Francis M. Forster, 94; Neurologist Treated Eisenhower for Stroke
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Francis M. Forster, 94, a prominent neurologist who treated President Eisenhower for a stroke in 1957 and testified at the trial of Jack Ruby in 1964, died Feb. 23 of heart failure at a hospital in his hometown of Cincinnati.
Forster was one of several expert witnesses who were called to testify about Ruby, whose defense attorney, Melvin Belli, argued that his client was suffering from epilepsy when he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Forster found no evidence of epilepsy in Ruby, who was found guilty of murdering Oswald, the prime suspect in the shooting of President Kennedy in Dallas. Ruby was awaiting a new trial when he died in prison.
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