DEATH DECEPTION
(Framing Lee Harvey Oswald)
By S.R. “Dusty” Rohde
© November, 2016
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
I would like to make special thanks to Gayle Nix-Jackson, Michael Doherty and Ted Rubenstein, all of who helped trigger the paths that led to the discoveries in the upcoming articles. Also, a special thanks to Linda Giovanna Zambanini for listening and constant help with my requests.
PROLOGUE
For 53 years, a battle has been raging between two groups. The groups are the “Lone Nutters” (LNer’s) and “Conspiracy Theorists” (CTer’s). These two groups have opposing viewpoints on whether President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, or by others who successfully committed a Government coup in America.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, the person branded as JFK’s assassin was himself assassinated two days later while in police protective custody, by Carousel Club owner Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby was bosom buddies with a large portion of the Dallas Police employees and had numerous ties to organized crime.
Having researched the JFK assassination for years, I long ago discovered there is a mountain of misinformation in existence related to this case. This misinformation comes from both sides of the fence, meaning from “LNer’s” and “CTer’s”. Much of this misinformation has been deliberate, and some accidental. None of this false information has benefitted a resolution to the assassination case; all of false information is misleading and cripples any understanding of what took place on that fateful day. The Warren Commission itself deliberately presented false evidence related to JFK’s wounds. Hoover’s FBI withheld evidence and continues to do so even today. The CIA continues to refuse the release of their records on the assassination. Witnesses were granted immunity for testifying, whose records were promptly sealed. Was all of this deception to protect Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged “Lone Assassin”, and a man already murdered? I don’t think so. If Lee was so guilty and a “lone assassin”, why all this drama?
My tasks or goals in this Chapter are twofold. The first task is to present you, the reader, with fact based (including corrected) evidence. The second task is to help provide a clear and accurate understanding of that evidence. If I succeed in these two goals, I have little doubt that what really happened in Dallas will begin to become alarmingly clear to you.
The youngest President in American history was murdered on 22 November, 1963 . . . but it was not Lee Harvey Oswald who killed him. Three men died that weekend, Kennedy, Oswald and Dallas Police patrolman, J.D. Tippit. A fourth man was seriously wounded, Governor John Connally. None of them deserved their fate.
Lee Harvey Oswald was quickly branded a “Communist”, a “Lone Nut” and the “Lone Assassin”. Oswald was blamed for the injuries to Kennedy, Connally and Tippit, but those allegations aren’t true. Sadly, Lee’s former wife (Marina Oswald), his mother Marguerite, his two daughters (June and Rachel) and his brother (Robert) would all have to carry the burden of Lee’s alleged guilt for 53 years.
After hundreds and thousands of hours examining the evidence, I hope what I reveal here today sinks in. I hope that finally Americans will begin to grasp the depth of deception involving these murders, with greater perception than ever before. This isn’t the end of evidence proving the framing of Oswald, it’s the beginning.
S.R. “Dusty” Rohde
CHAPTER I
(Framing Lee Harvey Oswald)
The Warren Commission was the investigative body (of JFK’s assassination) appointed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Johnson was sworn in as President at Love Field on Air Force One, in Dallas, Texas, shortly after JFK was assassinated. Howard P. Willens was one of three members who made up the WC’s “Supervisory staff”. In Willens book “History Will Prove Us Right” he states, “I was witness to the thoroughness, seriousness, and integrity with which the Warren Commission approached its task” (1). To this I must object. Willens also proclaimed “criticism of our work is seriously misguided” (2). By Willens definition, I’m misguided. In my defense I can only say “at least I didn’t deliberately deceive the American public”, the Warren Commission and House Select Committee on Assassinations did. Obviously, I’m going to have to justify that statement. As far as “thoroughness” by the WC goes, I’ll only mention that in the JFK Research community, the Warren Commission’s work is commonly referred to as The Warren Omissions. This is primarily due to the considerable amount of evidence that wasn’t looked into, witnesses who weren’t questioned and so on and so forth. The label has a good deal of validity, but that isn’t the area I want to cover in this article. I’m more interested in examining the WC’s integrity and their alleged seriousness. In other words, did the WC tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Did the “House Select Committee on Assassinations” (HSCA)? The answer is no. Parkland hospital staff (in Dallas) originally worked on JFK and John Connally immediately after they were wounded in Dealey Plaza. Several members of the Parkland staff were later called as witnesses during the WC hearings. These Parkland staff members were deliberately shown false images (with artist’s drawings) representing JFK’s head and back wounds (3). These images were a collection of misleading drawings alleged to represent JFK’s wounds. Artist Harold “Skip” Rydberg was commissioned by the WC to perform their necessary work (4). Artist Ida Dox was later commissioned in 1978 by the HSCA to create more artist renderings of JFK’s wounds. The Ida Dox drawings also give false representations of JFK’s wounds, but in this case, Ida Dox is responsible for any false representations of JFK’s wounds. This is because Ida Dox had access to the JFK autopsy images, X-rays and previous witness testimonies from the WC hearings; she referenced them often (5). The Parkland Hospital staff would again be called to give testimonies by the HSCA in 1978, only this time, they would be shown new drawings and altered photographs depicting fake or disappearing wounds. My contention is that the false wound representations were done through two different artist’s renderings, one artist who knew when they created the images that they were false, and one artist who did not. The deception didn’t stop there though. The deception grew from fraudulent drawings to altered photographic deceptions presented to the Parkland Hospital witnesses, (in the HSCA hearings). The photos would shock and confuse them, what the images showed, were not the wounds to JFK’s body these witnesses saw or remembered.
