JFK’s back issues might have contributed to his assassination

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Newly released records suggest that former President John F. Kennedy was wearing a back brace that may have aided his assassination in Dallas, Texas in November 1963.

Kennedy, who faced myriad health issues, including scarlet fever and collitis as a child, suffered from chronic and severe back pain as an adult.

“Kennedy said to Kraus, ‘Look, I tell you what, when I come back from Dallas, I’ll get out of the brace, but I gotta wear it for this trip. I gotta look good.’ He wanted to be able to sit up tall and wave at people,” Dr. Thomas Pait, a spinal neurosurgeon who co-authored a paper about the former president’s back issues, told CNN. “And of course, we’ll never know if he would have survived if he’d followed the doctor’s advice and gotten rid of it.”

Pait believes the back brace largely immobilized Kennedy’s torso, preventing him from collapsing to the floor of the car after he suffered the first shot to his neck. It was the second shot, to Kennedy’s head, that killed him.

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