ADDENDA TO THE REPORT OF THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGY PANEL

ADDENDUM A

LIST OF THE DOCUMENTARY MATERIALS PROVIDED TO THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGY PANEL. BY THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (PACKETS I AND II)

PACKET I

Autopsy protocol (Nov. 22, 1963).
Supplementary autopsy report Dec. 6, 1963).
C.E. 397 (Humes notes of Nov. 23, 1963 call to Dr. Perry and Humes hand written draft of autopsy report).
Autopsy descriptive sheet (Nov. 22, 1963). W.C. autopsy diagrams (C.E. 385. 386, 400).
JFK documents: Death certificate (Nov. 22, 1963); authorization for post mortem examination ( Nov. 22, 1963 ): and report of in quest (Dec. 6, 1963).
Secret Service reports on bullet trajectories: Dec. 12, 1963 by Elmer Moore: Feb. 14. 1964 by Roger C. Warner: and Jan. 28. 1964 by Roger C. Warner.
Connally medical records: admitting summary (Nov. 22, 1963): admitting note (Nov. 22, 1963): Parkland Hospital operative record (Nov. 22, 1963) (from C.E. 392): Secret Service report on Connally's wounds (Feb. 14, 1964. by Roger C. Warner): and body diagram (Commission No.326) Nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6.
Narrative summary--Anesthesia care for Governor John Connally (Nov. 25, 1963), Dr. Giesecke to C.J. Price).
Reports of diagnostic X-ray consultation by Dr. J. Reynolds-November 22, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 29. December 2 and 4, 1963: supplementary report (Nov. 29, 1963)
Surgical pathology report (Nov. 30, 1963--by Dr. Stembridge).
FBI reports regarding: metal fragment (Nov. 30, 1963--by J. Doyle Williams; Nov. 23, 1963).
Parkland operative record (Nov. 27, 1963--by Gregory). Parkland operative record (Dec. 4, 1963--by Gregory).

JFK PARKLAND MEDICAL REPORTS--PACKET II

1966, index by Humes, Boswell, Ebersole, and Stringer; 1967, report by Humes, Boswell, and Finck; 1968, Clark panel report; 1975, Rockefeller panel reports; and receipts for photographs and X-rays.
FBI reports regarding: Harper skull fragment; FBI report (C.D. 205, pp.
153-4) regarding: examination of JFK clothing, and Hoover letter (to Rankin, Apr. 16, 1964) regarding: examination of Connally clothing.
Warren Report regarding: "The Autopsy "(W.R 59-60) and regarding: "The Bullet Wounds"(W.R. 85-96).
FBI reports regarding: autopsy by O'Neill and Sibert--November 26 and 29, 1963.
Articles by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
"Appendix D: A Critique of President Kennedy: Autopsy," "Six Seconds In Dallas," by Josiah Thompson. The Medical Evidence in the Assassination of President Kennedy, Forensic Science."3 (1974): 105-128 (and Robert P. Smith).
"JFK Assassination: A Prolonged and Willful Cover-up," "Modern Medicine," October 28 1974.
Interviews with Ken Rankin, "Physician's Management," October 1975 ("Part 1: The Evidence"); ("Part 2: The Cover-up"), November 1975.
"Pathologist: View of JFK Autopsy: An Unsolved Case," "Modern Medicine," November 27, 1972.
"A Post Mortem on the Warrenfeller Commission," "Juris," December,1975.
Articles by John K. Lattimer, M.D., F.A.C.S.
"An Experimental Study of the Backward Movement of President Kennedy's Head,"
"Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics," February, 1976 (and Jon Lattimer, Gary Lattimer).
"The Kennedy--Connally Single Bullet Theory--A Feasibility Study,"
"International Surgery," December, 1968 (and Jon Lattimer).
"Observations Based on Review of the Autopsy, Photographs, X-rays, and Related Materials of the late President John F. Kennedy," "Resident and Staff Physician" May 1972.
"Factors in the Death of President Kennedy," "Journal of the American Medical Association," October 24, 1966.
"The Kennedy--Connally One Bullet Theory: Further Circumstantial and Experimental Evidence." "Medical Times," November, 1974 (and Gary Lattimer and Jon Lottimer).

Other documentary materials
Warren Commission testimony of: Cdr. James J. Humes. Lt. Col. Pierre A. Finck, Cdr. J. Thornton Boswell, Dr. Malcolm O. Perry, Dr. George T. Shires, Dr. Charles F. Gregory, Dr. Martin G. White, Dr. Paul G. Peters, Dr. Adolph A. Giesecke, Jr., and Dr. William K. Clark.
Warren Commission testimony of: Dr. Don T. Curtis. Dr. Fuoad A. Bashour, Dr. Gene C. Akin, Dr. Charles J. Carrico, Dr. Charles R. Baxter, Dr. Robert Shaw, Rufus W. Youngblood, Clinton Hill, Roy H. Kellerman, and William Greer.
Warren report and volumes of hearings and exhibits.
Original autopsy documents (Archives: "Autopsy 4-1).
The original autopsy photographs and X-ray (including transparencies and negatives) were available, along with comparison X-rays of President Kennedy (X-rays taken from 1960-63), black and white enlargements of selected autopsy photographs, the original Connally X-rays, the original clothing, the bullet and bullet fragments rifle, cartridges, limousine photographs, windshield, and slides from the Zapruder film. A film and slide presentation of the assassination was prepared and shown by Robert Groden.

