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The brother of John F. Kennedy may have stolen the late president's brain from the National Archives, a new book claims.
“Not all the evidence from the assassination is at the National Archives. One unique, macabre item from the collection is missing -- President Kennedy’s brain,” James Swanson writes in “End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” the New York Post reported.
According to Swanson, During John F. Kennedy's autopsy, the brain was placed in a container and temporarily stored in a Secret Service file cabinet before being put in a footlocker with other medical evidence in the National Archives.
It’s Brain-gate!
John F. Kennedy’s noodle didn’t get buried with him on Nov. 25, 1963, at Arlington National Cemetery — and his own brother might have been behind the theft, a new book claims.
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Robert KennedyPhoto: AP
“Not all the evidence from the assassination is at the National Archives. One unique, macabre item from the collection is missing — President Kennedy’s brain,” writes James Swanson in “End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” which comes out Nov. 12, just a few weeks before the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death.
During JFK’s autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the brain was placed in a stainless-steel container with a screw-top lid.
sweeper84
His brain didn'T explode from the impact?
His wife mentionned she was splashed with brains part as he was shot!
(121) Pursuant to this agreement, which constituted a deed of gift, Burke Marshall met with various representatives of the Government on October 31, 1966, in room 6-W-3 of the National Archives to transfer formally the materials related to the autopsy. These materials were contained in a locked footlocker for which Ms. Angela Novello, the personal secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, produced a key. Others in attendance for the transfer were William H. Brewster, special assistant to the general counsel GSA, who unlocked and opened the footlocker; Harold F. Reis, executive assistant to the Attorney General Robert H. Bahruer Archivist of the United States; Herman Kahn, Assistant Archivist for Presidential libraries and James Rhoads, the Deputy Archivist of the United States. After Brewster opened the footlocker, Marshall and Novello departed.
(122) Bahmer, Reis, Rhoads, Kahn, and Brewster then removed all the material from the footlocker and inspected it. The footlocker contained a carbon copy of the letter from Robert F. Kennedy to Burkley on April 22, 1965, and the original letter from Burkley to Lincoln on April 26, 1965, which also listed on the itemized inventory list the materials present at that transfer.
(123) Upon inspection, the officials realized that the footlocker did not contain any of the material listed under item No. 9 of the inventory.
This material included:
1 plastic box, 9 by 6 1/2 by 1 inches, paraffin blocks of tissue sections.
1 plastic box containing paraffin blocks of tissue sections plus 35 slides.
A third box containing 84 slides.
1 stainless steel container, 7 by 8 inches in diameter, containing gross material.
3 wooden boxes, each 7 by 3 1/2 by 1 1/4 inches, containing 58 slides of blood smears taken at various times during President Kennedy's lifetime.
(124) The last date these items were accounted for was the April 26, 1965 transfer of the autopsy materials to Lincoln.
TheLieWeLive
Maybe Robert wondered the same and wanted it buried along with his brother.
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Maybe Bobby wanted the brain because he knew about the cover-up and knew he'd need the brain as evidence of a conspiracy. I wonder where he put it.
For the next month, don't listen to 90% of what you hear about Dallas and ignore the rest...
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For the next month, don't listen to 90% of what you hear about Dallas and ignore the rest...
Thank you for that post and the reminder. I agree, the disinformation press will be turning it out.
Can't wait to see what new information might be available after 50 years. I can't believe I actually made it all these years to witness it.
The people watching TV and those at Dealey Plaza SAW the limo come to a nearly dead stop for the head shot. The driver, William Greer, was a secret service agent...
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Very compelling. Violating his first and foremost directive; to get the hell out of there in a hurry if ever there was trouble.
Not slow down to give a shooter every chance. After at least two rounds, WTH!
I agree ...if anyone had JFK's brain stolen(and hide any other evidence) it was the man who had more motive and means than anyone else at that point in time.Anyone care to venture a guess as to who that person was?
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I think thats a ridiculous idea. What would he want with it?
I have heard this and other macabre notions about the evidence (more than the brain has gone "missing" over the years). If anything the notion that the family is hiding or suppressing evidence is fostered by the people that killed them both.
Surely the brain could contain evidence, having disappeared is definitely suspicious, pointing the finger at his brother is a joke.
Later, after Robert was assassinated reams of evidence disppeared, too. Maybe he took it with him?