A Review of Oliver Stone’s JFK: Destiny Betrayed (Chapter 3)

In 1966, when I was nine years old, my dad brought home Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane. My dad was never a believer that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy and the book by Lane surely amplified that belief of his, as well as mine.

In 1991, I went to visit my parents one afternoon and my mom told me that dad had gone to see JFK, the Oliver Stone film. When dad came home, he told me that I really needed to go out and see this film. The next day I did. To both of us, the film further increased our belief that the JFK assassination was indeed a conspiracy.

While dad and I both thought the film was very insightful and informative about who may have murdered JFK and why he had created so many enemies within the United States government, many in the mainstream media gave the movie bad reviews. Like large media outlets like CBSNBC and The New York Times, who had all endorsed the Warren Report, which has been largely discredited in 58 years since it first came out in 1964.

Which takes me to a new Oliver Stone documentary called JFK: Destiny Betrayed. It’s a four-part film that lasts approximately four hours that can be seen on Prime Video and Apple. I had the opportunity to see the film and I thought it was outstanding. The film was directed by Stone and produced by Rob Wilson. The film was written by long time JFK assassination researcher and author Jim DiEugenio. The film is narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland.

If you truly care about what really occurred in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963, please watch this film. Yes, I know, we now live in an era of disinformation, via the mainstream media, as well as social media. Unlike that fabricated rhetoric, this film puts out real evidence, much of which was hidden for 30-plus years. This documented information comes from witnesses, physicians, historians, researchers and ballistics specialists.

Chapter 3:

The one doctor who was at both Parkland Hospital in Dallas after the assassination and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital for JFK’s autopsy was Dr. George Burkley, who was President Kennedy’s personal physician. Burkley was also a Rear Admiral in the Navy.

Burkley signed off on the autopsy descriptive sheet at Bethesda, which placed JFK’s back wound at the T-3 level. That is well below the area which set up the magical single-bullet theory put together by Arlen Specter.

Burkley also signed Kennedy’s death certificate on November 23, 1963, which also placed JFK’s back wound at the third thoracic vertebra level.

The death certificate signed by Dr. Burkley is not in the Warren Commission volume, plus the descriptive sheet of the autopsy, which is in the Warren Commission volume, does not have Dr. Burkley’s signature.

It’s important to know that Specter did not depose Dr. Burkley. That could be because of what Burkley told Malcolm Kilduff, the Assistant White House Press Secretary. This is what Kilduff told the media at Parkland after the assassination, “Dr. Burkley told me that it was a simple matter, Tom, of a bullet, right through the head.” While Kilduff uttered these words he pointed towards his right temple.  

In 1967, Dr. Burkley did an interview with the JFK Library and was asked this question, “Do you agree with the Warren Report on the number of bullets which entered the President’s body?” Burkley replied, “I would not care to be quoted on that.”

What is even more interesting than that is what occurred in 1977. At that time, Burkley’s attorney William Illig wrote a letter to Richard Sprague, who was then the chief counsel for the HSCA, telling him that he had information that others beside Oswald must have participated in the assassination and that Burkley was willing to talk about that scenario.

Sprague, who had said he wanted to uncover the CIA’s involvement in the assassination, was forced out of his role as chief counsel of the HSCA two weeks later. As it was, Burkley submitted a written statement to the HSCA, but there is no official record of him being deposed as a witness.

Douglas Horne, who was the Chief Analyst for Military Records for the Assassination Records Review Board (the ARRB), talked about what happened later on with Dr. Burkley.

“In 1982, he told JFK researcher Henry Hurt that there was more than one gunman,” Horne said. “When Henry Hurt tried to re-contact Burkley with more details, Burkley cut him off at the knees. ‘I don’t want to talk about it anymore.’ The very next year, Berkley talked to Michael Kurtz, another JFK researcher. He told him that there was a conspiracy to kill the President. And that he recalled an exit wound at the back of President Kennedy’s head. That’s a very significant statement. That the only doctor we know of that was present at both Parkland for treatment and at Bethesda during the autopsy told Michael Kurtz in 1983 that Kennedy had an exit wound in the back of his head. When Kurtz tried to re-contact Burkley, Burkley cut him off at the knees. “I don’t want to talk about this anymore.’ Dr. Burkley was deceased by the time the review board was empaneled.”

At that point Horne and Jeremy Gunn, who was the general counsel for the ARRB, decided to contact the executor of Burkley’s estate, his daughter Nancy Denlea, to have her sign a waiver so the ARRB could go to the law firm that Illig used to work for to see if there were any records which may have indicated what Burkley wanted to tell the HSCA. His daughter said that she would do that, but when Gunn called her on the phone, she had completely changed her mind and terminated the phone call.

In addition to that scenario, there are the many questions regarding JFK’s brain.

This is what Audrey Bell, who was Supervising Nurse of Operating and Recovery Rooms told the ARRB about what she saw at Parkland Hospital. “And he shifted the head a little bit, to the left,” Bell said. “Lifted up the, kind of matted area, the flap. And you could see the…hole, and there was…brain, and spinal fluid…dripping down out of it. Then I noticed that it was dripping down into a bucket.”

Besides the large hole in the back of JFK’s head, seven members of the medical staff at Parkland saw the cerebellum at the bottom of the skull.

Dr. Cyril Wecht explains. “The brain consists of two large cerebral hemispheres,” Wecht said. “Lower down, posteriorly, are two hemispheres, the cerebellum. They differ in coloration. They differ in the topographical markings.”

Dr. Michael Chesser, who is a neurologist, said that Dr. Robert McClelland saw a large clump of the cerebellum fall out of JFK’s skull in the emergency room at Parkland. It was obvious to those who saw Kennedy’s head wound at Parkland, that the wound went quite low to the cerebellum.

Yet in the autopsy report at Bethesda, Dr. James Humes did not even mention the cerebellum, nor did he testify about that situation to the Warren Commission.

It’s definitely quite the conundrum. Several people at Parkland saw severe damage to the cerebellum, yet in the autopsy report at Bethesda, it is reported the cerebellum is intact.

In terms of whether or not the cerebellum of JFK was damaged, Dr. Wecht asks this, “Who do you believe? Do you believe these Texas doctors? Or do you believe the two career Naval pathologists working under military control?”

Plus, there is all the brain matter and blood that was inside the limousine, not to mention the brain tissue that Jackie Kennedy went out to retrieve on the trunk of the limo and later gave to one of the doctors at Parkland.

The inside of the limo was a crime scene. So why did the Secret Service make such an effort to clean the inside of the limo at Parkland before shipping it back to Washington?

Plus, in the autopsy report, JFK’s brain weighed 1,500 grams, which is above average for an adult male brain. That makes no sense, with all the eyewitness accounts at Parkland.

