Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner
by Michael M. Baden

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Book Review: Mixing Medicine with Politics
Summary: 5 Stars

Chapter 1 deals with celebrities, and uses the phrase "conspiracy theory" to dismiss those who use the facts to question any Official Explanation. Bobby Kennedy was NOT shot by Sirhan, who was 6 feet in the front, but by a gun held less than 3 inches from the right rear of his head. Note the careful wording of his sentence! The same careful wording is used about James Earl Ray and the question of the extent of his guilt. The sly dedication is another example of careful wording.

Dr. Baden takes the Warren Report position on the JFK assassination. The experienced trauma doctors at Parkland all said the shots came from the front. But it was not inevitable that conspiracy theories would arise, any more than they did with Lincoln. He says JFK's autopsy was bungled. Some in Europe (who have an older history) said this clumsiness was sanctioned as a way to destroy evidence. The doctor who did it had never performed an autopsy on a gunshot wound; he didn't know the difference between and exit and entry wound. Dr. Milton Helpern later suggested more experienced MEs should have been called it. His name was then removed from the list of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (but this was no conspiracy). The Warren Commission did not seek advice from any forensic pathologist, but this was no conspiracy. Finding the "magic bullet" with no deformities by somebody's stretcher was not a conspiracy either. "The result was an autopsy report filled with errors, sins of omission and commission" (p.13). But it was no conspiracy! The doctor who did the Bethesda autopsy said "the complexities of these fractures and the fragments thus produced tax satisfactory verbal description and are better appreciated in photographs and roentgenograms which are prepared" (p.10). Has a doctor avoided a verbal description in any other case? Other books better document the problems of this case.

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