There is also the matter of illegally transporting JFK’s body out of Texas to do the fraudulent autopsy. The law at the time made no provision for the autopsy of a former president. Once JFK was dead, he was no longer POTUS, and legally his body couldn’t have been removed from TX unless an autopsy had been done. No federal law provided to the contrary, so TX law prevailed. They ignored the law in TX to get him to the selected autopsy team.
All excellent points.
“They ignored the law in TX to get him to the selected autopsy team”
Six years later in Massachusetts the body of a dead young woman would be found in the underwater automobile of Senator Edward Kennedy, the powerful brother of John F Kennedy.
Kennedy escaped the automobile and did not report the underwater car to authorities. He spent the rest of the night on the phone with attorneys and close advisors, none of whom reported the incident. Instead of an autopsy being performed, when the body was discovered, local and state authorities quickly transported the body out of state where the dead woman’s parents refused to have an autopsy performed.
Kennedy continued to serve as a power broker in the Senate until his death, decades later.
Kennedy was a federal employee.
Kennedy was not a resident of Texas.
Kennedy was being actively protected and assisted by several dozen other federal employees.
Kennedy was actively engaged in meeting and speaking to Texas residents about his federal job when he was murdered.
The motive of the murderer was to remove Kennedy from his federal job.
Why would Texas state law take precedence?
Threatened the attending doctor in charge of the Dallas autopsy at gun point.