BETHESDA DIRECTOR EXPLAINS WHY JFK AUTOPSY REPORT IS INACCURATE
Bethesda, Maryland (JFK+50) Michael Kurtz, author of The JFK Assassination Debates (2006) interviewed Captain Robert Owen "Jiggs" Canada, Jr.*, Director and Commanding Officer of the National Naval Medical Center on June 6, 1968.
One of the major questions asked in the interview concerned President John F. Kennedy's head wound. Dr. Canada described it as...
"very large, 3 to 5 cm...in the right rear of the president's head, in the lower occipital region."
In response to being reminded the official autopsy report did not mention such a wound, the Director said that the document "had to have been rewritten to conform to the lone assassin theory."
In regard to the wound in JFK's back, the Doctor told Kurtz that the back wound was at the level of the third thoracic vertebra and the bullet lodged in the chest and did not exit.
Well, how about the wound in the throat?
Canada said the autopsy doctors knew at the time of the procedure that JFK's tracheotomy incision concealed an entrance wound, but could not include that information in the official protocol "because it would have proven the existence of..." a shot from the front.
While Dr. Canada was willing to "spill the beans" at the time of the interview, he "insisted" its contents be kept secret until at least 25 years after his death.
JFK+50D NOTE
Dr. Canada also verified that all naval personnel attending JFK's autopsy were ordered "to maintain silence on penalty of court-martial."
SOURCES
"Master List of Witnesses Who Indicated That JFK Was Shot From The Front Plus The Wounds of JFK," Honest Answers About the Murder of President John F. Kennedy, A New Look at the JFK Assassination, by Vince Palamara, Trine Day LLC, 2021
"Robert Owen Canada, Jr.," Naval History and Heritage Command, www.history.navy.mil/
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