In addition, Horne said that FBI agent Frank O’Neill told the ARRB that over half of the mass of the brain was missing at the autopsy.

Horne also mentioned that the ARRB had a consultant, a renowned forensic pathologist named Dr. Robert Kirschner, who said that JFK’s brain was a very well-fixed brain that’s all grey and not pink at all and it’s been fixed for two or three weeks in formaldehyde. Horne said that the hair on the back of his neck stood up because he knew that JFK’s brain had been examined less than three days after he had been killed.

To add more mystery to the issue regarding JFK’s brain, Dr. Humes destroyed his autopsy notes. Plus, there are autopsy photos of the brain which appear to be taken by two different photographers, John Stringer and Robert Knudsen, using the ones which support the lone gunman theory and bypassing the ones that don’t.

Horne said, “Stringer is still the autopsy photographer of record. I think they both took pictures. And I personally think that many of John Stringer’s pictures never made it in the official collection and a lot of the ones we are looking at are Robert Knudsen’s pictures.”

Dr. David Mantik said it best when he quoted Jeremy Gunn of the ARRB, “It’s as if the autopsy materials were meant to hide what was really happening, as opposed to what they usually should do, which is to reveal the full extent of things.”

To add to all of this, JFK’s brain went missing. Dr. Wecht explains. “In August of ’72, I’m there at the National Archives. And I’m looking…I have the executive agreement of April of 1965 and the inventory of October of 1966, a year and a half later. Ah ha. In addition to some x-rays and some photos that are missing, there is a large metal box, which obviously contained the brain, listed in ’65, but no longer listed in ’66. Goodbye brain.”

Finally, after the film JFK was released in 1991, several doctors went to the National Archives to view x-rays of JFK’s skull. What they found was that there were tiny metal fragments right near the forehead which expands from front to back. That is consistent with a shot from the front.

Plus, there is the missing bullet scenario, not to mention bullet damage done to the limo.

After JFK was pronounced dead, Dr. Burkley contacted his assistant James Young at the White House and told him to prepare for the autopsy. Young ordered two assistants of his (Thomas Mills and William Martinell) to go to the limousine, now back in Washington to retrieve some important material for the autopsy. On the flight from Dallas back to Washington, the limo was inspected, and a three-inch triangular piece of bone was discovered on the floor near the rear jump seat.

Besides getting the bone fragment out of the limo, Mills and Martinell also brought back another envelope containing a bullet with a bent tip.

Dr. Randolph Robertson, a diagnostic radiologist, described what happened next. “It went from Mills and Martinell to Young to Humes and it disappears. That evening, there may have been as little as four people who saw that bullet before it disappeared.”

Looking at the Zapruder film, the head shot occurred at frame 313. But there is also a flash of light which occurs at frame 328, which could have been another shot that hit the limo.

Looking at photos, it’s pretty obvious that at least a couple of bullets in the crossfire at Dealey Plaza hit the limo.

Dr. Mantik explains. “There is a lot of damage in the car. The chrome strip that went around the windshield was dented from the inside, which suggested a projectile from the rear. Six witnesses reported a through-and-through hole in the windshield.”

Getting back to Kennedy’s back wound now. At the trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans, Dr. Pierre Finck shockingly revealed to Jim Garrison that JFK’s back wound was not dissected because an Army general ordered him not to do that. The failure to not do that standard practice led to folly and error, in terms of assessing and locating that wound.

On the autopsy descriptive sheet that Dr. Burkley signed off on, the back wound was located at T-3 level, which also coincided with what FBI agents O’Neill and Sibert wrote in their report about what they saw at the autopsy.

However, the Warren Commission depicted something completely different in terms of the location of the back wound, as well as that of the head wound.

This is what Sibert told the ARRB after looking at the drawing commissioned by Arlen Specter of the Warren Commission. “What a liar. I feel he got his orders from above and how far above, I don’t know. They got that single bullet theory by moving that back wound up to the base of the neck.”

But in order to make the back wound line up with the magic bullet theory, the Warren Commission needed a little help from one of their members. Enter future President Gerald Ford, who moved the back wound up a number of inches. That did not conform with the autopsy photos that the HSCA saw, which placed the back wound at the T-3 level. When confronted about what he had done by the ARRB, Ford simply said, “That it had nothing to do with a conspiracy theory. He was only trying to be more precise.”

To understand what JFK was dealing with early in his presidency, both with the CIA and with the Joint Chiefs, a meeting in the summer of 1961 makes things crystal clear. The meeting was attended by President Kennedy, CIA Director Allen Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman Lemnitzer. In 1993, the first official document describing the meeting was declassified.

In that meeting, Dulles and Lemnitzer were advising Kennedy about the potential effect of a first-strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, which would occur in the fall of 1963. The first-strike attack would occur then because it was felt that the United States would have the optimum advantage over the Soviet Union’s counter-strike capabilities at that time.

After that meeting, JFK said to his Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “And we call ourselves the human race?”

Besides having to deal with foreign policy issues with the Soviet Union, JFK was also trying to resolve matters in the Middle East, Vietnam and Cuba.

Speaking of Cuba, JFK authorized a covert operation under the name of Operation Mongoose, which was headed by General Edward Lansdale. However, Attorney General Robert Kennedy was above Lansdale to make sure this operation did not spin out of control like the Bay of Pigs did in April of 1961. The idea was to keep pressure on Fidel Castro, to make sure he would not further the exportation of communism to Latin America.

Despite later accusations of JFK’s complicity in assassination plots against Castro, there is no documentation to confirm this in the Operation Mongoose file. In February of 1962, General Lansdale asked the Joint Chiefs to come up with a pre-text for a U.S. invasion of Cuba. The following month, the Joint Chiefs revealed a plan to JFK called Operation Northwoods.

The plan called for the CIA to perform terrorist acts and to blame them on Cuba, setting up the invasion scenario. President Kennedy declined that recommendation by the Joint Chiefs.

Horne talked about some of what was in Operation Northwoods. “Sink a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame it on Cuba. The one that scares me the most, which was very specific, take an airliner, and fly it as a drone over Cuba without any people in it. There is a tape recording that would say, ‘We are under attack. Under attack by Cuban aircraft. Oh my God they are going to kill us.’ And then blow up the airplane, this huge drone, to use that to start a war.”

Author and historian John M. Newman, who was in Army intelligence, describes what happened next. “Within a matter of weeks, Lemnitzer says, ‘The hell with the pre-text. The hell with it. Let’s just invade anyway!’ Based on that type of behavior, JFK had no choice but to fire Lemnitzer.

It’s important to know that it was the ARRB which uncovered Operation Northwoods. That all started thanks to the JFK Records Act, which occurred after the release of the film JFK in 1991.

