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Reviewing the Autopsy X-Rays

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This talk by Dr. Michael Chesser is part of the online conference The National-Security State and the Kennedy Administration.

The military pathologists who performed the autopsy of President Kennedy concluded that only one bullet struck the skull, entering low at the back of the head, causing a massive exit wound at the top right side of the skull.  In 1968, in response to mounting criticism of the Warren Commission medical evidence, Attorney General Ramsey Clark appointed a medical panel to review the medical evidence.  This panel, and subsequently the Rockefeller commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) medical panel, proclaimed that the pathologists at Bethesda who examined the wounds of President Kennedy had made an incredible mistake, and the panel moved the location of the entry wound up 10 cm higher on the back of the skull. Consider that the continental USA resembles the side view of a human skull, and this would be like mistaking San Diego for Seattle. This is all one needs to know to realize that something was seriously amiss with the autopsy evidence. These pathologists and radiologists had an impossible task, which was to make the autopsy x-rays and photographs fit the lone gunman hypothesis posed by the Warren Commission.

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Michael Chesser, M.D. is a neurologist with over 30 years of experience in private practice and academics. He graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1981. Prior to his neurology residency at UAMS he was a primary care physician in the Navy, and later achieved the rank of CDR in the USNR. After residency, he was a faculty member at UAMS and became Associate Professor of Neurology in 1994, prior to entering private practice. He is board-certified in adult neurology and clinical neurophysiology. Dr. Chesser became interested in the assassination of President Kennedy after reading JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass in 2013. Pursuant to the Deed of Gift, he requested permission and was approved to view the autopsy material related to the cranial wounds of President Kennedy at the National Archives and Records Administration II in College Park. He viewed the original skull x-rays and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) enhanced skull x-rays in 2015. Subsequently, he was approved for two visits to view the autopsy photographs and later the digital images of the autopsy photographs which were prepared for the Assassination Records Review Board. At his most recent visit in 2017 he was approved to again view the HSCA enhanced skull x-rays. Dr. Chesser will discuss the x-ray evidence of a high right frontal entry wound and a right temporal entry (vs exit) wound. He will review the appearance of the x-rays and the autopsy photographs at the Archives, discussing important details which are not visible on the images which are widely circulated on the internet.