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and uh I’m going to introduce it and then we’ll I’ll ask you the first question.

Okay, so here we go.

So, welcome to another edition of On the Trail of Delusion, where I try to separate fact from fiction and the JFK assassination and try to give you something of substance rather than the usual idiocy you find on YouTube or on the internet um from the conspiracy idiots.

So, today my special guest is Dr. Chad Zimmerman. Dr. Zimmerman was born and raised in Sous City, Iowa. He graduated from Northwestern College of Chiropractic in 1999 and he practiced in Sous City uh in Colorado and now in Fargo, North Dakota. Um he also now has a true crime podcast called Footsteps in the Dark.

Now, what makes Dr. Zimmerman so interesting is he is one of the few doctors to have actually examined JFK’s autopsy X-rays and photographs. and I thought that he could basically come on here and really uh tell us exactly what those uh autopsy materials tell us. So, welcome Dr. Zimmerman. Well, thanks. Thanks for having me. Okay, so uh how did you get into the JFK assassination? Uh I think I read this might have been in your bio or somebody else that you talked to very similar. Um I got into it when I was in high school. My father took me to the movie JFK by Oliver Stone. I was transfixed by what I had just seen. And then my father started to kind of feed it and he bought me On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison. I started reading it. I happened to be on a trip to New Orleans at the time. Begged my mother to to let me go walk or take me around the French Quarter so I could go see 54 544 Camp Street and you know all the sites. And so uh I think the movie was the seed the books were the fertilizer. And by 96, I think it it was, I taught my uh former high school history class on the top 20 reasons I was convinced that uh JFK was killed as a result of a conspiracy, right? Um and then I went to school and I got smarter and after having physics education and medical education and different things like that, I happened to stumble across a book called Case Closed by Gerald Posner.

And then I became very confused. And when I’m confused, I start tearing things apart. And that’s kind of what happened. When I graduated chiropractic school, I got a job. I started developing an income. And I started purchasing resources. And one of those would have been the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission report. I went through every single page of that. I bought a Canelo like Oswalds. I have ammunition just like it. And I got on the forums. I got on the old, you know, alt uh assassination.jfk stuff. I started interacting with people. Uh eventually I became a moderator in that group and spent a few years doing that. Got to have some really interesting conversations with a lot of very interesting people. And I just started working through it. I had my top 20 reasons why I was convinced it was a conspiracy. And I went through one of them, each one of them line by line. And I kept crossing them off. And by the time I got done, there was really nothing left, right? And my intent on it, I think, was probably a little ego gratification at that time in my life. And wanted to potentially write write the next great bestseller book or or something. But, you know, I think the draw to true crime for most of us is that we know it happened. We know there’s a truth that exists and that we want to find it. And that that’s where my where the JFK journey took me. I I had some, you know, very neat opportunities there. I was able to uh go to the archives, see the original autopsy photographs and x-rays and spent three and a half hours with Larry Sturdivan there doing that. Um, but then by the time I got by the time I got done, I had a US public that was 80% convinced of conspiracy, and I was now 20% that uh didn’t believe in that anymore. So, I kind of moved on from it, honestly. Right. Okay. So, very much one question about New Orleans. When you went to uh was was the Newman building still there when you went to 544 Camp Street? Yeah, it was. Oh, you didn’t did you go inside at all or? No, I didn’t go inside. We just kind of we walked around. Um I’m trying to We’re going back, you know, 30 year 29 years here. Um No, we didn’t do much. We walked around. I remember if it was that it was probably around that year. We took a trip. my mother and I to Dallas and that’s when I visited the Book Depository for the first time, right? And you know, I think at that time I was still pretty convinced of a of a conspiracy. Um, I had a roommate or a a gentleman that lived across the hall from me and, you know, he had a a big giant stack of VHS tapes full of of conspiracy theory um, shows on JFK. And so I would borrow those and and watch those. And and so I had, you know, a thousand times more information telling me it was a conspiracy than I had otherwise, which, you know, generally means you got to find 5,000 times more things to to change your mind. But uh I I think I did that in the course of you know four or five years. So okay. So look um obviously your expertise is really on the medical and ballistic evidence. So um perhaps you can tell us a bit about um how it how it happened that you went to the archives to see the autopsy materials. Well, okay. So that was about 2004. I got into this about 2000. started on the the old, you know, forum page and I just started asking questions and at some point I would I would naturally gravitate towards the things I had some background in which was medical and ballistic and I started looking at things. One of the things that stands out that I remember was there being confusion about where uh Kennedy was hit with the first shot. You know, was it at the base of the neck? Was it T2? Was it T3? Where was it? And I had a lot of resources available to me at the time. We had an autopsy report. Nobody really questioned the 14 cm uh uh dimension that was written, you know, right below the mastoid. And they thought, okay, well, there’s a starting point here. I had a I had an X-ray bank with hundreds of of full spine X-rays that my my employers had. And so I started making measurements. You could see the mastoid. You could draw it down. I used myself as a model. I took X-rays and so I started just investigating what’s the truth here. And you know pretty soon I realized that you know 14 cm below the mastoid in the neutral position like Kennedy pretty much was at autopsy um would land right near the base of the neck in a six foot tall individual. And and so I went through the steps of showing that and proving it to myself first and then then I would have discussions about it. Eventually it led to a web page. page. I got I kind of got tired of explaining a whole bunch of things over and over again. So, I created a a website where I would post articles on these various aspects that I was looking at. And it just, you know, kind of evolved over time. Um, I got into the ballistics aspect. I bought it. I bought the rifle. I had to make my own rounds because it was $200 to $300 a box for the western cartridge rounds. And so, I was cleaning those on the side. That was a lot