Also in 1961, JFK rejected nine attempts by his military advisors to put ground troops in Vietnam. Both General Douglas MacArthur and General Charles de Gaulle agreed with Kennedy about not sending in U.S. troops to Southeast Asia.

Newman explained how foreign policy issues were confronting JFK at this time, especially because of the pressure he was receiving from his military advisors. “This issue about what to do with Cuba and what to do in Vietnam were inexplicably intertwined,” Newman said. “Because you can’t do all these things at once. We don’t have enough soldiers. We don’t have enough forces. And it’s not just Cuba and Vietnam, it’s Cuba, Berlin, Laos and Vietnam.

“So, Kennedy was most concerned actually about Berlin and was unwilling to put troops in Cuba because he would not be able to react if Khrushchev did something on Berlin. Kennedy understood that. The Chairman on the Joint Chiefs of Staff understood that. That is the context of when it comes to Vietnam. Kennedy tells Lyman Lemnizter, ‘Look, if we aren’t going to go into Cuba, what in the hell would we go into Vietnam for?’

In October of 1962, it was discovered that the Soviet Union had placed medium-range and intermediate-range missiles into Cuba. Despite the Joint Chiefs imploring him to invade Cuba, JFK took another path. He decided to utilize a naval blockade instead.

JFK’s military advisors, led by General Curtis LeMay, saw Kennedy’s decision to not invade Cuba and to use a blockade as pure folly, the equivalent of surrender. In fact, LeMay told Kennedy, “This is almost as bad as the appeasement at Munich.”

While the Cuban Missile Crisis headed into the second week, with LeMay and the other military advisors still wanting to invade, it was not known to them that Cuba had short range tactical nuclear missiles in place. It was at this juncture when LeMay said this to JFK, “In other words, you’re in a pretty bad fix, at the present time.” At that point Kennedy responded, “What did you say?” LeMay said, “You’re in a pretty bad fix.” JFK then said, “You’re in there with me.”

Finally, the crisis was resolved thanks to a meeting between Robert Kennedy and Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, in which the United States pledged not to invade Cuba and to withdraw U.S. missiles out of Turkey. The Soviet Union agreed to dismantle and to take out the missiles that they had put in Cuba.

The American people were elated with the news that World War III was averted. But the Joint Chiefs, led by LeMay, thought that the U.S. had been defeated by the Soviets and denied the opportunity to topple Castro.

JFK saw it differently. He said, “If we had followed the Pentagon’s advice, nobody would be around to tell the generals they were wrong.”

In terms of how to deal with the situation in Vietnam, it eventually led to NSAM 263 in October of 1963, which called for 1,000 U.S. troops to be pulled out of Vietnam by the end of the year.

Getting back to General LeMay, the ARRB found that he was at JFK’s autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Very few people in the military had a worse relationship with JFK than LeMay did. He disagreed with JFK about the use of the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis and he was also against the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty that JFK signed in 1963. LeMay also wanted to escalate the war in Vietnam and was open to using nuclear weaponry if need be.

There were about 33 people at Bethesda to witness JFK’s autopsy. There was a gallery with bleachers and all three rows were filled with people.

Among them was LeMay. Paul O’Connor of the Navy was there to help the pathology during the autopsy. He told Horne that during the autopsy that Dr. Humes complained about someone smoking a cigar. He told O’Connor to tell that person to put it out.

So, O’Connor went to the gallery in the bleachers and there was General LeMay sitting in his uniform with a big cigar in his hand. After O’Connor asked him to put out the cigar, LeMay puffed the cigar and blew smoke in O’Connor’s face.

Was LeMay there to gloat at the demise of his nemesis?

You can see my review of Chapter 1 of JFK: Destiny Betrayed here.

You can see my review of Chapter 2 of JFK: Destiny Betrayed here.

Look for my review of Chapter 4 of JFK: Destiny Betrayed in the near future.

A Review of Oliver Stone’s JFK: Destiny Betrayed (Chapter 2)

In 1966, when I was nine years old, my dad brought home Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane. My dad was never a believer that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy and the book by Lane surely amplified that belief of his, as well as mine.

In 1991, I went to visit my parents one afternoon and my mom told me that dad had gone to see JFK, the Oliver Stone film. When dad came home, he told me that I really needed to go out and see this film. The next day I did. To both of us, the film further increased our belief that the JFK assassination was indeed a conspiracy.

While dad and I both thought the film was very insightful and informative about who may have murdered JFK and why he had created so many enemies within the United States government, many in the mainstream media gave the movie bad reviews. Like large media outlets like CBSNBC and The New York Times, who had all endorsed the Warren Report, which has been largely discredited in 58 years since it first came out in 1964.

Which takes me to a new Oliver Stone documentary called JFK: Destiny Betrayed. It’s a four-part film that lasts approximately four hours that can be seen on Prime Video and Apple. I had the opportunity to see the film and I thought it was outstanding. The film was directed by Stone and produced by Rob Wilson. The film was written by long time JFK assassination researcher and author Jim DiEugenio. The film is narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland.

If you truly care about what really occurred in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963, please watch this film. Yes, I know, we now live in an era of disinformation, via the mainstream media, as well as social media. Unlike that fabricated rhetoric, this film puts out real evidence, much of which was hidden for 30-plus years. This documented information comes from witnesses, physicians, historians, researchers and ballistics specialists.

Chapter 2:

This chapter begins by focusing on JFK’s autopsy at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on the evening of the assassination after Kennedy was flown back to Washington D.C. from Dallas.

Oliver Stone asks forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht if Dr. Milton Helpern would have been a good choice to do the autopsy, since he was considered one of the best forensic pathologists in the country.

“”I know this directly from Milton, this is not hearsay,” Wecht said. “He had his bag packed. And he had already contacted two other top forensic pathologists to see if they would be available. All of the top forensic pathologists in the United States were within a one-hour drive or flying time from D.C. and not one of them was called upon.

“The autopsy should have been done legally speaking, in Dallas. And there was a forensic pathologist, Earl Rose. He was there to assume jurisdiction and to do the autopsy. He was pushed up against the wall and threatened with hands on guns and a lot of expletives and so on. He followed them out the driveway and they took the body illegally out of Dallas in violation of the laws in Dallas and the state of Texas.”

The men who did perform the autopsy were Dr. James Humes and Dr. J. Thornton Boswell. Wecht also commented about the selection of these men to do the autopsy.

“These two military pathologists, who had never done a single gunshot wound autopsy in their entire careers,” Wecht said. “This is something that really needs to be emphasized to every American…Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative…this is your President. And you have multiple gunshot wounds to determine angle, trajectory, range, sequence, and then you have to correlate that with the multiple gunshot wounds of [John] Connally. This is a formidable task that would have required two or three major forensic pathologists to undertake.”

