Prez Ford Admitted Doctoring Warren Rpt

And you thought President Ford’s biggest crime was pardoning that crook Nixon.

The original first draft of the Warren Commission Report stated that a bullet had entered Kennedy’s “back at a point slightly above the shoulder and to the right of the spine.”

Former President Ford, then a leading member of the the Warren Commission, realized that this provided a serious problem for the single bullet theory.

As Michael L. Kurtz has pointed out (The JFK Assassination Debates): “If a bullet fired from the sixth-floor window of the Depository building nearly sixty feet higher than the limousine entered the president’s back, with the president sitting in an upright position, it could hardly have exited from his throat at a point just above the Adam’s apple, then abruptly change course and drive downward into Governor Connally’s back.”

In 1997 the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) released a document that revealed that Ford had altered the first draft of the report to read: “A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine.” (Read the Associated Press report of July 2, 1997 here.)

Ford had elevated the location of the wound from its true location in the back to the neck to support the single bullet theory.

JFK’s shirt shows where the bullet really entered.

Note bullet hole lower down on back. Had the bullet which entered at this point been the same bullet which the Warren Report claims then exited through the knot of JFK’s tie, it would have passed well above John Connally’s head.

Ford’s change allowed the “magic bullet theory” to gain traction.

Even a guy born in my town, Omaha, can’t be trusted. BTW did you know Gerald Ford’s not even his real name? He was born Leslie King. He changed his name when he was 22, in honor of  mom’s hubby #2. [link]