JFK Doctors Are Dying

The doctors who worked so frantically on President John F. Kennedy on the day of his assassination are growing old and dying themselves. A legacy of insights and information is passing away with this group of individuals. Today, May 1, 2012, saw another one die. You may have heard the story before. The scene was dramatically shown in Oliver Stone's JFK . Dr. Earl Rose stood in a doorway at the Dallas' Parkland Hospital where Kennedy's body was taken on November 22, 1963, in a vain attempt to block Kennedy's aides as they removed his coffin, as government agents pushed at Rose and other doctors. Dr. Earl Rose is shown in his Iowa City, Iowa. home Thursday, November 13, 2003. The Secret Service and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy prevailed, and the president's body was flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where an autopsy was done by pathologists James Humes and Thornton Boswell. Their findings have been used to support an array of conspiracy theories about Kennedy's ...