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The HSCA interviewed Dr. Malcolm Perry on 1/11/1978 (HSCA Vol. 7, pp. 292-318), but there was also apparently a prior interview on 7/14/1977, which was conducted and written about by Dr. Andrew Purdy of the Committee’s forensic pathology panel. According to the little public information about this 7/14/1977 discussion, there was some kind of allegation of a “threat” that had been made by Perry’s wife to the Bethesda autopsy pathologist Dr. James Humes. The only reference to this that seems to be currently available on the internet is from a partially-uploaded 1998 essay by researcher Kathleen Cunningham, posted to the defunct website of researcher Kenneth Rahn (Cunningham, 1998, US Political "His Story", The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Dallas Hospital, The Strange Tale of Dr. Malcolm O. Perry, Part Two [link]):

>[...] On July 14, 1977, the HSCA's Andy Purdy telephoned Dr. Perry. Oddly, he would wait for more than a month to type out a memorandum on their conversation. This is most peculiar because of the bizarre story Purdy would relate in the memo's final paragraph. Purdy wrote that Dr. Perry told him that "some years" after the assassination, he went to Detroit. Its not clear from Mr. Purdy's wording if what happened next occurred in Detroit, or upon Perry's return, yet apparently Humes contacted Perry by phone "regarding a threat against Humes allegedly made by Dr. Perry's wife." Mr. Purdy fails to tell us what type of threat this was, or why Dr. Humes believed it was made by Mrs. Perry. Purdy only tells us that this "allegation was untrue, but apparently someone had made the threat." Then Purdy delivers the punchline. The investigation of this threat was conducted by the Secret Service, who ". . . maintained a very cooperative attitude toward the doctors for a number of years after the assassination, including looking into such threats." <38> Such threats? Were there others? The United States Secret Service has no jurisdiction over such matters. This was a case for the local police. Who called them in? Based only on the little currently known, it would seem logical to presume that Dr. Humes did, although this must be considered sheer speculation. However, there exists yet another possibility altogether. It is intriguing that it was Mrs. Perry and not her husband that was alleged to have made the undefined threat against Humes. Thus the authors have asked the ARRB to obtain a copy of the Secret Service file on this episode. Even presuming it contains little more information than is in Mr. Purdy's memo, the date this happened could indicate the entire affair was a veiled threat aimed at Mrs. Perry because her husband was not responding to continued "directions."

The website doesn’t appear to have a part 1 or 3, only a part 2 (Link), and the numbered citations don’t correspond to any list of source notes.

Nothing about a “threat” is mentioned in the report, transcript, or audio for Dr. Perry’s 1/11/1978 interview, which Purdy was also present for (HSCA Vol. 7, pp. 292-318 [text] [audio]).

In 2017, David Mantik reported on contact made between his associate Dr. Michael Chesser and a former Parkland employee named Dr. Austin Griner. Mantik noted in his presentations “Just one month before this mock trial, Dr. Austin Griner had told Dr. Chesser that federal agents had threatened Perry (born in Allen, Texas) with deportation if he did not reverse his initial report of an entrance wound” (Another Assassination of JFK Research: A Mystified Review by David Mantik, 12/4/2017; JFK Assassination Paradoxes: A Primer for Beginners by David Mantik, 2018 [link 2]). The person named here as “Dr. Austin Griner” is actually Dr. Harry Austin Grimes. It is not known how “deportation” would be possible if Perry was born in Texas, but Chesser would reveal in 2021 that Grimes claimed that Perry said he was threatened with somehow being compelled to go to Canada (Future of Freedom Foundation, 4/15/2021, Reviewing the Autopsy X-rays).

Dr. Grimes was spoken of in a presentation by Michael Chesser, uploaded to the Future of Freedom Foundation’s YouTube channel on 4/15/2021. Chesser relayed the words of Dr. Austin Grimes, describing a friendship with Dr. Perry “...there’s a physician here in Little Rock that- that was a close friend of Malcolm Perry. Okay, Malcolm Perry was the vascular surgeon, actually as a surgery resident at the time, I think resident or- or junior faculty. He made the incision for the tracheotomy. He got the closest look at that throat wound and he said it was entry wound. This physician here, retired orthopedic physician I know, he was a good friend with Malcolm Perry in the Air Force, and remained a good friend of his over decades. He said Malcolm Perry called him within a few months of the assassination and said ‘I’ve been hounded and hounded’, the government- and I think the Secret Service and Elmer Moore is who it was, hounded him into changing his story, and he was threatened, and the doctor here told me that he was threatened that they were going to take him to Canada and take him out of his residency, and I- I don’t know what they told him, but- but he- he had to- he changed his story for the Warren Commission, but he- he told his friend here Austin Grimes that it was an entry wound, he never had any doubt about it, I don’t think it was connected at all with this wound in the upper back, this- anyway, that’s- that’s- I just wanted to pass on that- that story from one of Malcolm Perry’s friends” (Video, 2:39:25).

Grimes passed away on 10/6/2023 (Legacy.com). REST IN PEACE!