Doctor Who Tried To Save JFK Says, 'The Magic Bullet Didn't Strike The President At All'

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At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Dr. Don Curtis, who attempted to save President John F. Kennedy at the hospital after he was shot, spoke to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) about what he saw.

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00:00Chair would now like to recognize Mr. Burchett for five minutes.

00:03Thank you, Chair Lady.

00:04Dr. Curtis, what happened when the Warren Commission called you to testify about what you knew about the JFK wounds?

00:12Dr. Curtis.

00:16Yes, sir, I'm sorry. I've got hearing aids, too, so don't worry about it, brother.

00:21What happened when the Warren Commission called you to testify about what you knew about JFK's wounds?

00:30Well, the Warren Commission hasn't called me to testify at all.

00:37Not at all?

00:39Uh-uh.

00:39Okay.

00:40I didn't use up all my time, and I'd like to make some additional comments regarding...

00:47Sir, you have the time that you need, so please proceed.

00:51Okay. Well, let me know when I can do it.

00:55Well, now, sir, I believe Mr. Burchett has a line of questions for you,

00:59so you're free to talk to Mr. Burchett.

01:02Yes, sir.

01:04Can you explain what condition...

01:07When President Kennedy arrived in the emergency room, what was his condition at that point?

01:12He had already died.

01:14Okay.

01:14How many wounds did you observe on President Kennedy?

01:18How many wounds?

01:18President Kennedy had a wound to, of course, the big wound to his head.

01:25Right.

01:25But he also had a wound to his throat, and I've got a little diagram here.

01:30I can point that out, how that worked, if you'd like me to.

01:32And that wouldn't have been a single bullet wound, though, right?

01:35They talk about this magical bullet that traveled.

01:38That would have been more than one bullet, you think?

01:40Magic bullet didn't strike the President at all.

01:44Oh, okay.

01:45Yeah, that was a clean bullet.

01:46I saw the picture.

01:49Given...

01:50Do what?

01:51What?

01:53Yeah, please show the diagram.

01:56Okay.

01:58The bullets that were fired, the blue bullet was the bullet that arrived first.

02:06And you can see it started from, probably, from the railroad trestle, which is to the southwest,

02:15and came up and first struck President Kennedy before he got out from under the tree that prevented

02:22the window shooter from shooting.

02:26Then, and we know that because the Zaprooter film showed President Kennedy holding his throat

02:35in real distress when the Zaprooter film started.

02:41And he had already been shot, and that wound to his throat would have killed him.

02:47It did kill him, because we know from the tracheostomy that we had to do that the bullet to his throat

02:57obstructed the trachea, and so he had taken his last breath before that.

03:06Also, the bullet that struck President Kennedy in the temple killed him also, because it just

03:15removed about a third of his brain.

03:18And the part of the brain that it removed was in the posterior part of the brain, and that

03:24is the area of the brain that controls the parasympathematic and the automatic nervous system.

03:36And so the two bullets that came from the window, one struck Conley, and it's the only thing that it did.

03:52It went in Conley's shoulder, went through his chest, came out of his chest, into his left wrist,

03:59and to his left leg, and that indicates that the bullet was coming from the north, going southeast, southwest,

04:10and that bullet was only for Governor Conley.

04:15The other bullet that came out was this other one here.

04:21Then that would have been the magic bullet.

04:26That's the one that went in the president's back, and the Warren Commission then wanted

04:34to choose that bullet to be the magic bullet which went through the top of his head.

04:43Now, that's essentially what I wanted to say.

04:50Okay. And that was, how many bullets did you say?

04:55Three or four?

04:56That were fired?

04:57Yes, sir.

04:57Four.

04:58Okay, and that was a bolt action Italian carbine.

05:02Well, two of the bullets came from the front.

05:04Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I know, but they were trying to tell us if Lee Harvey Oswald was the same.

05:08The only bullets that came from the window were two bullets, and three bullets came from the window.

05:14One hit the curb, the other hit Conley, and the other one went in the president's back, and that's well-documented.

05:24Yes, sir. Thank you, and I yield no time.

05:28May the chair like to now recognize Mr. Burke.

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