Bhattacharyya Kalyan B
Department of Neuromedicine, RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2017 Apr-Jun;20(2):103-105. doi: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_439_16.
Frederic Gibbs, the peerless expert on electroencephalogrphy was summoned to provide opinion on the EEG tracing of Jack Ruby, who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the American President, in 1963. Gibbs pleaded that the tracing suggested features indicative of psychomotor epilepsy and Ruby killed Oswald in a state of fugue. His view was not agreed upon but Gibbs stood his ground unflinchingly. Subsequent appeals to the higher court spared Ruby from imminent execution and finally he died a natural death from metastatic complications of carcinoma of the lung in 1967.
弗雷德里克·吉布斯是脑电图领域的杰出专家，他被传唤就杰克·鲁比的脑电图记录发表意见。1963年，杰克·鲁比谋杀了美国总统约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪的刺客李·哈维·奥斯瓦尔德。吉布斯辩称，脑电图记录显示出精神运动性癫痫的特征，鲁比是在神游状态下杀死奥斯瓦尔德的。他的观点未被认同，但吉布斯坚定地坚持自己的立场。随后向高等法院提出的上诉使鲁比免于即将执行的死刑，最终他于1967年因肺癌转移并发症自然死亡。
