Stringer-ARRB on Missing Photos,Signing a False Count for STOVER Concealing Missing/Destroyed Photos

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The point about the Sibert-ONeil report is that it documents the delivery of photo negatives to the Secret Service that are not in the official pictures.
Transcript, to read along, and Audio here:
https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/medical_testimony/audio/ARRB_Stringer.htm
This is the early half of Reel 2 Side 2.
On Reel 3 Side 1, Stringer is interrogated at length over the specific individual photos,: what he took, what's missing, what he knows about it.
AI Summary of Stover's role:

"JFK Autopsy Captain Stover

Captain John H. Stover, Jr., the Commanding Officer of the U.S. Naval Medical School at Bethesda, played a significant administrative and supervisory role during the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He was present in the autopsy room at the Bethesda Naval Hospital and oversaw logistical and security aspects of the procedure Stover was responsible for coordinating the transfer of autopsy materials, including photographs and X-rays, to federal authorities and ensuring proper receipts were obtained He signed a receipt on November 22, 1963, confirming the turnover of 40 autopsy photographs (28 original and 12 additional) to the Secret Service

Stover also ordered Commander James J. Humes, the chief pathologist, to remain silent about the autopsy under penalty of court-martial, highlighting the high level of secrecy surrounding the event In March 1964, he directed medical illustrator Harold A. Rydberg to prepare anatomical drawings of Kennedy’s wounds for the Warren Commission, explaining that the actual autopsy photographs were deemed “too shocking” and had been sealed by the FBI, making them unavailable for testimony

Multiple witnesses, including Navy personnel and Stover himself, reported that Kennedy’s body was transported to the morgue in a simple shipping casket rather than the ornate casket used in Dallas, and that the body was inside a body bag upon arrival—details that have fueled controversy Stover confirmed these observations, lending credibility to claims of a discrepancy in how the body was handled

Additionally, Stover was reportedly present when the autopsy photographer, John Stringer, returned multiple times to take additional photographs, suggesting the photographic documentation occurred in stages In later years, he confirmed to researcher David Lifton that a bullet—believed to be the one recovered in Dallas—was brought to the autopsy room and placed in a brown paper envelope

Stover’s role, while not directly medical, was central to the chain of command and custody of evidence during one of the most scrutinized autopsies in American history."

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