Dr. Gary Aguilar, who is an ophthalmologist, explained what happened next.

“They [Humes and Boswell] realized they were over their heads,” Aguilar said. “They called in an expert from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, a guy named Pierre Finck. Dr. Humes and Boswell started the autopsy before the forensic consultant got there and they took the brain out. Obviously, some key clues were lost by doing this.

“But they realized they were over their heads, and they asked to have a medical examiner because Dr. Finck, who was a forensic pathologist, wasn’t doing autopsies and he hadn’t done one in more than two years. So, they asked for permission to bring in someone who knew what they were doing and permission was denied.”

After Air Force One flew out of Dallas, two of the key doctors who tried to save JFK’s life at Parkland Hospital in Dallas held a press conference. They were Dr. Kemp Clark and Dr. Malcolm Perry.

Dr. Aguilar explained what Clark and Perry did while trying to save Kennedy’s life.

“Dr. Perry performed the tracheotomy to help Kennedy breathe,” Aguilar said. “At the press conference right after the failed resuscitation effort in Dallas, he was asked where was the bullet. He said it looked like the bullet was coming at him and was an entrance wound in the throat.”

Douglas Horne, who was the Chief Analyst for Military Records for the Assassination Records Review Board (the ARRB), said this about what Dr. Clark found after looking at JFK’s head wound.

“Kemp Clark, who was the head of neurosurgery at Parkland, he said that the President had a gaping wound in the occipital-parietal area, the right rear of the head,” Horne said. “So, the description he gave of that was highly consistent with that of an exit wound and he made that clear at the press conference.”

Based on what Perry and Clark had said at their press conferences certainly indicated that there was at least one shooter from in front of JFK’s limousine based on Kennedy’s wounds. At another press conference at Parkland, Assistant White House Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff said this as he pointed to his right temple, “Dr. Burkley told me it was a simple matter of a bullet right through the head.”

Horne also noted that there is a White House transcript of the press conference that Dr. Perry and Dr. Clark held, which is a very important historical document. Why? The Secret Service confiscated the film of that press conference from a local television station.

The Secret Service also lied to the Warren Commission about there not being any recordings or transcripts of that press conference. There is a surviving clip of Dr. Perry recorded not long after the press conference, as he described JFK’s head wound.

“And arriving at the emergency room, Dr. Carrico had placed a tube in the president’s trachea to assist his breathing, but there was a neck wound anteriorly (front), and a large wound of his head, in the right posterior (rear) area.”

A day after the shooting, Dr. Perry was seen by nurse Audrey Bell, who had been with him in the operating room. Bell testified to the ARRB that Perry told her that he hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before because of all the calls he had received from Bethesda the night before. They kept asking him if the neck wound was an entrance wound or an exit wound and they were trying to change his mind, according to Perry.

Aguilar then noted that in his testimony to the Warren Commission, Perry recanted his earlier statement about the throat wound and said it was consistent with an exit wound as he was intimidated by Arlen Specter.

In 1975, Dr. Donald Miller, got to know Dr. Perry, as they both worked at the University of Washington Medical Center. They assisted each other in complex surgeries. Miller was very interested in Perry’s knowledge regarding the JFK assassination, but Miller said that Perry categorically refused to talk about the assassination. However, one night after a multi-hour medical procedure that both had participated in, Miller said that Perry told him as they sat in the doctor’s lounge drinking coffee, that JFK’s neck wound was indeed an entrance wound.

But a year later, Perry testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (the HSCA) that the neck wound was an exit wound, which helped to enhance Specter’s single-bullet theory. Miller said that the main reason Perry changed his testimony was due to the pressure he was getting from Secret Service agent Elmer Moore. According to Miller, Moore also pressured the other doctors at Parkland to change their testimony as well.

Miller also noted that Moore was the head of the Secret Service office in Seattle. A graduate student named Jim Gochenaur from the University of Washington became friends with Moore. In one of the conversations that they had, Moore told Gochenaur that he regretted putting pressure on Dr. Perry. Moore said that he was ordered to do so.

Dr. Charles Crenshaw was also at Parkland Hospital in the emergency room as doctors were trying to save JFK’s life. Crenshaw said this regarding JFK’s head wound, “I looked at the wound again. I wanted to know and to remember this for the rest of my life. And for the rest of my life, I will always know that he was shot from the front.”

Secret Service agent Clint Hill was the only Secret Service agent to run to JFK’s limousine after the shooting. Hill jumped on the rear of the car, and he later said that he saw blood and brain tissue on the trunk of the limo. Hill also said that there was a large wound in the rear of JFK’s skull that he could see through with no brain there.

At JFK’s autopsy, there were two FBI agents on hand. They were Frank O’Neill and James Sibert. They reported what they heard at the autopsy. They were interviewed by Specter in early 1964 and he wrote very unfavorable comments about O’Neill and Sibert in a summary report to the Warren Commission. There was a reason for this. Specter knew that O’Neill and Sibert were providing evidence that the single-bullet theory could not be true.

Neither O’Neill nor Sibert testified to the Warren Commission and their written notes were classified. But in 1997, both O’Neill and Sibert gave depositions to the ARRB. They were shown the autopsy photographs of JFK’s head. They both said that they did not see anything like that at the autopsy.

Sibert drew a head wound diagram for the ARRB and said this about the wound in the back of JFK’s head, “There was a piece about the size of a 3×5 card that was missing.”

The HSCA completely misrepresented what those present at Bethesda saw regarding JFK’s head wound, compared to those at Parkland saw.

Dr. David Mantik explains, “Not only were we allowed to see their statements, but we were allowed to see the sketches where they had drawn the big hole in the back of the head. This was totally opposite of what of what the HSCA had told us.”

In addition to that, a piece of skull bone was found in Dealey Plaza by Billy Harper the day after the assassination. Harper found the skull bone to the left to where JFK was assassinated. Harper, who was a medical student, showed the bone to his professor who said it appeared to be an occipital bone from the back of the head. The bone measured 3×2 inches. The bone was given to the FBI on November 25th after the autopsy report had been written by Dr. Humes. The FBI gave it to JFK’s personal physician Dr. Burkley, which at that point it disappeared. All we have today are the photos taken of the bone.

Also in Chapter 2, we also learn that Congressman John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts decided to take a trip to the Mideast and Asia in 1951, accompanied by his sister Patricia and his brother Bobby. The knowledge that JFK learned from this trip would definitely impact his decisions that he made as President in regard to what was going on in Vietnam.

