Darn Paul O’Connor, he just gets more and more interesting, doesn’t he? After writing about him throughout this chapter, I did just a little bit more researching into him. And boy, it gets better! Seriously. Remember how he said – well, first of all, let’s recount a bit. He told author David Lifton in 1979 that Kennedy “didn’t have any brains left…The wound in his head was terrific…eight by four inches…The wound was in the occipital-parietal area…clear up around the frontal area of the brain…the cranium was empty…” His story seemed to be consistent over the years. Yes, I said “seemed”. Ready for the big change? In the 1988 documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy, apart from telling us everything he had claimed before, he said something quite …show more content…
Where the wound actually was. Now, while you might be thinking, That’s not a big change! – just you wait. Here we go. His account reversed again when he told Harrison Livingstone in 1990: “There was a big hunk of his scalp and hair blown out of the back of his head.” Now things were getting dynamic. Just a COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER, moreover, O’Connor appeared on a 5-14-90 episode of Hard Copy. And you know what he said? “The whole right side of the President’s head was blown off.” Wow. Well, there you go, Paul O’Connor’s description of Kennedy’s head wound has not been consistent. And…yep, you probably guessed it…it continued on, back and forth over the next couple of years. ASTOUNDINGLY, in 1991 O’Connor spoke at the first annual Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy (known as the A.S.K. or ASK conference) and said – get this – that he saw NO hole in the back of the head! HOLY SMOKES. Now seriously, why don’t researchers who talk about O’Connor tell their readers about this??? Why? Sigh, I haven’t a …show more content…
Continuing on, in July 1992, he told Noel Twyman for his 1997 book Bloody Treason: “…[there was] a huge gaping hole in the side of the president’s head…The right side of the head. It went from above the hairline on the right side through the parietal and the occipital area and down around to the right temporal area of the skull…It was a very irregular jagged wound.” Well, there it is right there. Basically what it says in the autopsy report. Actually, almost EXACTLY. Wow. Cool. So yes, O’Connor was now telling researchers he emphatically saw the right side of Kennedy’s head blown out. As it was. Also in 1997, O’Connor told William Law that the bullet “blew the whole right side of his head off and most of his brains out…Just blown away. Part of the top of his head was gone.” And finally, in 1998, he wrote in a response letter to researcher Vincent Palamara: “The head wound was approximately 20 cm. By 8-10 cm. The wound included the complete right side of the head. Occipital, Parietal, Temporal and part of the frontal area. Approximately 80 % of the brain was missing.” Whoa, whoa whoa…Did I just read that correctly? Not only did O’Connor make CRYSTAL CLEAR that the head wound was on the right side of JFK’s head, but that only 80% of the brain was missing. Remember, he used to say that there wasn’t any brain left when he saw Kennedy! He originally told the HSCA in 1977
There are many theories that have been introduced to people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, occurred on November 22, 1963. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in the presidential limousine through the streets of Dallas, Texas. The projectile that struck his head shattered the right side of his skull. During an interview with the Detroit Free Press (2013), a former secret service agent named Clint Hill recalled his actions moments after the shooting. He tells the reporter that he covered the presidents head because, "She didn't want anybody to see the condition he
In chapter 1-7 of Killing Kennedy : The end of Camelot by he tell about the few times John F. Kennedy came in contact with death and his many drama both intimate and political. Jfk first faced death while in the navy on guard in on his PT-109 his first boat had accidentally sunk but this on well too. While thinking kennedy missed japanese bomber and it was too late to turn the ship around, so the ship sunk 2/13 member were killed. The others escaped to a small island with the leadership of kennedy, after a few weeks the men were rescued and soon followed his love for leadership roles. Kennedy was first a senator and soon decide he should run for the democratic candidate in the 1961 presidency. Kennedy won the election and became on of the
John F. Kennedy was a fantastic president by most accounts, but that does not mean he was without his flaws. He was a good man, with many fans in and out of politics, including one of the authors of Killing Kennedy, Bill O’Reilly. He says, “To them (his family), he was a saint.” (9) his thoughts reflecting those of most
John F Kennedy attempted to become an officer in the army, butwas medically discharged due to lower back problems. However, due to help from his dad’s naval commander, he joined the naval reserve. He commanded several submarines, but one day on a sub called PT-109 they were smashed into by a Japanese destroyer and he carried a badly burned man to land with a life vest in between his teeth. However, he had injured his back and was given a purple star and he quit the military.
