Quote:Although Holland has nowhere in print yet explored it, after my presentation at The Nation on the mysteries of the JFK medical/autopsy evidence, Holland said he believed it was likely that JFK’s pathologists didn’t dissect the back wound because of pressure from the Kennedys. In a personal letter I responded that, although “William Manchester,[116] Gus Russo[117] and John Lattimer, MD have advanced this notion,[118] the weight of the evidence is against it. (Not even the discredited Gerald Posner buys it.[119])”

I followed with, "I won’t argue that the Kennedys probably wanted JFK’s Addison’s disease, which was irrelevant to his cause of death, left unexplored. So although there’s no solid evidence for it, perhaps they did request that JFK’s abdominal cavity, which houses the adrenals, be left alone, especially since JFK suffered no abdominal injuries. But even if the Kennedys had made that seemingly reasonable request, it was ignored. (autopsy pathologist Pierre Finck, MD and author Gus) Russo recount that one of JFK’s pathologists, Pierre Finck, MD, said that, "The Kennedy family did not want us to examine the abdominal cavity, but the abdominal cavity was examined."[120] And indeed it was--Kennedy was completely disemboweled.[121] If Finck was right, so much for the military’s kowtowing to the Kennedys. Perhaps the only "victory" the family may have won was that the doctors kept quiet about JFK’s adrenal problems, at least until 1992.

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