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Kennedy autopsy photographs and x-rays will be released.
They will purport to show conclusively that the govern-
ment's fiction of his murder by a lone assassin from
behind is correct. If such documents are released by the
federal government it will only be because they are pro-
fessional forgeries produced by the Central Intelligence
Agency - and by this time I expect that this part of the
mission has been accomplished.
Q.
16.
During the Clay Shaw trial, Colonel Pierre Finck, the
pathologist at the Kennedy autopsy, testified that the
President's neck wound was never probed because "an Air
Force Major General" directing the proceedings gave
specific orders that this wound was not to be examined.
He testified further that this general who appeared and
took over the autopsy was not a doctor. Who was this
officer, and has he ever given any explanation for this
astonishing action at a time when criminal investigation
of the case had just begun, and when determination of
the number and direction of the shots fired necessarily
would have been a principal objective of the autopsy?
A.
It is unlikely that the true name of the Air Force Major
General who took over the autopsy will ever be made
known to anyone. The autopsy was a delicate situation,
fraught with the potential of exposure. Consequently
the government had to have it supervised -- not merely
by a doctor but by an individual who knew what had to
be kept hidden and what the official government fiction
was going to be, a high-ranking individual with the
power to forbid completion of the autopsy. The General
ordered the pathologists conducting the autopsy not to
examine the neck wound.
From the description of the civilian doctors at Park-
land Hospital in Dallas the neck wound was received
from the front. Yet there was no corresponding exit
wound to the rear of the neck. Of course, the
immediate meaning of such evidence is that the federal
investigation and the solemn Warren Commission inquiry
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