Personnel Present During Autopsy
List of personnel present at various times during the autopsy, with official function, taken from the Sibert-O'Neill report list, the HSCA list and Vincent Bugliosi.
Non-medical personnel from law-enforcement/security:
- John J. O'Leary: Secret Service agent.
- William Greer: Secret Service agent.
- Roy Kellerman: Secret Service agent.
- Francis X. O'Neill: FBI special agent
- James Sibert: FBI special agent, assisting Francis O'Neill
Medical personnel and assistants (USA = US Army, USN = US Navy, USAF = US Air Force, MC = Medical Corps)
Official autopsy signatories:
- Commander J. Thornton Boswell, MC, USN: chief of pathology at Naval Medical Center, Bethesda.
- Commander James J. Humes, MC, USN: director of laboratories of the National Medical School, Naval Medical Center, Bethesda. Chief autopsy pathologist for the JFK autopsy. Officially conducted autopsy.
- Lieutenant Colonel Pierre A. Finck, MC, USA: Chief of the military environmental pathology division and chief of the wound ballistics pathology branch at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Other medical personnel
- John Thomas Stringer, Jr: medical photographer
- Floyd Albert Riebe: medical photographer
- PO Raymond Oswald, USN: medical photographer on call
- Paul Kelly O'Connor: laboratory technologist
- James Curtis Jenkins: laboratory technologist
- Edward F. Reed: X-ray technician
- Jerrol F. Custer: X-ray technician
- Jan Gail Rudnicki: Dr. Boswell's lab tech assistant on the night of the autopsy
- PO James E. Metzler, USN: Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class
- James H. Ebersole: Assistant Chief of Radiology
- Lieutenant Commander Gregory H. Cross, MC, USN: resident in surgery
- CPO Chester H. Boyers, USN: chief petty officer in charge of the pathology division, visited the autopsy room during the final stages to type receipts given by FBI and Secret Service for items obtained
- Vice Admiral Edward Kenney, MC, USN: surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
- Dr. George Bakeman, USN
- Rear Admiral George Burkley, M.D., MC, USN: the president’s personal physician
- Robert Frederick Karnei, M.D.: Bethesda pathologist
- Captain David P. Osborne, MC, USN: chief of surgery at Bethesda
- Captain Robert O. Canada, USN: commanding officer of Bethesda Naval Hospital
Additional military personnel
- Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, USAF: US military aide to the President on the Dallas trip
- Rear Admiral Calvin B. Galloway, USN: commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
- Captain John H. Stover, Jr., USN: commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Medical School, Bethesda
- Major General Philip C. Wehle, USA: commanding officer of the U.S. Military District of Washington, D.C., entered to make arrangements for the funeral and lying in state.
- 2nd Lieutenant Richard A. Lipsey, USA: Jr. aide to General Wehle
- 1st Lieutenant Samuel A. Bird, USA: head of the Old Guard.
Others: At the termination of the autopsy, the following personnel from Gawler’s Funeral Home entered the autopsy room to prepare the President’s body for viewing and burial (this required 3 to 4 hours ):
- John VanHoesen
- Edwin Stroble
- Thomas E. Robinson
- Joe Hagen
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