This behavior began as soon as the bullets stopped flying in Dealey Plaza (DP), and again, if what they say really occurred, why is there a need for this kind of behavior?
For some reason there was doubt that Knudsen was at the autopsy so his wife Gloria Knudsen called some people that she knew who were still alive and the autopsy. She spoke to one that said the head wound had caused the "back of the head to be blown out." (Ibid., p. 7) This is what most people saw when they viewed JFK's head wound. Even if it was the top of the head, and it wasn't based on the evidence, how does a bullet traveling DOWNWARDS blow out the top of the head? Furthermore, how does a military-jacketed bullet blow out anything when it was designed NOT to?
What do you think of this information? It is a shame he was not alive to tell it himself, but it seems very important to me. One of his children thought that the first six pages of his HSCA testimony didn't sound like him either as it had misspellings that they felt their father would not make. (Ibid.) He kept quiet about all of this as he had a family to protect. He never spoke with a researcher and only looked at one JFK assassination book near the end of his life with his son Bob, therefore, those that defend the official conclusion cannot claim that he did this for "attention" or "fame" as they are known to do.
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On May 10, 1996, The Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB) interviewed the widow of White House (WH) staff photographer Robert Knudsen. Gloria Knudsen and two of her four children, Terri and Bob, met with the staff of the ARRB to discuss what their husband/father had stated to them over the years about what he observed during the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy (JFK).
Robert Knudsen had been the WH photographer since 1958. His wife told the ARRB during a phone interview that her husband did not make the trip to Dallas with JFK because he had gotten a piece of metal in his eye while working on an antique piece of furniture. (ARRB MD 230, p. 2). He was home with his wife eating lunch when they heard news of the assassination. About 3:00 PM that afternoon his wife said that he received a call, she believed it was from the Secret Service (SS), ordering him to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Air Force One (AFO) and accompany JFK's body to Bethesda Naval Hospital (BNH). (Ibid.)
Knudsen's three relatives related what he had told them over the years. He photographed the autopsy and he firmly believed that he was the only one to do so. His son, Bob, believed that he had entered BNH from the back at the loading dock and this is how a number of those who participated in the autopsy entered the hospital. (Ibid., p. 4) He also had related to them how difficult this job was as he had had a "brotherly relationship with President Kennedy." They then recounted the things he had told them. These are the interesting comments.
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- after he appeared before the HSCA in 1978, he told his family (at different times) that 4 or 5 of the pictures he was shown by the HSCA did not represent what he saw or took that night, and that one of the photographs he viewed had been altered. His son Bob said that his father had told him that "hair had been drawn in" on one photo to conceal a missing portion of the top-back of President Kennedy's head;
- Mrs. Gloria Knudsen said that her husband Robert had told her that the whole top of the President's head was gone, and that the President's brain(s) were largely missing (blown out);...
- all 3 family members agreed that Mr. Knudsen appeared before an official government body again sometime in 1988, about 6 months before he died in January 1989. They all had the impression that it was "on Capitol Hill," and that it may have been a Congressional inquiry of some kind. They were unanimous that Mr. Knudsen came away from this experience very disturbed, saying that 4 photographs were "missing," and that one was "badly altered;" Mrs. Gloria Knudsen used the phrase "severely altered" regarding the one altered photograph when recounting her husband's statement afterwards. She further elaborated that the wounds he saw in the photos shown him in 1988 did not represent what he saw or took. ..
- Mr. Knudsen expressed skepticism with his daughter Terri over the years about the conclusions of the Warren Report in regards to the President's wounds and the manner in which he was shot, because of the observations he had made the night at the autopsy;... (Ibid., p. 5)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=752#relPageId=5
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These observations clearly differ from what the Warren Commission (WC) and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) have told us over the years. If what they told us was the truth, why was there a need to alter photographs or draw-in things that were not there? Mr. Knudsen had first-hand experience with the autopsy so if anyone is going to claim that he was "mistaken" they better bring some hard evidence to support that accusation.
He said the people he met in 1988 already "had their minds made up" about the matter. It was the official mantra or nothing. This behavior began as soon as the bullets stopped flying in Dealey Plaza (DP), and again, if what they say really occurred, why is there a need for this kind of behavior?
For some reason there was doubt that Knudsen was at the autopsy so his wife Gloria Knudsen called some people that she knew who were still alive and the autopsy. She spoke to one that said the head wound had caused the "back of the head to be blown out." (Ibid., p. 7) This is what most people saw when they viewed JFK's head wound. Even if it was the top of the head, and it wasn't based on the evidence, how does a bullet traveling DOWNWARDS blow out the top of the head? Furthermore, how does a military-jacketed bullet blow out anything when it was designed NOT to?
What do you think of this information? It is a shame he was not alive to tell it himself, but it seems very important to me. One of his children thought that the first six pages of his HSCA testimony didn't sound like him either as it had misspellings that they felt their father would not make. (Ibid.) He kept quiet about all of this as he had a family to protect. He never spoke with a researcher and only looked at one JFK assassination book near the end of his life with his son Bob, therefore, those that defend the official conclusion cannot claim that he did this for "attention" or "fame" as they are known to do.