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<div>On 22 November 1963, the body of President John F. Kennedy was transported from Dallas, TX, to Andrews Air Force Base and taken to the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) , Bethesda, MD where a postmortem examination  was performed by a team of Navy and Army pathologists.  Two White House physicians—RADM George Burkley, MC, USN and LCDR James Morningstar Young, MC, USN , —stood watch over the procedure.</div><div><br></div><div> In 2001, now retired CAPT James Young, shared some of his recollections of Kennedy’s death and autopsy with the BUMED Office of Medical History. The following passages are excerpted from those oral history sessions.</div><div><br></div>
<br>Subjects: White House physician; John F. Kennedy; assassination; autopsy; National Naval Medical Center; James Young; oral history</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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