David W. Mantik M.D.

Soon after an 8 year-education in a one room country school, followed by high school in the Wisconsin Northwoods (while daily milking cows beside a trout stream), David W. Mantik happily escaped these chores and instead opted for a PhD in physics in Madison, Wisconsin. After that he entered a postdoctoral fellowship in biophysics at Stanford, and next signed onto the tenure track physics faculty at Michigan. Several years later, after an MD at Michigan, he moved to USC for his radiation oncology residency, where he was awarded a junior faculty clinical fellowship by the American Cancer Society. After board certification by the American College of Radiology, he joined the medical faculty at Loma Linda University, where he directed the residency training program and treated patients with the newly developed proton beam. He has now been treating cancer patients for over 40 years. He has visited the National Archives on nine different days (no one else comes close), where he took hundreds of measurements from the extant JFK X-rays, examined the autopsy color photographs in stereo, viewed the Magic Bullet, bullet debris, JFK’s clothing, copies of the Zapruder film, and the Secret Service re-enactment films. His thick notebooks encompass three separate volumes, which contain precise locations for all metal debris on the skull X-rays. He has had two telephone conversations with the JFK autopsy radiologist (Ebersole), interviewed numerous JFK autopsy technicians (including multiple conversations with Jerrol Custer and James Jenkins), and has met several of the Parkland doctors (McClelland, Crenshaw, Jones), as well as one of the FBI note-takers at the autopsy (Sibert). He has now studied the medical, forensic, and eyewitness evidence in this case for over 30 years. His work may be followed at themantikview.org and at KennedysandKing.