[Ben Holmes]

Quote:The assassination of President Kennedy remains a mystery partly because the nature of his wounds remains a mystery. This in turn is due largely to problems with the president’s autopsy, which took place at Bethesda Naval Hospital Center, a military teaching institution near Washington:

• The autopsy was carried out by three pathologists, all of them middle–ranking military officers whose only practical experience of forensic autopsies was a one–week course taken by one of the pathologists ten years earlier.
  
• The room in which they worked was crowded with a variety of non–medical onlookers, several of whom were giving orders to the pathologists.
  
• The written records from the autopsy are incomplete, and perhaps corrupt. The original autopsy report was deliberately destroyed by Dr James Humes, the senior pathologist, after the murder of Lee Oswald. The rewritten autopsy report includes measurements and other data that do not exist in the pathologists’ surviving notes and diagrams.
  
• The photographic record is incomplete. The pathologists and photographers recalled ordering and taking photographs which appear no longer to exist.
  

(Original source located here.)

Henry Sienzant rightfully points out that the first statement in this list is wrong...
 

Quote:That site leads off with this falsehood: "The autopsy was carried out by three pathologists, all of them middle-ranking military officers whose only practical experience of forensic autopsies was a one-week course taken by one of the pathologists ten years earlier."

That's false. Dr. Finck was a experienced forensic pathologist. (See original here.)

Henry went on to document that Dr. Finck was, indeed; a fully qualified forensic pathologist. But at that point, Henry stopped... 

He even implied that this was just one of many ("Your cited website is making assertions that are untrue."), yet refused to give any other examples.

It's unfortunate that Henry isn't honest enough to tell the truth... Let's examine the others at the top of the page:

• The room in which they worked was crowded with a variety of non–medical onlookers, several of whom were giving orders to the pathologists.
  

Absolutely true - and Henry's well aware of this fact. Indeed, Henry also lied about this topic, refusing to reveal that the prosectors were ordered not to dissect the throat wound - instead misleading people into thinking that the prosectors merely didn't dissect what they saw as a tracheotomy.
 

• The written records from the autopsy are incomplete, and perhaps corrupt. The original autopsy report was deliberately destroyed by Dr James Humes, the senior pathologist, after the murder of Lee Oswald. The rewritten autopsy report includes measurements and other data that do not exist in the pathologists’ surviving notes and diagrams.
  

Again, absolutely true, and Henry knows this very well... yet made no comment.
 

• The photographic record is incomplete. The pathologists and photographers recalled ordering and taking photographs which appear no longer to exist.
  

Once again, absolutely true, and a devastating indictment on the Warren Commission... yet Henry again remains silent. (Interestingly, this very page that Henry denigrates gives proof that he lied about the reason that the prosectors didn't dissect the throat wound.)

When your 'side' of an issue requires frequent lying about the relevant evidence, isn't it time to change sides?

I'll point out that many believers are masters of this particular technique - which involves jumping on an error, and using that to avoid everything else. Henry knows full well the power of this tactic. But he'll never admit the truth of the rest of the statements - as I commented above.

The cowardice continues...