of money to me back then. So, I didn’t want to shoot them. So, I bought a thousand rounds of old World War II ammunition, started pulling the bullets because they were all corrosive, uh, repackaging them into into new brass and and powder. And then I would go out and I would conduct ballistics experiments. And sometimes people would they’d say, “I think the first shot hit a tree branch. Could you go shoot it and show me what a bullet would look like if it does that?” And so I would I would go out on the lunch. I had long lunch breaks about an hour and a half and I could drive about 15 miles, you know, shoot some things, videotape it, come back, pull off the data, you know, and move on to the next thing. So, I did a lot of X-ray, I did a lot of ballistic stuff. Um, and eventually over time, developed a pretty good understanding of things, or at least I thought I did. And I wanted to see I I couldn’t test my hypothesis any further unless I had the actual autopsy photographs. We were extremely transfixed on on the fox number eight photograph, the very closeup one. Um that was, you know, the Groden books and the different books always published that thing to make it look like it’s the back of the head and you have the exit beveling and so it had to be a shot from the front. And I had gotten a high quality scan um from a disc I think I bought off a JFK Lancer or something and and I was convinced that it was oriented incorrectly that and that I could see a jar right kind of in that in that bottom right corner and so I wanted to see it. So my whole trip to the archives started with this burning desire that I I had to test, you know, a hypothesis. And so I had found out that Larry Curivan had gotten um permission to go. And so I I reached out to Larry and uh he forwarded his the letter he’d sent to me. I I read through his letter. I put my own letter together, sent it off to attorney Paul G. Kirk and then sure as heck I got I got approved to do it and so Larry and I scheduled the time to meet and flew out there and it was a really wonderful experience. It’s a tremendous facility they have there and obviously tremendous care that they they provide for these irreplaceable one-of-a-kind um American artifacts which is kind of what they are now. But um Larry and I spent three and a half hours in a room. We you know looking at them. We couldn’t touch anything. Um, if you wanted something moved, they had to move it. But, uh, we were able to to make some drawings of of some things. We wanted to to see if we could figure out answer some of the questions. You know, where where was the head where was the head wound at? Um, you know, what was the orientation of the F8 photograph? Uh, what could we see in the X-rays? That was a really big one and a really interesting experience because the the quality of the X-rays is you I mean, it’s infinitely better than the stuff that anyone else is looking at. Those are poor Xerox copies that are kind of black and white. Whereas we’re looking at an actual X-ray film that’s it’s actually light blue. It’s dark with shades of blue in it. And and there’s so much detail um in those X-rays and you could you could obviously see what were bullet fragments. Um you know they were as white as or you know as light as could possibly be. And so as we looked uh through those things, you know, I would say there was three, four or five really interesting takeaways that we got from that experience. And then I came back. I thought we had made some great discoveries and and uh I started digging through uh Humes and Boswell’s prior testimonies and I think it was probably the HSCA stuff and I was going through their testimonies as as they’re looking at the autopsy photographs and the X-rays. And sure enough, you know, here they’re describing what I saw and here they they’re describing what I saw, but they didn’t know what they were seeing in in many cases. You know, the one of the neat one of the most eyepopping discoveries was looking at the the lateral X-ray of President Kennedy’s shattered skull. And in the in the rear kind of lower posterior portion back here, you could see little bone shards. Okay, they were the same exact density as as the bone pieces you were seeing everywhere else, but here they were inside of the skull. And the only way those could have gotten there is by being blown into it from an entrance wound in the back of the head. So, we went looking for the, you know, where’s this entrance wound at? And on the the actual um lateral view, you really can’t see. And so, they they enhanced it, right? There’s the the enhanced lateral X-ray. And when you look as that look at that, sure as heck, you can you can see a a spot right in the center of the back of the head in the most rearmost portion of the head. Um there’s a defect right there. And it looks like there might it might have been a little bit of bevel beveing there. Um and it certainly correlates with what we found in the F8 photograph because the F8 photograph shows the entrance wound. That was interesting because here we’re looking at multiple color photographs of that image. Right. And and what you find out is that is that the camera angle’s from is kind of like from this angle down and in. And the ruler is where it’s at because they’re trying to point out where the where the entrance wound is. And so you could when you were looking at the at the pictures, you could kind of you could look at them and kind of tell what order they were even taken in. Um in one of the pictures, so imagine you have a a child’s bottle of bubbles, right? And you shake it up a little bit. You take the lid off and you have that film across the top of it. Yeah. Okay. There there was film across the hole in the scalp, but the film was was blood. Okay. And it was covering the entire hole. And then you’d look at the the next picture and that little film had broken and there was this kind of violet purplish light that was coming through there. And you’re looking at that and you’re like, “Oh my gosh, that’s the entrance wound right there.” Right? And so if you could take these pictures and triangulate them a little bit, make sense of them, you could exactly pinpoint where that entrance wound was. And we took we had a an old 1960s military stereoscope I bought off of eBay and we brought it there and we had them put them side by side and look so we could develop a three-dimensional image and things like that. Anyway, what I what I ended up concluding was that um the Warren or the the pathologists, you know, two and a half centimeters right slightly above the EOP, they were wrong and it was about an inch or so above that and it wasn’t where the Cowic entrance was. There there’s nothing at the Cowic entrance. Um and there’s no such there’s no such trail of fragments, right? Trails of fragments exist in closed systems. Um, a blown aart skull is no longer closed system. And you can’t rely on place, you know, the placement of things very well. And so we’re looking at this, we’re seeing this spot on the rear of most posterior part of this lateral X-ray. Uh, oh, and that’s where those pencil lines, right? Remember the whole thing about the pencil lines? Well, the pencil lines were