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Kid Berwyn

(14,851 posts)
113. That hit me like a hammer blow.
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 05:48 PM
Nov 2021

For some reason, original JFK autopsy report was burned. The second version is what historians have to work with.

Should you ever find that report, please contact a person with integrity expert in the case. I’d recommend James Douglass, who wrote “JFK and the Unspeakable” or another author with a track record for truthfulness.

Below are a quote and link to info from USN Corpsman Paul K. O'Connor, who assisted at the autopsi at Bethesda Naval Hospital:



Law: Now, in talking to some of the other fellows who were with you, some of your colleagues, I'm struck with the fact that all of you know bits and pieces. It's like you're all on different frequencies. You all noticed different things. Did you all get together at one point and shared any kind of information? I mean early on, not years later. I'm talking about within that week, within a few days?

O'Connor: No. What happened was - that took place on a Friday, of course, he was buried on the Monday and on Tuesday of that next week we were called into Captain Stover's office - who was one of the commanders of the Naval Medical School - where we were instructed and told that we were going to sign orders of silence under the penalty of general court martial, and other dreadful things like going to prison, if we talked to anybody about anything that happened that night. Period.

Law: So you were threatened basically with being thrown in jail?

O'Connor: In prison.

Law: In prison if you talked about this to anybody?

O'Connor: To anybody. Now that was the worst experience of my life. The Kennedy assassination autopsy was bad. But that scared me to death because I was a good loyal navy hospital corpsman, had done nothing wrong and was thrown into a situation that I couldn't control. And all of a sudden I was told that if I was to say something to anybody, anybody - and they left that wide open anybody-that, if found out, we'd go to prison and be dishonorably discharged from the navy.

Source: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKoconnorPK.htm



I cannot now find an interview with the late Mr. O’Connor, but I remember he reported that USAF General Curtis LeMay attended the autopsy of President Kennedy on 11/22/63. LeMay lit a cigar and was told to put it out by a lower ranking officer. A number of researchers believe LeMay may have been involved in the assassination.
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