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Best Evidence

Disciplines:
jfk
conspiracy
history/assassination
science/forensics

Summary

David Lifton's 1980 JFK assassination book — arguing that Kennedy's body was surgically altered between Dallas and the Bethesda autopsy to conceal the true trajectory of bullets — one of the most thoroughly researched conspiracy arguments.

Core Contribution

Creates the body alteration theory of JFK evidence — Best Evidence's central claim (that witness accounts of Kennedy's wounds in Dallas differ systematically from the Bethesda autopsy findings, implying alteration) is the most anatomically specific challenge to the Warren Commission.

Historical Influences

Warren Commission

Intellectual Lineage

David LiftonMacmillan

Allied Works

Rush to JudgmentCase Closed

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

JFK assassination research

Intellectual Posterity

Best Evidence Body alteration hypothesis

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