In 1951, France had troops in Vietnam and 80 percent of the military material came from the United States. Kennedy wanted to learn more about this brutal colonial war being brought on by France. The French generals told Kennedy that the war was going well. But after talking to Edmond Gullion, who held senior positions at the American Embassy in Saigon, JFK gained valuable insight.

Guillon told JFK that the French were losing the war and if the United States replaced the French, the same thing would happen. Kennedy’s conversations with Gullion enacted a six-year crusade to formulate an alternative foreign policy, which was opposite of that of then President Harry S. Truman. Unlike President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had cooperated with the Soviet Union, Truman was much more confrontational versus the Soviet Union, which created the Cold War. That same strategy was utilized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

In 1953, JFK sent a letter to John Foster Dulles asking him 47 questions on why the United States should support France in the war in Vietnam. One of those questions was, what specific evidence is there that France is winning this war?

Foster Dulles’ eventual answer to this letter was codenamed Operation Vulture. Vice-President Richard Nixon was the main lobbyist for the air operation, in which planes and bombers from the U.S. were going to be used to support the French position in Vietnam. Operation Vulture also included the possibility of using the atomic bomb. Even France would not support a plan with the possibility of atomic bomb use. When Eisenhower could not get Great Britain to sign on with Operation Vulture, he rejected the plan. And as Gullion predicted, France lost the war in Vietnam.

Although JFK supported Adlai Stevenson who ran against Eisenhower for the presidency in 1952 and 1956, he differed with Stevenson in terms of his approach to foreign policy. In 1957, Kennedy also took on Eisenhower, Nixon and Foster Dulles in that particular policy regarding Algeria. France again was doing what it did in Vietnam, in terms of trying to have colonial control of Algeria. Like he realized in Vietnam, JFK knew that Algeria would eventually be free of that type of a colonial environment. And once again, JFK was correct.

Kennedy’s interest in self-determination in the “Third World”, led him to become chairman of the African Affairs subcommittee in the Senate in 1958. JFK became associated with a delegate from Kenya named Thomas Odhiambo Mboya. That association led to scholarships for people from Kenya in the United States. One of those scholarships went to Barack Obama Sr. in 1959. In 2008, Barack Obama Jr. became the 44th President of the United States.

In terms of JFK’s assassination, the version of what went down according to the Warren Commission, differed with both the FBI and CIA. Although it never specified the order of the shots, the Warren Report said that one shot hit Kennedy and Connally, another shot missed the car and the final shot hit JFK in the head.

The FBI analysis said that that all three bullets hit inside the car. Two hitting Kennedy and one hitting Connally. The CIA analysis said that the first shot did not come from behind, but from the front. They also concluded that two shooters were involved. Their analysis came from what they saw on the Zapruder film. Records show that the CIA analysis only went to CIA Director John McCone. Like the FBI analysis, the Warren Commision either never received that information or just ignored it.

The Warren Commission put itself in a corner by saying only three shots were fired by the so-called assassin Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository. Because one of the shots missed the car and one of shots was the fatal head shot to JFK, that meant that the other shot hit both Kennedy and Connally and created seven wounds between the two men.

The problem for the Warren Commission was that the Zapruder film showed that Connaly was hit 1.5 seconds after JFK was hit by the first shot. The best any sharpshooter could do with Oswald’s so-called assassination weapon, the Mannlicher Carcano, was to fire two consecutive shots in 2.3 seconds. That meant the Warren Commision had to come up with something magical. Enter Arlen Specter and the single-bullet theory.

The Specter theory said one bullet hit JFK in the back and then went out his neck. The same bullet hit Connally in the back and went out the front of his chest into his right wrist and then into his left thigh.

CE 399 is considered the magic bullet. Look at the pristine condition of a bullet that caused seven wounds in two people.

This bullet is foundational to the theory that one lone gunman (Lee Harvey Oswald) killed President Kennedy. There are multiple problems with this synopsis.

The biggest problem with this theory is the lack of damage to the bullet after going through two men, smashing through two bones and causing seven wounds. The Warren Commission hired Dr. Joseph Dolce, an honored battlefield surgeon during World War II, to test whether or not the bullets from Oswald’s reported weapon could do that type of damage and stay relatively unscathed.

Here was what Dolce said regarding that analysis, “So they gave us the original rifle, the Mannlicher Carcano, plus 100 bullets, 6.5 millimeters. So, we went and we shot what was available to us and in every instance, the front of the tip of the bullet was smashed. Under no circumstances do I feel this bullet could hit the wrist and still not be deformed.”

Dolce believed that two bullets hit Connally, which is why his testimony was not in the Warren Report. In 1978, the HSCA tried to revive the single-bullet theory, using a technique called neutron activation analysis. That faulty interpretation is now disregarded by the FBI.

The Warren Commission also did tests using the Mannlicher Carcano firing into 10 human skulls from behind. All 10 of the skulls moved away from the rifle shot, not back and to the left when JFK was hit with his fatal head shot. In addition, the trajectory from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository would have led to a blow out through the face, which was confirmed by the tests done. This did not happen with JFK, as his face was intact after the shooting.

In addition to this, there are also the issues with the Mannlicher Carcano that Oswald supposedly ordered, as well as the chain of custody situation with the so-called magic bullet.

In terms of the Mannlicher Carcano rifle matter, Stone asked Brian Edwards, who is an Instructor in Criminal Justice at Washburn University, whether or not the rifle in evidence today is the same rifle that was ordered through the mail.

“The rifle that Lee Oswald allegedly ordered under an alias of Alex Hidell was obtained from Klein’s Sporting Goods Store in Chicago,” Edwards said. “It’s a mail order. He got it out of American Rifleman magazine. He wrote on the coupon that he wanted a 36-inch model, a Mannlicher Carcano, 6.5 millimeter, for $19.95.

“Robert Frazier was one of the examiners and he was a firearms expert for the FBI. He testified that he did measure it and the measurement was 40.2-inches in length from barrel to stock. There’s a 4.2-inch difference in the one he ordered versus what they found in the book depository.”

There are other anomalies regarding the rifle. For instance, the rifle that Oswald allegedly ordered had strap attachments on the bottom of the rifle. If you look at the rifle brought out of the Texas School Book Depository, you see the strap attachments on the side of the rifle, not the bottom.

Plus, there are the backyard photos of Oswald holding the rifle and there you can see the strap attachments on the bottom, not the side. In addition to that, there is the question of how Oswald could have even received the rifle.

Edwards explains. “If the rifle was sent by Klein’s to the Post Office box rented under the name Lee Harvey Oswald, using the alias of A.J. Hidell on the coupon, it would have been sent back immediately. Because Oswald’s name is the only one on the Post Office box. He was the only one authorized to receive mail. Marina’s name wasn’t even on it. So that rifle was addressed to a person who didn’t have the authority to have any mail received at that box. It should have been sent back.”

