REO’S “AT LARGE” SERIES of interviews with the Bethesda pathologists and Parkland doctors clarifies lots of the medical myths. Ten-page lead article breaks the “29-year silence” with a joint interview of Bethesda pathologists Humes and Boswell, who recall the JFK autopsy and defend their conclusions. Explained away are conspiracy scenarios built on “military control” of autopsy and Humes’ burning of his original notes. Breo’s follow-up in same issue also very impressive: a four-page article called “JFK’s Death, Part II: Dallas MDs Recall Their Memories.” Many of the doctors relate abuse and distortion at the hands of conspiracy authors. Dr. Charles Crenshaw (1992 JFK Conspiracy of Silence) is rebuked by former Parkland colleagues. Same issue contained one-page brief “Lincoln, Kennedy, and the Autopsy” by Dr. Marc S. Micozzi, that compared “medical examiner evidence” standards in both Presidential assassinations. (lead-off page shown)

ESPONDING to critics’ complaints over the “conspicuously absent” Dr. Pierre Finck (third pathologist at JFK autopsy), Breo, “to conclude our report,” tracked down Finck, retired in Geneva, Switzerland. Seven-page article confirms Finck’s agreement with Breo’s earlier article on his colleagues, and publishes Finck’s own detailed accounts of the wound sites and skull beveling. Finck clarifies his remarks about military “interference” made at the Shaw Trial and restates his impressive background in the field of wound ballistics. Also included are Finck’s autopsy notes, Commission testimony excerpts and 1965 Summary to Gen. Blumberg. Same issue contained four pages of “Letters to the Editors” (reprinted in Killing the Truth 1993) critical towards Breo’s May 27th articles. JAMA editor George Lundberg, who arranged the interviews, has a 3-page article “Closing the Case in JAMA on the John F. Kennedy Autopsy.” (inside page shown)

ALTIMORE DOCTOR addresses critical reaction from assassination researchers to Breo’s JAMA articles. Four-page article explores “large problems of logic and common sense” with scenarios from “conspirati.” Particular attention is paid to allegations of X-ray forgery from Drs. Aguilar and Mantik. Artwohl corrects many of the medical misinterpretations and the problems associated with each of the President’s wounds. Compares lack of scientific application from critics to exacting standards of forensic analysis performed by experts. In another section, Dr. Charles S. Petty uses a page for his “JFK - An Allonge,” in which he reiterates lone-assassin medical evidence and describes Connally’s rib injury as “slap-fracturing” the bone without true penetration. Petty was a member of the HSCA Forensic Pathology Panel and Chief Medical Examiner of Dallas County. Plus …

ong-time JFK researcher, known for exacting ballistic recreations, reviews some of the data from his 1980 book Kennedy and Lincoln. Four pages tries to address specific allegations from the “contrarian community” to Breo’s JAMA articles. Presents the Connally lapel-flip that pinpointed the impact of the Single-Bullet Theory, CE 399’s flight and squeezing, and explains JFK’s arm lock reaction as Thorburn Position and the backward headsnap as a combination of jet effect and muscle reflexion. JFK’s torso brace prevented a forward collapse. Smallness of throat wound caused by restrictive collar band. (inside page shown)

ew York surgeon goes further than anyone in evaluating ballistics issues through eerie but exacting wound simulations. Lattimer, a field surgeon in WWII, has a life-long interest in the medical and weaponry aspects of the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations. In 1972, he was the first non-government doctor to review the Kennedy autopsy materials, and later wrote the 1980 book Kennedy and Lincoln. Six-page article addressed the revelation in Case Closed concerning the sudden flip of Connally’s lapel in Z224. Lattimer argues the one-frame event pinpoints the instant of the Single-Bullet Theory. Lattimer recreated the flip using the same weapon and bullets as Oswald, with pork muscle and ribs serving as eerie substitutions for the men wounded by CE 399.

First article to explain the “missing frontal bone” argument once championed by the top conspiracy authors. The Third Decade was a JFK research journal, which became The Fourth Decade. Reprinted (without illustrations) in author’s 1997 book Groden’s Grains. (inside page shown)

ioneering article that dispelled many of the conspiracy myths concerning Black Dog Man, the Umbrella Man, the jacket shoulder bulge, neck transit, “missing” bullet fragments, and ballistics. Faults Case Closed for bullet separation after striking tree branch, accepting Thorburn’s Position, crediting neuromuscular reaction/jet effect for head snap, and dismissal of Arnold Rowland. The Fourth Decade was a subscription-only JFK research journal published in New York State. (inside page shown)