Best Evidence (book)
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy is a 1980 book by David S. Lifton. It details the author's long quest to solve what he considered a fundamental mystery in the JFK assassination: why the president's gunshot wounds, as described on the afternoon of November 22, 1963 by doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, differed sharply from the autopsy findings later that night at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. The Dallas medical staff who first examined JFK reported seeing evidence that he was shot from the front, whereas the Bethesda autopsy doctors concluded that all entrance wounds were in his back and the rear of his skull. The thesis put forth by Lifton to resolve this contradiction is that during the hours between Dallas and Bethesda, conspiracy participants secretly altered the president's body so that it would fit the government's assassination narrative, i.e., that he was killed by a lone gunman firing from behind.
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