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Frederic Andrews Gibbs and the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Frederic Gibbs, the peerless expert on electroencephalogrphy was summoned to provide opinion on the EEG tracing of Jack Ruby, who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the American President, in 1963. Gibbs pleaded that the tracing suggested features indicative of psyc...

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Autor principal: Bhattacharyya, Kalyan B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5470157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28615893
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_439_16
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description Frederic Gibbs, the peerless expert on electroencephalogrphy was summoned to provide opinion on the EEG tracing of Jack Ruby, who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the American President, in 1963. Gibbs pleaded that the tracing suggested features indicative of psychomotor epilepsy and Ruby killed Oswald in a state of fugue. His view was not agreed upon but Gibbs stood his ground unflinchingly. Subsequent appeals to the higher court spared Ruby from imminent execution and finally he died a natural death from metastatic complications of carcinoma of the lung in 1967.
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spelling pubmed-54701572017-06-14 Frederic Andrews Gibbs and the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Bhattacharyya, Kalyan B. Ann Indian Acad Neurol History of Medicine Frederic Gibbs, the peerless expert on electroencephalogrphy was summoned to provide opinion on the EEG tracing of Jack Ruby, who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the American President, in 1963. Gibbs pleaded that the tracing suggested features indicative of psychomotor epilepsy and Ruby killed Oswald in a state of fugue. His view was not agreed upon but Gibbs stood his ground unflinchingly. Subsequent appeals to the higher court spared Ruby from imminent execution and finally he died a natural death from metastatic complications of carcinoma of the lung in 1967. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5470157/ /pubmed/28615893 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_439_16 Text en Copyright: © 2006 - 2017 Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Frederic Andrews Gibbs and the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
title_sort frederic andrews gibbs and the assassination of john fitzgerald kennedy
topic History of Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5470157/
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