on it. And the there’s a horizontal one that matches the bottom of the film. So, it’s the kind of we called it the horizontal film plane line there. And then the other one goes right up through the the middle of the the missing area of the skull, but they converge right back at that exact point. And it’s it’s that part of the film that’s cut off in the reproduction on the HSCA stuff. Um, that’s where the that’s where it looked like the entrance was. Okay. And so the question became, okay, how did the pathologists get it wrong? Um, and I’m always going to rely on pathologists because they’re looking at they’re looking at it, right? It’s hard to say they’re wrong, but they were wrong. And so why were they wrong? And so I started looking at the premortem X-ray of of Kennedy and okay, they measured from the EOP. Where’s the EOP? And I’m looking at this thing. Where’s the EOP? You can’t see a very distinct EOP on an X-ray. um it’s got to be probably even harder um when it’s the actual skull bone and there’s blood and all that kind of stuff. And so I I I had sent I’d read a book written by a forensic anthropologist. And so I thought, well, what the heck? Early days of the internet, everybody had a website and a contact email. I thought, well, send her send her an email. And so I sent her an email. I said, I’m looking at an X-ray. I’ve attached it. I’m just trying to find the EOP on this. it’s part of a class project maybe or something like that. Uh would could you help me out? And and she she emailed back. She goes, “Oh, it’s it’s called a bun EOP. That means they hardly have one. Very hard to, you know, to find.” And I thought, “Okay, well, maybe that’s the reason, right? You could when you’re looking at the back of someone’s skull, you can figure out the center of it. If you can’t figure out where the landmark is, it’s really hard to to say slightly above or really far above or give an exact measurement.” And so I thought, well, maybe the answer to this is really simple. um they couldn’t see the EOP. Maybe that’s why they got it wrong. And I think that’s so much of this confusion over the decades um has come from some such a simple little mistake like that. So how far So in their estimate, how far away how far was the entrance from what they were saying? Like was it they said slightly above? They’re saying it was an slightly I don’t I don’t know what slightly above means. Half 38 of an inch. It’s I would I would put the entrance at somewhere in the neighborhood of an inch to an inch and a half above the EOP. Right. Okay. I would put So why why do you think that the uh the HSSE got the it all wrong and saying the the entrance wound was in the cow area? Well, if now I’m going on old memories here, but you know, if you if you go back and you read through the the interviews of the pathologists, um they couldn’t figure out where it was, right? They’re looking at the picture, the back of the head photo photograph, and what and there’s a ruler here and there’s a hole here and they’re saying that’s not a bolt hole, right? I mean, that’s happened and they’re going, “Well, what’s that little white thing down there?” Maybe I think it maybe it was down there. Like they didn’t know. They had it in their heads that it was lower than it was and then they went looking for it and couldn’t find it and it resulted in all this confusion, you know. And then you have this this panel put together of, you know, experts looking at stuff. I don’t know how long they’ve looked at stuff, but um they looked at it long enough to somehow conclude that a a frail of or a trail of fragments that that leads nowhere. Like if you follow that trail, it hits bone and then the break in the bone’s way down here, right? So, uh what kind of trail is that where you got to make a left turn in order to find the fracture in the bone? So, I don’t I mean I don’t know like I remember years ago Bouiosi I was I was uh corresponding with him on some things. I just gotten back from the archives and, you know, he was putting the finishing touches on his book and I thought, well, I’m going to reach out to him and see if I strike Peter with anything and and just thought I had some interesting observations um for him. And I would bring up things about the X-rays or the photographs, anatomical placements, whatever. And they didn’t, you know, they didn’t agree with one of the previous uh esteemed uh bodies. But, you know, he asked me the same thing. He’s like, “Well, why, you know, why are you saying this when these people with these degrees say this?” And I don’t know, you know, all I can tell you is that, you know, I went to college from 1996 to 1999. Um, X-rays were not well in use, um, you know, probably until what, the 40s or 50s or something like that. Um, the quality and so you look at these doctors that are pathologists in the 60s. um you know what’s the quality of the textbooks that they’re working with when they when they went to school? I don’t know. Probably not very good. Um the things that I saw on the X-rays, I think a any firstear chiropractic student um will see the same things on an X-ray, right? There’s a difference between what a bone shard the the density of a bone shard versus the density of a metallic fragment on an X-ray. It’s night and day. But I’m reading the pathology reports and they’re getting confused and they don’t know what it is. Um, so it tells me that I think um in terms of our western medicine and our science and our education, we’ve just we’ve come a really long ways from the time that they went to school to the time I did. That’s the only way I can explain it. And so were the were there fracture lines coming out of the the entrance wound in the in the back of the head? Well, you couldn’t see that. I mean, you can’t see the entrance. the only way I mean when you you you know you’re taking something that’s threedimensional and squishing it into two dimensions. So it makes the whole three-dimensionality of it very difficult. Um and so when you’re looking like an like an A to P, you’re losing that depth perspective, right? Everything’s smooshed like this. Now you couldn’t see you couldn’t really see the entrance wound clearly in in the AP. You got understand the whole the whole skull is a fractured mess at this point. It’s it would take a long time to sketch out the fracture pattern on it, let me put it that way, okay? And try to figure out what’s left side versus right side on like a lateral view. Um, now could there were there some could there have been some fractures there? There probably were. I just man, it’s been so many years that it’s been a while since I’ve thought about that. I think there was. Um, but you’re going to lose a lot of that that depth being smooshed into the posterior fossa on a lateral view. And so you it’s going to be hard seeing anything coming from it. But then when you get up into, you know, into other areas of the skull, you’re going to see some of those those fracture lines. But it’s like I said, it’s very difficult um with a skull that that’s damaged to try to make sense of it all, you know. But as I recall, I think there was a fracture line there. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been terribly interested in that location anyway. Yeah, you lose a lot of that perspective, right? So, um, what there’s so many questions here. So, well, first off, I I really wish they’d actually make the autopsy x-rays and photographs public because, uh, but you know, there’s the bootlegs out there, and it’s I think they should should actually make them public so people can do their own analysis. Yeah. I, you know, I go back and forth. I’ve always gone back and forth on that. You know, I think of like if I had a child and a child was murdered, um, in some way, would I want, you know, images of that all over the place just because people have some sort of a, you know, stuck interest in it. Um, so, as a family member, I can understand why they might not want something like that. Um, and now in terms of of something that we’ve turned into a a political explanation for everything under the sun, um, you know, maybe it’s not a bad idea to put that stuff out there to

