Miscellanea, Errata, Et Cetera

For the curious ... I found the flier on a table at the JFK-Lancer conference at the Dallas Grand Hotel.

We all know there were several Army intel persons in and around Dealey Plaza on 11-22-63. Here is what appears to be confirmation that they were perhaps the phony "Secret Service agents" on the knoll. It is certainly not "NEW", but this is an amazing quote some may not be aware of, and I offer it here as is, in the hopes that we will continue to encourage the Review Board to make sure it works diligently to obtain missing and otherwise "unavailable" Army Intelligence documents.

"[Col. Robert Jones] told the committee that from 8 to 12 military intelligence personnel in plain clothes were assigned to Dallas to provide supplimental security fro the President's visit. He indicated that these agents had identification credentials and, if questioned, would most likely have stated that they were on detail to the Secret Service."

--House Select Committee on Assassinations Report, page 184

Quoted in "The Final Investigation: HSCA and Army Intelligence" by Paul Hoch in THE THIRD DECADE, Vol.1 #5, July 1985, page 6.

Shortly before Mrs. Ferrell was to be discharged from the hospital, a doctor reportedly insisted she attempt to walk, in spite of her protestations. When she did try, she fell to the floor, and the doctor fell on top of her, breaking her femur.

"She is recovering well, but this new break has really complicated an already very complicated situation," Chapman wrote in an email forwarded to various recipients. "She has periods where her spirits dip very low, so your cards, letters, etc. are most important.

"The good news," Chapman concluded, "is that she is healing well, but very slowly. Her two earlier surgerys have been just fine thus far, and her prognosis is good if she can adjust to the therapy and get out of the hospital."

Well-wishers can reach Mrs. Ferrell at the following address:

Mary M. Ferrell
Presbyterian Hospital
8200 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, Texas 75231

EXTERNAL EXAMINATION:
External examination reveals a well developed white male measuring 5 foot, 11 inches in length and weighing an estimated 175 to 180 pounds. The hair is black, lightly wavy, very slight frontal balding. The irises are blue, the pupils are equal at 5mm. Rigor is not present. Very slight posterior mottled lividity and body heat is present. Oral hygiene is good. The neck is not remarkable. Hair distibutionis normal ... Identification bands ofthe left wrist, right wrist and left ankle.

There are four entrance type wounds. No.1 is 4 3/4 inches from the top of the head and 3 3/4 inches to the right ofthe midline. This measures 3/8 x 1/4 inch and is surrounded by a contusion ring. No powder tattooing is noted at the margins.

Wound No. 2 is 17 inches from the top ofthe head on the right ches It is 4 inches to the rightofthe midline, above and slightlymedial to 1e right nipple. It measures 3/8 x 1/ of an inch, surrounded bybruising. There is also a contusion ring.

Wound No. 3 is 21 inches from the top of the head, along the anterior lateral side of the right chest and is 6 inches to the right of the midline. This measures 5/16 x 1/4 of an inch and is surrounded by a contusion ring.

Wound No. 4 on the left chest is 20 1/2 inches from the top of the head, 1 1/4 inches to the left of the midline. The wound measures 3/4 by 3/8 of an inch, is transverse and surrounding this is a 1/4 x 3/4 inch abrasion.

There is tanning of the arms. On the left arm there is a tattoo being "Tippit". On the dorsum of the left hand there is a crusted abraded area measuring 1/4 x 1/4 inch....the nails are quite well cared for although slightly dirty. Scar above the left knee, runs in an oblique fashion, crosses to the medial aspect of the knee, terminates on the leg measuring 7 inches. Poorly defined 1/4 inch inoculation type of scar on the left deltoid region. 16 1/2 inches from the top ofthe head, 3/4 of an inch to the right of the midline of the back in the subcutaneous tissue a missile is recovered from this region. This is associated with the Wound No. 3.

INCISIONS:
The standard "Y" thoracoabdominal and intermastoid incisions are utilized. Examination of the wound of the right temple is made. It is found to enter in the right middle cranial fossa, pursues a course which is slightly upward, backward and to the left. There is fracturing about the entrance and extensive fractures as it strikes the left occipitoparietal bone. It is recovered in this region, 3 inches to the left of the midline and approximately 1 inch from the top ofthe head. Examination of the brain is made. The brain weighs 1350 gm. The course of the missile through the brain is followed. It is found to enter the right temporal lobe, coursed through the brain transecting the brain stem, severing the cerebral peduncles surrounded by extensive hemorrhage, and found to exit from the brain substance in the calcarine gyrus to the left of the midline. There are penetrations of the meninges in the regions described. Examination of the brain is otherwise not remarkable.

The abdominal panniculus measures up to 7/8 of an inch. The organs are in the normal position. Examination of the serious cavities is made. There is found to be extensive peritoneal hemorrhage, approximately 300cc. In the right pleural space there is in excess of 1000 cc. of blood.

