John Kennedy, take a bow!

The assassination of John F. Kennedy: revisiting the medical data.

Doubt continues to surround the assassination of President Kennedy to this day. Unfortunately, the controversy was not diminished by the multiple commissions and panels that were convened to investigate it. This was in large part because these various panels continued to propagate much of the confusion and lack of precision that plagued the initial medical reports, and introduced some new confu...

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 psychomotor epilepsy and Ruby killed Oswald in a state of fugue. His view was not agreed upon but Gib...

Bristol and Kennedy: the 'take-home' messages for physicians.

Kennedy School , John F . Kennedy School of Government CIVIL - MILITARY RELATIONS IN A POST - 9 / 11 WORLD Compiled

On May 14-15, 2008, the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College hosted a colloquium entitled “Civil-Military Relations in a Post-9/11 World.” The colloquium, inspired by past, present, and future interactions between civilian leaders and the uniformed military, sought to examine three general areas: the roles and responsibilities of ...

Phospholemman and the cardiac sodium pump: protein kinase C, take a bow.

In excitable tissues, the activity of the plasmalemmal sodium/potassium ATPase (Na/K pump) is vital for the maintenance of normal electrical activity and ion gradients. In cardiac muscle, the transsarcolemmal sodium (Na) gradient established by the Na/K activity is essential not only for generating the rapid upstroke of the action potential but also for driving a number of ion exchange and tran...