answer some questions for people or something, but, you know, is there is there a long-term effect in doing that? I don’t know. like, well, yeah, I agree with you, but I would not want these out if it was uh uh the only reason I want it out is the fact that we already have so many photos in the public domain right now. So, yeah, I I mean, I agree. I rather have the real thing out there. So, and particularly the X-rays. I don’t think there’s much harm in releasing the X-rays. No, I I the X-rays are very interesting to look at. Um, and I think, you know, putting, you know, the the color version F8 out there would end all of this so much of this nonsense that it shows a an exit crater from a frontal shot. It clearly does not show that. It shows exactly the opposite. Um, you know, but deep deep down inside, if you’re a Kennedy family member, like what does it matter? You you know, we there’s people that are flat-earthers out there. Like you could put give them everything. You know, there could have been a, you know, high quality videotape of the actual assassination and you give it to people, it’s just fake. Yeah. So, let me ask you a bit about the the entrance wound in the head. So, Dr. Boden said that um if if there was a lower lower than the collic entrance wound, then the the cerebellum would have been damaged, but the cerebellum was not damaged. So, do you do you see any problem? I don’t think that’s No, I don’t think that’s true. Um we saw the photographs of the brain. Yeah. Um the cerebell we looked at those if I remember I think we looked at those in 3D too. So you had you have the the left hemisphere the right hemisphere the right hemisphere looked like a plate of spaghetti. Okay. Left hemisphere was completely intact. Um, we looked there was a a view of it from the inferior angle and we could I could see um some very small uh linear little tears almost like I don’t know if it was like in the meningis or something you know but um it looked like something that would have happened when you put your hands down and tried to lift the brain out. It it looked very explainable, but no, there was no bullet damage to it. But you know, your cerebellum’s back in, you know, back there, right? Right. And you understand that. So calic and then, you know, roughly the the autopsy entrance point. So this is the two things they’re talking about. It’s got to be this or it’s got to be this, right? Nobody talked about this. And that’s going to be that’s going to be above the cerebellum right there. Right. And I think supports that, you know. Right. So what I find interesting is is is the we actually there are no photographs of the brain out there. There’s just some drawings. Correct. But the the fact that the left hemisphere of the brain is intact is proof that there’s no shot from the grassy null or the side. Well, absolutely. That’s that’s a near perpendicular shot, right? Yeah. There’s no way. And so that forces conspiracy people to say that that that the stringer those are those are not JFK’s brain, right? That there’s somebody else’s brain. Yeah. I mean it’s it’s fake. It’s tampered with somebody. You know, everything’s fake and tampered with when it doesn’t agree. So or you know I don’t I don’t know how you how do you counter the nonsense? Like I know. So was there any indication that any of those materials had been altered or or faked? Not that we could see. No, I mean, I don’t know how you would have done it in 1963 or 65 or whenever they think these things happened. Um, you know, I remember years ago, I remember reading that if you viewed the the photographs, I think it I think this came from Groten because I think Groden, which I don’t know how he got to be part of the HSCA, but he was, um, you know, I think he even admitted that the pictures were authentic. Yeah. Okay. And he he made the comment that if you looked at a stereop pair of of these pictures under under a stereoscope that had they been tampered with that it would be you know as obvious as could be. And you know we didn’t look at every single one of them in stereo pairs. We looked at F8. We looked at the brain. Um there was there was no evidence of that. But further, one of the things that stood out to me was uh if you looked I sent you a link to to Lee Oswald’s autopsy photographs, right? Yeah. Did you notice the double exposures and some of the terrible photography? Right. Kennedy, the best thing about him being, you know, hijacked from from Texas and sent to Maryland is they had the guy that taught the course um there that night and the photographs were fantastic. There might have been one or two out of four dozen or however many there were that were a little out of focus or something, but you could count the hairs on the side of his head. That’s how clear a lot of those pictures were. So, I don’t know how they would have been faked. Right. Right. No, I I I don’t know either. It’s it’s just it’s just uh I mean, the other argument they say is that Shringer um didn’t take the bachelor bachelor view of the brain, but he took the other one. But of course both both views of the brain must must have been consistent. How could you know? I mean I mean it just doesn’t make sense. You can you can slice and dice your way out of facts a million different ways. But what do you think of of Dr. David Mantic’s view of uh his density readings saying that the some of the X-rays were had been altered? Well, I mean honestly so at the point that I read that book, I was still I was kind of on the fence about a lot of things. I was very excited to see that a book was coming out um that was done by, you know, intelligent people with big degrees and and interesting ideas and people that were actually testing things. Uh that was my feeling going into it until I read the book and then it kind of got destroyed. Um and but I was really interested, you know, Mantic I thought had a really interesting idea. Um, and so he modified an an optical densitometer and took it in there and supposedly it made measurements at, you know, tenth of millimeter increments or some bizarrely small distance. Um, and so that was I read it. It was interesting and I went and I looked, you know, he’s in that book, they’ve got that pterodactyl superimposed