[accessed December 5, 2012].

70. Telephone interview with Robert Blakey, July 8, 2011.

71. Summers, Kennedy Conspiracy, 349.

72. Personal interview with Bill Alexander, Dallas, January 14, 2011.

10. EXAMINING THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE: OLD AND NEW CONTROVERSIES.

1. Warren Report, chapter 1, History Matters website, pp. 5256,

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0038b.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011]. See also "The Kennedy Connection," Parkland Hospital website,

http://www.parklandhospital.com/whoweare/kennedy.html

[accessed June 8, 2011].

2. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Charles Carrico, March 30, 1964 (vol. 3, p. 359),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh3/html/WC_Vol3_0184a.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011]. Based upon these faint heartbeats, Dr. Carrico concluded that the president was still technically alive and continued efforts to stabilize the patient. This is a somewhat different definition of "living" than we have today, of course. JFK was brain-dead from the moment the bullet(s) struck his head, and his presidency effectively ended at 12:30 pm CST. See the Warren Report, chapter 1, History Matters website, at pp. 5354,

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0039b.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

3. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Charles Carrico, March 25, 1964 (vol. 6, p. 3),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/html/WC_Vol6_0007a.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

4. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Malcolm Perry, March 30, 1964 (vol. 3, pp. 367-368),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh3/html/WC_Vol3_0188a.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

5. Ibid., 368. Dr. Perry told the Warren Commission that he had considerable experience with gunshot wounds, examining 150 to 200 during his tenure at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

6. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Malcolm Perry, March 30, 1964 (vol. 3, pp. 36970),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh3/html/WC_Vol3_0189a.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

7. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Kemp Clark, March 21, 1964 (vol. 6, p. 20, 25),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/html/WC_Vol6_0015b.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011]; Warren Report, chapter 1, History Matters website, at pp. 5455,

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0039b.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

8. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Marion T. Jenkins, March 21, 1964 (vol. 6, p. 48),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/html/WC_Vol6_0029b.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011]. In all likelihood, Jenkins made a mistake by saying "cerebellum" when he meant to say "cerebrum." See Dennis Breo, "JFK's Death, Part II-Dallas MDs Recall Their Memories," Journal of the American Medical Association 267:20 (1992): 28047. The cerebrum is at the top of the head-the cerebellum is elsewhere.

9. Clint Hill, the agent who jumped on the back of the presidential limousine in an attempt to shield the Kennedys from additional gunfire, believes that Mrs. Kennedy had been trying to retrieve a large piece of JFK's skull when she climbed on the trunk of the vehicle. Billy Harper, a medical student at Texas Christian University, found a 2-inch piece of Kennedy's skull lying in Dealey Plaza, which he quickly turned over to the authorities. E-mail from Gerald Blaine, January 9, 2013. See also G. Paul Chambers, Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010), 9396.

10. Breo, "JFK's Death, Part II," 28047.

11. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Kemp Clark, March 21, 1964 (vol. 6, p. 20),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/html/WC_Vol6_0015b.htm