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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)There were instructions to limit the autopsy to recovery of the bullet presumed to be in Kennedy's body; the head wound and wound in the back were examined, found to be entry wounds, it was not realised until after that the exit wound of the throat was obscured by tracheotomy. "Botched"? Only in that there was a failure to confer with the emergency physicians from Parkland prior to the autopsy, and that the autopsists had the impression that they were forbidden to dissect the track of the bullet that entered the back (and that the autopsists destroyed their notes afterward, because of reference to the absence of visible adrenal glands, which was something the Kennedy family wished to remain secret). Those would be the principal criticisms of the autopsy by the HSCA's forensic pathology panel, by the way. The findings, based on the evidence of X-rays and photos, were only confirmed by the HSCA's forensics panel (and by the earlier Ramsay Clark panel, as well).