Don Curtis, Parkland resident, on JFK assassination: "the posterior part of his head was blown out."

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73. "(McClelland's) recollections... have remained consistent for over thirty years." You are wrong.

Perhaps you missed it when I replied to you here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4057467

Let's repeat the quote again, from page 407 of Reclaiming History:

When I called Dr. McClelland the following evening to discuss further one of the points he had made, he quickly told me he was glad I had called because "since we hung up last night, I've had some second thoughts about the exact location of the exit wound." Unlike the many conspiracy theorists (sic) who have exploited Dr. McClelland's obvious errors to their benefit, he told me, "I don't question the integrity of all the pathologists who disagree with me"... saying, for instance, that he and the three autopsy surgeons were "obviously looking at the same head and the same wound," but that the area on the head where they placed the wound differed because of "the different positions from which we viewed it and also because of the different interpretations of what we saw, which is normal."

I've italicized the part you need to pay attention to.

McClelland went on:

But he made a major concession in an effort to reconcile his position with (the autopsy surgeons). "I have to say that the sketch I first drew for Josiah Thompson's book a few years after the assassination was misleading. Since last night, I've been thinking that I placed the large hole in the president's head farther back than it really was, maybe. It may have been a bit more forward."

Michael Baden's accounting for why Parkland observers and others may have diverged from the official autopsy photographs and X-rays (which goes on to page 408 in Reclaiming History):

Since the thick growth of hair on Kennedy's head hadn't been shaved at Parkland, there's no way for the doctors to have seen the margins of the wound in the skin of the scalp. All they saw was the blood and brain tissue adhering to the hair. And that may have mostly been in the occipital area, because he was lying on his back and gravity would push his hair, blood, and brain tissue backward, so many of them probably assumed the exit wound was in the back of the head. But clearly, from the autopsy X-rays and photographs and the observations of the autopsy surgeons, the exit wound and defect was not in the occipital area. There was no defect or wound to the rear of Kennedy's head other than the entrance wound in the upper right part of his head.

In addition to this, there's the simple witness staring all of us in the face: the Zapruder film. The area in question is in view after the head shot. It's turned right toward the camera. There isn't the slightest indication of a gaping occipital region wound in the Zapruder film.

Dr. McClelland is an honorable and decent man. But he is mistaken. The autopsy pictures and X-rays show the reality of JFK's wounds. The HSCA has verified them as authentic: that they were taken of John F. Kennedy's body at his autopsy and that they were not tampered with. The head wound McClelland describes is not present in them.