So here’s Pearl Jam with “Brain of J,” the opening track off of the band’s 1998 album, Yield.
Following up on the song’s opening interrogatories … who has the brain of JFK? And what does it mean to us now?
Good questions …
Officially, the brain of John F. Kennedy – removed on November 22, 1963 during the controversial military autopsy of the late president – is missing. In fact it’s been missing since April 1965 – which is when Kennedy’s physician says he transferred it to the National Archives under the auspices of former presidential secretary Evelyn Lincoln, who was acting under orders from Robert F. Kennedy.
It hasn’t been seen since …
Where did it go? Easy: Into the aether along with the rest of the truth surrounding Kennedy’s assassination.
UPDATE: While we’re on the subject of Kennedy …
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I ate his brain with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
It’s been missing since,November 22,1963.Parts were on Jackie,secret servicemen,in the car,and on the street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHlwhelL6rQ
Wow, I had never heard this. And I fancy myself a conspiracy theorist! I’m rather ashamed.
According to Horne, the ARRB’s work showed that:
(1) The autopsy report in evidence today, Warren Commission Exhibit
387, is the third version prepared of that report; it is not the sole
version, as was claimed for years by those who wrote it and signed it.
(2) The brain photographs in the National Archives that are purported to
be photographs of President Kennedy’s brain are not what they are
represented to be; they are not pictures of his brain, but rather are
photographs of someone else’s brain. Normally, in cases of death due to
injury to the brain, the brain is examined one or two weeks following
the autopsy on the body, and photographs are taken of the pattern of
damage. Following President Kennedy’s autopsy, there were two subsequent
brain examinations, not one: the first examination was of the
President’s brain, and those photographs were never introduced into the
official record; the second examination was of a fraudulent specimen,
whose photographs were subsequently introduced into the official record.
The pattern of damage displayed in these ‘official’ brain photographs
has nothing whatsoever to do with the assassination in Dallas, and in
fact was undoubtedly used to shore up the official conclusion that
President Kennedy was killed by a shot from above and behind.
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