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Paul O'Connor |
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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963 was one of the most controversial murder cases the United States has ever dealt with. A great deal of circumstances had to fall into place perfectly for it to happen just the way it did, and someone went through a lot of trouble to hide a lot of it. Most of the controversies involved the injuries that Kennedy suffered, and the autopsy that provoked many ideas as to what might have really happened. |
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When Paul O�Connor first found out that the President had been shot and killed, he was in school. He was on duty as a junior inlisted personel, so he could not go home. He was with a couple of other men who were with him on duty waiting to see what was going on, when a government official said he needed to speak to them. He brought them into the morgue and said that they were not allowed to leave under any circumstances until he gave them specific permission. A few minutes later, the back door opened and six men came in carrying a pinkish-gray shipping casket. Inside the casket was a body bag, and inside this Paul O�Connor recalls: �Inside was an unclothed, frail looking body with a bloody sheet wrapped around the head�I said to myself �Good God it looks like a bomb exploded inside his head.�� |
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The Warren Commission investigated the assassination, giving the explanation that JFK was shot from behind by a single person working alone. Part of the controversy with this murder is that most of the evidence obviously shows that there was more than one shooter, from the front and back, and that Kennedy was killed from one fatal shot. Paul O'Connor was there assisting with the autopsy of the President and is finally able to tell his story without keeping it a secret any longer. |
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�The reason you do an autopsy is not morbid�we consider ourselves scientists.� |
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Kennedy's body left Dallas in the casket on the left, and arrived in Washington D.C in the one on the right. |
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Part of the controversy of Kennedy�s body was that there was a different story being told by the doctors that saw him in Dallas and tried to save his life than the men in Washington saw while doing the autopsy. Originally, when the body left dallas Kennedy had a small entrance wound in his throat, then when he arrived in Washington the doctors reported that there was a huge gaping wound that looked like an entrance wound. This raised suspicions that someone had messed with the body between Dallas and Washington D.C. Paul O�Connor even remembered that the body arrived in a gray shipping casket, which was not the one that Kennedy�s body left Dallas in. He was originally put in a very nice, very expensive casket, probably the best one in the city of Dallas that they could find that day. Considering Paul O�Connor�s story and the story of the doctors in Dallas, it is most likely true that Kennedy�s body had been altered on its travel between the two cities. |
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In this autopsy picture, Kennedy has an opened exit wound in his neck from a bullet that never left there. This wound had been altered between Dallas and Washington to look like an exit wound. It began as a small entrance wound about a half an inch in diameter. |
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