THE COURSES OF THE MISSILES ARE FOLLOWED
The wound described as No. 2 is found to go between the second and third rib. The missile is found to penetrate the anterior edge of the right upper lobe. The bullet is found to go into the pericardial sac, there is extensive hemorrhage in the pericardial sac, approximately 4 ounces. Passes through the superior vena cava. It exits into the mediastinum, strikes the fourth thoracic vertebra to the left of the midline, courses in the substance of the vertebra and is recovered slightly to the left of the vertebra approximately 16 inches from the top of the head, having pursued a course very slightly upward, to the left, and backwards.

Wound No. 3 is found to penetrate the chest wall as externally described, is surrounded by hemorrhage, notching the dorsum of the sixth rib slightly lateral to the costochondral junction. It penetrates the anterior edge ofthe right lower lobe of the lung, the diaphragm, penetrates the liver, the entrance wound to the liver and laceration which is approximately 3 x 2.5 cm. It pursues a course backward, upward, and to the left and is recovered from the soft tissue of the back, 16 1/2 inches from the top of the head and 3/4 of an inch to the right ofthe midline. In its course it is also found to again penetrate the diaphragm after going through the liver and penetrates the posterior aspect of the lower right lobe.

Wound No. 4 is examined. It is found to be superficial and no penetration of the rib cage is noted. There is hemorrhage beneath the abraded and bruised area adjacent to the wound. No missiles are present in this area.

LUNGS: The lungs together weigh 1200gm. The penetrations of the lung have previously been described. There are areas of atelectasis and along the courses of the bullet through the lung there is extensive hemorrhage.

LIVER: The liver weighs 1670 gm. The penetrations of the liver have previously been described. The cut surface of the liver is not remarkable...

FlNDINGS:
Gunshot wound to the head. Brain parenchyma damage and hemorrhage.

Gunshot wounds of the chest. Penetrations of the right lung, superior vena cava, and liver. Right hemothorax Peritoneal hemorrhage. Pericardial hemorrhage with cardiac tamponade.

CAUSE OF DEATH:
Gunshot wounds of the head and chest.

What follows is a friendly challenge I have issued to JFK conspiracy advocates over the years. No one has yet refuted this challenge. Perhaps you would like a crack at it.

Years ago, there was an amusing TV commercial for a fast-food chain. Three old ladies stand around a nearly empty hamburger bun that contains only a microscopic piece of meat. Finally, exasperated, one lady turns to the camera and demands: "Where's the beef?" And that's my question to the conspiracy advocates: "Where's your evidence?" The Warren Commission, flawed as it was ... at least had solid evidence against Oswald: the gun, the shells, his palm prints and fingerprints, his military training to use such a weapon, his employment in the building, ballistics evidence that at least some of the shots came from near the top of the School Book Depository, witnesses who saw a gunman in the window, a gunman who resembled Oswald, etc. We'll never know for sure, but it's likely that a Texas jury would have easily convicted Oswald in 1964.

[The balance of this lengthy email has been deleted. For the full text, check our back issues, Fair Play #14, "Miscellanea, Errata, Et Cetera." Scroll to the bottom of the file.]

Take care,
Tom Braun
cawriter@earthlink.net

An Australian Replies...
Dear Tom, hey I happened to pass by the Fairplay Site and read your message. I think you Americans are truly so gullible and politically virgin, that I feel like head butting the wall. That you guys hold the peace of the world in your innocent heads.....

We could of course talk for days and nothing would change. But just try to think of law as one and just for everyone. Do you really think that LH Oswald even with a two bit lawyer defending him would have been proven guilty ? And Why ? Becouse if you read the millions of inconsistencies in the Warren Report, the lack of proof from the broken chains of evidence, to even the most basic simple proof of them all the last head shot as captured by the Zapruder film, then you realised that they had to kill Oswald. Conspiracies don't alwats work, you are right, but that is the nature of conspiracies: they don't work and you find out about them, they do work and you don't. You can't know about the conspiracies that go right.

By the way Watergate is a very interesting topic. The tape was not the cause of the discovery of the cospiracy, it was the conspiracy. Nixon, like JFK, was removed from power by much the same men. In fact its uncanny to discover how many people that were involved in the Cuban-cia JFK business, were actually the stars of Watergate ( McCord, Hunt, Sturgis ( who was not a Cuban but aa American also known as Fiorini), were but a few.

So please try to keep it simple. Invite some friends who are hunters, sporting shooters, soldiers and discuss whether a Full Metal Jacket bullet fired from an old Italian rifle explodes like that, show them the final head shot on the Zapruder film. Not one person that I have showed it to told me the shot came from the rear. Then you are faced with a cospiracy. No Mafia or Cubans on their own could accomplish the rest on their own.

The sixties were violent and dangerous years with so many plots and subplots that we may never know the full truth. But to still cling on to the idea the a man who was arrested carrying the same ID card as U2 pilot Gary Powers, performed ballistic miracles never again repeated, well I'm sorry but you need to read more History, less Conspiracies books.

Best wishes Gus Braidotti.

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