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JFK had intense back pain, and it may have helped kill him
Fox News ^ | By Jenn Gidman

Posted on 11/22/2017 8:05:57 PM PST by sparklite2

Spinal neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas Pait assembled research on JFK's lumbar woes—which stretch back to his football-playing days at Harvard and led him to undergo four "largely unsuccessful surgeries"—into a paper recently published in the Journal of Neurosurgery.

In it, he ties JFK's death to a possible inability to duck down after Oswald's first bullet, all because he was wearing a stiff, "tightly laced" back brace with a figure-eight Ace bandage wrapped around it that kept him locked in an upright position.

"If you have that brace all the way up your chest, above your nipples, and real tight, are you going to be able to bend forward?" Pait notes.

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1 posted on 11/22/2017 8:05:57 PM PST by sparklite2
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“Oswald’s first bullet.” Hahahahahaha!


2 posted on 11/22/2017 8:07:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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If he wasn’t schtupping everything in sight, maybe his back could have healed.

Camelot? More like Came-a-lot.


3 posted on 11/22/2017 8:12:42 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: sparklite2

"...President Kennedy’s tightly-laced back brace..."


This has been common knowledge for decades.
Unusual the media would present it as pivotal info now.


4 posted on 11/22/2017 8:18:31 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: sparklite2

Well, I’m not sure if having a better back would have changed the outcome of basically having his head blown off.


5 posted on 11/22/2017 8:21:28 PM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: sparklite2

No one else in the car ducked after the first shot. Maybe they were all wearing back braces. /s


6 posted on 11/22/2017 8:24:19 PM PST by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: sparklite2

The kennedys, a sex predatory crime family whose time has come and gone. They need to be removed from Arlington cemetery and dumped in the mexican desert where they belong.


7 posted on 11/22/2017 8:26:23 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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Did the first bullet pass through JFK's neck? And the second one went into his head? If he was able to duck the second bullet might not have hit him, but he still might have died from blood loss from the neck wound.
8 posted on 11/22/2017 8:27:30 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: sparklite2

So are we speculating JFK had brain damage from the concussions he got playing football too?


9 posted on 11/22/2017 8:30:24 PM PST by Skywise
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To: sparklite2

This entire line of thinking is Total B.S.


10 posted on 11/22/2017 8:39:07 PM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Skywise

I think this is the injury he got when he sped his boat through the fog and into the path of a Japanese warship.


11 posted on 11/22/2017 8:39:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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What football at Harvard???? He did not play and his back problems were congenital and predate his college days.

Teddy and Joe Kennedy Jr. played football. JFK did not.


12 posted on 11/22/2017 8:53:14 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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This is decades old theorem. I guess the medicos will say that Lee Harvey Oswald was also a medical doctor who knew just where to shoot Pres. Kennedy.

Next: Oswald was a CIA agent working for Big Oil. Oh, wait. I think that one has been floating around like a turd in a toilet, for decades too.

Gotta come up with something new, imaginative, different. Got it> Manafort did it. My bad!


13 posted on 11/22/2017 8:53:26 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Is back surgery EVER successful? I know 7 people worse off since, and 4 more much worse since foot surgery.


14 posted on 11/22/2017 8:56:17 PM PST by montag813
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“In it, he ties JFK’s death to a possible inability to duck down after Oswald’s first bullet, all because he was wearing a stiff, “tightly laced” back brace with a figure-eight Ace bandage wrapped around it that kept him locked in an upright position.”

Doesn’t seem new. The back brace holding him upright was talked about very early on.


15 posted on 11/22/2017 9:12:09 PM PST by Pelham
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I think their argument is that Kennedy began to crouch forward when the first bullet hit him- you can see him bend forward as he grabs at his throat- but the back brace pulled him upright and then the second round took off the back of his head.


16 posted on 11/22/2017 9:15:59 PM PST by Pelham
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Don't know about back but my husband's neck surgery was very successful.

Instead of having to be on daily medication he has to take something maybe twice a month.

Is he the young sprat I married? Nah. But then I am not the young thing he married either.:)

I think part of it has to do with expectations. If you are expecting to never hurt again, probably never successful. You are getting older and everything starts hurting.

And a lot of it is keeping up with the exercises they give you afterwords. Don't stop just because you are through therapy.

17 posted on 11/22/2017 9:17:03 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Monterrosa-24

thought JFK played on the freshman and JV teams at Harvard.


18 posted on 11/22/2017 9:22:53 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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My son had back surgery 20 years ago,at age 34-———VERY happy with it.

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19 posted on 11/22/2017 9:23:02 PM PST by Mears
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To: 2001convSVT

The first bullet hit him at the base of his neck and exited through his throat. He should have been able to survive that wound.


20 posted on 11/22/2017 9:24:29 PM PST by Pelham
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