HSCA Record Number   Agency File Number 013618
     Originator-HSCA
     From:
     To:
     Date:     6/30/78
     Pages:    2
     Subjects: O'Connor, Paul Kelly
               JFK autopsy
     Release Date:  --
     
     Contents: Outside Contact Report (handwritten) on a 6/28/78
               telephone interview with Paul Kelly O'Connor by
               Mark Flanagan.  Document follows in full.











































KENNEDY
                                                                 
OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
                                                                 
                                 
                                        DATE:   6-28-78  TIME:     

I.   Identifying Information:

     NAME  Paul K. O'Connor         TELEPHONE (904) 372-8229
     ADDRESS  Gainesville, Florida

     TYPE OF CONTACT:   X   Telephone
                       Person

II.  Summary of Contact:

     6-28 11:00 a.m. -- no answer
     6-30  9: 45 a.m. -- reached -- O'Connor  previously interviewed -- I was asking him about the    beginnin g phases of the autopsy.  O'Connor stated that the Pres's [sic] body arrived at about 8:00 in     the evening.  The morgue was full of people -- Dr. Humes, Dr. Boswell, O'Connor, various military personnel, and civilian personnel.  A casket containing the body was brought into the morgue.  O'Connor said the body was in a rubber "body" bag [the word "bag" has been inserted over another word which has been too heavily crossed out to discern] and totally naked except for a sheet wrapped around the head.

III. Recommended Follow-up (if any): [blank]

                        /s/ Mark Flanagan
                                 
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          O'Connor said that as the body was placed on to the autopsy table he noticed the wound to      the head, a wound to the throat, and two chest incisions.  O'Connor said that the wound in the back was not noticed at that time.
          O'Connor said that next he and one of the pathologists, either Humes or Boswell, removed  the sheet wrapping from around the head.  O'Connor said that no other clothes or material was on         the body; as far as he knows, the President's clothes never arrived at Bethesda.
          O'Connor said no foreign objects, specifically a missile or fragments of a missile, dropped    onto the autopsy table, the morgue floor, or were otherwise detected while removing the sheet       wrapping.  O'Connor also stated that no missiles were discovered at any time during the autopsy.
          O'Connor could not recall who Captain Osborne was.


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