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Did RFK Steal JFK's Brain?
Newser ^ | 10/21/13 | Rob Quinn

Posted on 10/21/2013 9:16:30 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Author claims theft was bizarre cover-up

A lot of JFK-related material will be released in the weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of his assassination but this allegation is definitely going for the craziest: A new book claims that the president's brain was stolen from a secure room in the National Archives by his brother, then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. When authorities realized the footlocker containing the brain was missing in 1966, an investigation uncovered "compelling evidence" that RFK and his assistant, Angie Novello, were the culprits, James Swanson, author of End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, tells the New York Post.

Some conspiracy theorists claim the brain was stolen to conceal facts about the assassination, but Swanson believes the brain-swiping was an effort to protect the president's reputation. "My conclusion is that Robert Kennedy did take his brother’s brain—not to conceal evidence of a conspiracy but perhaps to conceal evidence of the true extent of President Kennedy’s illnesses, or perhaps to conceal evidence of the number of medications that President Kennedy was taking," says.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: jfkconspiracy; rfk
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To: Impala64ssa
As I understand it, brains cannot be examined fully at the time of autopsy because they are too soft. They must be fixed for a time in formalin to firm them up for dissection. If it is desired to quickly release the body for burial, the brain may need to be retained to complete the examination, especially if damage to the brain is the probable cause of death. Following the examination of JFK's brain it was returned to RFK. This may have been after the funeral, but in any case was too late to reunite the brain with the body. RFK then arranged for the brain to be destroyed. His motivation was probably just to keep it from becoming an object of public curiosity and discussion right after the funeral.

What would you do in that situation?

21 posted on 10/21/2013 10:03:40 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Impala64ssa
oswald band photo: Lee Oswald Band LeeOswaldBand.jpg

And Oswald couldn't have done the shooting because he was recording his version of "Long Tall Sally" at the time.

22 posted on 10/21/2013 10:04:20 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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23 posted on 10/21/2013 10:07:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Impala64ssa

How would RFK know that the brain would show all these ailments. was he a DR. Too?


24 posted on 10/21/2013 10:12:31 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Snickering Hound; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; Daffynition; JoeProBono
And Oswald couldn't have done the shooting because he was recording his version of "Long Tall Sally" at the time.

Oswald DID have music plans the night of the JFK assassination:

Lee Harvey Oswald had purchased a ticket for the Dallas show on the morning of the 22nd...

25 posted on 10/21/2013 10:16:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: longfellow
How would RFK know that the brain would show all these ailments. was he a DR. Too?

No, but he did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express.

26 posted on 10/21/2013 10:16:54 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: US Navy Vet

My buddies and I as teenagers in 1963 answered that on as we enjoyed the chilly afternoon out of school. We already knew who had the most to profit and most of our parents felt the same way. Can you spell LBJ. It sure wasn’t like we had any real admiration for JFK; that was for dimwit democrats, old ladies, catholic nuns, and the rich and famous with whom he hung out.


27 posted on 10/21/2013 10:44:02 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

3 who come to mind;
1 LBJ
2 Organized Crime
3 CIA


28 posted on 10/21/2013 10:47:11 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: null and void

ping


29 posted on 10/21/2013 10:55:03 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: a fool in paradise

30 posted on 10/21/2013 11:03:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: US Navy Vet

The first two together

Maybeeeee...all of the above.


31 posted on 10/21/2013 11:04:59 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: a fool in paradise

The reason Teddy’s burial plot at Arlington is guarded 24/7 is not fear of vandalism but to keep the winos away since to this day Scotch fumes continue to rise from the grave.


32 posted on 10/21/2013 11:09:02 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Impala64ssa

I have this horror movie scenario—The brain of Sen. Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette (R-Wis.) has secretly been preserved at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. One day, some scientists do an experiment in which they transplant it into the head of a baboon. But to everyone’s horror, the baboon starts campaigning for president as a Progressive Republican.

Because he his brain is from the US and dates from 1855, the Supreme Court rules that the baboon is a natural-born citizen and cannot be prevented from running. Faced with the usual has-beens and never-will-bes that normally comprise the field of GOP presidential hopefuls, the baboon appears to be a shoo-in to become the party’s presidential standard bearer—and will be running against the the Progressive liberal that the Democrats always nominate. Can America be saved from the horrors of Progressivism?


33 posted on 10/21/2013 11:23:26 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: BulletBobCo

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!


34 posted on 10/21/2013 1:00:37 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: JoeProBono

That’s the dress she was sewn into, no zipper up the back of that piece.


35 posted on 10/21/2013 4:46:05 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Burn my flag? I'll piss on your ashes.)
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