Also, why would anyone order a rifle to use in an assassination and leave a paper trail that would lead directly back to that person?

In addition to that, Sebastian Latona of the FBI said this to the Warren Commission in his testimony, “I was not successful in developing any prints at all on the weapon.”

Stone also asked Edwards how important chain of custody is in regarding evidence. “Chain of custody basically refers to the integrity of evidence,” Edwards said. “If I pick up a piece of evidence and I transfer it to someone else for holding or processing, my name is the first name on this list. The second person who touches this and takes possession of it is next. And if you don’t do that, there is no way to prove that the evidence you collected on Day 1 was the same one on Day 25 when you go to court.”

Which takes us to the chain of evidence for the so-called magic bullet.

Stone asks Dr. Mantik to go over the chain of custody regarding that bullet. “Well, the magic bullet was supposedly found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital,” Mantik said. “It went through several hands before it got to the Secret Service. Richard Johnson was the first Secret Service agent to handle it and bring it back to Washinton D.C. When he got back to Washington D.C., he gave it to the Chief of the Secret Service, who is James Rowley. And at the White House, James Rowley gave it to Elmer Lee Todd. Todd then took it to the FBI lab and gave it to Robert Frazier.”

Here is where some great investigative work done by a private citizen named John Hunt came into play. Hunt went to the National Archives a number of times to track down the real story about the magic bullet chain of custody. Working with the FBI and Warren Commission documents, Hunt asked a key question. Is CE 399 the same bullet which was found on the stretcher at Parkland Hospital?

There appears to be some real discrepancy here. Robert Frazier said he received the bullet at 7:30pm the evening of the assassination, which is documented a number of times. However, Elmer Lee Todd noted that he received the bullet at the White House from James Rowley at 8:50pm. So, how could Todd have received the bullet more than an hour after he supposedly gave it to Frazier?

Also, in 1966, author Josiah Thompson (Six Seconds in Dallas) showed a photo of the magic bullet with a rounded tip to O.P. Wright, who was the head of maintenance at Parkland Hospital. Wright told Thompson that the bullet that was found at Parkland didn’t look like that. The one that was found had a pointed tip, not a rounded tip like the magic bullet.

Bottom line, anytime the chain of evidence is broken, that evidence is inadmissible in court.

Finally, Chapter 2 delves into the murder of Oswald on November 24, 1963. Before then, while he was in custody and interrogated, Oswald proclaimed his innocence and confessed to nothing. During his questioning, there was not a stenographer present, plus the police said that there was no tape recording of the interrogation either.

Before Oswald was to be transferred to the County Jail on Sunday, the FBI alerted the Dallas police on both Saturday and Sunday about threats to kill the alleged assassin of President Kennedy. But the police didn’t heed that warning and went ahead with the transfer.

There are two car horns that you can hear on the video when Jack Ruby shoots Oswald in the police basement where the transfer is supposed to take place. One when Oswald emerges and one just before Ruby shoots Oswald.

Because of that shocking murder, the FBI took complete control of the investigation from the Dallas police. That evening, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI wrote a memo to the newly sworn-in President Lyndon Johnson, saying, “The thing I’m concerned about is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.”

The next day, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach wrote a memo that said this, “The public must be satisfied that Oswald did not have confederates who are still at large and that the evidence is such that he would have been convicted at trial.”

With those two memos, the FBI became the main investigative arm for the Warren Commission. There was never any serious discussion about bringing in an independent investigating source.

The day after he was murdered, The New York Times pronounced Oswald as the killer of JFK. The Warren Commission concluded that Ruby shot Oswald acting alone. They said the murder of Oswald was not premediated or planned and that Ruby had no help entering the building.

Yet later on when Ruby talked to the press while awaiting a retrial, he said this, “The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive, to put me in the position I’m in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.”

Two months after being granted a new trial, Ruby was found to be riddled with cancer. One month before his new trial was to begin, Ruby died. The Warren Commission never exposed Ruby’s connection to the mafia, FBI and the gun-running and gambling connections he had in Miami and Cuba.

Oswald was never given any legal representation while he was alive and in custody. Attorney Mark Lane tried to do that later, as he said, “The commission has functioned in a way which totally disregards the rights of the accused.”

Robert Tanenbaum, who was the former Deputy Chief Council for the HSCA said this, “I can tell you from my experience having tried several hundred cases of murder and being responsible for thousands of cases in the criminal courts and running a homicide bureau, that I don’t believe there is any court in America where Oswald would have been convicted on the evidence that was presented by the Warren Commission.”

You can see my review of Chapter 1 of JFK: Destiny Betrayed here.

Look for my review of Chapter 3 of JFK: Destiny Betrayed in the near future.

A Review of Oliver Stone’s JFK: Destiny Betrayed (Chapter 1)

In 1966, when I was nine years old, my dad brought home Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane. My dad was never a believer that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy and the book by Lane surely amplified that belief of his, as well as mine.

In 1991, I went to visit my parents one afternoon and my mom told me that dad had gone to see JFK, the Oliver Stone film. When dad came home, he told me that I really needed to go out and see this film. The next day I did. To both of us, the film further increased our belief that the JFK assassination was indeed a conspiracy.

While dad and I both thought the film was very insightful and informative about who may have murdered JFK and why he had created so many enemies within the United States government, many in the mainstream media gave the movie bad reviews. Like large media outlets like CBS, NBC and The New York Times, who had all endorsed the Warren Report, which has been largely discredited in 58 years since it first came out in 1964.

Which takes me to a new Oliver Stone documentary called JFK: Destiny Betrayed. It’s a four-part film that lasts approximately four hours that can be seen on Prime Video and Apple. I had the opportunity to see the film and I thought it was outstanding. The film was directed by Stone and produced by Rob Wilson. The film was written by long time JFK assassination researcher and author Jim DiEugenio. The film is narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland.

If you truly care about what really occurred in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963, please watch this film. Yes, I know, we now live in an era of disinformation, via the mainstream media, as well as social media. Unlike that fabricated rhetoric, this film puts out real evidence, much of which was hidden for 30-plus years. This documented information comes from witnesses, physicians, historians, researchers and ballistics specialists.

Chapter 1:

Oliver Stone walks Dealey Plaza and retells what occurred after his film JFK was released in 1991. Because of the media sensation that the film had created, it led to the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. That led to the formation of the Assassination Records and Review Board (the ARRB). The ARRB was able to look at over 60,000 declassified assassination documents which came from the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (the HSCA). In all, the ARRB collected over two million declassified pages of records and artifacts.

Those documents shed new light on what really transpired when JFK was assassinated. Still, much of the public is unaware of these findings.

