JFK and the Doctors at Parkland

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013
JFK and the Doctors at Parkland

The only person I ever met with a connection to the JFK assassination was
Dr. David Stewart who was a resident surgeon at Parkland Hospital on Nov.
22, 1963 when they brought Kennedy in. He was also in the operating room
with Gov. John Connolly. Two days later he was there when they brought Lee
Harvey Oswald in after being shot by Jack Ruby. Several years later he
moved to Tennessee where he was a partner in a medical practice with the
father of a family member

In the late 70's, early 80's I was at a couple of gatherings where Dr.
Stewart also attended. It had been discussed with family members that he
was at Parkland on that fateful day but I was warned and asked not to
mention anything to Stewart about the assassination. They told me he never
wanted to talk about it and might even get upset. Being much younger and
less bold I backed off asking any questions and engaged in only small
talk. I regret not trying.

There's very little to be found about Dr. Stewart. He gave few interviews,
none available on the net in their entirety, and unlike some other doctors
there at Parkland, never made any money from his experiences.

From JFK Wounds:
Notes by listener on telephone interview of a Dr. David Stuart, Gallatin,
TN., by Joe Dolan
4/10/67, 8:30 a.m.

Stuart said he was at Parkland, worked on Connally and Oswald but not on
JFK. Said all the doctors said JFK had left frontal entry wound and
massive left rear exit wound, which squares with grassy knoll theory and
impossible for Oswald to have done alone.

From Wounds to the Left of JFK's Head: also here:
Surgeon David Stewart:
a) "New Lebanon, Tennessee, Democrat", 3/30/67 ,
b) 4/10/67 "The Joe Dolan Show", KNEW radio, Oakland, CA and
c) "Post Mortem", pp. 60-61---Dolan said he was particularly concerned with the "statement about the shot" that killed JFK "coming from the front." Dr. Stewart said, "Yes, sir. This was the finding of all the physicians who were in attendance. There was a small wound in the left front of the President's head and there was a quite massive wound of exit at the right backside of the head and it was felt by all of the physicians at the time to be a wound of entry which went in the front.

From The Kennedy Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald References
Dr. David Stewart, Parkland Hospital. “It should be noted that according to some private experts, the anterior-posterior (AP) x-ray does indicate some missing bone in the occipital region.”
Source: PROBLEMS WITH THE ALLEGED JFK AUTOPSY X-RAYS AND PHOTOS, Michael T.Griffith, 1996

Dr. Stewart was quoted in the now defunct Nashville Banner as reported in The Milwaukee Sentinel - Jan 30, 1967
I find there is a mysterious point of departure in the obtainable truth. To indicate this dividing point, meet Dr. David Stewart. He was a resident surgeon at Parkland and now at the Wallace Stevenson Clinic at Gallatin, Tenn.

Dr. Stewart was recently quoted in the Nashville Banner and described to me, as well, his activities during Texas Governor John Connally's emergency operations and what he did when Oswald was brought in. Ironically, Dr. Stewart had seen Oswald shot a few minutes earlier.

Here is the death of the president's alleged assassin:
"Oswald was ashen gray and totally unconscious," Dr. Stewart told me. The bullet penetrated his left lung, spleen and left kidney and he had aorta and vena-caba injuries. I gave him 14 pints of blood. But he died an hour later - without saying a word.
And that's the rub.

Dr. Stewart's bullet history for Oswald, all records regarding Gov. Connally and the records of the Oswald autopsy performed at Parkland are complete and indisputable. Accordingly they are not disputed.

But when you move outside the independent authority of Parkland Hospital and into what happened at the federal government's naval medical school at Bethesda, Md, where President Kennedy's autopsy was performed, everything changes. Preciseness disappears, clarity and completeness vanish, official documents become burned or rewritten.

I cannot find Dr. Stewart's obituary and no one who I have talked to can remember what year he died so I can't verify that this Amazon review allegedly by him in response to Dr. Charles Crenshaw's book JFK: A Conspiracy of Silence is legit. {video interview of Crenshaw is below}
Chuck Crenshaw was a friend of mine at Parkland Hospital. We both were there at the time of the assassination. We were both residents in general surgery. He was in the trauma room with Kennedy. My only criticism with his book is in his exaggeration of his role. The facts he related were identical to those of all the other physicians who were in attendance. They were all friends of mine and I knew them well. I heard what each of them had to say moments after the ordeal. They all saw the same wounds which were described by Dr. Crenshaw. The things seen at Parkland and reported by all these doctors are clear evidence of a conspiracy. Who and why are issues not addressed. Those would require another book and a huge paradigm shift in thinking on the part of most Americans. Another good book is "Best Evidence." It is more thorough. By Dr. David Stewart

Dr. Stewart was a small drop in the bucket in the overall picture of the Kennedy assassination. Still, all these drops have overflowed the bucket until there is no doubt that there was a conspiracy among a great number of people to kill the president and cover it up.

Some of us who remember that day, and for over 40 years have known what we were told was not the whole truth, have never wavered from the fact that this was a coup d'état that forever changed this country. The questions remain had he lived. Would the Vietnam war have escalated into what it became? Would the CIA have been broken into a thousand pieces? Could Kennedy have stopped Israel from becoming a nuclear weapons threat to the world? Theoretical questions that can never be answered. JFK was seen as a threat by those in the shadows who pulled the strings and he could not be allowed to live. RFK and JFK Jr. too. Excessive amounts of profit and power were at stake.

50 years on, records are still kept sealed. Many in the controlled media are still working overtime to try and maintain the official story. Conspiracy advocates are still continuously called names in ad hominem attacks instead of logical debate. We know better and will never forget or forgive.