over a lateral skull and kind of kind of mockery mockery built into the book. And when I went and looked at the X-rays, I’m like I looked at it and I’m like, you know, at this point in time, I’ve looked at hundreds of X-rays, something like that. Hundreds or thousands of them, I don’t know. And I mean, it was it was a part of my daily practice. And I’m looking at this this lateral X-ray. And I’m like, this is a lateral X-ray. Like it there was nothing crazy about it. You know, they always taught you in school, you know, step away from it, blur your vision a little bit. If anything doesn’t look right, it probably isn’t right. You know, that was the radiologist teaching us this. And here I’m looking at this thing and I’m backing away. I’m squinting. I’m looking at it. Nothing looked abnormal about that X-ray. And I don’t know how you’d fake that thing. um you know with the f fracture patterns and all this kind of stuff I would think anything faked and it would stand out like a sore thumb but nothing did. It looked very very very genuine to me. Okay. So then and that brings me point because kind of where we’re leading into there. One of the things that we wanted to look at was that 6 and a half millimeter fragment, right? That people think, oh, they took, you know, a slice of the bullet and x-rayed it and stuck it on there. And that was, tada, the case against Oswald. And the first thing that stood out to me looking at that actual X-ray is that it’s not a nice neat semic-ircular slice. It it has some irregular margin to it that doesn’t come through in the in the crappy reproduction that they that the HSCA put out there. And but when as we got and we looked in and started looking a little closer, I looked at Larry and I said, “Larry, there’s another fragment inside of that fragment.” And he looked and he’s like, “Yep.” And and I said, “But look at the rest of the film.” I said, “You have these grid lines, right?” And for for the viewer, what grid lines are. So, normally you take a film cassette and you put it in this tray, slide it into this big thing, and then you line your subject up and that’s called a it’s called a film bucky. And inside of the cassette, there are what what are called these rare earth screens. And when X-rays hit it, they glow. And so, they can use these rare earth screens to create um something that will help expose the X-ray utilizing less X-rays, right? Right? And so it’s a safety measure. We don’t have to use as much X-ray to create the image. And but if if you don’t have a film bucky, because the purpose of the film bucky is that when you push the exposure button, it’s supposed to vibrate really quick like this so you don’t create lines on the X-ray. Okay. Now, in my practice at the time, we had a plain fil film X-ray machine, and you could just turn the bucky off. You could still put a put a picture in there because some things they don’t want you, you know, x-raying extremities for instance. Sometimes they didn’t want you to to have the film bucky on and create any subtle little change to the x-ray. So sometimes we would turn it off. But anyway, I was able to replicate, you know, a skull. I had a a plastic skull and um, you know, took an X-ray of it with a film bucky off in order to create, you know, a baseline. Um, so anyway, we’re kind of circling around in different directions here. Kennedy’s X-rays were not taken in a film bucky. They they would lay the cassette right under his head or stick it right next to his head or whatever they wanted to look at and they would take the X-ray right there and always left these grid lines. Okay. Well, I’m looking at this 6 and a half millimeter fragment and inside of it there’s another fragment in there. And so there’s there’s enough contrast between the two fragments that we could still see the two fragments. And I thought, well, okay, if this was a fake, they’d have to put the bigger fragment in there later and you would you would still see these grid lines, you know, just shadows of these grid lines in there. And we didn’t see that. And I thought, okay, well, this to me seems like this is a legit that’s it’s a legitimate fragment on a legitimate X-ray. And so I remember coming back to my office and man that that sat with me for a long time and I I sat and thought about it and so I I decided to test it and I I took a small metal fragment and uh taped it onto this plastic uh skull that I had. Took an X-ray with the grid lines and um the the fragment obscured the grid lines from showing up. So you had this white nice neat white fragment with grid lines around it. So then I took um another fragment and I I I made just an X-ray of the of of a of a frag larger fragment. So now I have a film that’s all black with just this white round semic-ircular fragment. So then I I I had a piece of copy film. Now copy film works differently. It’s it’s exposed by, you know, fluorescent lights or whatever. And so you would take you go into the dark room and you would take you’d put your copy film down and then you would um put your your skull film down with the grid lines on it and and you’d make a duplicate um of or excuse me, I think I did it the other way around. I think I put the the black film with the big fragment in and I and I made an image of that or anyway, however I did it, this was a long time ago. I did one then the other um to do to to do what Mantic claimed was done. Okay. And when I developed it, it was perfect. But you could see the grid lines. You couldn’t see it around the small fragment, but you could see the grid lines within that larger fragment exactly like I predicted it would it would have to be. And that did not exist in that X-ray at the National Archives. So I became absolutely convinced that that uh it was it was original that that 6 and 12 millimeter fragment uh existed and was real and so so later down the road I ended up somehow I ended up in in contact with Mantic there was another researcher and because I can’t it was John somebody and I can’t remember so I won’t name it but we were he was the intermediary going back and forth and I brought this this fact up about these grid lines and how there weren’t any within the boundaries of that larger fragment. And he he came back, Mantic came back and said, “Oh, I checked my notes from the archives and it says that there were grid lines inside the fragment.” And I thought, “H, okay, now it’s now we’re he said, she said kind of a thing.” Um, I have the chiropractic degree, he’s got the fancy medical degree. I’m screwed, right? cuz this is where I would love for them to release those things cuz then I could show you what I was talking about with it. So anyway, we dropped the argument at that point. It was kind of a no-win situation. But um I went back and I looked at his OD measurements and you know he has this uh this line and it goes up like this and across the 6 and 12 millimeter fragment like that. And they’re taking it these at these extremely tiny minute increments and and stuff. Well, if there were grid lines, his little graph would go like this, and these would be the grid lines. There’s no evidence of the grid lines in his own OD data, right? So, so anyway, I’m pretty convinced