We also find out from Robert Kennedy Jr. that his father suspected that the murder of his brother was a domestic conspiracy. RFK’s first phone call was to the CIA when he asked, “Did your people conduct this horror?”

Author/historian David Talbot also mentions that RFK knew that there was not just a lone gunman in Dealey Plaza that day. Why? From talking to his close confidants Kenny O’Donnell and David Powers who were in the limousine directly behind that of JFK’s limo. Both O’Donnell and Powers, who were World War II veterans, said that the gunfire in Dallas that afternoon came in a crossfire.

After Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after JFK was assassinated, more red flags went up. Talbot mentions that RFK looked at the phone logs of Ruby prior to his murder of Oswald and he found that Ruby was talking to mobsters.

RFK had also known about the alliance of the CIA and the mafia, as in 1961, the FBI uncovered secret CIA/mob plans to assassinate Fidel Castro in Cuba. When RFK, then Attorney General of the United States, asked the CIA about this, they admitted that this had been done, but they told him that the operation had ceased. That was not true, as this plan was still ongoing, led by CIA officer William Harvey and Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli.

RFK also suspected a third party who took part in the assassination of his brother, according to Talbot. That would be the anti-Castro exiles.

RFK Jr. said his dad was just shattered by the death of his brother for a while. In terms of the Warren Commission, RFK wanted nothing to do with it and publicly never said a word about their findings. Privately, RFK thought that the report by the Warren Commission was shoddy. Also, RFK knew the makeup of the commission under the direction of President Lyndon Johnson was going to put out a deceptive narrative.

The commission was headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. The commission also included Allen Dulles, the former CIA director who was fired by JFK in 1961. The inclusion of Dulles should have immediately raised red flags, just based on his tumultuous tenure under JFK. Others on the commission included Michigan Congressman and future President Gerald Ford, Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Senator John Cooper of Kentucky and John McCloy, who was chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations.

One of the reasons Dulles was fired was due to the lies he had told JFK before the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. After the failed invasion, just three months into his presidency, JFK accepted the blame publicly. But privately, he felt he was deceived by Dulles and others in the CIA. Because of that, JFK cut the budget of the CIA by 20 percent and uttered his famous quote, “I’m going to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the winds.” Besides firing Dulles, JFK also fired his two top advisors, Richard Bissell Jr. and General Charles Cabell.

It wasn’t just the Bay of Pigs debacle which got Dulles fired. In April of 1961, the same month as the Bay of Pigs event, Dulles also lied to Kennedy about a coup attempt in France, as the CIA was involved in a plot to remove President Charles de Gaulle.

In terms of the Warren Commission, Dulles was the only commissioner who did not have a regular job. Because of that, he was the most active member of that group. He asked the most questions (31 percent of the total) and was at the most hearings. Remarkably, Dulles never informed the commission of the CIA’s attempts to assassinate Castro and also why JFK had fired him after the Bay of Pigs. Behind the scenes, Dulles worked with the CIA in terms of how to respond to certain questions asked by the commission, which included denying any association that Oswald may have had with the CIA.

Unlike Dulles, there were also a number of members of the commission who were not onboard with some of the findings put out in the actual Warren Report. One was Russell, who right at the beginning of the commission, became disenchanted due to the involvement of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Russell also did not believe the single-bullet theory put out by assistant counsel Arlen Specter. Russell also did not believe Oswald acted alone. He was influenced by seeing the Zapruder film and also the testimony of Governor John Connally of Texas, who was in the same limo with JFK. Connally did not believe that he and Kennedy were shot with the same bullet. When the Warren Report was put out, Russell was the first member of the commission to criticize it. He was followed in that dissent by Cooper and Boggs.

Also in Chapter 1, we see that the Eisenhower administration and the CIA were also involved in the coup that took place in the Congo just before JFK assumed the presidency. All of that later led to the Senate Select Committee in 1975 headed by Senator Frank Church of Idaho, which investigated the abuses and crimes of both the CIA and FBI.

Among the things that the Church Committee learned were the CIA plots to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, who was the Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo and also Castro in Cuba.

Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Senator Gary Hart of Colorado set up a subcommittee to investigate the JFK assassination. They found that the Warren Commission relied almost exclusively on the findings of the FBI and CIA. One of things that the subcommittee uncovered was that Jack Ruby was a FBI informant. The Church Committee also had access to the internal CIA report about their plot along with the mafia to assassinate Castro starting in 1960 under Dulles. In that report, the agency admitted that they had no presidential authorization to do so. Schweiker was infuriated by the information that the Church Committee uncovered and he said, “I think the Warren Commission has in fact, collapsed like a house of cards. And I believe that the Warren Commission was set up at the time to feed pablum to the American people for reasons not yet known and that one of the biggest coverups in the history of our country occurred at that time.”

Also in 1975, the American public got to see the Zapruder film for the first time. Robert Groden had obtained the film while working as a technician in a film facility. And on Good Night America on ABC, hosted By Geraldo Rivera, the film was shown on national television by Groden.

Because of the national outrage that the release of the Zapruder film caused, it led to the second major inquiry into President Kennedy’s murder. It was called the House Select Committee on Assassinations (the HSCA) which was formed in 1976. The investigation ended in 1978, but just like the Warren Commission, many facts were hidden from the public.

While talking with Stone, Dr. David Mantik said, “After the House Select Committee on Assassinations closed up shop, they sealed many of the witness reports. These were not available to the public.” John R. Tunheim, who chaired the ARRB, said this, “Close to half a million records which were segregated, they were to be sealed on House rules at the time until 2029. Some of them had leaked out and some were part of the report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but most were not released.”

With the release of Stone’s film JFK in 1991, the public was made aware at the end of that film that the HSCA had locked away the vast majority of their findings until the year 2029. Because of that, hearings were held on Capitol Hill.

As I mentioned earlier, this led to the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, which then led to the formation of the Assassination Records and Review Board (the ARRB) in 1994.

The ARRB got very little media coverage, which is why many Americans still have never found out about the findings of the ARRB.

Chapter 1 also delves into why Oswald could not have been the assassin on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository due to some witness reports who had close proximity to Oswald’s supposed escape route down the stairs from the 6th floor to the 2nd floor after the assassination. The testimony of three of the witnesses conflicted with what was written in the Warren Report. Without the ARRB’s review process, the American public would never have learned the corroborating testimony of these three witnesses who provide powerful evidence that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting.

In 2017, President Donald Trump was set to release the remaining records of the JFK assassination but decided not to release them due to security concerns by some in the CIA and FBI.

Look for my review on Chapter 2 of JFK: Destiny Betrayed in the near future.

