NOVEMBER 22, 1963 (Friday)
On hearing the first burst of firing, Sheriff Bill Decker glances back
and thinks he sees a bullet bouncing off the street pavement.
Motorcycle officer, Starvis Ellis also will testify he sees a bullet
hit the pavement. (Neither Decker nor Ellis will ever be questioned
about this by the Warren Commission.) Motorcycle officer James Chaney
will also tell newsmen this day that the first shot missed. It is
suggested that JFK is hit by small pieces of the street pavement, and
stops waving for a moment.
Dr. Mantik also entertains the theory that a fragment or fragments of
glass from the limo’s windshield could have caused additional wounds
to JFK’s face due to a shot from the front which passes through the
windshield. Mantik notes that “a path from the windshield to JFK’s
throat was entirely unobstructed.” He further notes that Tom Robinson,
from Gawler’s funeral home, described three tiny holes in JFK’s right
cheek, near the right eye. Robinson says that he recalled the wounds
because the fixative solution was leaking from them during the
embalming process. Reports of a bullet hole in the windshield of the
limo persist. A Ford Motor Company employee will report that he sees
the windshield - and the hole - before the windshield is destroyed.
Based on his inspection, the employee concludes that the shot had come
from the front. Mantik suggests that this shot could have come from an
open storm drain on the south overpass.
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Prior to the beginning of the autopsy, Dr. Robert Livingston
telephones Dr. Humes and informs him that JFK’s front neck wound is
probably an entry wound. Dr. Humes, however, does not probe or dissect
the neck wound to determine its nature or direction. Humes tells
Livingston that he has to terminate the telephone conversation because
FBI agents will not let him continue.
Of the wounds observed on JFK’s body, the following people report
seeing an entry wound in the LEFT TEMPLE: Physicians McClelland,
Jenkins, Giesecke, the priest Oscar Huber, photographers Altgens and
Similas, and Hugh Huggins (aka Hugh Howell) - RFK’s emissary to the
autopsy. One more additional witness is Lito Porto, a neurosurgery
resident under Kemp Clark.
Tom Robinson, from Gawler’s funeral home, describes three tiny holes
in JFK’s RIGHT CHEEK, near the right eye. (Robinson recalls seeing
embalming fixative solution leaking from these small wounds.) MIDP
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In an interview conducted on May 26, 1992 by Certified Legal
Investigator Joe West, Thomas Evan Robison, one of the JFK embalmers,
describes JFK’s wounds and partial embalming process as follows:
Wounds:
Large gaping hole in back of head. Patched by placing piece of
rubber.....over it.
Thinks skull full of Plaster of Paris.
Smaller wound in right temple. Crescent shaped, flapped down (3”)
(approx 2) Small sharpnel wounds in face. Packed with wax.
Wound in back (5 to six inches) below shoulder. To the right of the
back bone.
Adrenlin gland and brain removed.
Other organs removed and then put back.
No swelling or discoloration to face.
(Died instantly)
Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman takes all of the autopsy and x-ray
films and delivers them to Secret Service agent Robert Bouck at the
White House. (The autopsy pathologists will not see the autopsy
photographs until three years from now.) The Secret Service will
maintain possession of the films in the White House for 17 months
before turning them over to the control of Robert Kennedy, with other
autopsy materials, on April 26, 1965. Bobby Kennedy will be in control
of this material, locked in a trunk, until October 31, 1966, when the
trunk is opened at the National Archives. This is when it will be
discovered that JFK’s brain and tissue slides are missing. BT
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