The Warren Commission’s investigation concluded that a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot the president without an accomplice. Stretching their imaginations to far reaches, this government-sponsored commission disregarded an amazing amount of evidence and inconsistencies. What should have been one of the most thorough investigations ever conducted was unbelievably flawed, leading many to believe there could have been a conspiracy, and yet to this day, the Kennedy case is considered closed by the majority of Americans.

As bizarre as the autopsy itself, was the fact that that the sketches drawn up and declared accurate by the Warren Commission had supposedly marked the bullet hole in the presidents back four inches lower than all the pathologists remember seeing it. In addition, a CIA liaison’s (Regis Blahut) fingerprints were found in a vault where some autopsy photos had been tampered with. (Summers, 45) While the true motive of Blahut will never be known, his crime reinforces the idea that the Central and Army Intelligence Agencies have sought to cover up the evidence regarding the president’s assassination. Doctors in Dallas would have done an extremely thorough investigation, possibly uncovering the information that the wounds in Kennedy’s body made the Oswald theory impossible. The autopsy is one of the greatest pieces of evidence that there was a conspiracy that may have reached levels much higher than the renegade elements some have sighted.

nderstand why it is believed that such a conspiracy existed, one only needs to read through the pages of the Warren Report and the testimonies of various witnesses who were watching the president at Dealey Plaza on the day of his assassination or the investigation of his death in the aftermath. One of the most unfortunate and inexcusable errors in the federal investigation of the Kennedy assassination was the flawed autopsy that was preformed on him. The doctors who preformed it did not do a thorough enough job for historians to gather much new evidence of a second or third gunman. The errors in the autopsy do something more damaging to the conspirators, they implicate the U.S. government.

Finck testified under oath that an Army General instructed him not examine the bullet wounds closely, and that the brain was not to be looked at closely at that time. He was in a situation where he was forced to take orders, something that would not have happened at a Dallas autopsy. The chief went as far to burn his notes at the order of a General (JFK), and by 1966 almost all pictures, sketches and notes had disappeared.

What is even more suspicious than the extremely flawed autopsy are the events surrounding Oswald’s prints on the rifle. The Warren Report cited the palm print found on the rifle confidently as evidence linking Oswald to what is considered the assassination rifle. There are no questions concerning whether or not it was Oswald’s print on the rifle, but instead questions arise over how the print actually got there. Before removing the rifle from the Book Depository, Lieutenant Carl Day of the Dallas police crime laboratory dusted the rifle and tried to bring out some of the vague prints he perceived in the vicinity of the trigger housing. (Hurt, 106) He found nothing that was of any forensic value. After taking the rifle to the laboratory to continue his efforts, he concluded and told the Warren Commission, “I could not make any positive identification of these prints.” (Hurt, 107) The rifle was then taken to an FBI laboratory in Washington where professionals examined it. After much deliberation it was decided that they could not identify the prints found on the rifle to be Oswald’s. It is in the following events that take place where much speculation transpires. After an autopsy, Oswald’s body was taken to Miller’s Funeral Home in Fort Worth to be prepared for burial. “The only visitors reported were a team of FBI agents, who spent more than an hour with his body.” (Hurt, 107) Paul Groody, the funeral director recalled the visit in an interview:

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