Edward Christopher Kenney (1904-1983) was appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of lieutenant (jg) in 1929. He served at many naval stations, and on battleships, destroyers, at naval hospitals, and with the Marines. He participated in the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 and was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism. He participated in penicillin research during the early days of its clinical investigation. He then participated in the landings on Guam, Leyte, and Lingayen Gulf. Following the war, Dr. Kenney became commanding officer of the National Naval Medical Center. In 1959 he became Deputy and Assistant Chief BUMED and was appointed Surgeon General in 1961. During his term, RADM Kenney promoted advances in medical research and in submarine, aviation, and preventive medicine.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
RADM Edward C. Kenney, Surgeon General (1961-1965)
Edward Christopher Kenney (1904-1983) was appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of lieutenant (jg) in 1929. He served at many naval stations, and on battleships, destroyers, at naval hospitals, and with the Marines. He participated in the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 and was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism. He participated in penicillin research during the early days of its clinical investigation. He then participated in the landings on Guam, Leyte, and Lingayen Gulf. Following the war, Dr. Kenney became commanding officer of the National Naval Medical Center. In 1959 he became Deputy and Assistant Chief BUMED and was appointed Surgeon General in 1961. During his term, RADM Kenney promoted advances in medical research and in submarine, aviation, and preventive medicine.
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This son of a bitch prevented the Naval Bethesda doctors from performing an autopsy on President Kennedy, according to the doctors themselves.
ReplyDeleteDamn straight!
DeleteKnow your 'facts' before you call someone who passed away a 'sone of a bitch' and do some more research!! Pathetic
DeleteNot so much. Adm Galloway (head of Bethesda Hospital and Rear Adm Burkely where involved with the obstruction of the Autopsy. THEY told Humes what not to do and to move on from the throat and back wounds... which were NEVER opened or examined.
ReplyDeleteKenney here oversaw the alteration of the head wounds by Humes between 6:45 and 7:45 that night. We are not sure how much power he had over Galloway and Burkely and not one witness ID's Kenney as part of the group "directing" the autopsy.
Dr. Bateman, on the other hand, is the real mystery.
not true. Finck never says "Kenney" when asked.
ReplyDeleteAdmiral Kenney threatened the autopsiasts in writing not to discuss details of the autopsy of JFK. Admiral Galloway altered the report of the autopsy. Admiral Burkley, reportedly, ordered the autopsiasts not to run a full protocol, and LTC Finck testified to this during the Clay Shaw trial. Documentation available from the files of Harold Weisberg, an attorney connected to the Warren Commission who questioned many of their findings throughout. Dr. Cyril Wecht stated for the record that the autopsy was flawed and incomplete. The real issue is, "Who told these Admirals to do what they did?" Just how deep did the rabbit hole go? The start point of any murder investigation is processing the body as evidence. Once that was derailed, the proper investigation of it (the murder) became a virtual impossibility.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. This is part of the medical evidence that was at least initially suppressed "for the good of the nation."
Delete(By that I mean the conspirators:
1) the next POTUS/psychopathic LBJ, who had more motive to see JFK out of the White House than anyone else. Johnson was fingered in 1983 by his former partner in crime in Texas, Billy sol Estes, who told a Texas district attorney in writing that JBJ had ordered nine deaths, including JFK, LBJ's own sister, Josefa, several of LBJ's former partners in crime in Texas and a Federal Dept. of Agricultural Inspector who was nosing around one of LBJ's and sol Estes' crooked cotton allotments. All allegedly on LBJ's behalf;
2) Former Director of Central Intelligence Alan Dulles and two of his deputy directors, who had been fired from their senior posts at CIA by JFK because of their parts in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion that Dulles had recommended and presided over as DCI and failed to succeed;
3) Dulles's covert partners at CIA, USAID, US Army INTEL and the FBI (especially FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.) And from CIA, covert ops or counterintelligence guys (James Angleton, David Atlee Phillips, E. Howard Hunt who we leaned about from Watergate infamy a decade later), Robert Kennedy hater William K. Harvey, mercenary and mobster Frank Sturgis, assassin David Sanchez Morales, and one or more Oswald impersonators in Dallas and elsewhere in the fall of 1963. Plus some false and misleading photographic evidence of someone the CIA told the Warren Commission was Lee Harvey Oswald entering the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City i October, 1963. But which we now know didn't look anything like Oswald and in fact was a KGB spy working under diplomatic cover and based at that embassy. CIA Officer Anne Goodpasture spoon-fed that phony evidence to the Warren Commission in 1964, one of the first in a long string of CIA-created conspiracy theories, obfuscations, half truths and misleading evidence;
4) Some researchers now believe Former Vice President Nixon asked the CIA to take out Castro. So someone at CIA asked millionaire businessman and recluse Howard Hughes to recruit a team of anti-Castro Cuban exiles and US organized crime figures (Giancana's West Coast lieutenant Johnny Roselli for one) to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro. Hughes asked his deputy, a former FBI man name Robert Maheu, to put together a team of mob figures and CIA-trained anti-Castro Cubans for that task. many JFK researchers now believe that team was later in 1963 covertly repurposed to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas. The shooters were s few CIA-trained Cuban exiles/covert operators like Herminio Diaz;
5) Big Texas Oil magnates like Haroldson Lemar Hunt and Clint Murchison Sr., who wanted JFK out of office because he had decided to reduce their overly generous 27% oil depletion allowance at tax time, aka a motive for murdering a poplar US President;
6) Plus the support of a few senior organized crime figures who also had strong motive to kill JFK to reduce their exposure to the RFK-led Justice Department's crackdown on organized crime activities, including:
a) Chicago Mob Boss Sam Giancana and his Dallas associates, the Campisis, who I believed forced Jack Ruby to shoot Oswald;
b) Louisiana and Texas Panhandle Mob Don Carlos Marcello (whom RFK had summarily deported to Guatemala a year or two earlier and somehow made it back to America in time to help with JFK's assassination plot);
c) Florida Mob Don Santo Traficante, also connected to Ruby. who i believe requested a team of shooters unknown to the FBI from the Corsican mob, professional hit men like Lucien Sarti and Jean Souetre.