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Octafish's JournalDr. Robert McClelland in Trauma Room One
by Brad Parker
After Charles Crenshaw, M.D., perhaps no Parkland physician-witness to John F. Kennedy's wounds has drawn more criticism than Robert McClelland, M.D. In order to help me sort fact from fiction, I contacted Dr. McClelland in 1992, and he was gracious enough to answer my questions. Based on my interview, and other evidence, I believe Dr. McClelland's credibility holds up extremely well, and his information, which has remained remarkably consistant for over thirty years, cannot be ignored.
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Another of Posner's favorite sources for refuting the wounds consistently described by Dr. McClelland is Dr. James Carrico. "We never had the opportunity to review his wounds in order to describe them accurately. We were trying to save his life," he told Posner (Posner 309). However, Dr. Carrico apparently observed the wounds well enough to describe them in great detail during a sworn statement to Arlen Specter on March 24, 1964:
Specter: "Would you describe as precisely for me as possible the nature of the wound which you observed on the President?"
Carrico: "The wound that I saw was a large gaping wound, located in the right occipitoparietal area. I would estimate to be 5 to 7 cm. (sic) in size, more or less circular with avulsions of the calvarium and scalp tissue. As I stated before, I believe there was shredded macerated cerebral and cerebellar tissues in both the wounds and on the fragments of skull attached to the dura" (emphasis added throughout) (6WCH 5-6).
During questioning by the HSCA's Andy Purdy in 1978, Dr. Carrico again described "...a fairly large wound in the right side of the head, in the parietal, occipital area. One could see blood and brains, both cerebellum and cerebrum fragments in that wound" (emphasis added) (7HSCA 268). On Purdy's urging, Dr. Carrico became more detailed in his descriptions:
Carrico: "The head wound was a much larger wound than the neck wound. It was five by seven centimeters, something like that, 2 1/2 by 3 (sic) inches, ragged, had blood and hair all around it, located in part of the parietal occipital region" (emphasis added).
Purdy: "Could you just state in layman's terms the approximate place that would be?"
Carrico: "That would be above and posterior to the ear, almost from the crown of the head, there was brain tissue showing through" (emphasis added) (7HSCA 278).
By 1992, however, he had mysteriously changed his opinion:
"We did say we saw shattered brain, cerebellum, in the cortex area, and I think we were mistaken. The reason I say that is that the President was lying on his back and shoulders, and you could see the hole, with the scalp and brain tissue hanging down his head, and it covered most of the occipital portion of his head. We saw a large hole in the right side of his head. I don't believe we saw any occipital bone. It was not there. It was parietal bone. And if we said otherwise, we were mistaken" (Posner 311).
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Dr. McClelland is unique in that not only did he have ample opportunity to examine President Kennedy's wounds, but his recollections, confirmed by his and others' early evidence, have remained consistent for over thirty years. This is in stark contrast to several Parkland physicians, most notably the incredible Dr. Jenkins, cited by Gerald Posner as critical of Dr. McClelland. More than once, Dr. Jenkins' and others' criticisms are undermined by their previous sworn testimony. It is ironic that in a book which claimed to have closed the case on the Kennedy assassination, Posner unquestionably relied so heavily upon such inconsistent sources. What is even more ironic is that Posner, a highly educated professional, was apparently ignorant of such contradictions. The same can be said for The Journal of the American Medical Association, whose claim of "Closing the Case in JAMA on the John F. Kennedy Autopsy" (Lundberg 1736- 738) is contradicted by the earlier statements of some of their key witnesses, as put forth in the Breo series of 1992 (Breo, "JFK's Death - Part I," 2794-2803; Breo, "JFK's Death - Part II," 2804-2807; Breo, "JFK's Death - Part III," 1748-1754).
CONTINUED w References...
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace../09/fp.back_issues/16th_Issue/mcclelland.html
''Money trumps peace.'' -- George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007
Uttered at a press conference, in which not a single of the cowed and callow press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.
I remember Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention.
As for his Poppy: Bush Sr told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Connection: Siegelman judge is a big time war profiteer...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022073759JFK didn't like war.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3158368
50 years of "money trumps peace."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4047666
How many JFK assassination books has he read?
Is he familiar with any of these?Rush to Judgment -- Mark Lane
Accessories After the Fact -- Sylvia Meagher
On the Trail of the Assassins -- Jim Garrison
Whitewash -- Harold Weisberg
The Echo From Dealey Plaza -- Abraham Bolden
Plausible Denial -- Mark Lane
Spy Saga -- Philip Melanson
Treachery in Dallas -- Walt Brown
The Man Who Knew Too Much -- Dick Russell
JFK and Vietnam -- John M. Newman
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK -- Peter Dale Scott
Oswald and the CIA -- John M. Newman
The Last Investigation -- Gaeton Fonzi
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case -- James DiEugenio
Deadly Secrets -- Warren Hinckle and William Turner
Act of Treason -- Mark North
JFK -- Fletcher Prouty
Not in Your Lifetime -- Anthony Summers
Crossfire -- Jim Marrs
High Treason -- Harrison Edward Livingstone and Robert J. Groden
High Treason 2 -- Harrison Edward Livingstone
The Killing of a President -- Robert J. Groden
Coup d'Etat in America -- Alan J. Weberman and Michael Canfield
First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy -- Robert D. Morrow
Who Killed JFK? -- Carl Oglesby
Brothers -- David Talbot
A Farewell to Justice -- Joan Mellen
Family of Secrets -- Russ Baker
Breach of Trust -- Gerald D. McKnight
Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA -- Jefferson Morley
Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam -- Gareth Porter
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters -- James Douglass
The Last Word -- Mark Lane
===-- HAVE NOT READ THESE, BUT PLAN TO
Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassination -- Larry Hancock
Crime and Cover-Up -- Peter Dale Scott
JFK vs. CIA: The Central Intelligence Agency's Assassination of the President -- Michael Calder
Stay away from the sea food...
Greenpeace detected cesium from Sushi sold beside Shinagawa station in Tokyo...and the other foods and the water and the air...
Eyewitnesses have stated that is not what they saw.
And, in answer to your misinformation, yes, I have read that.
Pro the opposite of THIS.
50 years of 'Money trumps peace.'The very words of George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007, uttered at a press conference in which not a single of the callow, cowed press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.
I remember Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention.
As for his Poppy: Bush Sr told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Good Practices in Propaganda
Keep telling the Big Lie often enough and a fraction of the populace will be sufficient to maintain the illusion. The 50th anniversary of Dallas is the last, best opportunity to shape beliefs in the lone gunman THEORY.
The Big Con at Dealey Plaza
Gotta keep plausible deniability alive. Wouldn't be prudent to have people wondering why things don't add up.
More wars for banksters, anyone?
Bullshit.
The least disfigured bullets in the first image were fired into cotton wadding.
The others were shot into water and a ham bone. One of them is the same as this bullet:
That least-damaged bullet is alleged -- theorized, if you will -- to have caused seven wounds in two men, breaking bones, leaving fragments that show up on X-ray and some of which were removed, then to be discovered on a hospital gurney near where the President and Governor were treated. The Warren Commission's entire case rests on that, uh, story.
Gee, Bloomberg. Who else might benefit from censored news from China?
For one, Neil Bush, big bankster in a small world...
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