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Dec 18 1963: The Times and Post's stories on the JFK autopsy that wasn't

Dec 18 1963: The Times and Post's stories on the JFK autopsy that wasn't

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Jefferson Morley
Dec 18, 2012
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The first newspaper accounts of JFK's autopsy, published on December 18, 1963, gave a consistent account of the gunfire that was widely believed at the time (and became the basis for the postcard from  Dallas reproduced here). But these accounts, published in the Washington Post and New York Times, vary dramatically from what pathologists later said. Th…

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