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(More customer reviews)First of all, I may be a little biased: I had Bill over my home back in 1998 during the two days it took to interview one of the x-ray technicians to JFK's autopsy, Jerrol Custer; a very memorable experience (as it was when I was present for the 11/22/91 interview of Custer done by Harry Livingstone for "High Treason 2"). That said, Bill has written a masterpiece: the best single volume of the medical evidence and related matters (a close second would be the medical chapters in "Murder In Dealey Plaza"). Very well written and put together, the book is a bona fide cornucopia of great nuggets of information from FIRST HAND WITNESSES to the autopsy, NOT JUST ANOTHER THEORY; very valuable. While this book would appeal to anyone with an interest in the Kennedy assassination, for those with a particular bent for all things medical, this work is essential reading. I have no complaints. Buy it asap.
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Several years ago, William Matson Law set out on a personal quest to reach an understanding of the circumstances underpinning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. His investigation began with a key component of the events of November 22, 1963, and the days that followed: the autopsy on the president's body at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He contacted those who were involved at Bethesda in various aspects of the aftermath of the assassination; In the Eye of History: Disclosures in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence comprises "conversations" with eight individuals who agreed to talk:Dennis DavidPaul O'ConnorJames JenkinsJerrol CusterSaundra SpencerEx-FBI Special Agents James Sibert and Frances O'NeillFor the first time, these eyewitnesses relate their stories comprehensively in their own words. Law allows them to tell it as they remember it without attempting to fit any pro- or anti-conspiracy agenda. The reader is the judge of these eyewitness accounts and their implications.Dennis David describes observing the arrival at Bethesda NavalHospital of the navy ambulance carrying Jackie Kennedy with theofficial casket purportedly carrying the president's body -- some timeafter he had supervised the unloading of a shipping casket that he'dbeen told contained the body of the president. Autopsy technician PaulO'Connor helped remove the president's body -- he recalls that it wasin a body bag -- from a shipping casket; this contrasts with theplacement of the president's body in an ornate casket in Dallas, afterwrapping only in sheets and towels. O'Connor's associate, JamesJenkins, emerged from the autopsy convinced that the president hadbeen shot from two directions.X-ray technician Jerrol Custer recallsseeing Mrs. Kennedy enter the Naval Hospital, having just arrived withher husband's body -- yet Custer was on his way to the darkroom todevelop X-ray plates already taken of the president's corpse. Ex-FBISpecial Agents James Sibert and Frances O'Neill pour scorn on thesingle-bullet theory -- the sine qua non of the Warren Report -- yetare reluctant to conclude that more than one sniper wasinvolved. Harold Rydberg describes how he illustrated the president'swounds solely from verbal descriptions and provides first-handimpressions of the personalities of the autopsy doctors.SaundraSpencer compares and contrasts the extant photographs from the Kennedyautopsy with those that she developed; the differences arestartling. And there is discussion of the 1966 death of William Pitzerin whose possession Dennis David claims to have seen a secret movie ofthe Kennedy autopsy.
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