ll.-
Monday, December 4, 1972
of People..
Don t forget the Dean s Cof- ^ private door and put
fee which wdl be held on Decern- P«t
ber 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15
WARREN REPORT
sy should have been performed
in Dallas,” said Wecht. “But
there was much confusion, a lot
of shouting and ordering going
on, and eventually through mse
and other tactics the body was
TH£ SALtMITtE
a.ni. in the Club Dining Room.
The Dean’s Coffee is held in hon
or of the beginning of examina
tions for weary and frightened
students. Freshmen particularly
are encouraged to attend the
Coffee to enjoy coffee and other
goodies before exams start. Pro
fessors are invited to drop in
also!
One of the most active com
mittees on campus this year has
been the Library Committee.
This group has been attempting
to solve some of the problems
facing the library as it is under
constmction this year. As there
will be no heat in the library
this winter, the committee is
considering whether students
would take advantage of ex
tended honrs. The committee is
also working for a check-out ex
change with Wake Forest. Final
ly the allocation of the library
budget has been a topic of con
cern for the committee this year.
The student members will be
meeting with Leg. Board to de
termine student opinion before
further action is taken. Please
give opinions and suggestions
about these or other issues to the
student members; Beth Pollard,
Kathy Black, or Marianne De
Hart.
aboard Air Force One for the
flight to Washington.”
“Now, the autopsy at Bethes-
da Naval Hospital should not
have been any cause for confu
sion. Unfortunately, instead of
the time lapse being used to get
the most qualified pathologist
for the autopsy, the situation got
worse.”
Wecht said three staff doctors
were given the task, only one of
whom had experience with for-
sensic pathology. “It was essen
tially a military undertaking. Ad
mirals, generals, FBI and Secret
Service personnel were present
in the room to oversee the au
topsy. The doctors acted as mili
tary subordinates.”
According to records made at
Parkland Hospital, Wecht said,
doctors there noted two
wounds: one, a huge gaping hole,
on the right side of Kennedy’s
head, and the other a round cir
cular hole in the middle front of
his throat.
Doctors performing the au
topsy in Washington, however,
noted these wounds: the huge
gaping hole in his head, a smaller
hole in the upper back of his
head, and a hole in his back six
inches below shoulder level.
This latter wound was puzzling
because no exit wound was
found for it, yet the bullet was
not in the body.
“They concluded,” said
Wecht, “that the bullet which
had entered his back fell out
of the same hole onto a stretch
er when doctors at Parkland ad
ministered pressure to the Presi
dent s chest to revive his heart.”
And, indeed, a bullet had been
found on a stretcher by a janitor
at Parkland during the early
evening of the twenty-second.
The wound in the throat was
not even examined at Parkland
because doctors had, in their
haste, used the bullet hole to
insert a breathing device into the
President’s throat. Thus, the Be-
thesda physicians noted only “an
incision” in their report. “No
one there had enough forensic
experience to realize the incision
was actually a bullet wound,”
said Wecht.
And so, Wecht went on, the
doctors at Bethesda released the
body for burial and gave their
results: Kennedy had been hit
twice, once in the back (the bul
let of which fell out later from
the same hole), and once in the
head (the bullet of which frag
mented). Nothing was said about
the smaller wound on the head;
and, of course, nothing was said
about the throat wound.
Wecht said the embarassing
part of the autopsy came the
next day - after the body was
already gone - when the doctors
learned for the first time that
there had also been a wound
in the throat. Rather than admit
their mistake and re-examine the
body, Wecht said the doctors
made a “despicable” choice and
Elephants and Butterflies is a
weekly column that answers
your questions about sex in an
open, honest manner. It is a new
and popular approach to solving
the problems of human sexuali
ty.
The column is written by
Lana Starnes, a UNC student,
and Dr. Takey Crist, an assistant
professor in the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at
N.C. Memorial Hospital.
Question; What signs other
than a late or skipped period
can a girl use as an indication of
pregnancy? How soon after con
ception does morning sickness
begin? —Signed, BJ.
Dear BJ; There are three man
ifestations of pregnancy. The
first are presumptive manifesta
tions which include amenorrhea
(missed period), nausea, vomi
ting which is usually confined to
the first 12 weeks, breast tender
ness and tingling, weight gain and
urinary frequency. There can al
so be breast changes which in
clude enlargement. The vagina
and cervix may turn slightly
blue in color and there is a soft
ening of the mouth of the uter
us. But remember these are just
presumptive manifestations.
Probable manifestations us
ually occur after 28 weeks and
include uterine enlargement and
contractions of the utems.
And finally positive manifes
tations which are undeniable
medical and legal proof include
the hearing of a fetal heartbeat,
the demonstration of a fetal ske
leton and the palpation of a fetal
outline.