Green Bay Packers: Rookie Romeo Doubs and Davante Adams Have Similar Attributes

Romeo Doubs playing for Nevada

Rookie wide receiver Romeo Doubs of the Green Bay Packers was one of the most productive receivers in the history of the Mountain West Conference when he played for the Nevada Wolf Pack. So was Davante Adams, when he played for the Fresno State Bulldogs.

Doubs is about to start his career with the Packers in 2022, while Adams saw his career end with the Pack when he was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders for a 1st-round pick and a 2nd-round pick in the 2022 NFL draft.

In terms of pass receiving records in the MWC, Adams is ranked 8th all time in receptions with 233 catches. Doubs is ranked 11th with 225 receptions. When it comes to all-time pass receiving yards, Doubs is ranked 8th with 3,322 yards, while Adams is ranked 13th with 3,031 yards.

When it came to catching touchdown passes all time in the MWC, Adams in ranked No. 1 with 38 touchdowns, while Doubs is ranked 6th with 26 scores.

There are a number of other similarities with Doubs and Adams. For one thing, Adams and Doubs both hail from California. Adams grew up in East Palo Alto, while Doubs grew up in Los Angeles. Both are very similar in size as well. Adams is 6’2″ and weighs 210 pounds. Doubs is 6’2″ and weighs 204 pounds.

Both Doubs and Adams have similar speed as well. Doubs ran a 4.50 in the 40 at the 2022 Nevada Pro Day, while Adams ran a 4.56 in the 40 at the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine.

Davante Adams playing for Fresno State

Even with their similarities, it would be hard to fathom that Doubs can put up similar numbers that Adams had in his time in Green Bay. In eight seasons, Adams had 669 receptions for 8,121 yards and 73 touchdowns. No. 17 also was named to five Pro Bowl teams, as well as being named first-team All-Pro twice.

Just before Day 2 of the 2022 NFL draft, I wrote a scouting piece about five wide receiver prospects who the Packers might select in the draft. The Packers ended up taking two of the five wide receivers I mentioned, Christian Watson and Doubs.

Time will tell what type of numbers Doubs (who will wear No. 87) will put up as a member of the Packers, but you have to love his attitude, based on his statements to the media on draft weekend.

About catching passes from Aaron Rodgers: “I’m really excited, looking forward to working with him. But I know coming in for my first year as a rookie, I know the expectations can be a little different so it’s just doing whatever the coaches ask me to do.”

About playing in the Matt LaFleur offense: “I took a 30 visit there, I met a couple receivers. I truly believe the offense Green Bay does have is really good. They’ve been consistent with the offense for a couple of years now so I truly believe a lot of good things will happen coming in to this offense.”

About playing on special teams: “Whatever the coaches want me to do, I’m gonna bring it, whether it’s flying down on punts, catching punts, catching kickoff returns. Whatever the coaching staff wants me to do, it’s my responsibility to do it. I met with every coach I know how important special teams is. I have experience playing (every position). In the end I know regardless, wherever the coaches put me, I’ll make sure I take advantage of it.”

Green Bay Packers: A Scout’s Take on the Day 2 and Day 3 Selections in the 2022 NFL Draft

Well, the 2022 NFL draft is over. The Green Bay Packers added 11 players in this draft. GM Brian Gutekunst started by selecting a couple defensive stalwarts from the national champion Georgia Bulldogs in Round 1 on Thursday night, when the top six wide receivers were already off the board.

I wrote a piece about Quay Walker and Devonte Wyatt of Georgia shortly after they were drafted, as NFL scout Chris Landry added his opinion about the top two picks for the Pack.

Going into Day 2 of the draft, I wrote about five wide receiver possibilities who the Packers might select to enhance the passing game of the Packers and add some more weaponry for quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Two (Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs) of the five players I listed were then selected by the Packers.

In this draft, the defense was definitely strengthened in Round 1, while in the rest of the draft, the Packers certainly improved the depth on both offense and on special teams. The Packers added three wide receivers, as well as three offensive linemen to add to the offense run by Matt LaFleur, while new special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia received some help for his units as well.

Below I have listed all the Day 2 and Day 3 selections by the Packers, with a quick scouting analysis from Landry.

Round 2: Wide Receiver Christian Watson (North Dakota State)

Instant Analysis from Landry: Watson is exactly what the Packers have always looked for in their receivers: size and speed. Clocked at 23 mph in college, Watson is going to be one of the fastest players in the NFL in a 6-foot-4 frame.

Round 3: Offensive Lineman Sean Rhyan (UCLA)

Instant Analysis from Landry: His pass blocking should benefit on the inside better as well being in a more enclosed space. Rhyan will definitely need to develop his second level abilities along with hand placement and change of direction in pass sets. He profiles as a solid back up with potential to develop into a starter.

Round 4: Romeo Doubs (Nevada)

Instant Analysis from Landry: Romeo Doubs gives the Packers another deep threat as they look to stretch the field more with both him and second-round pick Christian Watson. The Packers will also be able to get creative with him and let him make plays after the catch.

Round 4: Offensive Lineman Zach Tom (Wake Forest)

Instant Analysis from Landry: Tom is a versatile lineman who has experience playing center, where he initially projects to play. Above average pass protector with solid hand placement, mirroring technique. He uses good leverage in the run game and works well getting to the second level. Overall a very athletic lineman with the versatility to play across the line.

Round 5: Edge Rusher Kingsley Enagbare (South Carolina)

Instant Analysis from Landry: Kingsley Enagbare is an interesting player due to his hype coming into the 2021 season. He ultimately didn’t improve a ton, specifically in the run game, in 2021 and has real questions as to where he will actually fit. Realistically, he doesn’t have the play strength to play at a 5-Tech and doesn’t possess the athleticism to drop back in coverage either. He is a true tweener.

Round 7 Safety/Linebacker Tariq Carpenter (Georgia Tech)

Instant Analysis from Landry: The four-year starting safety is making the move to linebacker, where his size and speed should help him fit more cleanly than at safety. He is a natural in run support with clear eyes and a physical approach in the box.

Round 7: Defensive Lineman Jonathan Ford (Miami of FL)

Instant Analysis by Landry: Ford could look to lose some weight, which has been a problem during his career. His 2019 tape shows that he has pass rush upside if he can slim down at the NT position.

Round 7: Offensive Lineman Rasheed Walker (Penn State)

Instant Analysis by Landry: Walker has the size and traits to become a solid player. He has some technical issues such as waist bending/lunging during run blocking. He needs to be more instinctive at reading stunts at the next level.

Round 7: Wide receiver Samori Toure (Nebraska)

Instant Analysis from Landry: Samori Toure has flashes of impressive burst with generally consistent hands. However, he does not have threatening long speed and can be a bit stiff as a route runner.