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Published Thursday, November 22, 2001
JFK gunmen theorist, 68
Los Angeles Times Service
Dr. Charles Andrew Crenshaw, who became a favorite of conspiracy buffs [!]
when he asserted three decades after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
that Lee Harvey Oswald had not acted alone and that as a surgical resident
he saw four gunshot wounds in the fallen president, has died. He was 68.
Crenshaw, who disclosed his multiple-gunmen opinions in the 1992 book JFK:
Conspiracy of Silence, died Nov. 15 of what his family described as natural
causes at his Fort Worth, Texas, home after years of deteriorating health.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Crenshaw was a third-year resident on the trauma team at
Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was brought to the emergency
room.
Crenshaw disputed the findings of the Warren Commission in his book. The
commission, appointed by President Johnson to investigate the Kennedy
slaying and the killing of Oswald by Jack Ruby, concluded that Kennedy was
killed by two shots through the back of the head and neck that were fired
solely by Oswald.
But Crenshaw's book claimed that Kennedy had four wounds. The fatal shot, he
insisted, was fired from the front and could have come from a second gunman.
Crenshaw is survived by his wife, Susan; a son, Charles A. Crenshaw II; a
daughter, Adelaide Andrews; and two grandchildren.
MARY ROBERTS WILSON
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