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J F K: A Conspiracy of Silence (Signet)

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Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw worked to save President JFK, and later Lee H. Oswald, at Parkland Hospital. He
had firsthand personal experience with the crime; he saw that JFK was struck twice from the front: once in the neck, and once in the right side of the head. President LBJ called him to ask for a "deathbed confession" from Oswald. Dr. Crenshaw and the other personnel in the emergency room were ordered not to speak about the events, citing the standard medical confidentiality.

Charles A. Crenshaw was a surgeon for over thirty years. He watched thousands of trauma victims enter the emergency room. Trauma is the greatest killer of America's youth, and can affect anyone regardless of age, race, sex, occupation, or status. It also has psychological after effects on survivors.

When Oliver Stone's "JFK" was filmed in Dallas the doctors were again warned to keep quiet. The hundreds of similar gunshot cases seen by Dr. Crenshaw since 1963 have confirmed his conclusions on JFK's wounds. He finally decided to write his story in November 1990 when his career was over and he no longer feared the "men in suits". Dr. Crenshaw saw photos of JFK's Bethesda autopsy - it showed a different wound to the back of the head, one that would support a theory of a lone gunman firing from the back. The front of JFK's neck showed a larger and jagged opening than was seen in Dallas (p.111). According to reports, JFK's body was wrapped in a white cloth and placed in a bronze casket in Dallas. At Bethesda the body was in a zippered body bag in a gray casket. This book was written to present his witness to the events.

There is one thing that I remember from that time. Right after the assassination the first newspaper reports said JFK was shot from the front. J. Edgar Hoover then said that JFK was shot while the limousine was heading towards the School Book Depository Building. When photos were printed to show that didn't happen, this story was changed. To learn more about this, read "Act of Treason" by Mark North.

Could the "alterations" in the wounds between Dallas and Bethesda be explained by use of a "body double"?

Dr. Crenshaw provides enough detailed information in his book about the JFK assassination to make you feel conspiracy buffs are not "paranoid", but have a strong basis for their allegations. He states that shortly after the assassination, the Dallas Police mobile phones went dead, the electricity and telephones for the book depository went out, and that the phone lines for a large section of Washington, D.C. went out of service. This coincidence - alone - makes you really wonder what the truth is.

He also states that the bullet wound in the neck of the president was an entry wound. If true, that fact alone says Oswald did not do it alone, if at all.

The weapon found at the book depository was a German bolt-action, as initially reported by the Dallas Police. The weapon mail-ordered and owned by Oswald was an Italian carbine.

The presidential limousine had a bullet hole in the front window, as reported by reporter Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and another reporter.

The Warren Commission based their conclusion on an "illustration" of JFK's wounds, not actual autopsy photos. the illustration later turns out to be extremely inaccurate.

Dr. Crenshaw operated on both President Kennedy and on Lee Harvey Oswald. He raises serious questions and points out discrepancy after discrepancy in a very well written book.

Dr. Crenshaw was one a several doctors who were the first to examine JFK's wounds, just minutes after the shooting. This fact alone makes him a credible and trust worthy writer. Written by a very educated man who witnessed it first hand, this is a good book that anyone interested in knowing the facts about the JFK assassination should read.

So many JFK Assassination books are written by individuals who were not in Dallas on 11/22/63. Dr. Crenshaw was, and attended to the wounds of both JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald.

His recount of the moving of the President's body and the scene in the operating room are chilling. Worth the read!

Chuck Crenshaw was a friend of mine at Parkland Hospital. We both were there at the time of the assassination. We were both residents in general surgery. He was in the trauma room with Kennedy. My only criticism with his book is in his exaggeration of his role. The facts he related were identical to those of all the other physicians who were in attendance. They were all friends of mine and I knew them well. I heard what each of them had to say moments after the ordeal. They all saw the same wounds which were described by Dr. Crenshaw. The things seen at Parkland and reported by all these doctors are clear evidence of a conspiracy. Who and why are issues not addressed. Those would require another book and a huge paradigm shift in thinking on the part of most Americans. Another good book is "Best Evidence." It is more thorough.

I loved this book! It was only after I had completed it that I found that there were questions concerning Dr. Crenshaw's integrity and account of the assasination. Even if some of what he writes is exaggeration, this just can't be complete fabrication and still makes me think in terms of conspiracy. Regardless, this book, if nothing else, gives a new view of the assasination and is worth reading. Entertaining!

This is a well written book telling the wounds of JFK as observed by Dr. Crenshaw and comfirmed in the autospy photos as published in High Treason II by Livingstone. See the Stare of death photo F1 in High Treason II. The right temple simi-circular black spot is the entry wound of one of the third shot to the head. See F8 the large defect photo. The semicircle becomes a round entry wound of about 6 mm dia. Other wounds of entry are also present. Dr. Crenshaw's obsevations are confirmed by the atopsy phtos.

Charles A. Crenshaw's book was a great read. We owe a debt of gratitude to those who were first hand witnesses with the courage to come forward and tell us what they know, despite the establishment's work to discredit them. How the American Medical Association's JAMA tried to discredit his book in 1992 was amazing. To think that this association of medical doctors would pull such a dirty trick, and tell such lies against a brave doctor is staggering. In the book Assassination Science one can read what happened then in 1992. It's obvious the conspiracy is still out there trying to lie to the American people. Thank you Dr. Crenshaw for your great book!

Skip Baker skipb@widomaker.com

crenshaw finally breaks the conspiracy and tells it with bravado...kudo's to him for doing it so well. i, from the day of the murder or shall we say "coup d etat", i never believed that oswald did it, not even remotely, he was a scape goat from the start... damn the warren commission for their insulting way of treating the american public...and me in particular...i believe that j.f.k. was had by as many as 4 rifles....how else could connelly have been hit from such a drastic angle....good on you, dr. crenshaw. read the book people!

Few actual eyewitnesses to the JFK assassination and cover-up have provided us with an inside look into the happenings of that November 22, 1963. Dr. Crenshaw finally does so. His book is simply written, void of complicated medical terms and clearly illustrates the fact that the information provided by the government and certain investigative agencies was untrue. A small book, easy to read and although there is no real "smoking gun" here, the information provided grants credence to the conclusion millions of U.S. citizens have arrived at: President John F. Kennedy's assassinated was a high-level conspiracy and cover-up.