Some researchers of the JFK assassination, including Walter Williams, a researcher of Vatican conspiracy, argue that the speech “set him up for murder” and that “he outlined the exact methodology of […] when he spoke of the global conspiracy and its operation.” (Pathfinder, 2017) Moreover, others such as Matt Prather, blogger of all things psychology and conspiracy, argue in his analysis that “the network of individual people in our shadow government found Kennedy to be too much of a problem for more reasons than just the Bay of Pigs fiasco” although “that fiasco have been one large factor in his assassination.” (Prather, n.d.) While these arguments are merely just opinions, it would not be impossible to believe that the controversial speech may relate to John F. Kennedy’s bad fortune of
A close analysis of the Zapruder film, which shows the entire assassination, proves that the shots came from the grassy knoll. The knoll, at the time of the fatal headshot, was to the right and slightly in front of the limousine. The Zapruder film shows the presidents head snap back and to the left, thus showing that the headshot must have been fired from the grassy knoll. This is backed up with medical evidence. Witness after witness who saw President Kennedy’s head – from doctors, to federal agents, to trained emergency room nurses, to medical technicians who assisted with the autopsy, to highly trained and specialised neurosurgeons – all said they saw a large wound in the rear portion of the skull. This is a signature wound associated with the exit of a bullet.
Since the first one to occur, unsolved murders have been a puzzling thing for law enforcement and civilians alike. Of the hundreds of unsolved murder cases, JFK’s is one of the most notorious. Many say Lee Harvey Oswald was JFK’s killer, however, I say there can be other suspects. Upon further research, I suspect Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy Onassis was the true assailant of her husband.
On November 22nd, 1963 America lost its innocence. It also perhaps lost its trust, trust in the American Government. In a gallop pole in 1960, 89% of the American population trusted the government. Since then it has dropped to less than to . That means that since the early 1960's over 70% of the population lost its trust in the Federal Government. While there may be different reasons why many people lost their trust, the most major one was probably the assassination and investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In 1963 and 1964 the US government told the American public about what happened that fateful day in Dallas Texas. They said that one crazy man, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone killed the
The authors Dugard & Reilly make the point that 8 percent of Americans actually have this belief that Lee Harvey Oswald is the man that had something to do with the death of Abraham Lincoln. However, the authors in this book want the reader to know that is considered to be one explanation for "Killing Kennedy," which happens to be the current book written by authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. They clearly wanted to turn a presidential murder into a human awareness story. This type of intense dramatic is selling like hot cakes for a good reason. The authors made sure that Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot was effective. The authors that wrote this book wanted to make sure that they came across as obvious and clear, not being loaded with an overload of pesky footnotes. However, what they do for the reader is favor facts and the more mathematical the better it is for the readers because they are thorough about everything. The authors in the book want the readers to know as much details as possible. The author's account of the killing of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas talks about his private life and other gory details that have never been talked about in any other book that was written about John F Kennedy. With that said, this paper will give the author's review about what they want the readers to know.
A leader’s legacy is portrayed in a multitude of ways: from the goals and dreams he sought for, from stories and memories of the people he’s touched, and from snapshots of his accomplishments. John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address of 1961, his most famous speech, “Inside Kennedy’s Inauguration, 50 Years On”, an article by Eleanor Clift that gives a detailed description of the president’s inauguration, and an image, “Inauguration of John F. Kennedy”, by the United States Army Corp, all convey the impact of John F. Kennedy in their own unique fashion. The legacy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is expressed through a variety of similar and contrasting styles appealing to the same rhetorical appeals but further differentiated by their syntax and
There are many different views and ideas supporting the multiple shooter theory. Some say that the shots had to come from the front because Kennedy’s head goes back and to the left. Also, they say that
Growing up, I remember the Kennedy assassination being compared often to the terrorist attacks on 9/11—as an event that defined a generation. The news stories and documentaries would pour out every November and my father, who was six at the time of the shooting, would leave them running for days on the living room TV. I learned the historical details of the assassination from the constant coverage, but never thought to ask dad what he remembered about the assassination or how it affected him and his family. Since dad was a young child at the time of the assassination I never considered that he would have many clear memories of the event and the days following it. I was surprised to find that he remembered not only the details of where he was and what he did that day but also that he remembered clearly the responses and attitudes of the adults around him.
While visiting Dallas, President Kennedy was killed by a bullet. The disturbing photo of Jacqueline Kennedy grabbing parts of her husband John F. Kennedy’s head must have been catastrophic. As described on USHistory.com, “The bloodstained dress of Jacqueline Kennedy, a mournful Vice President Johnson swearing
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” (“JFK’s”). This encouraging quote was given by a man who literally shot for the stars all the way up until the day he was shot down. While being the youngest and first Roman Catholic president, John F. Kennedy always motivated and encouraged America to strive for the best. Until a horrible silence struck the American people, he was removed from society in 1963. There were many believed causes regarding Kennedy’s death. There is the belief that Oswald shot him as a lone gun man. There are also other theories that state that there could have been more than one gun man. Some people even
The Man I Killed is the story of the man that Tim O’Brien killed. However, this story is not true. He later mentions that he did not in fact kill the man, yet he was present and that was enough. This story, according to him, is told to show the reader how he feels, because O’Brien feels as though the truth is that by doing nothing, he killed the man, so in his story, he does kill the man. Imagery is the biggest literary device seen in this story, but diction also helps make the story seem more true, it helps the reader to truly believe that O’Brien did in fact throw the grenade that killed the man. This story is told from O’Brien’s point of view, which would be first person, despite the fact that the word “I” is