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___________________________________________________________________________

William David Stewart, M.D.
General Practice/General
Surgery
420-A College Street
Lafayette, Tennessee 37083
(615) 666-8461
http://www.mcgh.net/WDavidStewart.html

Dr. Stewart started his practice in Macon County in June 2001. Dr.
Stewart received his medical training at the University of Tennessee
at Memphis. Dr. Stewart completed his internship at Nashville
General Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and his surgical residency at
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Stewart is Board
Ceritifed by the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Stewart is a member
of the Sumner County Medical Society and The Tennessee Medical
Association.
___________________________________________________________________________

Dr. William David Stewart
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?n=william-david-stewart&pid=108948795
STEWART, Dr. William David Age 72 of Gallatin, passed away May 2, 2008. Funeral service Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 2 p.m.. Visitation Monday, May 5, 4-8 p.m.. Survived by sons, Dr. John (Barbara) Stewart of Gallatin, James (Janne) of Phoenix, AZ; six grandchildren, Mike Stewart, Mark Stewart, Anne Marie Stewart, Rachel Stewart, David Stewart and Brock Phillips. Arrangements by FAMILY HERITAGE FUNERAL HOME, (615) 452-7115.

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ELPASOTIMES.COM over 2 years ago

El Paso doctor remembers JFK slaying, was present at hospital

http://trendwave.com/jfk/el-paso-doctor-remembers-jfk-slaying--was-present-at-hospital---el-

El Paso doctor remembers JFK slaying, was present at hospital

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times

Posted:

10/17/2013 11:59:19 AM MDT

Dr. Curtis Spier was present in the operating rooms when President John F.
Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were brought in following Kennedy's
assassination in Dallas. Above, Dr. Spier describes the first bullet's
route through the president's neck. (Mark Lambie / El Paso Times)

Few people can say they were in the operating rooms when President John F.
Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald each died 50 years ago.

An El Paso doctor recalled his small role in one of the biggest events in
world history Wednesday afternoon during a talk with dozens of students
and professors in a library auditorium at the University of Texas at El
Paso.

Dr. Curtis Spier, 78, is one of the few doctors still alive who had a role
on the medical teams trying to save the lives of Kennedy and Oswald at
Parkland hospital in Dallas.

Spier was an observer in a crowded emergency room as doctors tried to save
the life of the mortally wounded president Nov. 22, 1963.

"Nobody wanted to say stop," Spier said about doctors working to try to
save Kennedy's life even if they knew he was already dead.

Two days later, Spier was an anesthesiologist during the emergency care
for Oswald, who was also shot.

Spier's talk was part of a UTEP political-science course on the Kennedy
assassination being taught this semester by Professor Gregory Rocha in
conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death. Rocha last
taught the course 20 years ago during the 30th anniversary.

Even 50 years and generations later, interest remains strong in the
Kennedy assassination, which is the topic of countless conspiracy
websites, books and films. "We who lived through it, it was one of the
worst weekends we've gone through," Rocha said.

Nov. 22, 1963, started as a regular day with Spier going to the hospital
to meet with a supervisor.

Before the shooting, Spier talked on the telephone to another doctor at
Parkland, who tongue-in-cheek mentioned that he had to remain at the
hospital because the president was going to be shot.

"I was on my way to Parkland hospital when the shooting took place and I
arrived at the hospital just a few minutes later," Spier remembered.
"There was already a crowd at the front door and security people standing
around."

The trauma room and hallways were crowded with hospital staff, federal
agents and law enforcement officers. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy was
also in the room.

"It was a very few minutes because she was ushered out of there in her
bloody pink dress," said Spier, who said he later heard that the first
lady while in a state of shock handed one of the doctors what she said
were pieces of her husband's brain.

Kennedy had been shot twice -- wounds to the neck and to the head, Spier
said.

Spier said there was a possibility that Kennedy might have survived if he
had only suffered the neck wound. In the trauma room, a doctor cradled the
right side of the president's head, which was a mass of blood, bone shards
and hair, he said.

"Everybody who was in that room knew that this guy was dead," Spier said.
"They knew he was dead in their own heart."

Spier said that hospital staff at Parkland was experienced in handling
trauma cases and doctors worked on the president as they would any other
patient. "We saw tragedies like that, gunshot wounds, at Parkland all the
time, usually on payday Fridays," Spier said.

Even if they knew Kennedy was dead, doctors kept working because "nobody
in that residence staff was going to pronounce the president of the United
States dead," Spier said. It was only about 15 minutes, but it felt much
longer until the president was pronounced dead, he said.

Two days later, Spier was the anesthesiologist on the trauma team trying
to save the life of Oswald, who had been shot in the chest by Jack Ruby.
Spier said that a couple of groans by Oswald were the only signs of life
before Oswald died.

"It couldn't have been a more lethal wound had it been drawn there by an
expert," said Spier, who is mentioned on the record of medical staff in an
appendix of the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy assassination.

"Personally, I don't know that I responded anymore dramatically than any
citizen" to Kennedy's death, Spier said. "I was definitely shocked by the
whole thing and sickened. But in the ensuing years, I don't know what to
say about it, think I just became numb to it, I guess."

Spier, who is a graduate of El Paso High School, returned to El Paso in
1969. Spier said he generally agrees with the Warren Commission's finding
that Oswald acted alone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there was no conspiracy," Spier told the audience.
"Not by the CIA. Not by the Cubans. Not by the Soviet Union. Not by the
FBI or anybody else. It was a single assassin with a single gun."