© Express.co.uk/NCJohn F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Mr Wecht sensationally discovered the president's brain was missing when he conducted an examination of highly sensitive autopsy evidence, but says his skull and remains should still be available for analysis.
As the world remembers the 50th anniversary of the assassination this Friday, Mr Taylor says the macabre demand could finally resolve the greatest mystery of the past century.
Highly respected Mr Wecht has written a foreword for Mr Taylor's fifth book on the tragedy, called simply Who Killed Kennedy?
Retired college lecturer Mr Smith has spent decades analysing all known information and is convinced Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, was not the real killer.
Mr Smith writes: "First, the members of the Kennedy family who have records placed in their protection must reveal those for public scrutiny.
"Second, as painful as it may be, President Kennedy's remains must be exhumed and re-examined, this time by the top pathologist in the nation. We will then learn about the direction of the gunfire, which will result in a decision on whether a new, thorough investigation is warranted.
"These would appear to be the essential steps towards this country coming to terms with the nagging questions which have plagued it since Friday, November 22, 1963.
© Express.co.uk/REXSmith says only a new pathologist’s report will confirm if Oswald was the sole killer.
The Warren Commission's official version of what happened is that former marine Oswald took his 6.5mm Italian rifle to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, where he worked.
As the open-top presidential Lincoln car containing Kennedy and his wife Jackie drove down Elm Street, he fired several shots. One hit the president in the upper back and exited through his throat and the other hit his head, taking half his brain away.
Troubled Oswald once lived in Russia and had a Russian wife, Marina, and was a critic of Kennedy's policies towards communist Cuba.
Mr Smith believes Oswald was a CIA spy, who was also doing shady work for the FBI.
He believes the shot to his back did come from the sixth floor of the depository or another nearby building, but Oswald was not the shooter.
He also claims two other rifle shots came from two different positions on the grassy knoll to the front and right of the presidential Lincoln, the first bullet hit him in the throat.
The fatal shot, he says, came from another assassin on the knoll and entered his right temple before exploding out of the rear of his head.
By law the post-mortem examination on the president's body should have been carried out in Dallas, where he was killed, but the body was flown to Washington and the autopsy carried out at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
One witness at the scene reported that the president had been shot in the temple. One of the surgical team trying to save his life at Parkland Hospital in Dallas said he saw a round hole entry point by his temple but that was never properly recorded.
If he was shot in the right temple, the assassin must have been ahead of the presidential car in the knoll area.
Mr Smith said: "An examination of the skull would establish whether a bullet did enter his head at the temple, which would disprove the theory that the fatal injury came from behind.
© Express.co.uk/PAMore than 10 witnesses reported hearing shots coming from the grassy knoll.
More than 10 witnesses reported hearing shots coming from the knoll.
Another key fact which has never been satisfactorily explained is that a deputy sheriff swore that the rifle found in the depository was a German Mauser and not Oswald's Carcano rifle.
Moments after the sound of shots were heard a police officer ran into the depository and saw Oswald, who was on the second floor. Saying he would not now get any work done, Oswald left the building soon after.
Incredibly, the police issued an all points bulletin on him within 15 minutes of him leaving the building.
An officer who saw him 40 minutes later was shot dead by Oswald, who was arrested for that crime only.
He was later charged with killing the president but denied both charges and, as the world knows, never gave his account in court. He was gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days later.
Who Killed Kennedy?, by Matthew Smith, is published by Mainstream and costs £20.
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John F. Kennedy: Scarlet Pimpernel of the 20th Century
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"JFK knew that he was the most closely monitored president is US history. He was not unaware of the massive and sophisticated spying capabilities of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and DIA (which was inaugurated during his presidency).
Clueless about the national security apparatus, JFK was not!
His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, served as the US ambassador to Great Britain and was very schooled in the ways of Anglo-American espionage, state of the art surveillance and the use of “honey pots”.
Therefore, JFK thoroughly understood that his EVERY move was being watched — 24/7.
Being the most watched person in America, does anyone really think he would even attempt to “stray from the reservation” for the purpose of having whimsical sexual liaisons? "
assassination is surreal. The autopsy story is no exception. If you try to figure out what is going on you run into two Kennedy brains, two sets of autopsy photographs, missing autopsy photos, two sets of x-rays, missing x-rays, modified x-rays, two ambulances delivering JFK’s body to Bethesda Navel Hospital, and the original notes of the autopsy report burned. One brain is described as mostly intact, the other half gone.
