[accessed September 29, 2010].

12. "Surgeon Who Operated on JFK in Dallas Dies," Associated Press, March 12, 2005. Quoted in Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 71.

13. "The Assassination," Time, November 29, 1963,

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875361,00.html

[accessed September 29, 2010]. Only WBAP, the NBC television affiliate in Dallas, made a sound recording of Kilduff's historic announcement, and NBC did not even air it until November 1964. It has made only infrequent appearances in films about the assassination since then. E-mail from Gary Mack, June 15, 2012.

14. Dr. Perry described the throat wound as an "entrance" wound three times during the press conference. See Assassination Records Review Board, Master Set of Medical Deposition Exhibits, available at the National Archives (Box 1, MD 41) or online at

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do;jsessionid=B71BDC6C072CE59FC303 A37418E504DE?docId=622

[accessed August 16, 2011].

15. Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website, Testimony of Dr. Malcolm Perry, March 30, 1964 (vol. 3, pp. 37374),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh3/html/WC_Vol3_0191b.htm

[accessed August 15, 2011]. The doctors who attended Kennedy believed, as Dr. Robert McClelland put it to me, that despite his other health problems, the president "would have very likely survived" the neck wound alone. Personal interview, January 14, 2011, Dallas.

16. Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D., JFK: Conspiracy of Silence (New York: Penguin Books, 1992), 79.

17. Gary Mack considers Crenshaw's account "nonsense" and told me that "Crenshaw arrived with McClelland, who testified that when he first saw JFK, the tracheotomy was in progress and the wound was obliterated." E-mail from Gary Mack, June 15, 2012.

18. Some have expressed doubts as to whether Dr. Crenshaw was even present at the time of the resuscitation efforts. See Breo, "JFK's Death, Part II," p. 2804. None of the physicians interviewed during Breo's research remembered seeing Dr. Crenshaw in the trauma room. Of course, the room was crowded and most eyes were undoubtedly fixed on the president or Mrs. Kennedy. No photographs were taken in Trauma Room One, so once again, we will never know for sure.

19. "AARB MD 41-White House Transcript of Dallas Press Conference," Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=622&relPageId=5

[accessed September 29, 2011].

20. Personal interview with Robert McClelland, Dallas, January 15, 2011. Dr. McClelland almost certainly meant to say "cerebrum," not "cerebellum." See note 8 above.

21. "MR. SPECTER: Did you observe the condition of the back of the president's head? DR. McCLELLAND: Well, partially; not, of course, as I say, we did not lift his head up since it was so greatly damaged. We attempted to avoid moving him any more than it was absolutely necessary, but I could see, of course, all the extent of the wound. MR. SPECTER: Did you observe a small gunshot wound below the large opening on the back of his head? DR. McCLELLAND: No." Testimony of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland, March 21, 1964, Warren Commission Hearings, History Matters website (vol. 6, pp. 3039),

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/html/WC_Vol6_0023a.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

22. In another strange twist, McClelland almost physically bumped into John Kennedy at the entrance to Baylor Hospital in late 1961, when JFK arrived to visit terminally ill House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Kennedy returned for Rayburn's funeral, which made the November 1963 trip his third and final visit to Texas as president.

23. Personal interview with Robert McClelland, Dallas, January 15, 2011. McClelland's suit was soaked as well, but he had only two of them, so his wife had it drycleaned.

24. Breo, "JFK's Death: Part II," at p. 2806. Practically, it is difficult to see how November 22 would have played out had Kennedy's body been delayed for hours in Dallas so that an autopsy could be performed. Probably new president Lyndon Johnson would have had to leave Mrs. Kennedy and the fallen president behind to take a separate flight to D.C. Mrs. Kennedy also would not have participated in the swearing-in of LBJ, and there would have been additional mass confusion as aides and Secret Service decided who would be assigned to which flight.

25. The last surviving FBI agent to witness JFK's autopsy, James Sibert, died in 2012. In the years after the Kennedy assassination, Sibert told numerous interviewers that he "didn't buy the single bullet theory." See Stephanie Borden, "Last Surviving FBI Agent at JFK Autopsy Dies in Fort Meyers," Naples News, April 18, 2012,

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/apr/18/last-surviving-fbi-agent-at-jfk-autopsy-dies-in/

[accessed April 19, 2012].

26. See Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1989), 36873.

27. Warren Report, History Matters website, appendix IX, page 541,

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0283a.htm

[accessed September 29, 2011].

28. See Dennis Breo, "JFK's Death-The Plain Truth from the MDs Who Did the Autopsy," Journal of the American Medical Association 267:20 (1992): at p. 2798,

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/267/20/2794.short

[accessed September 29, 2011]; Rockefeller Commission Report, chapter 19, p. 262, Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do;jsessionid=1A16E8264CA1C009F1291DFB0211602A?docId=930&relPageId=274

[accessed October 11, 2011]. Also in the 1970s, the Kennedy family allowed Dr. John Lattimer, chairman of the urology department at Columbia University, to examine the autopsy photos and X-rays. Lattimer upheld the main conclusions of the Warren Report-namely that President Kennedy had been struck from behind by two bullets. See Fred P. Graham, "Doctor Inspects Kennedy X-rays," New York Times, January 9, 1972. A few years earlier, an independent panel of medical experts appointed by Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived at a similar conclusion. See "ARRB MD 59-Clark Panel Report (2/26/68)," page 4, Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=323&relPageId=4

[accessed October 11, 2011].

29. Dennis Breo, "JFK's Death, Part III-Dr. Finck Speaks Out: 'Two Bullets, from the Rear,' " Journal of the American Medical Association 268:13 (1992): 174854, History Matters website,