John K. Lattimer

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John Kingsley Lattimer, MD (October 14, 1914, in

renal tuberculosis.[1]

US Army doctor, World War II

During

Rhine River
, he observed the General stop in the middle of a bridge and urinate over the side into the river.

Lattimer was assigned to the prisoner's barracks at Nuremberg in the spring of 1945, where notorious inmates like

Nuremberg Trials, attending to the medical needs of the war crimes defendants.[2][3]
Lattimer was on hand at Nuremberg prison to view Göring's body just after Göring had committed suicide in his prison cell by biting a cyanide capsule that he had kept concealed in a jar of medicinal cream.

Lattimer retired having attained the rank of colonel.[4]

Biography of Nazi leaders

In 1999, Lattimer wrote Hitler's Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders

Hitler exhibited the symptoms of Parkinson's disease
, which he demonstrates with examples of his deteriorating signature and photographs of Hitler clutching objects to prevent his hand from trembling. Lattimer further proposed that Hitler's discovery of his illness was a factor in postponing Germany's attack on Britain in late 1940 and directing his attention towards Russia.

Innovator in Urology at Columbia-Presbyterian

After the war, Lattimer spent most of the rest of his life teaching at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was a professor and became chairman of the urology department of Presbyterian Hospital from 1955 to 1980.

At the Hospital, which in 1998 became

NewYork–Presbyterian, the head of the Department is known as the John K. Lattimer Professor of Urology.[1] His patients included Katharine Hepburn, Charles Lindbergh, Dmitri Shostakovich, Itzhak Perlman and Greta Garbo.[3]

Investigator into Kennedy assassination

The

bolt-action rifle, the same as Oswald's actual weapon and under the same firing conditions. By doing so Lattimer intended to prove that Oswald could have performed such a feat. He continued to perform this demonstration well into his late eighties. Lattimer owned Oswald's Marine shooting record which he said showed that Oswald was an excellent shot. In 1980, Dr. Lattimer wrote a book: Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical & Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations[6] in which he did an investigation of both the Lincoln and the Kennedy assassinations, and supported the findings of the Warren Commission.[3]
In his book, Lattimer theorized that President Kennedy's arms exhibited the "Thorburn Position" with elbows extended and arms folded inward, as a neurological reaction to the bullet wound to his spine.

Collector of military artifacts

Lattimer lived in

Napoleon Bonaparte.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Hevesi, Dennis. "John K. Lattimer, Urologist of Varied Expertise, Dies at 92", The New York Times, May 13, 2007. Accessed May 13, 2007.
  2. ^ a b AP Obituary, published in the International Herald Tribune
  3. ^ a b c d Davis, Tom. "Dr. John K. Lattimer, at 92; 'ambassador for medicine'"[
    The Record (Bergen County)
    , May 13, 2007. Accessed May 13, 2007.
  4. ^ "Our History". 4 January 2016.
  5. Amazon.com
  6. Amazon.com

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