Before I show the medical evidence that was misrepresented and how, I want you to become familiar with this statement made by Arlen Specter to the WC staff. Arlen Specter, as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission was the creator of the “Single Bullet Theory” (6) which involved the use of the “Pristine” bullet (7). While his theory is in error (demonstrated in this article, I have to give Mr. Specter credit for the following statement. This statement was sent by Arlen Specter to Mr. J. Lee Rankin, “general counsel” of the Warren Commission. I quote, “The Commission should determine with certainty that there are no major variations between the films and the artist’s drawings,–Commission exhibits Nos. 385, 386 and 388 were made from the recollections of the autopsy surgeons as told to the artist. Someday someone may compare the films and the artist drawings and find a significant error which might substantially affect the essential testimony and the Commissions conclusions” (8). This statement by Mr. Specter was very prophetic, because that “someday” is today, here and now. The Warren Commission staff should have listened to Mr. Specter. I would suggest that Mr. Specter knew that the artistic renderings were not accurate and attempted to warn the WC away from their intended use. Mr. Specter was attempting to prevent the WC members from future embarrassment, but his words fell on deaf ears.
In the case of Harold “Skip” Rydberg, his drawings of the wounds to JFK were not deliberately misrepresented by his own doing. Mr. Rydberg was instructed by J.J. Humes as to where to place the wounds in the drawings (9). At the time of the drawings, Rydberg had never seen any of the actual photographs of the wounds or the body itself, he was totally dependent upon J.J. Humes to give accurate descriptions of JFK’s wounds (10). J.J. Humes, as Chief Autopsy Surgeon was certainly very familiar with JFK’s wounds and their locations. The responsibility for any errors in the artist renderings falls directly on Humes shoulders as the originator of the errors in wound locations. You can damn well bet that Humes knew better, he knew where the entry wounds were, but falsely identified them, through Rydberg. What I’m saying is, point-blank, Commander Humes with full knowledge and intent was the creator of the fraudulent wound locations and identification. The question we have to ask ourselves is why would Humes do this? Why would Humes risk his rank and his career to attempt fraud? It’s true that Humes could have done this of his own volition, but the risk of being caught would have been considerable. This option, while possible, doesn’t seem very probable. The only plausible reason I can think of, is that somebody higher up the chain ordered him to do so. Humes wasn’t asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement, but committing fraud would insure his silence. Others involved in the autopsy were made to sign non-disclosure agreements or told not to talk about the autopsy by government officials. Humes knew these people wouldn’t be talking for a good long while. Humes was also aware that the autopsy images were most likely never to be released, as this was against his wishes and allegedly those of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the Kennedy family. Humes had no idea that many years later the HSCA would be formed to begin a new investigation into JFK’s assassination or that some of the autopsy images would become available. Had the images not surfaced of JFK’s wounds, few people would ever know the true extent of JFK’s wounds or the deliberate deceptions committed by Humes and Ida Dox during the WC and HSCA hearings.
So, rather than simply talk about the wound misrepresentations and deceptions, I am going to show them to you. The Rydberg images are WC exhibits CE385, CE386 and CE388 (11), (12).
The three images shown above are the drawings of JFK’s wounds created by Harold Rydberg, according to the wound descriptions given to him by J.J. Humes.
I’m going to address the errors in wound placement on the center image (CE 386) first, as this directly shows the false depictions of CE 385 and CE 388. Both entry wounds in CE 386 are in the wrong positions, both wounds are shown higher than they actually were and this was no accident. To verify that these wounds are located inaccurately; I’m going to refer to testimony given by 2nd Lt. Richard Lipsey during the HSCA hearings. Lt. Lipsey was present during the majority of JFK’s autopsy at Bethesda Hospital (13). Lipsey was ordered by Generel Wehle to stay with the body at all times. 2nd Lt. Richard Lipsey was aide to General Wehle, who was in charge of funeral arrangements and related events. Mr. Lipsey’s reference to this particular wound is the one where he discusses a bullet entering “low in the back of the head” and or “high up in the neck”, but “in the hair-line” and terminates in the “blowout”. Lipsey’s testimony can be heard at this link (14). You can also read Lipsey’s testimony transcribed at this link (15).
