Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy

X-Rays in the National Archives Prove Scientifically JFK Took Three Shots to the Head: Two From the Front and One at a Low Angle From the Rear

This is an excerpt the new book in 2024:

David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.,
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis

Prologue

JFK Assassination Coup d’État and Coverup:
Why the Government of the United States Is Unfit to Rule

The Public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.

Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Monday, November 25, 1963. (the day of JFK's burial in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia)¹

For sixty years now—since November 22, 1963—the federal government of the United States has lied to us about the assassination in Dallas of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

When JFK's limousine arrived at Parkland Hospital, Secret Service agents destroyed evidence by wiping JFK's blood and brains from the limousine that carried him to his death. Still, today, U.S. intelligence agencies continue to redact, classify, and conceal crucial documentary evidence.

We begin by acknowledging our debt to the scores of JFK assassination researchers who have devoted their time and effort to illuminate what happened on that dark day in Dallas sixty years ago.

After nine visits to the National Archives to examine the JFK autopsy X-rays, David Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., acquired forensic proof that JFK was hit by three headshots, one from behind and two from the front. Headshots hitting nearly simultaneously from the back and the front prove that JFK died in a crossfire.

With a background both as a Ph.D. physicist and a radiation oncologist with 40+ years of experience reading X-rays for patients, Mantik has forensically demonstrated that the remaining three JFK skull X-ray films in the National Archives cannot be originals. Via hundreds of measurements (directly from the extant films) he has proven that these are altered copies. He has also noted absurd anomalies in the autopsy photographs. He has produced his own fake X-ray films, just to show how it was done. The image of a fake bullet fragment was added to the AP [anterior-posterior] skull X-ray film to incriminate Oswald, thus intending to imply that all shots came from the rear. Furthermore, a mysterious T-shaped inscription on one film has been ignored by all prior investigations; it provides independent and corroborative proof that this particular film must be a copy. That the extant X-ray films are altered copies is proof that the Warren Report is disinformation. After all, why would anyone destroy original X-ray films in the most famous murder case in history? Therefore, merely because all the original skull X-ray films are missing is further evidence of a coverup. Given the evidence accumulated in this book, the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman can only be fiction.

Lyndon Johnson advanced the coverup by appointing one of the chief co-conspirators, Allen Dulles, to the Warren Commission. JFK had Dulles fired from his position as head of the CIA. The job of the Warren Commission was to chisel into stone the government's lie that a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, killed JFK by firing three shots from a sixth-floor window using an unreliable surplus Italian military rifle with an improperly adjusted scope.

The federal government simply could not allow the public to learn that JFK's assassination was a coup d'état originating at the highest levels of the federal government. The government disinformation campaign began by destroying crime scene evidence as soon as the limousine arrived at Parkland. It continued by destroying evidence of a crossfire and culminated in manufacturing falsified evidence designed to frame Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman. With the overt and persistent assistance of the media, the disinformation campaign continues today via shaming anyone who dares to expose its lies. The CIA’s relentless refusal to release critical documents is no surprise; their lawless intransigence, despite the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, is likely to continue as long as this so-called republic lasts.

In addition to addressing the head wounds, we will examine the back and throat wounds. The back wound likely derived from shrapnel from a bullet that first struck Elm Street. But multiple bullets were reported—by John Connally, by Dr. James Young, and by one Secret Service agent. The throat wound derived from a frontal shot that did not transverse the body. The bullet came from the south side of the Triple Overpass (opposite the Grassy Knoll); after transiting the windshield, a glass fragment entered the throat. This bullet may have stayed inside the limousine. No bullet transited JFK’s body, thus proving Arlen Specter's single bullet theory to be a complete hoax.

The United States faces a unique moment in its history. After the federal government portrayed COVID-19 as a deadly pandemic that required a national lockdown, while the FDA approved a vaccine that did not prevent COVID-19, more and more Americans recognize that our leaders are careless with the truth. The forensic evidence in this case poses the uncomfortable realization that our government, for decades now, has been unfit to rule.

After nine visits to the National Archives, Mantik has spent far more time with these JFK artifacts than any other qualified expert. Furthermore, he has devoted 30 years of forensic thought to these issues. This book is written in the first person, thus allowing Dr. Mantik to use his own words to relate his personal odyssey.

We have dedicated this book to Douglas P. Horne, who was Chief Analyst for Military Records while serving on the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). He also introduced Mantik’s work to the ARRB. He is a tireless researcher and the only former ARRB employee to record his encounter with darkness; his magnificent five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board is the definitive treatment of the disinformation campaign regarding the medical evidence. Throughout this book, Mantik’s accord with Horne will become obvious: a domestic conspiracy, paid for with tax dollars, killed JFK.

1 Memo from Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to Presidential Aide William Moyers, Monday, November 25, 1963. Printed in HSCA, Appendix, Volume XI, March 1979, p. 4. Archived on History-Matters.com, HSCA Appendix to Hearings, Volume XI, https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol11/html/HSCA_Vol11_0005b.htm.