that’s a that’s a legit X-ray, right? It’s a legit fragment, you know? So, okay. And and so tell me what the the entrance to JFK’s neck. There’s some people who would say it’s impossible for it to enter at the the base of the neck and exit the throat without hitting the the vertebra. And and so it’s an impossible shot, guys. Is that true? It’s not impos it’s not impossible. Um you just don’t hit the vertebrae. You know, like ver here here’s a these are lumbar spine vertebrae. You know, they’re only so big. They have spaces between and the whole nine yards. I mean, they can be missed. People people get shot in that area um frequently and and and the bone’s not hit, you know. So, I I most of the time that that argument gets made, it’s because they’re thinking of the anatomy incorrectly. Okay? You know, we forget that when you’re looking at the neck that the lower part of the neck is tilted like this, right? Well, how can a bullet that hits at, you know, let’s say this is C7. How can a bullet at C7 drop 2 in and still be at C7? Well, it’s because the plane is is on an angle like this, right? And so when you’re not think, you know, I I took eight months of of gross human anatomy. I dissected cadaavvers, um, all those kinds of things. and and we just we tend to think of things in terms of plane angles and things that the average person doesn’t. But the statement is nonsense. Um you certainly can. There was no evidence that a bone was hit with him. I saw his his his lower cervical X-ray. So if you go back to um to Dr. Latimer and you know he thought he saw little bone chips or something like that in that X-ray there. There’s nothing there. Um, I stared at that thing for like 10 minutes. I couldn’t find anything that looked like bone, little bone chips or anything. I think he saw just there might have been just some It’s very common. Most X-rays have some kind of small little artifacts on it. Um, just artifacts from film processing and stuff. There might have been some little small little linear things like that, but there were you couldn’t see any bone damage at all. um you go back to the pathology reports, you know, of course, you know, if you’re if you’re a non-believer in those and turn this off right now, I guess, but um they couldn’t find any damage to bone, right? The the the lung apex was bruised, not penetrated. So, a bullet had to traverse at a distance high enough to cause a bruise, but not damage the the the the lung apex. Um, if you look at the anatomy of the lung apex, it’s what is it? T1. The lung apex is at the vertebral level of T1. So, the bullet had to come in above that because the lung wasn’t hit. Right. Right. Pretty soon, now you’re above the collar bone. Now, you’re above the rib cage. You’re above everything. Now, you just have to be far enough to the right not to hit a transverse process or something. And that’s not that difficult. You know, honestly, if you look at the trajectories based on Dale Miner stuff, it works out just fine, right? So, what do you think of what and what do you make of the people who tell who tell us, well, look at what the Parkland doctor said and and and and they all we we have to take what they said seriously and and uh and that’s proof of a shot from the front. Okay. Okay. Well, my thought my first thought on that is let’s scrap the FAA and anything they do on on invest on on plane crash investigations and just go with what the people on the ground saw. Right. Right. We’d have more plane crashes. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it’s people forget people that aren’t in health care, I don’t think, quite understand that there’s an enormous difference between general practice doctor and an ER doctor and and a and a cardiothoracic surgeon versus an orthopedist. Um, they don’t know all things, okay? And your emergency per your emergency trauma people, they’re amazing people. um what they can process in in minutely short periods of time to save lives is amazing, right? And they’re the firefighters. You bring them in to put out the fire. Okay, great. But they don’t know how to put it back together again. That’s why they bring in the other surgeons, right? And so you’ve got a bunch of firefighters in the medical field that are trying to put out a fire and what was it a minute or two that went by before they noticed he was shot in the head? Um, and then he’s dead. Okay, wrap it up. Get it out. Get to the next thing. And then let’s let the people that have hours and hours of time on their hands to uh methodically go through this and figure out what happened. And so you you always have to lean towards your your your pathologists who are spending the hours with the body trying to trying to figure things out, not the people that spent minutes trying to save a life that that was unfortunately extinguished. Um, they weren’t with the body very long. Yeah. No, they’re 15 20 minutes and they were a very crowded room. Uh they were frantic trying to do all sorts of stuff. They’re not they’re not, you know, they’re not probing the wounds and checking angles and, you know, they had no idea what the extent of the damage to the skull was or wear bullets. That wasn’t their job. Um that’s somebody else’s job. So yeah. Yeah. No, I’m I’m struck by there was uh the ARB interviewed a forensic radiologist and Douglas Horn who was part of the the process asked that radiologist, what do you think of the Parkland doctors? He said, I I couldn’t care less. I have no, you know, just throw it out. I I don’t don’t even bring it up, you know, and and and I thought, yeah, you know, it’s I just don’t get why people are so fixated on the Parkland doctors. Well, I think you know the answer to be honest with you, the answer is that I I view the the followers of the Kennedy assassination kind of like I I I view people with with political attitudes. Um, you have 40% that always vote this way and 40% that always vote this way and you have 20% in the middle trying to figure things out. And that’s kind of the way it is in this in this group, too. the vast majority of the people in the community already have their mind made up and so they they naturally subconsciously seek out things that that support their opinion and then when they when they’re countered with something that disputes their opinion um you know then they they’ll go to extreme lengths to try to preserve their opinion by invoking you know Parkland ER doctors over the the autopsy pathologists um and and they feel perfectly justified in doing it. Yeah, but logically it doesn’t make any sense. Yeah. And it’s the same reason why I don’t uh I don’t really spend that much time debating on Facebook or elsewhere with hardcore conspiracy believers because I’ll never change their mind. But I want to post my articles so the people in the middle perhaps can read what I’ve written and maybe, you know, maybe they’ll be influenced. Yeah. Well, that’s all you can do. You can, you know, lead the horse to water and hope they take a drink, but that’s all you can do. Okay. Well, here’s a question for you from, you know, the the the hole in in Kennedy’s jacket and and and uh shirt. Isn’t that Isn’t that evidence of a very low bullet wound to the back?

