HSCA Volume 7 Introduction -
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Dr. Humes chose J. Thornton Boswell, M.D., chief of pathology at Bethesda, (23) and Pierre A. Finck, M.D., chief of the military environmental pathology division and chief of the wound ballistics pathology branch at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Medical Center, (24) to assist him in performing the autopsy.
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J. Thornton Boswell, chief of pathology at Bethesda;
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Jan Gail Rudnicki, laboratory technologist, assisting Dr. Boswell;
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Dr. BOSWELL.
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Dr. Boswell further stated that there were no constraints. (107) Dr. Ebersole, the radiologist, likewise informed the committee that "to the best of my knowledge there were absolutely no restrictions and it was Dr. Humes' decision as to the extent of the autopsy."(108) Stringer, one of the medical photographers, also could not recall anyone issuing any orders.
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(23) Staff interview of J. Thornton Boswell, Aug. 16, 1977, House Select Committee on Assassinations, p. 1 (JFK document No. 002071).
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Dr. James Boswell, autopsy pathologist;