There are descriptions of entrance bullet wounds at the front of JFK’s neck near the knot of his tie, at the rear of the neck, six inches down the neck on the back, at the hair line at the back of the head, at the cow lick at the rear of the head and if you ask the mortician, he’ll say he had to fill an entrance wound with wax in the right forehead.
The wound at the front of JFK's neck was a convenient place for a Parkland Hospital doctor to do a tracheotomy, so he made a slit right over it. The slit morphs to a gaping hole double in size by the time the autopsy doctors at Bethesda are done, but they claim they did not notice that there was a bullet hole there. Some entrance wounds get converted later to exit wounds. The locations and paths of bullet wounds from entrance to exit get revised, re-interpreted and morphed over the years by the autopsy doctors, the Warren Commission, HSCA, various experts, and especially Gerald Ford, who admitted fudging the evidence three decades or so later. We must not forget Arlen Spector who has the audacity to make one bullet go through Kennedy’s neck and John Connally’s chest, arm and into his leg. That bullet supposedly falls out of Connally’s leg sometime when he was on the stretcher and later becomes Commission Exhibit 399, usually described as pristine. The guy who found that bullet later said that CE399 was not what he found.
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Another bullet in Kennedy’s back was also said to fallen out while massaging his heart during the attempt to save him too. Not to mention the bullet supposedly found when JFK's body was unwrapped at Bethesda. Weird.
The doctors at Parkland Hospital and others (some 40 people all together) indicated a 2 or 3 inch gaping exit wound in the back of JFK’s head. That hole has morphed into various shapes and sizes to a massive hole above the right ear, big enough to remove the brain without additional cutting of the skull. Oh, I’m sure if Kennedy’s body is ever exhumed they will find this massive hole above the ear, but probably created with a ball-peen hammer before the autopsy.
All of this endless shifting of evidence is to cement the conclusion of one lone-nut assassin, who shoots JFK from behind with a bolt action rifle.
This total confusion reminds me of what I believe Robert Kennedy said about Lyndon Johnson in 1965: "my experience with him since then is that he lies all the time. I'm telling you, he just lies continuously, about everything. In every conversation I have with him, he lies. As I've said, he lies even when he doesn't have to."
Oh, I’m not zeroing on Johnson, it is just that what Kennedy says about Johnson seems to apply to half the witnesses, experts, and most of the official investigating staff regarding JFK. It makes it near impossible to realize the truth of the matter.
A good short video regarding the medical evidence is this:
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I’m impressed with Harrison Livingstone’s book regarding the medical evidence:
The Radical Right and the Murder of John F. Kennedy
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Or you can look at these links that Harrison had put on-line which became incorporated into the above book:
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isn't it a waste of time? Why not just release all those photos the public took of the area and see who the 'shooters' were?
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Watch Jackie - Just Jackie .... see anything ?
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One of the reasons for posting the statement by Dr. Charles Crenshaw is because it was noted in the interview he was chairman of the board of John Peter Smith Hospital. I worked and lived in Fort Worth in the 1980's and left in 1992. I worked in the Operating room at John Peter Smith It's was the County Hospital not sure if that is it's status now.
He was instrumental in setting up a program for the OR to function as a level one trauma unit, in fact we performed most surgeries with the exception of cardio thoracic (no funding, county hospital). Interns for the surgical residency program from Parkland Hospital and Baylor Medical School would come to JPS for surgical experience.
I did very briefly come into contact with Dr. Crenshaw, he was semi retired at the time and came into to the OR to observe a case I was
I was involved with, he was very polite courteous and acknowledged everyone in the room albeit over a surgical mask.
I have noticed that some websites have said that Dr. Crenshaw detracted later writings in his book regarding his participation in the surgery of JFK. Let's face it if you go ago against the official story and given the history of suspect suicides I think I would also be concerned for personal safety.
He was instrumental in setting up Trauma Room One (a title of one of his books) at JPS. This is a room that permanently ready to go in the event of major trauma (most hospitals that deal with major trauma have this set up). It's the one thing that can help to facilitate a successful outcome for a trauma victim, it's the Golden Hour that counts. Probably his experience at Parkland on that fateful day was the incentive to start this program. I believe we saved many lives because of his foresight.
I remember the Fort Worth Hotel (the last place where JFK slept ) it was still going in the 80's but was later converted into the Fort Worth Hilton. In the 80's it was a desolate place where very few people would go, I did go there on occasion for lunch the atmosphere was well what can I say depressing.
Just thought I would share some memories. Thanks for your indulgence.
I was a young woman seeking to experience a new country, a different lifestyle and add to my professional experience. Strange where the journey takes us.