Oh god. Uh no, it’s it’s not because bodies and clothing move, right? Um and so unless you have a clothing and a body in the same exact position, it’s it’s worthless uh information, you know. I I can’t tell you the dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of hours that I put in on that issue. It was stupidly insane. But I was 20some and I had a lot of energy, I guess. But, you know, I went through dozens and dozens and dozens of X-rays. We, you know, was Cliff Varnell was the guy that that was proddding me in all this stuff. And you know, he was the he was the guy this guy music buff in San Francisco who thought there’s no way a tailored outfit would ever bunch up, you know, uh which I thought was a pretty poor argument, but you know, I put the work in. I went through dozens of X-rays and we looked at things like, you know, what level is the chin at relative to the spine in a neutral in a relatively neutral position and um the 14 cm acchromian measurements and masoid measurements and reproduce it on X-rays and just over and over and over again. The reality is is that the second you you take a a a thin folded shirt and you put it on, the the linear relationships from this button to this button change, right? The dimensions change and then so it changes just from putting it on. It changes from, you know, moving your arm up. It changes if you lean back and the clothing gets pushed up a little bit. You know, you can watch on almost any news show where they’re interviewing people, somebody’s sitting in a chair wearing a suit and it’s got a big bunched up spot in it, you know, and so what did I do? I I I got a shirt. I measured the same distance. I, you know, glued on a piece of metal to it. Um, put it in front of an X-ray. If my arms down, where’s it at? What if I do this? And, you know, we did all of these different things. And sure enough, when it’s b it had to be bunched up to be in that position, right? Can a can a shirt and a jacket bunch up at the same time? Yeah, clearly it did. You know, um it it can or it can’t. Those are the two options. But right, they do bunch. You know, it’s a 50% thing. It maybe it you know, so I don’t know. It’s it’s again it’s gra kind of grasping at straws to try to make a preconceived conclusion work I think but um you know the data was the data in terms of when I went through the whole thing. So and and what what is your thoughts on the single bullet theory

you’re now I’m remember so in 2004 was right around the same time that I went to the archives um earlier that year I came to work on a Saturday I checked my email I had an email and I my my website was out at that time anyway I had an email from somebody that had come across my website and it said you know hey came across your website good job nice to see somebody you know, drawn a fine tooth comb through things a little bit. Keep up the good work.” And I thought, “Oh, well, that’s nice.” And I looked at the signature and and uh the person that signed it, it said it said Hugh Ainsworth. And I thought, Hugh Gosh, that name sounds really familiar to me. And so I goo maybe he’s part of the community or something. Hugh Ainsworth JFK. Oh, Hugh Ainsworth. Yeah, a morning Dallas Morning News reporter who is the only person in history who was there when Kennedy was shot, was there when Oswald was arrested, and was there when Oswald was was shot by Ruby. Like, wow. And so, I thought it was a joke, right? And I thought, so I wrote him back and I said, “Oh, I’ve you’re somebody I’ve always wanted to talk to. Um, is there a ch time that we could talk at some point?” So, I get a number and sure enough, it’s a Dallas number. And so I called it and then probably had a 10 or 15 minute conversation with you and we talked about Judith Barry Baker because her book had just came out and and things. And so anyway, um right around that that same time is when um the Discovery Channel had had reached out, Robert Ericson from the Discovery Channel and they had come across the article that I’d done on on the entrance wound location for the first shot at at the base of the neck and they said, “We’ve looked everywhere. this is the only thing that seems to have, you know, tackled that subject. And so we we’re going to do a show on the magic bullet and we would like to include that. And so, uh, they hired a film crew out of Omaha. Uh, Robert flew in and then I had one of one of our clients at the office who was about the same size as Bill as Kennedy. We spent about 12 hours in the office one day. Anyway, he asked me, this is a long answer to a simple question. Um he asked me the same question and I and I said it’s the single bullet fact you know it’s what do I think about it? It’s a fact. Nothing else makes any sense. It’s not you know I don’t know what else to call it. Um so that’s my thought on it. Yeah. No I I I agree. Um so uh what you know what other ballist did you do any other ballistic tests? I mean you you have a you have a mantler car and a rifle. Did you uh Yeah. So I did the first thing on my list was right. It was only one person in the history of the whole world has ever fired this thing three times in under six seconds and he was some sort of you know FBI super marksman right was is the narrative that’s out there. And I thought okay well let’s start there. Um and I I you know I shot guns. I grew up I hunted. I mostly shotguns and feeasant hunting and stuff, but so I bought one um took it out one day and I I put up a paper target on a box at 85 yards. Okay. And I I didn’t have a window or boxes to lean on to shoot through. So I just got down on one knee, so arguably a more unstable position. And I thought, well, I’m just going to try to shoot three times. Now, at this point in time, the gun I had just had the gun for maybe a month or something, and I hadn’t sighted in the scope on it. So, I thought, well, I’ll just use the iron sights. And so, I put three shells in it, got down on a knee, and fired three times. And if I remember right, I hit the target three times. And then I videotaped it, and it was like 5.8 seconds. And I’m like, well, this wasn’t that difficult, you know? I think it’s merely for a lack of trying that it’s so hard, you know? So, um, so it kind of started there and then, um, you know, there’s a lot of debate on what do the bullets do, right? What are they, well, they’re designed to hold together, so why did the one that hit Kenny in the head break up into a million pieces and the one that went through his neck, you know, stayed intact? And so, I think that’s that was kind of the fog that I was trying to work through, if you will. And so, I I don’t know, I just I’d get an idea, I’d go do it. I’d take my lunch break and go and fire some bullets. I I um I wanted to see I wanted there was something about the you know the head wound that intrigued me and I I at this point I don’t remember what but I ordered some synthetic bone spheres and these were like from Europe somewhere like a hundred bucks a piece or something and so I get these and I had this big five gallon bucket of of ballistic gelatin and I had the FBI’s recipe and all that stuff and so I filled these things up with gelatin and and I went out and I put a a cardboard box uh with a bunch of polyester uh stuffing in it and stuck it behind it and you know went and I shot and then videotaped it and it didn’t explode and I oh my goodness I can’t that I can’t ever let that one go public you know right um the reality was is that the thickness of those spheres it’s like 7 millimeters or something and where Kennedy got hit in the back of the head it’s thicker than that it’s probably more dense than that it’s a polyurethan um stuff that I was shooting at. So So I thought, “Okay, I’ll try it again.” I went to uh the the hardware store somewhere and I picked up some little square quarterinch tiles, you know, and I duct taped one to the front of it and then took a shot at it and that thing absolutely exploded um into a million pieces. And um but all I was a so then I took it and I and I x-rayed it and so I could see the fragment pattern if there was a pattern. There wasn’t. It was kind of all over the place. Um and then I dissolved the the gelatin and took out all the the metal particles and dug through the box and you know and I put ordered them all biggest to smallest on an X-ray plate and x-rayed it. And some of these things I think became images on my website or something. But I, you know, it was just, it was just, you know, the the nerdy professor kind of guy coming up with ideas and and testing them. But, you know, I learned an awful lot about that gun and and about the bullets and what they do and what they don’t do. And it just it helped improve my um, you know, my my my working thesis on on what I thought happened, I guess. Yeah. There was a lot of lot of bullets spent doing a lot of things. So, so can a fully jacketed uh amu round of ammunition uh produce fragments when hitting a skull? