2025 files confirm what many suspected: the visual record of JFK’s wounds was deliberately manipulated before being archived.
🧠 Introduction: The Photos Never Matched the Wounds
Researchers and doctors have long noted that the autopsy photos don’t align with:
- Early reports from Parkland Hospital staff
- Eyewitness accounts from Bethesda Naval Hospital
- Descriptions from FBI agents present in the room
The 2025 documents confirm:
The inconsistencies were not a fluke. They were the result of photo tampering, image substitution, and suppressed originals.
📁 File Ref: "Secondary Prints, Non-Archival Use Only"
A rediscovered Navy memo from Nov. 30, 1963 includes the directive:
"Do not circulate original cranial entries. Use secondary prints with reduced contrast for official record."
Attached was a reference to a now-unclassified project label:
"PHOENIX TINT – Forensic Visual Normalization"
This wasn’t just technical correction. It was image control.
📸 Missing Photos, Invented Angles
- The back-of-the-head wound, described by multiple Parkland doctors, does not appear in any official photo.
- A side-profile skull image referenced in early FBI logs is absent from the autopsy archive
- A photographic technician’s log from Bethesda reads: "Two sets prepared. First marked ‘internal reference only.’ Second used for Commission copy."
Only the second set survives.
🔍 X-Rays That Don’t Match the Skull
The 2025 files also reveal that two radiology consultants from Walter Reed raised red flags about JFK’s cranial x-rays in 1964:
"Positioning inconsistent with reported trajectory. Metallic artifact appears displaced between shots."
Their concern was noted and filed under the category:
"Anomalous but not actionable."
Neither was asked to testify.
🔐 The Cold Storage That Wasn’t
A document titled "Autopsy Asset Index – Naval Archival Compliance" shows that several photo negatives and x-rays were listed as stored at WRAMC Cold Vault D-a storage facility in Bethesda.
In 1997, when the Assassination Records Review Board asked to inspect Vault D?
It had been "repurposed" years earlier.
No inventory survived.
🔚 The Wounds Were Real-But the Photos Weren’t
The visual record presented to the public was not the original.
Not complete.
Not honest.
The 2025 files confirm:
JFK’s wounds were too controversial to show.
So they showed something else.