Morning sickness varies and
can begin from one to two
weeks.
Question; I have heard that
Vitamin E pills will increase
potency. If this is true would
one have to take them over a
long period of time or what? -
Signed, Curious.
Dear Curious; To the best of
our knowledge, the exact role
of Vitamin E (a tocopherol,
wheat germ oil) in man is un
known. Claims for its usefullness
in heart disease and other dis
eases in humans have not been
substantiated.
(Questions should be ad
dressed to Lana Starnes and Dr.
Takey Crist, in care of The Daily
Tar Hed, Student Union, Chapel
Hill, N.C. 27514.)
COPYRIGHT (C) 1972 by
Lana Starnes and Dr. Takey
Crist. All rights reserved.
“chose to be quiet about it.”
The easiest way out was to
match up the wound six inches
below the shoulders in his back
and the wound in his throat.
“But you couldn’t very well have
a bullet entering six inches be
low the neck, then make a sud
den U-turn and exit out the
throat,” said Wecht. “So they
simply altered the sketches that
had pinpointed the wounds. I’ve
seen the first sketches made of
the wounds and they showed a
wound six inches below the
shoulders. I’ve also seen the
holes in Kennedy’s shirt and
jacket and everything matches
up. But in their testimony for
the Warren Commission the doc
tors simply moved the hole up
several inches” to make every
thing plausible. “Nobody chal
lenged them. They said they
hadn’t drawn the first sketches
to scale but now they could re
member where the wound was.
Every other hole, scar, incision
and mark was drawn in exactly.
Only this hole was several inches
off.”
Wecht said that in December,
1966, he was allowed to view
the Zapmder film of the assassi
nation, which he did over 100
times in addition to examining
blow-ups of each frame. He said
that using this film, the FBI was
able to gauge the length of time
between the first and last times
the President was stmck, which
turned out to be about six sec
onds. They also test-fired Lee
Harvey Oswald’s rifle (a single
shot, bolt-action Manlicher
Carcano) and found that the
quickest it could be loaded and
fired - never mind aimed - was
2.3 seconds. This presented a bit
of a problem in that four bullets
apparently were fired, and the
length of time between them
purportedly was six seconds. Yet
it would take nearly seven sec
onds just to get off that many
shots.
The results indicated it was
“an impossibility that one per-
ICE CREAM STORES
387 PETER'S CREEK PRKY
PHONE 727-9903
It^s been
Reznick’s for Records
for Years
TAPES - SHEET MUSIC - RECORDS
downtown
440 N. LIBERTY
THRUWAY SHOPPING CENTER
OPEN NITES 'TIL 9:00
OUR THRUWAY STORE HAS A COMPLETE STOCK OF
POSTERS, BLACK LITES, and PATCHES
Lighthouse Grill
good with this ad
TO ALL SALEM GIRLS
free beverages with
EACH MEAL!
Comer of Borke and Brookstown Streets
ONE BLOCK FROM SEARS
Page Five
son could have done all the
shooting.” Wecht said it was
this contradiction that led to
the Commission’s “single” or
“magic” bullet theory - which
affirmed that one bullet “en
tered John Kennedy’s back and
exited through his neck, went
into Governor Connally’s right
back (breaking a rib), exited
from his right chest into his
right wrist where it shattered a
large bone, then went into his
right thigh, only to be found la
ter on the stretcher at Parkland
Hospital.”
“Whatever needed to be done
to correct their inconsistencies
was done,” Wecht charged, “be
cause no one else knew what
was going on and it was not un
til years later that private inves
tigators had a chance to see the
evidence.”
Warren Commission exhibit
number 399 is the bullet that
was found on the stretcher at
Parkland Hospital. Wecht says
his examination of the Archive
x-rays shows particles of metal
in Kennedy’s chest and also in
Connally’s chest - traces of the
bullet that passed through them.
This same bullet, according to
the Warren Commission was al
so supposed to have broken one
of Connally’s ribs and shattered
a bone in his wrist. The bullet is
a 6.5 mm. shell with an original
weight of 161 grams. Two more
inconsistencies presented them
selves, said Wecht, because the
bullet found at Parkland has a
weight of 159 grams;
(1) According to the Commis
sion’s report, the bullet lost only
two grams of weight in passing
through both Kennedy and Con-
nally and leaving traces behind
in both:
(2) and after doing all this
damage to both men, the bullet
has “no deformities in its upper
two-thirds at all and the bottom
. one-third shows only very mini
mal flattening with no loss of
substance.”
The Old Salem
A convenient place
to find that special
Christmas
Shopping. . .
CHINA
pewter
crystal
framed prints
WOODEN ACCESSORIES
OLD SALEM REPRODUCTIONS
614 South Main Street
Monday - Saturday: 9:30 A.M.-5 P.M.