Mr. Lipsey states specifically that the entry wound to the back of JFK’s head was “in the hair line”, meaning where JFK’s hair ends at the bottom edge, in the back of the neck. He also states that this entry wound was a “round hole”. So, while the Rydberg drawing in CE 386 shows the round entry wound, it is placed too high. Arlen Spector also states “none of the doctors at Parkland Hospital in Dallas observed the hole in the President’s back or the small hole in the lower portion of his head” (16). Whether or not the Parkland hospital staff saw the back wound or small entry wound to JFK’s head is not important. What matters is that here, Arlen Specter is also referring to the same bullet entry wound noted by Mr. Lipsey. Arlen Specter noted specific objections related to the Rydberg drawings, “The artists drawing prepared at Bethesda (CE Nos. 385 and 386) shows a slight angle of declination. It is hard, if not impossible, to explain such a slight angle of decline” (17) . . . referring to the necessary angle of trajectory to prove the shot came from the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD). From here, things go from bad to worse. This is because when Arlen Specter made these observations, he had never seen JFK’s body or the Autopsy photographs (18). If we correct the wound locations, (moving them lower to the correct positions), this then lessens the angle of declination to an even great degree!
At this point, I’ve corrected JFK’s head (entry) wound location and you can see how dramatically this changes the wound trajectory (see next image).
If Specter thought it would be hard to explain such a low angle of declination with the wounds in the false locations, it becomes vastly more difficult from the corrected locations! Here is your first major clue that something wasn’t right in the house of deception. Of course, as I said, Arlen Specter had no idea the actual wounds were lower than what were shown in the Rydberg drawings, had he known he would have stared in disbelief, knowing he would be expected to prove this shot came for the sixth floor of the TSBD.
(*Authors note: I don’t want you to think the trajectory shown in the image above is the exact trajectory, it isn’t, but it is very close).
The neck wound depicted in the Rydberg drawings creates a far bigger problem than the head wound. In the first place, here again, the wound is shown far above the actual wound location. In the Rydberg drawings, the second wound is shown actually in JFK’s neck, which it wasn’t. J.J. Humes had to know this wound wasn’t in JFK’s neck. How could he not? The only reason in moving this wound up from its actual location was for the sole purpose of creating a false downward bullet trajectory (shown in CE 385) and attempting to create a trajectory that would be a closer match to the sixth floor snipers nest. Correcting the wound location per the JFK autopsy images, we would arrive with a new trajectory (See next image).
Now remember, Arlen Specter had doubts about proving the shots came from the TSBD from their false entry point locations. As seen in the image above, the alleged entry point, per J.J. Humes was up in the neck. The actual wound Humes refers to is below the shoulder line by about an inch and a half. Specter would certainly have a much harder time proving the shots were from the TSBD from the new corrected entry points and resulting trajectories, but . . . things still get much, much worse, as if they aren’t bad enough already.
Arlen Specter developed the “Single Bullet Theory”, (that a single bullet passed through JFK and Governor John Connally), based on fictitious wound locations and false trajectories. But there is something else that Mr. Specter didn’t know. Not only did J.J. Humes misrepresent the wound locations, he falsely identified a fragment “Exit” wound as an entry wound! The alleged “entry” wound presented by J.J. Humes, isn’t an entry wound at all, it’s an EXIT wound! The entire Single Bullet Theory and associated trajectory is based on two exit wounds! Folks, the SBT is about to go up in flames.
Don’t believe it? You will, after you see the next edition tomorrow….stay tuned for a shocker!
CITATIONS
Chapter One:
- “History Will Prove Us Right”, by Howard P. Willens, page 12.
- “History Will Prove Us Right”, by Howard P. Willens, page 12.
- Medical Testimonies, Warren Commission, Vol
- ARRB Testimony of James Joseph Humes, page 227, http://assassinationofjfk.net/for-the-sake-of-historical-accuracy/
- HSCA Testimony of Ida Dox, page 147, http://aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol1/html/HSCA_Vol1_0076a.htm
- “Single Bullet Theory”, https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Single_Bullet_Theory.html
- “Pristine Bullet”, (CE 399) http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0038a.htm
- JFK Exhibit No. 11, HSCA, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=83&search=Arlan_Spector#relPageId=98&tab=page
- ARRB Testimony of James Joseph Humes, page 229, http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/humesa.htm
- Statement by Harold “Skip” Rydberg, http://assassinationofjfk.net/for-the-sake-of-historical-accuracy/
- Rydberg Drawings, (CE385, CE386), https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh16/pdf/WH16_CE_385.pdf
- Rydberg Drawing, (CE388), https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh16/pdf/WH16_CE_388.pdf
- Lipsey Doc
- Lipsey, Richard A., Video Testimony, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9UZz07eNMc
- Lipsey, Richard A., HSCA Testimony, http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/med_testimony/Lipsey_1-18-78/HSCA-Lipsey.htm
- JFK Exhibit No. 11, HSCA, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=83&search=Arlan_Spector#relPageId=99&tab=page
- JFK Exhibit No. 11, HSCA, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=83&search=Arlan_Spector#relPageId=99&tab=page
- JFK Exhibit No. 11, HSCA, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=83&search=Arlan_Spector#relPageId=99&tab=page