classicsoncall Review of JFK: What the Doctors Saw

JFK: What the Doctors Saw (2023)

"These doctors are about as trustworthy as you can get."

[8/10 · 28 November 2023]

Well, this film ought to put a handful of conspiracy theories to bed and give rise to a host of others. Personally, I could never buy the single 'magic' bullet thesis set forth by the Warren Commission. All it takes is a boatload of common sense to question the path of that bullet when you see a diagram of the course it had to take to inflict damage on President Kennedy and Governor John Connally. It would also be disingenuous to try and discredit the handful of medical personnel who were on hand in Trauma Room One of the Parkland Memorial Hospital on the tragic day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. All of them, interviewed for this documentary, are of a single mind as to what they saw when they examined the body of the President, most notably the throat and back of his head. The forces that went into play to thwart an onsite autopsy of the President, along with the quickly orchestrated removal of the corpse to Washington, D. C., ought to leave one with many questions about the motives of the government that pretty much exist to this day. To my mind, what is the concern with knowing the actual truth of what happened on November 22nd, 1963 that would expose some massive government secret? After seeing this documentary, you may well come to the conclusion that fake news existed a long time before the present day.