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I mean I mean some people say it’s impossible. Yeah, it’s not. I mo most of the time when I get challenged on that, I I invite the person up here and and tell them that I you know I’ll I’ll just place it on the side here. you’ll be fine. But if you want to be the target and back it up, we can do that. You know, or or the guns, you know, the I think I think it’s probably a half dozen times I’ I’ve done something like that where I’ve invited somebody, somebody had a claim about the gun, right? And and I’ll say, you know, I’ve got one. I’ve got I’ve got ammunition. You know, you you get that plane ticket. You can stay at my house and we’ll go and test your ideas. Nobody’s ever took me up on it. No, unfortunately not. That’s too bad. Okay. So, look, you know, is there is there anything else I didn’t cover on on the autopsy materials that you want to you want to bring up? Um gosh, let me kind of touch on some of it. Like I know there might be some people out there that that that talk about uh it’s about a centimeter below the cowic entrance where the where there’s a fracture there and they talk about there being um like a bullet fragment right there. Okay. And um it’s not b it wasn’t metal. Um it was actually a little piece of bone that had broke off when when the skull fractured. Um, and I was read looking at this earlier today that what was really strange about that is that the the same, you know, pathologists were looking at those in the 1970s and didn’t know what it was, you know, which goes back to my whole point is I I just don’t think the education was the same back then. Um, now we could talk that is there still inklings going on about the orientation of that F8 photograph? Well, I’m sure that I I never understood that to be honest. It’s beyond my understanding as a mere mortal, but uh yes, I’m sure that they’re still going on about it how it proves uh you front. We So, when we finally got to that photograph and we were at the you know, that the whole the big question, right, it was uh you know, am I going to win my own mental jackpot here? Uh and and have, you know, figured this out by looking at this black and white or not. And and so anyway, we got to that photograph and we looked at it and there was probably a 5-second pause and I was I looked at Larry and I’m like, “Holy crap.” And he’s like, “What?” I said I said, “There’s his cheek.” And he goes, “What?” And I said, “Right there. That’s his cheek.” Okay. And so when you’re looking at that photograph the correct way, President Kennedy’s cheek is here and he has that kind of nice orangish little tan, you know, and you could see it right there. You could see fuzz from the sideburn and the and some of the ear. And um and then you could see his upper trap muscle right here. here. And then one of the in one frame the camera had kind of moved like this and you had an expanded view of this area and you could you could actually see atapost tissue from when they had likely done the dissection through his neck trying to find where the where the bullet went, you know, and I I thought, “Oh my good, you know, the the thought you mentioned about, you know, why don’t they release these things?” And, you know, certain things like that would finally go away if they would release one of the color images of it. It was clearly a picture taken from the front. Um, I came I came back from there and I was so upset by it because it was so obvious. And at so later in life I I worked for a company that was a franchise and they would have their annual conventions every year in Dallas. And one time I went down there u I would take small groups down there um and give them a little tour or whatever. And anyway, I was down there one day and and Robert Groden was down there on a Saturday selling his wares, you know, and oh, I I had it took every ounce of my my willpower not to confront him on that because and I should I I regret it because I I left there and I said, you know, next year when I go down to this, I’m gonna do it this time, right? Uh, I ended up leaving the company and they they moved the annual event anyway to Memphis or somewhere or Nashville and I never got it done. But there’s no way anybody can look at the color version of that photograph and come away with the belief that it’s of the back of the head. Not one way. Anybody, Mantic, uh, uh, Groden, any of these guys, Gary Agalar, they’re lying. They’re absolutely lying. Is there just one photograph or is there more or more than one? No, there’s more than there’s I don’t know. There were three maybe three of them or four of them. I can’t remember. There were two at least. I know that for sure, right? Because they were numbers 44 and 45, I think. But, you know, my my challenge has been for years that if that if you’ve seen that photograph and you’re convinced that it’s of the back of the head, I will meet you at the archives with the camera crew, okay? we’ll go into this thing together and discuss, you know, because I I it I cannot understand how anybody who’s seen the color version of that believes that that’s on the back of the head without just pure deceit. Right. Right. Okay. Well, that’s I mean, if I if I can say it stronger, I would. I don’t know how, but Oh, yeah. Can say it stronger. So, I mean, I think I think covering covering that is good so on. Yeah. And that’s why I do wish this stuff would come out because I think that it’s deserving of some of some more expert analysis of people who really perhaps can’t go to the archives or can’t uh can’t get there to actually them. I I mean I think the personally I think um the thing that used to drive me in that argument was that you had you know depending on the polls 60 to 80% of Americans uh believing that there was a conspiracy and that that conspiracy somehow involved their own government right and and so when you have such a impressionable uh group of people of such size things that aren’t true that lead to things like that can cause people to do awful things in name of government hatred, right? And releasing things out there to satisfy um some of that I think would would eliminate some of that. But yeah, that I mean I remember that being the motivator for me, but you know, I can understand where the Kennedy family comes from too. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. For sure. I mean, I think that people were pretty upset when the RFK’s autopsy photographs were released um in that last round of documents from the Trump administration and and uh the Kennedy family, I mean, I think RFK Jr. said, “Okay, but I think the other parts of members of the family were appalled that that came out.” I can understand. I mean, it’s it’s a it’s for me to sit here um as somebody, you know, I was minus 11 years old when Kennedy was killed, right? I wasn’t even born yet. You know, for me to sit and try to stomp my feet and justify something to be released um speaks of a certain um you know, personal arrogance that my need to know is greater than a family’s need to remain private, you know, but two sides of the coin, you know. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Okay. Well, uh, thank you very much, uh, for being on on the trail of delusion. And, um, well, I’m when I I’m going to, you know, when this posts, I’m sure this will get a lot of comments and people will be, uh, probably quite upset and I’ll probably get some private emails from probably a few people, you know. Yeah. Well, that’s But, um, only way you get through uh, the truth to anything is to actually discuss it with somebody. So, hopefully there’s fruitful discussions in there somewhere. Yeah.