it's a day that americans will never
forget the assassination of john f
kennedy but what really happened after
those fateful shots rang out keep
watching to discover the disturbing
details found in john f kennedy's
autopsy report after shots rang out in
dallas's dele plaza on november 22 1963
the entire trajectory of american
history changed in a matter of seconds
john f kennedy was assassinated at the
age of 46. just hours after the
president's death an autopsy was
performed and its findings were recorded
in a report which is publicly available
through the united states national
archives the report outlines the autopsy
findings including the severity of
kennedy's injuries and what happened in
the moments after he arrived at the
hospital one of the first pieces of
information mentioned in the autopsy
reports is the president's time of death
listed as 1pm central standard time on
november 22 1963. the autopsy itself was
performed just hours later at 8 pm
eastern standard time this means the
findings contained in the autopsy came
extremely early in the investigative
process the report's clinical summary
offers many of the details that were
known about the assassination at the
time including the president being in an
open car and mentions the locations of
each of the car's occupants the
president and first lady sat in the back
seat with the governor and first lady of
texas in front of them both president
kennedy and governor connolly were
seated on the passenger side of the
vehicle one other interesting piece of
information in the summary is the
mention of an eyewitness statement from
dallas times herald photographer bob
jackson he claimed to have seen a rival
barrel disappearing into the upper story
window of the texas school book
depository building after hearing three
gunshots ring out through db plaza after
being wounded the president was
immediately driven to dallas parkland
hospital there he was tended by dr
malcolm perry despite the massive trauma
he had suffered the president was still
alive upon arrival at parkland according
to the reports dr perry immediately
noted the two separate wounds the
president had received a large one to
the head and a small one to the neck he
performed a tracheostomy a procedure
intended to allow access to the
breathing tube on the president by
extending the smaller wound in the
president's neck it was at this point
that doctors observed blood bubbling
through the wound an indication of
escaping air and damage to the
president's tracheal wall kennedy
received intravenous blood and saline
transfusions as well as oxygen despite
the efforts the president went into
cardiac arrest attempts to save him
after that failed and he was pronounced
dead the autopsy report also mentioned
several scars on the president's body
one was on his right thigh and another
was an 8 centimeter incision from an
appendectomy the final one was located
on the president's back the origins of
where it came from are unclear kennedy
himself cited a football injury he
sustained while attending harvard in
1937. kennedy's back pain was made worse
during his time in world war ii and it
led to his first of three surgeries one
of which was responsible for the large
scar in the autopsy reports it's
mentioned that president kennedy's brain
was removed for further evaluation and
the details of that evaluation are
included toward the end of the document
the pathologist observed that the right
hemisphere of the president's brain was
severely damaged by the shooting the
reports asserts that the president's
death was due to two perforating gunshot
wounds inflicted by high velocity
projectiles fired by a person or
person's unknown it also mentions that
the projectiles were fired from a point
behind and somewhat above the level of
the deceased pictures were taken during
the autopsy and the report mentions that
they were exposed but not developed and
given to secret service agent roy h
kellerman those photos have since been
released
even with the details provided in the
autopsy report there are those who still
believe that there is more to this tale
they don't shoot him coming up houston
which is the easiest shot for a single
shooter in the book depository
is there a conspiracy to be found maybe
time will tell
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