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At a Chicago debate in 1993, in which I participated, Lundberg publicly admitted that he was no expert on this subject. He furthermore did not answer any of the substantive questions that I or others posed to him. During this same weekend he had the audacity to invite only members of his side for a TV program that later aired on the AMA network. Those of us who opposed his side did not even learn of this covert production until much later. Lundberg’s audience was never informed that more AMA members opposed Lundberg than supported him at this debate.
Although Lundberg was described by Breo (ever the sycophant; see his “Extraordinary Care,” published by the AMA in 1986) as “a stickler for detail,” in these articles Lundberg failed to raise any of 20 critical (medical) questions that we distributed at this meeting. For example, the pathologists repeatedly described the bullet debris on the X rays as extending to the lower rear of the head, where they claimed that one of Oswald’s bullets had entered. In fact, as I have personally observed during many private X-ray viewings at the National Archives (something Lundberg and Breo never bothered to do), the debris is much nearer the top rear of the head–where it is totally inconsistent with the supposed Oswald entry site. This fundamental paradox apparently remained forever beyond Lundberg’s ability to grasp. Like most of the essential medical questions in these Lisagor award-winning articles, it remained unasked, and therefore unanswered. For that reason it was a genuine personal pleasure to see Michael Miner’s reporting on this particular Lisagor award. The surprise is not that it took so long, but rather, given the state of our media, that anyone bothered to notice at all.
