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...Author Lifton, who you say thinks someone stole President Kennedy's body and created the bullet hole in the back of his neck [Jan. 19], is apparently unaware that the anesthetist, Dr. Marion Jenkins, at Parkland Hospital in Dallas had found the bullet hole in the back of John F. Kennedy's neck and could see the corresponding exit wound on the front of his throat...
...Lifton also has obviously never tried to remove a brain. Nor has he cut it up to find bullet fragments and then made it go back into the skull so that no one could tell the organ had been removed. You just...
...David Lifton's "two-casket" argument makes mention that Kennedy's bronze Dallas casket was damaged, perhaps in a hastily executed body-switching scenario at Bethesda Naval Hospital. However, according to William Manchester's book The Death of a President, this casket was damaged in Dallas as a result of its improper removal from the hearse that transported it to Air Force One. This event was witnessed by several of Kennedy's closest aides...
...Lifton telephoned Sibert for an explanation, but was told he had to write to FBI headquarters. He finally received a letter saying that the agents got their information about the surgery from oral statements made by the autopsy doctors during the examination...
Later, in discussing the autopsy with Technician O'Connor, Lifton was told that on arrival at the morgue, Kennedy's brain was not in the skull. "The cranium was empty," O'Connor said. But the brain was not removed in Dallas. Lifton found other witnesses who saw a small object wrapped in a sheet being moved through the hospital halls on a cart. When asked what it was, the cart handler said it was a stillborn baby. Lifton found that Bethesda records showed no stillbirths that...