Ted Saved Part of JFK’s Brain, Nazi Letters

Workers cleaning out the late Ted Kennedy’s historic Cape Cod home have discovered a part of assassinated president JFK’s brain and Nazi letters to patriarch Joseph Kennedy stashed away in an attic.

A family adviser believes doctors performing the autopsy on JFK gave the small brain fragment to brother Robert, who meant to have it cremated but was assassinated before he could.

The discovery may explain the findings of the staff report for the Assassinations Records Review Board, which had found doctors who conducted the autopsy on JFK may have performed “two brain examinations” on “two different brains”.

A 1998 Washington Post article, Archive Photos Not of JFK’s Brain, Concludes Aide to Review Board, explains:

The central contention of the report is that brain photographs in the Kennedy records are not of Kennedy’s brain and show much less damage than Kennedy sustained when he was shot in Dallas and brought to Parkland Hospital there on Nov. 22, 1963. The doctors at Parkland told reporters then that they thought Kennedy was shot from the front and not from behind as the Warren Commission later concluded.

“I am 90 to 95 percent certain that the photographs in the Archives are not of President Kennedy’s brain,” Horne, a former naval officer, said in an interview. “If they aren’t, that can mean only one thing — that there has been a coverup of the medical evidence.” Horne contends that the damage to the second brain reflected a shot from behind. He says the first brain was Kennedy’s and reflected a shot from the front.

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The report points to, for instance, the testimonies of former FBI agent Francis X. O’Neill Jr., who was present at the Nov. 22, 1963, autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and of former Navy photographer John T. Stringer, who said he took photos at a supplementary brain examination two or three days later, probably on the morning of Nov. 25.

O’Neill told the board in a 1997 deposition that at the Nov. 22 autopsy “there was not too much of the brain left” when it was taken out of Kennedy’s skull and “put in a white jar.” He said “more than half of the brain was missing.”

Shown the brain photographs deeded to the Archives by the Kennedy family, which were taken sometime after the autopsy, O’Neill said they did not square with what he saw. The “only section of the brain which is missing is this small section over here,” O’Neill said of one photograph. “This looks almost like a complete brain.”

The letters from Nazis to Joseph Kennedy were sent to the Kennedy patriarch while he served as ambassador to Great Britain. The adviser says the letters are authentic, complete with a “Nazi seal” of an eagle holding a swastika in its talons on each page. They are written in German script and also bear an SS lightning bolt insignia.

The Nazi letters could give greater insight into Joseph Kennedy’s views on the issues surrounding WWII, as noted by Edward Renehan, Jr.’s Joseph Kennedy and the Jews:

As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these “world problems” (Nancy’s phrase). No member of the so-called “Cliveden Set” (the informal cabal of appeasers who met frequently at Nancy Astor’s palatial home) seemed much concerned with the dilemma faced by Jews under the Reich. Astor wrote Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than just “give a rough time” to “the killers of Christ” before she’d be in favor of launching “Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the future?” Kennedy replied that he expected the “Jew media” in the United States to become a problem, that “Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles” were already making noises contrived to “set a match to the fuse of the world.”

During May of 1938, Kennedy engaged in extensive discussions with the new German Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, Herbert von Dirksen. In the midst of these conversations (held without approval from the U.S. State Department), Kennedy advised von Dirksen that President Roosevelt was the victim of “Jewish influence” and was poorly informed as to the philosophy, ambitions and ideals of Hitler’s regime. (The Nazi ambassador subsequently told his bosses that Kennedy was “Germany’s best friend” in London.)

Jerry Zeifman notes in his book, Profiles in Treason: Joseph Kennedy, Tyler Kent And Scott McClellan that after Kennedy was appointed ambassador, he supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement, and:

In 1938, as the Nazi persecution of Jews intensified, Kennedy attempted?again without FDR’s approval?to obtain an audience with Adolf Hitler. In September 1940, shortly before World War II broke out, Kennedy?once again without presidential approval?sought to negotiate personally with Hitler.

After Roosevelt fired Kennedy in 1940, Kennedy became a supporter of “America First”:

Kennedy then became a supporter of the “America First” movement founded by Charles Lindbergh, who had met Hitler and was also a Nazi sympathizer. At that time “America First” was also supported Fritz Kuhn, the American fuehrer of the “German-American Bund.

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