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The Men Who Killed Kennedy Analysis

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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

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