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Clyde W. Howard III
Nacogdoches, Tex

JAMA. 1992;268(13):1682-1683.

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To the Editor.

—I have recently read the articles^1,2 and the Editorial³ in your May 27, 1992, issue of JAMA concerning the John F. Kennedy autopsy controversy. I would say, as a citizen and an attorney, that you have done a signal service in obtaining and publishing the interviews. I feel that the nation owes you a genuine vote of thanks, which you will probably not get. I also feel that the comment that "One might think that all this demonstration of facts and expression of expert medical opinion would end the controversy over the President's autopsy, but one would probably be wrong" is unfortunately very likely to be accurate.

We set ourselves up for conspiracy theories, based on anything from misapprehension to flat-out personal greed, by the failure to be completely open in the handling of the autopsy—but I also think that it was inevitable that mistakes . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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