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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Published in:Annals of the Indian Academy of Neurology 2017-04, Vol.20 (2), p.103-105
Main Author: Bhattacharyya, Kalyan B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Assassinations & assassination attempts
Colleges & universities
Conflicts of interest
Convulsions & seizures
Death
Disease
EEG
Electroencephalography
Epilepsy
Frederic Gibbs
History of Medicine
Indictments
Intellectual disabilities
Jack Ruby
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kennedy, John F
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lung carcinoma
Metastases
Murders & murder attempts
Neurology
Pediatrics
Personality
Prosecutions
Ruby, Jack
Trials
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0972-2327
1998-3549
DOI:10.4103/aian.AIAN_439_16