The Mystery of William Bruce Pitzer And An Interview With His Nephew Bruce Fernandez Is Now Live At Our You Tube Channel!
JFK The Enduring Secret
Jeff Crudele
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Please join us over at JFK, the Enduring Secret YouTube channel for another gripping episode in our |
| 0:08.0 | series entitled Mysteries of the Enduring Secret. Our newest mystery episode covers Commander William |
| 0:15.6 | Bruce Pitzer. Commander Pitzer died on October 29, 1966, and the official cause of death was a suicide. |
| 0:26.3 | For those of you who are avid listeners of JFK, the Enduring Secret Podcast, you know that I produced an extensive podcast episode on this story. |
| 0:42.0 | It's episode 98 of JFK, The Enduring Secret. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, now on our JFK Enduring Secret YouTube channel, Mysteries of the Enduring Secret series, we bring to you an interview by Rick Rousseau and myself with William Pitzer's |
| 0:57.5 | nephew, Bruce Fernandez. Commander Pitzer supposedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound |
| 1:05.3 | to the right temple. Many still believe it was murder, and the evidence weighs heavy on that side of the scale, |
| 1:14.1 | that it was indeed murder. |
| 1:17.1 | Commander Pitzer was in charge of the Educational Television Division at Bethesda Naval Hospital |
| 1:22.9 | at the time of the President's death. |
| 1:25.9 | On the Monday or Tuesday, following President Kennedy's autopsy, |
| 1:30.1 | fellow Navy colleague Dennis David would enter Pitzer's office |
| 1:34.2 | and see him working on a movie film that had been taken of the president's autopsy. |
| 1:40.4 | Pitzer was making stills from the movie and analyzing the movie as well. |
| 1:46.1 | This film has never surfaced. |
| 1:49.1 | It was believed to be the filming of the pre-examination which likely took place that night |
| 1:55.0 | before the official autopsy got underway. |
| 1:59.0 | Listen to our earlier mystery of the Enduring Secret episode that covers |
| 2:03.9 | the two morgues at Bethesda. That should help you to better understand how Pitzer's involvement |
| 2:10.5 | fits into the mystery of the two morgues. Like Robert Knudson, Pitzer may have been one of the two main characters |
| 2:18.5 | who were involved in producing the visual record of what was actually determined |
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