Various newspaper and magazine clippings of articles relating to JFK, Jim Garrison, individuals under investigation, Martin Luther King, and other topics that interested Garrison. Also, includes excerpts from books regarding the JFK assassination and some
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OCR Page 1 of 252THE CONTINUING INQUIRY
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Dr. PEREY. As I mentioned previously in the record, I made only a cursory
examination of the President's head. I noted a large avulsive wound of the
right parietal occipital area, in which both scalp and portions of skull were
absent, and there was severe laceration of underlying brain tissue. My exam-
ination did not go any further than that.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you describe as precisely as you can the nature of the
head wound!
Dr. JONES. There was large defect in the back side of the head as the Presi-
dent lay on the cart with what appeared to be some brain hanging out of this
wound with multiple pieces of skull noted next with the brain and with a
tremendous amount of clot and blood.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you observe any wounds on him at the time you first saw
him?
Dr. AKIN. There was a midline neck wound below the level of the cricoid
cartilage, about 1 to 1.5 em. in diameter, the lower part of this had been cut
across when I saw the wound, it had been cut across with a knife in the per-
formance of the tracheotomy. The back of the right occipitalparietal portion
of his head was shattered, with brain substance extruding.
Mr. SPECTER. Returning to the wound which you first described, can you
state in any more detail the appearance of it at the time you first saw it?
Dr. AKIN. I don't think I could-this is about all I noticed. I noticed this
wound very briefly and it was a matter of acandemics as to how he sustained the
wound. My attention, because of my standing on the right side of the patient
who was lying supine, my attention was very soon directed to the head wound,
and this was my major concern.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe as to the nature of the President's wound?
Dr. PETERS. Well, as I mentioned, the neck wound had already been inter-
fered with by the tracheotomy at the time I got there, but I noticed the head
wound, and as I remember--I noticed that there was a large defect in the
occiput.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you notice in the occiput?
Dr. PETERS. It seemed to me that in the right occipitalparietal area that
there was a large defect. There appeared to be bone loss and brain loss in
the area.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you notice any holes below the occiput, say, in this area
below here?
Dr. PETERS. No, I did not and at the time and the moments immediately fol-
lowing the injury, we speculated as to whether he had been shot once or twice
because we saw the wound of entry in the throat and noted the large occipital
wound, and it is a known fact that high velocity missiles often have a small
wound of entrance and a large wound of exit, and I'm just giving you my
honest impressions at the time.
Mr. SPECTER. What was the condition of the President when you arrived?
Dr. GIESECKE. There was a great deal of blood loss which was apparent when
he came in the room-the cart was covered with blood and there was a great
deal of blood on the floor. There was-I could see no spontaneous motion on
the part of the President. In other words, he made no movement during the
time that I was in the room. A3 I moved around towards the head of the
emergency cart with the anesthesia machine and the resuscitative equipment
and helped Dr. Jenkins to hook the anesthesia machine up to the President to
give him oxygen, I noticed that he had a very large cranial wound, with loss
of brain substance, and it seemed that most of the bleeding was coming from
the cranial wound.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you observe specifically as to the nature of the
cranial wound?
Dr. GIESECKE. It seemed that from the vertex to the left ear, and from
the browline to the occiput on the left-hand side of the head the cranium was
entirely missing.
Mr. SPECTER. Was that the left-hand side of the head, or the right-hand side
of the head?
Dr. GIESECKE. I would say the left, but this is just my memory of it.
Dr. Giesecke, like all the others, specifically mentioned a large wound which included part
of the occipital area, even though his memory was hazy about which side of the head was
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