You may be aware that I have a movie coming out on New Year's Day called DOVEY'S PROMISE. It's a true story with a JFK connection; a courtroom drama about the Towpath Murder Trial of 1965 in which the victim was Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was JFK's last mistress. She was murdered in Towpath Park in Georgetown, eleven months after he was.
Her attacker grabbed from behind and grappled with her. Then he took his gun out and shot her in the head. Then, he let her go because he expected her to fall to the ground. But, even though she had a bullet lodged in her brain, she took off and went 24 feet before collapsing. Then, he went and took her by the arms and dragged her back to where it began. And then, he took his gun out again and shot her in the back. And he angled the shot, so that it would hit her aorta. And she died instantly from that.
And it has a parallel to the Oswald assassination because his shot ruptured his aorta too. He didn't die instantly like she did, but by the time he reached the hospital, he was, for all practical purposes, dead. He was about as dead as Kennedy was when he reached the hospital, which was pretty dead.
Oswald was completely exsanguinated. He had lost all his blood. Parkland doctors transfused 6 liters of blood into him. The body only has about 5 liters. So, it was more than a full body supply.
They also starting using hemostats and electrocautery to stop the new blood from bleeding out. And they did succeed in restoring some blood pressure to him. He didn't have any when he arrived. But, then his heart starting failing. He went into cardiac arrest. His heart couldn't pump that new blood because it was already irreversibly damaged from its own lack of blood. They tried massaging his heart. But, after a while, they realized it was futile, and they declared him dead.
But, like Kennedy, Oswald was dead on arrival. Even a chicken will run around with its head cut off for a while, but it's dead. Sometimes a body can still have some manifestations of life, even though it is hopelessly dead and shutting down. It just hasn't turned all the lights out yet, and that was true of both Kennedy and Oswald. Both were DOA.,
So, the bullet severed Oswld's aorta and vena cava, and that meant that he had a fountain of blood spurting inside of him. And the only thing he should have done after being shot that way is collapse.
So, Oswald slapping his left arm to his chest, like King Kong, in the Jackson photo is a contrivance . We see it there, but we don't see it in any of the films. They did that just to cover up the area so that the absence of trauma could be explained. That photo was taken at a photo-shoot an hour before, and there was no shooting.
But, I hope you'll take this as a reminder about DOVEY'S PROMISE because it really is a great courtrooom drama- the best since A FEW GOOD MEN. And, I assure you there is no better way for you to start the new year than by watching this great film. You can watch the trailer here:
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