Medical examiner in JFK case dies

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Omaha World Herald

DES MOINES (AP) — In the turbulent hours following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, many were uncertain about what to do, but medical examiner Earl Rose knew one thing: The shooting happened in Dallas, and it was his job to do an autopsy on anyone slain in the city.

Rose stood in a doorway at the hospital where Kennedy's body was taken on Nov. 22, 1963, in a vain attempt to block Kennedy's aides as they removed his coffin.

The Secret Service and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy prevailed, and the president's body was flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where an autopsy was done by pathologists James Humes and Thornton Boswell. Their findings have been used to support an array of conspiracy theories about Kennedy's death.

Rose, who died Tuesday at age 85, believed that many of those theories wouldn't have gained traction if he had been allowed to do his job. He told the Associated Press in 2003 that he and his staff should have done the exam.

FULL story at link.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120502/NEWS01/705029911#medical-examiner-in-jfk-case-dies

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Dr. Earl Rose in his Iowa City, Iowa, home in 2003. Rose, who died Tuesday at age 85, was the Dallas County medical examiner during the Kennedy assasination. Her performed autopsies on both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.

[liberal N proud]

1. So he would have been the one who found the pristine bullet if he had been allowed to do his job.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. I doubt seriously anyone would have found THAT

http://www.blackopradio.com

I have been looking for a reasonable explanation for Arlen Specter's "single bullet theory" for YEARS, and there isn't any.

However, I agree that he should have been allowed to DO HIS JOB, as required under the law. Then, all the "theories" debate would have some legal justification, rather than an industry of experts to cloud what none dare call a "conspiracy".

RIP, to all those associated with doing their job. We would have had a better world with JFK doing his.

[Archae]

5. The bullet would have been found near Governor Connelly's body.

And it is NOT "pristine."

It's flattened on one side, which it would have looked like had it been tumbling after exiting Kennedy's body and hitting Connely sideways.

By BIL who was a medic in Vietnam said he saw bullets that went through two bodies or more, breaking bones, looking brand-new.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. I suppose they would look new to the naked eye...

However, nothing as pristine of that single bullet that went along with that crazy theory.

[Archae]

12. As I said, it was not "pristine."

It was flattened on one side.

[MrMickeysMom]

15. Yes, understood...

Maybe I should have said, "And YET..."forensic examination would definitely show that the "magic" bullet killing JFK was pristine, and the naked eye could maybe not pick that up.

The point I was making was how ridiculous the magic bullet theory was, not the naked eye observations you mentioned.

[Archae]

16. Yeah, but there is that pesty thing called "actual facts."

The bullet was not "magic."

That bullet wounded Kennedy and Connelly.
The bullet that killed Kennedy was the third one that exploded in his head after hitting the back of Kennedy's head, blowing his brains out.

The "magic" bullet, when actual positions of Kennedy and Connelly are noted, and actual ballistics are used, doesn't "zig zag" or change direction.

[MrMickeysMom]

17. I see you've been reading Vince Bugliosi

What other JFK research would a person have to read to understand the difference between what this guy did in that book of his and assassination science?

It sounds like you library may need to be expanded, which is a good thing, if you plan on looking at a pesky little thing called FACTS.

Good luck with that.

[lunatica]

2. When it's the President who was killed that changes things

I wonder if he had done the job if the assassination theories wouldn't have even been worse, at least for the medical examiner. How many Americans would have just chosen to decide he was a hack just trying to cover up for Dallas, or would he have proven the second gunman theory?

After years of Teabaggeratti insisting President Obama is a secret Commie, Pinko, Kenyan, muslin Socialist I think the truth will never be known, even if it's already out there.

[hlthe2b]

4. I think, at a minimum, he should have been flown to Bethesda to assist or observe.

[MrMickeysMom]

10. I don't see it that way...

I mean, tea-baggery has very little in common with some of the pioneers who have been on the trail of the assassin(s) from 1964 onward.

There is real convergence over what has been proven to not hold up (SBT). I included the link in an above post to show the place where this solid evidence is compiled.

We forget history and its follow up as years fade and nut bags like the tea baggers emerge.

The evidence on Kennedy is another story that I wish more people would spend a few Saturday afternoons listening to.

[lunatica]

13. Like I said, the facts could be staring everyone in the face and

no one would really know because of the strange mixture of denialists and just plain crazy. The statement I made is the exact opposite of what you think I said. People make shit up and they believe what they want to believe on both sides. That's why we will probably never know what the truth is. Not because there isn't evidence of the truth, but because people will just ignore it if they choose to believe otherwise.

Just like the teabag party.

I can't make it any clearer.

[MrMickeysMom]

14. Okay, I get you....

Blame it on a very late night of reading after a very busy day...

I get what you said now, and am glad you clarified it for me.

[Enrique]

6. because he knew too much!

[Journeyman]

8. Or in this case, knew too little . . .

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. ROFL!

Perfect.

[Roland99]

7. Wonder if there's some diary of his hidden away somewhere?

although, after reading Stephen King's 11/22/63, I'm convinced Oswald acted alone.