ADDENDUM B

LIST OF ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTARY MATERIALS PROVIDED TO THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGY PANEL BY THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

Black and white prints, color prints, and original transparencies:
1 * (18 JB**) 16 (10 JB) 38
2 (17 JB) 17 (2 JB) 39
3 (14 JB) 18 (JB) 40
4 (13 JB) 26 41
5 (9 JB) 27 42
6 (3 JB) 28 43
7 (16 JB) 29 44
8 (7 JB) 30 45
9 (11 JB) 31 46
10 (12 JB) 32 47
11 (6 JB) 33 48
12 (5 JB) 34 49
13 (8 JB) 35 50
14 (15 JB) 36 51
15 (4 JB) 37 52

*National Archive Numbers.
**Dr. J. Thornton Boswell.
Pictures of Harper Bone Fragment.
Film and slide presentations by Robert Groden. Photographs of the presidential limousine.

X-rays:
1 6 11
2 7 12
3 8 13
4 9 14
5 10

Comparison X-rays of John F. Kennedy (taken 1960-63). Bullets and fragments: CE 399, CE 567, CE 569, and CE 840. Motion picture films: CE 904--Zapruder film and CE 905--Nix film. Single frame pictures of Zapruder film. frames 215 through 334.
Clothing of John F. Kennedy: CE 393 suit coat; CE 394 shirt; and CE 395 necktie.
Clothing of Governor Connally: Suit coat, shirt, and trousers.
Other: Oswald rifle, clips, spent shells and windscreen and windshield from the Presidential limousine.

ADDENDUM C
REPORT OF G.M. MCDONNEL, M.D., CONCERNING THE OBSERVATIONS, ANALYSIS, AND CONCLUSIONS 15 CONNECTION WITH THE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES AND HANCED IMAGES OF X-RAYS ATTRIBUTED TO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, DATED AUGUST 4, 5978
DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY
TO:Michael Goldsmith Senior Staff Counsel
Select Committee on Assassinations U.S. House of Representatives
3342 House Office buildlng, Annex 2 Washington, D.C. 21)515
DATE: August 4, 1978
SUBJECT:Report of G.M. McDonnel, H.D. concerning Observation, analysis, and conclusions in connection with radiographic images and enhanced images attributed to President John F. Kennedy.

This report replaces my report of March 8, 1978 and supplements my presentation of July 21, 197g in the Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C.

I was exposed to radiographic images identified by the number 21296 at Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, (California on March 7, 1978. At my suggestion portions of these radiographs were digitized and enhanced by Aerospace Corporation for further observation and analysis.

I participated in discussions during the photographic evidence panel on 6 and 7 April 1978 during which time I dialogued with Dr. James eaton concerning my interpretation of these radiographs and the enhanced images.

On 2 June 1978 I again viewed and analyzed the radiographic images at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. As requested I also interpreted and analyzed skull and sinus radiographs obtained during the lifetime of the subject for the specific purpose of authenticating the radiographs obtained before and after the autopsy.

The original radiographs seen on 7 Hatch were:

The findings and interpretation of the skull films are:

  1. Nearly complete loss of right parietal bone, the upper portion of the right temporal bone, and a portion of the posterior aspect of the right frontal bone.
  2. Subdural air over the left parietal hemisphere.
  3. Multiple skull fractures and disruption of continuity of the bony tables.
  4. A metallic fragment on the outer table of the right occipital bone 9.6 cm. above the mid portion of the external occipital protuberance (EOP), 1 cm. above the metallic fragment is a depressed fracture from which stellate type fractures "radiate" into both occipital bones, the right parietal bone and the right temporal bone. These are vividly and convincingly displayed in the enhanced images, specifically the "anteroposterior" (AP) projection of the skull. The metallic fragment in this projection is nearly spherical in contour.
  5. There is a fracture line extending through the floor of the sella turcica with bony fragments in the sphenoid sinus. This is vividly depicted in the enhanced images.
  6. There are fracture lines through the anterior and posterior aspects of the right frontal sinus with air in this sinus. There is a metallic fragment above the sinus appearing to be between the bony tables of the frontal bone.
  7. There is elevation of the galea medial and lateral, as well as anteriorly, to the depressed fracture in the right occipital bone. A small metallic fragment l]es roedial to the fracture site between the galea and the outer table of the skull.

The mechanism of damage to the skull is concluded to be:

  1. A low mass, high velocity, metallic projectile penetrated the right occipital bone at the area of the depressed fracture, leaving behind the spherical shaped contoured metallic fragment in 4 above.
  2. The reflected shock wave from the outer table propelled a metallic fragment medially as in 7 above.
  3. The stellate type "radiating" fractures as in 4 above resulted from the entering metallic projectile.(also 8 in findings).
  4. A linear alignment of tiny metallic fragments is associated with the entry, path travel, and exit in the posterior aspect of the right frontal bone.

CHEST

The pre-autopsy radiograph of the chest shows air in the soft tissues of the right supraclavicular area soft tissues.
There is an undisplaced fracture of the proximal portion of the right transverse process of T1 (or the region of the costovertebral junction).
There is no evidence of fracture of the cervical spine or its associated appendages.
In the post autopsy film of the thoracic region there is debris in the radiographic image superimposed over the area to the right of the C7 vertebral body.
In the enhanced post autopsy image of the same area, there appears to be fractures of the posterior aspects of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ribs. These are artifacts.

Authenication of Radiographs.

The following radiographs were provided at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1978.