Gerald Ford's Terrible Fiction
Moving the Back Wound and the Single Bullet Theory
Read Gerald Ford's correction to the Warren Commission
Report Draft:
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The initial draft of the report stated:
"A bullet had
entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder to the
right of the spine."
Ford wanted it to read:
"A bullet had entered
the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."
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 Autopsy
Face Sheet
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 Drawing showing area of back wound |
JFK assassination eye-witnesses, including
the observations of at least one Secret Service man in Dealey
Plaza and several FBI agents present at the Bethesda autopsy,
placed the president's back wound exactly where the mute testimony
of the president's jacket and shirt showed where the wound was:
six inches below the collar line.
 The signed
autopsy sheet, including the placement and description of the
back wound, was verified by Admiral George Gregory Burkley, personal
physician to the president who directed the autopsy at Bathesda.
Burkley filled out and signed John F. Kennedy's official death
certificate on November 23rd, 1963. He verified the location
of the back wound and signed the Kennedy autopsy sheet at Bethesda
on November 24th. That death certificate revealed the back wound
to be, in the Admiral's own words, at the president's "third
thoracic vertebra."The neck has seven CERVICAL vertebrae,
and this observed and verified wound was described as three THORACIC
vertebrae lower than the neck itself. A wound in the back, exactly
where the official autopsy sheet and the coat and shirt placed
it. Warren Commissioner Gerald Ford was one of the key people
responsible for misleading the U.S. public about the facts of
the JFK assassination. The single bullet theory and the lone
assassin fiction are only possible if we believe Gerald Ford's
terrible fiction.
As a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the
1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford
suggested that the panel change its initial description of the
bullet wound in Kennedy's back to place it higher up in his body.
The change, critics said, may have been intended to support
the controversial theory that a single bullet struck Kennedy
from behind, exited his neck and then wounded Texas Gov. John
Connally. The Warren Commission relied on it heavily in concluding
that Lee Harvey Oswald was Kennedy's lone assassin, firing from
the Texas School Book Depository, above and behind the president
Ford's handwritten editing, revealed in newly disclosed papers
kept by the commission's general counsel, was accepted with a
slight change.
The final report said: "A
bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly
to the right of his spine." A small change, said Ford on
Wednesday, one intended to clarify meaning, not alter history.
"My changes had nothing to do
with a conspiracy theory," he said. "My changes were
only an attempt to be more precise."
Harold Weisberg, a longtime critic of the Warren
Commission's work, said: "What Ford is doing is trying to make the single
bullet theory more tenable."The papers showing Ford's editing
were made public Wednesday by the Assassination Records Review Board,
an agency set up by Congress to compile all available evidence in the
Nov. 22, 1963, murder. The documents are part of the personal files
of the late J. Lee Rankin, the Warren Commission's general counsel.Ford,
then House Republican leader, was one of seven members of the commission,
which was headed by then-Chief Justice Earl Warren. An active editor,
Ford also suggested a number of other changes in the 1964 report, including
harsher criticism of the Dallas Police Department for failing to protect
Oswald. He was killed in the basement of police headquarters by nightclub
operator Jack Ruby on Nov. 24, 1963.
Text by George Michael Evica--Information from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
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shirt with bullet
hole matches back wound
Jacket
with bullet hole matches shirt and back wound
FBI 's own re-enactment
photo showing wound in the back, not the neck.
The back
wound--not neck