The ARRB's Disturbing (and Ignored) Revelations About JFK's Autopsy

Medical personnel testified photographs of the president's body were doctored or missing

JFK Funeral, November 25, 1963 (Credit: Cecil Stoughton)

While media attention usually focuses on recently released JFK assassination files, a series of remarkable revelations in the 1990s about President Kennedy’s autopsy have gone mostly ignored by major news organizations.

The discoveries were made by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which conducted a series of interviews about discrepancies in the medical evidence of JFK’s assassination seeking to "clarify the federal record on the medical and ballistics evidence." The resulting testimony, which was rarely reported in the New York Times and Washington Post, contained astounding revelations and allegations. Among them: