Clint Hill's new
book- something is not right (twice): Lifton premonition and Humes did not need
Perry after all?
Beyond the issues
of this book being a mere cash grab (mission accomplished, as the book is a
best-seller), as there is zero new (no mention of the drinking incident and his
participation in it), no hyped "clearing up of the conspiracy
misconceptions along the way" (nothing is really addressed, one way or the
other; must have had a change of heart as to even feel the need to take on the
pro-conspiracy people) and the much ballyhooed hype about new photos did not
ring true at all (I have seen most of these before), there are two items
in the book that do NOT ring true and read as later-day reactions to the
"conspiracy crowd" as he would call it. These items, IF they were
truly accurate back on 11/22/63, are quite telling, to put it mildly. In other
words, IF these two items ARE true, then I am wrong---there ARE two new items
of interest in Hill's book after all:
1) Page 124- David
Lifton premonition?!?!? And Johnson out front, Johnsen to the rear, huh?
Hill
writes: "It
strikes me that perhaps we should keep an agent with President Kennedy's
body---out of respect for both President and Mrs. Kennedy, and in light of the
questions that were raised at Parkland Hospital about taking the body back to
Washington for the autopsy. This way, if there is ever any doubt about whether
Dr. Burkley stayed with the body until the autopsy, or suspicions
about tampering,
there will be a Secret Service agent who also remained with the casket and can vouch for the
integrity of the body.
Agent Dick Johnsen is selected for the post because he is an agent who was with
President Kennedy from the beginning and is familiar to Mrs. Kennedy,
O'Donnell, and Powers [emphasis added]"
Beyond
the absurdity of picking an AGENT as somehow relieving any person's suspicion
that something could possibly be amiss ("oh, an agent was there? ok, no
suspicion there"), the agent chosen was none other than the official
keeper of CE399 aka the magic bullet. What's more, Lifton's best-selling book
did not appear until the early 1980's and the issue of body tampering/
alteration was not on anyone's minds until the early-mid 1970's at the
earliest...WHY would Hill write these comments? And, from the excerpt above as
written, are we to somehow infer that it was HILL (not Kellerman, for example)
who made the decision to have an agent stay with the body and decide that the
specific person should be the magic bullet holder? Hmmm...
2) Pages 138-139- the autopsy doctors were sure the
throat wound was an exit---who needs Doc Perry?-- and Hill is sure the
first shot was this shot? Really??
Hill
writes: "The
doctor points to a wound in the throat and explains that this is where the
emergency tracheotomy was done at Parkland Hospital, which covered up the area where a bullet
had exited.
He rolls the president slightly onto his left side and points to a small wound
just below the neckline, slightly to the right of the spinal column in the
upper back. This,
he says, is where the bullet entered, and then came out the front of the neck. The bullet that caused these wounds
hit nothing but soft tissue. Those wounds, I knew without a doubt, came from the
first shot.
It corroborates what I saw---the president suddenly grabbing his throat immediately
after the first explosive noise. The doctor points to a wound on the right rear of
the head. This, he says, was the fatal wound. He lifts up a piece of the scalp,
with skin and hair still attached, which reveals a hole in the skull, and an
area in which a good portion of the brain matter is gone{emphasis added]"
To his
"credit", as he also recently demonstrated on television, Hill
repeats what he has said since 11/22/63 (and in his other two Lisa McCubbin
co-authored books) that the right rear of JFK's head was missing (page 107),
but what gives with the above?
Vince
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