Autopsy in the Oval Office

Download or read book Autopsy in the Oval Office written by Kenneth Braunstein, M.d. and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 22, 1963, that was truly a day of infamy in U.S./Cuban relations. On that very day, the CIA in Paris armed Cubela (code name AMLASH) to kill Castro and overthrow his regime. JFK, while still skeptical about the sincerity of Cuba's desire for reaching an accord, had Jean Daniel, editor of the left-of-center weekly newsmagazine France Observateur, interview Castro in Havana in order to assess his true interest in the normalization of relations. In Washington, at the behest of Robert Kennedy, the CIA held a top-level meeting with members of the nucleus of an impending Cuban coup, possibly to be carried out as early as nine days later. Castro undertook his fifth attempt at a final solution to the Kennedys, this time in Dallas. Incredibly, he had the head of one of his counter-intelligence units fly into Dallas that morning and leave that evening so that he could have his own witness to the events that were to unfold there. If it weren't true, you would have thought it had come straight out of the movie The Godfather. As they say, fact is sometimes stranger than fiction.Autopsy in the Oval Office is a novel that forthrightly details how Castro successfully assassinated the 35th President of the United States. However, unlike other books on the subject, it remains faithful to the observations made by the physicians, who attended to John F. Kennedy. The front neck wound was an entry wound. The single bullet theory (a.k.a. the magic bullet theory) does not explain what happened to Governor John Connally. Kennedy's own men forcefully and illegally stole his body from Parkland Memorial Hospital.Why did Castro order the hit on Kennedy? How did he pay for it? Why was Oswald's rifle missing for seven months before he ordered it? What was Robert Kennedy's role in hiding the details of the assassination? Why did Oswald not take the easier, obvious shot at JFK as his limo approached the Texas Book Depository? Who ordered the Secret Service to violate Texas state law and move the President's body to Bethesda Naval Hospital, which was not familiar with doing forensic autopsies. With a touch of New Orleans voodoo and a smattering of the “Antiques Roadshow,” Autopsy in the Oval Office answers these questions and more.