TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, November 16, 2003

From Associated Press 2003 11 14:

Dr. Earl Rose . . . had been . . . Dallas County’s medical examiner.

Minutes after Kennedy died at Parkland Medical Center, an emergency room debate began about what to do with the body. Rose and other Texas officials saw the shooting as a state crime, subject to an autopsy by Rose’s office.
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The Secret Service . . .disagreed, and Kennedy’s body was flown to the Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the autopsy by pathologists James Humes and Thornton Boswell helped fuel the intrigue surrounding the assassination.

Nearly 40 years later, Rose still believes he and his staff should have done the post-mortem exam.
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"We had the routine in place to do it … it was important for the chain of evidence to remain intact," said Rose, 77, . . ."That didn’t happen when the body was taken to Bethesda.". . .

Humes and Boswell . . . neither was experienced in forensic pathology.
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"It’s been pretty well recognized that the autopsy was incomplete," said Rose. "Many experts in the field at the time said it was a botched job."
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In a May 1992 interview in the Journal of American Medical Association, both Humes and Boswell admitted the president’s body was moved illegally. . .

Under state and federal law at the time, Rose and other Texas officials claimed the shooting fell under their jurisdiction. . . .

He has seldom spoken to his family or publicly about his role . . .

“Truth is the best weapon you have against any . . . lies,” said Rose.

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