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Dr. David W. Mantik: JFK Was Killed by Consensus

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David W. Mantik, MD, PhD, is a radiation oncologist who received his doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin and then did a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. For over 40 years, he has treated cancer patients with x-rays, electrons, and protons. In 1993, he examined the JFK autopsy x-rays and photographs at the National Archives on four separate days. He determined that the three skull x-rays are copies and each has been critically altered, with one change done specifically to incriminate Lee Harvey Oswald.

His new book is JFK WAS KILLED BY CONSENSUS: Dealey Plaza Was Just the Final Stop, available at www.trineday.com and the usual sellers.

His website is www.themantikview.org.

Interview highlights:

David was always interested in the JFK assassination. “November 22, 1963, was a very a dark day in American history.” He knew of the objections of Dr. Cyril Wecht, who later became a very good friend.

But David got angry at historians after seeing Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, because we didn’t seem to know what happened or why Kennedy was killed. That anger fueled his desire to find out what happened.

David wrote the Kennedy family attorney, Burke Marshall, for permission to see the items in the National Archives. Once granted, David spent nine full days in the Archives and did an unprecedented study. Contrary to the official story (that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone), David found that three bullets struck Kennedy in the head, two from the front (in the right forehead and, most likely from the Grassy Knoll, in the right temple) and one from the rear.

The temple shot caused the big exit wound in the right-rear of Kenney’s skull seen by many at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. David said the forehead shot more likely came from the railroad overpass that Kennedy’s car was approaching.

Research indicates that the Zapruder film of the assassination was quickly altered. (The unaltered original could have shown that JFK was hit in the head by multiple shots.)

There are also five or six reports of people seeing a film a lot like Zapruder’s but different, which shows the limousine turn onto Elm Street and then limousine stop in the kill zone, neither of which are seen in the Zapruder film. In JFK WAS KILLED BY CONSENSUS, David explains why he suspects this second film was made by the CIA.

The assassination was a plot that included more than just elements of the CIA. The military and intelligence communities were very opposed to JFK and his desire to make peace with the Soviet Union and work with them to go into space together. “He was like an alien to them.” They literally thought of him as a traitor. They thought they were patriots, saving the country from JFK.

The first part of David’s book is about who pulled the triggers. Thousands of marksmen for hire could have been the culprits. David shows pictures of four possible shooters, and he lists many others.

The second part is more important: who issued the orders to kill JFK? David presents a rather long list of suspects and emphasizes that they were not strangers to each other. Their relationships are what allowed the assassination to happen.

For instance:

… General Edward Lansdale and Major General Charles Willoughby, who was chief of military intelligence for General MacArthur during World War II and the Korean War. Lansdale and Willoughby were involved in the discovery of Yamashita’s gold, tons and tons of gold, which was used for dozens of intelligence operations around the world. It is very likely that Lansdale was in Dealey Plaza on November 22, and “there’s a pretty good hint that Willoughby was there, too.”