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Lattimer studied medicine at Columbia University. He worked as a doctor in the [[United States Army]] treating hundreds of casualties from the [[Normandy]] invasion. Later, he treated high-ranking [[Nazi]]s at the [[Nuremberg war crime trials]] including [[Herman Goering]] and [[Albert Speer]].[3] In [[1999]], he wrote ''[[Hitler]]’s Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders'' based largely on this experience. [4] |
Lattimer studied medicine at Columbia University. He worked as a doctor in the [[United States Army]] treating hundreds of casualties from the [[Normandy]] invasion. Later, he treated high-ranking [[Nazi]]s at the [[Nuremberg war crime trials]] including [[Herman Goering]] and [[Albert Speer]].[3] In [[1999]], he wrote ''[[Hitler]]’s Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders'' based largely on this experience. [4] |
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Dr. Lattimer also became a [[ballistics]] expert following the [[assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]]. The [[Kennedy family]] chose him in 1972 as the first nongovernmental expert to examine evidence taken at Kennedy's autopsy. [5] |
Dr. Lattimer also became a [[ballistics]] expert following the [[assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]]. The [[Kennedy family]] chose him in 1972 as the first nongovernmental expert to examine evidence taken at Kennedy's autopsy. In 1980, Dr. Lattimer wrote a book called Lincoln and Kennedy in which he did an investigation of both presidential assassinations. He professed that Oswald was the lone gunman. He performed a number of experiments that he said supported the single bullet theory of the Warren Commission. He included an interesting chapter at the end of the book in which he pointed out an amazing number of coincidences in the lives and deaths of both Presidents. [5] |
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Revision as of 18:37, 14 May 2007
John Kingsley Lattimer (October 14, 1914 – May 10, 2007) was an American urologist who was chairman of the urology department at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University for 25 years. [1] He wrote 375 papers helping to establish pediatric urology as a field and is credited with developing a cure for renal tuberculosis. [2]
Lattimer studied medicine at Columbia University. He worked as a doctor in the United States Army treating hundreds of casualties from the Normandy invasion. Later, he treated high-ranking Nazis at the Nuremberg war crime trials including Herman Goering and Albert Speer.[3] In 1999, he wrote Hitler’s Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders based largely on this experience. [4]
Dr. Lattimer also became a ballistics expert following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Kennedy family chose him in 1972 as the first nongovernmental expert to examine evidence taken at Kennedy's autopsy. In 1980, Dr. Lattimer wrote a book called Lincoln and Kennedy in which he did an investigation of both presidential assassinations. He professed that Oswald was the lone gunman. He performed a number of experiments that he said supported the single bullet theory of the Warren Commission. He included an interesting chapter at the end of the book in which he pointed out an amazing number of coincidences in the lives and deaths of both Presidents. [5]
References
[1] AP Obituary, published in the International Herald Tribune
[2] (New York Times)
[3] AP via International Herald Tribune
[4] New York Times
[5] New York Times
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