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

[Bolo Boffin]

115. The HSCA said that, not little old me. I'm just passing it on.

And your "lots more" includes a few caveats and disclaimers you didn't manage to include in your quote. Things like:

Horne reported that Kodak, which had done work for the Review Board, found no evidence the current autopsy images had been falsified. And as Horne emphasized in his memo, the HSCA’s misstatement, as misleading as it is, may not be as sinister as it seems at first blush. The type of camera used was a “view” camera. It had a flat, square back that houses the double-sided film packs, and an attached bellows. Attached to the front of the bellows are an interchangeable lens and shutter mechanism, which may be switched out for different tasks. Though no records were ever produced suggesting the Navy had ever acquired any additional lenses and shutters besides those that accompanied the camera to the HSCA’s experts, it is possible that the particular lens and shutter used in 1963 may have been replaced by the time the DoD fetched the camera for the HSCA in 1977.

So what this comes down to is the lens was different. But in every other instance, the photos were right, yes? It was Kennedy in the pictures. And the X-rays - this information about them doesn't impeach them at all, right?

As McAdams sums up the HSCA examination of the photos:

Premortem x-rays of Kennedy were compared to the autopsy x-rays. A number of unique anatomic characteristics confirmed that the x- rays were of the same individual. Dr. Lowell Levine examined three skull autopsy x-rays and compared them with premortem dental x-rays. He concluded that the x-rays were of the same person. Several stereo pairs of photographs were analyzed. There was no evidence of alteration in the stereo pairs of the back of the head, the top of the head, the large skull defect, and the back of the head from the front right. Dr. Gerald McDonnel examined the premortem and postmortem x-rays for alteration. He particularly looked for any differences in density, any discontinuities of bone structure, and any abnormal patterns. He found no evidence of alteration. The person in the autopsy photographs are indeed John Kennedy.

In addition, four of the Parkland Hospital doctors (Jenkins, Delaney, Peters, and McClelland), the original autopsy doctors and John Stringer (the autopsy photographer) and John Ebersole (the autopsy radiologist) have all said the materials in the National Archives are authentic.

So instead of leaping to photo tampering, since everything else checks out, let's go with the explanation suggested by Occam's razor that a different lens was used for the autopsy photos. Yes?

ETA: If you don't like McAdams as a source, you can go directly to the source:

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol7/html/HSCA_Vol7_0025a.htm

Pages 39-41 of Volume VII of the HSCA Appendices is where to find the methods the HSCA used. That link is to page 39.

Bonus points to anyone who can show an appreciable difference between McAdam's summary and the actual HSCA report!