Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK

by Douglas P. Horne

VOLUME 1 of 5: Douglas Horne served on the staff of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) during the final three years of its four-year lifespan, from 1995 to 1998, and is the first U.S. government official involved with the medical evidence to allege a coverup in President Kennedy's autopsy, and in the creation of the autopsy photographs and x-rays. This book, the product of over 13 years of writing and research, provides the best explanation yet offered of the true nature of the medical coverup in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and does so in meticulous detail, with scrupulous use of primary source material. It incorporates the latest information---much of it new evidence not revealed elsewhere---gleaned from the ARRB's depositions and interviews of medical witnesses, conducted from 1996 to 1998. With precise accuracy, and with a relentless focus on the massive fraud uncovered in the official records of the 35th President's assassination, Horne presents a persuasive case that the assassination of JFK was an "inside job," a true coup d'etat in America, that was ruthlessly and brazenly covered up by those who 'broke the back of the American century' in Dallas on November 22, 1963. IN VOLUME ONE, THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS THE ORIGINS AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD (ARRB), AND RELATES HOW HE CAME TO JOIN THAT EFFORT IN 1995. HE PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR CONFLICTS WITHIN THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE JFK CASE, AND TAKES THE READER INSIDE THE ARRB TO WITNESS ITS DEPOSITIONS OF THE THREE MILITARY PATHOLOGISTS WHO PERFORMED JFK'S AUTOPSY. HE COMMENCES HIS LONG EXAMINATION OF THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH THE COLLECTION OF AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (WHICH IS CONCLUDED IN VOLUME TWO). ALL OF THE NINETY (90) ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE FIVE VOLUME SET ARE INCLUDED IN VOLUME ONE. (Second Printing---with corrections entered---now for sale.)

426 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2009

About the author

Douglas Horne graduated from the Ohio State University in 1974 with a B.A. in History, and served as a junior officer in the U.S. Navy for 10 years, followed by 10 more years with the Navy as a Civil Servant in an anti-sub marine warfare program.

Horne worked on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) in Washington, DC for the final 3 years of the Review Board’s 4-year lifespan, from August 1995 through September 1998. He was hired as a Senior Analyst on the Military Records Team, and was later promoted to the position of Chief Analyst for Military Records (i.e., the Head of the Military Records Team).

Horne was not only involved in the location and release of US military records on Cuba and Vietnam policy from 1961 through 1964, but he played an integral role in conducting both unsworn interviews and formal depositions of witnesses to, and participants in, JFK’s autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and was also involved in joint efforts between the ARRB and Kodak to both digitally preserve the photographic images of the autopsy, and to conduct an authenticity study of the Zapruder Film in the National Archives.

After leaving the Assassination Records Review Board Horne worked for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum before joining the State Department.

A couple of articles by Douglas Horne, Evidence of a Government Cover-Up and Interviews with Former NPIC Employees , appeared in Murder in Dealey Plaza (edited by James H. Fetzer). An interesting interview with Horne by Dick Russell was included in On the Trail of the JFK Assassins (2008).

Douglas Horne’s book, Inside the Assassination Records Review Board was published in December, 2009.

Reviews

[Mikal Lambert · Rating 5 out of 5]

It took me a long time to get through this painstakingly thorough and documented volume (I had to put it down and return to it quite frequently), but it was very much worth it!

I have always been suspicious of the government's rush to stamp the JFK shooting as the effort of a single person, but the researchers who support a multi-shooter event have focused on the lack of evidence rather than coming up with persuasive affirmative evidence of their own. Mr. Horne has come up with convincing evidence (some of it circumstantial, to be sure) pertaining to the medical findings of wounds on JFK's body that lead me to believe that an actual medical coverup took place to mask the involvement of a second shooter. A second shooter plus a coverup sure looks to me like a conspiracy.