Pro tip: I compared the JFK files and the Warren Commission timeline side by side

Spent last weekend lining up the 1964 Warren Report with the 1992 Assassination Records Review Board releases. The big difference I saw was in the medical evidence - the Warren Report says a single bullet hit both Kennedy and Connally, but the ARRB documents show 7 different doctors who disagreed on the entry wound location. That's a pretty big gap for something so important. After going through both, I'm leaning more toward the ARRB version because it had more firsthand testimony from Parkland Hospital staff. Has anyone else tried matching up those two reports and noticed other contradictions?

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dixon.iris27d ago

And here I thought the biggest controversy about the 60s was whether or not bell bottoms should be allowed in public. Guess the "lone gunman" theory needed just as much tailoring as those pants did. So much for a clean, single-bullet story, huh?

olivia39828d ago

and yeah the medical stuff is where it gets really messy. I spent about three hours cross-referencing the Parkland doctor statements with the Bethesda autopsy photos, and the throat wound description alone is all over the place. Some docs said it was an exit wound, others said it was an entry, and the official report just kinda smoothed it over like they agreed. The ARRB files have this one nurse's affidavit where she says she saw the wound on the back of his head before the autopsy team even touched him, which doesn't match up with the official timeline at all. It makes you wonder how many other small details got flattened out to make the single bullet theory work.

wells.olivia28d ago

My buddy Dave went down this exact rabbit hole a few years back. He got so deep into comparing the autopsy reports and witness statements he started keeping a folder of stuff that didn't add up. Ended up driving him crazy enough that he gave up on it entirely.